Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-30
WASHINGTON.
The Tariff Commission Bill in
Both Houses.
Reduction Of Internal Revenue
Agreed Upon.
Correspondence on South Amer
lean Affaira

WASHINGTON, March %. = The
House subcommittee of the elections
committee agreed to day to report
.on Thursday in favor OF sestIng
Mr.. Mackey in place of MIR. Dbble.
The full committee on elections to-
day voted unanimously in the case of
Stolbrand against Aiken in favor of
the latter, and granted Stolbrand
the privilege of withdrawing his pa
pers. -.
The House military committee to-
day agreed to report favorably Mr..
Richardson's bill, authorizing set
tlement of the account far arms be-
tween the Stste of South Carolina
and the United States Government.
The report from the State Departs
ment, in answer to call from the
House for the correspondence be-
tween his department and Blaine and
Trescott, and for information wheth-
er any protocol has been signed by
Trescott or any other diplomatic rep
resentative of the United States, set
ting forth the terms for ending the
war in South America, &c, sets forth
that. up to the present time, the De
partment of State has received no
information, either from Trescott or
from the diplomatic representatives
of the United States in Chill or
Peru, that any protocol of the char
acter described by the resolution has
been signed by Trescott or by such
diplomatic representatives.
The substance of the telegraphlc
and mail correspondence of the Des
partment with its representatives In
South America, since the date OF the
last submission of documents to
Congress is given:
On February 21st, Mr.. Freling>
huysen teegraphed Mr.. Trescott:
"You may assent to a liberal war
indemnity. The cession of Tarapaca
cannot be assented to without first
cabling her for further instructions.
If Chill should insist upon the ces-
sion 1t is not impossible that the
creditors of Peru may maintain that
it's revenues are hypothecated to
them. The President urges mod
Grafton on the part of Chill.
In letter from Mr.. Frelingbuy-
sen to Mr.. Trescott, dated February
oath, after recap tulating the subs
stance OF the telegraphic correspon,
dence down to, and including the
above telegram, Frelinghuysen goes
on to say That the President is very
desirous of having the good offices
OF the United States made available
for the restoration of peace, but he
is not willing to bee me the me
dium for the proposal, which in bis
judgment is so onerous that it can
not be entertained by Peru. He is
still of the opinion that it would be
part of the far>s GIFTED wisdom
IN Chill to accept from Peru
the payment of a just indemnity i'll
money, guaranteed, if insisted on,
by temporary occupation of terri
Tory, rather than peremptorily to de
mand cession of territory. On the
o her hand, he remains convinced
that the United States has no right,
which is conferred either by treasy
sSipalations or by public law, to inz~
pose upon belligerants, unasked, its
views of just settlement, and it
has no interests at stake commensu-
rate with the evils that might follow
an interference, which would author-
ize it to interpose between these par
ties, further than is warranted by
treaties, by public law, or by volun-
tary acts of both parties. If Chill
is indisposed to listen to friendly ad-
vice on this point, the President, as
my cable has already informed you,
will not take part in negotiations
which are based upon both a sur.
render of Tarapaca and the payment
of large indemnity.
The ways and means committee
to day agreed upon bill reducing
the internal revenue tax upon some
articles and abolishing others, effecs,
ing a probable reduction of revenue
of $23,319, ,286. The tax on cigars
is reduced from six dollars
to FIVE dollars, aud reductions are
made in special taxes on manufac-
turers or. dealers in spirits, malt
liquors and tobacco. The following
taxes are repealed entirely: Bank
check stamps, tax on bank capital
and deposits, tax on matches, per-
fumery, medicinal preparations and
other articles imposed by schedule
"a" following section 3437 of the
Revised Statutes.