The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-06
WASHINGTON NOTES.

INQUIRIES the commissioner OF Internal
revenue, said the effect of the law reduc
ing internal revenue taxation would be as
follows:
its in banks aHd bankers and National
banking associations is repealed from this
date except such taxes are now due. and
payable.
! That the reduction of the tax upon
checks, drafts, etc, and upon matches,
| perfumery. medical preparations, and art
icles imposed by schedule "a, following
sections 3,437. Revised statutes. takes
effect July LIST
That after May 1st, 1888, tax On manu-
featured tobacco, and suun will be 8 cents
per pound; on cigars, IS per thousand;
on cigarettes, so cents per thousand
That there will be a rebate on tobacco,
snuff, cigars and cigarettes of the differ
ence on The taxes recently imposed and
the taxes, as now provided for where the
claims amount to SO: these claims must
be presented within sixty days from May
1st, The regulations upon these matters
/ viii be Immediately issued and blanks will
be furnished upon which claims can be
made.
| That the law provides for large reduct-
| ionson special taxes upon dealers commenc-
ing May 1st, 1888
| The commissioner also stated that i'm
mediate arrangements will be made for
changing the form of the special tax
| stamps and stamps for payment of the tax
es upon tobacco, snuff, cigars, etc, so as
to stlp1sly collectors with these stamps in
time to meet requirement of trade PRIOR to
May 1st, 1888
The act to reduce internal revenue tax
alton which has just become law pro-
vides for the repeal of the tax upon CAPT
tai and deposits of all banks and bankers,
except such taxes as are now due and pay
able. The tax on capital and deposits is
therefore caused March 3rd. Comptroller
Knox says the passage of the act relieves
national and state banks and private bank
ers of tax averaging 81 900, 900 a month
The total tax collected upon deposits and
capital of banks during the last fiscal year
was 81 ,308 S75. The amount annually
collected from cent check stamps is about
So. 800. 900. and the act repeating the use
of these stamps takes effect on the 1st
of July next
When Evarts was secretary of state a cir
cular letter was sent to all foreign govern
ments asking that the emigration of Nor
mons to the United States be prevented, as
they come to this country to practice
crime against its laws The 'Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day
Saints" however. do not practice poly
gamy They claim that the circular letter
of Secretary Evarts works injury and
injustice to their church, This body
claims to have between twenty thou
sand and thirty thousand communi-
cants. They have their central organiza-
ton at Lamori. Iowa. Most of these Nor
mons are in this country. but they have a
large membership in Europe. To-day
Elders Joseph Smith, son of the founder
of the Mormon church, and q. Fl. Guiley,
a committee on behalf of the re-organized
church waited upon the secretary of
state and asked that Secretary Evarts letter |
be modified, so as to distinguish between
themselves and the polygamous branch of |
the church. They presented a memorial in |
which it is stated that polygamy was no |
part of the faith primitive of the Latter |
Day Saints, and is no faith to-day, but is |
loathsome practice INDUCED in only by an |
off shoot from the true Mormon church, |
and is properly branded by Everts as a |
crime. The memorial recites that the re- |
church has its missionaries in |
various parts of Europe, Australia, and |
Society Islands in the Pacific; that Justice |
demands that it should be relieved from |
odium and shame of classification with a |
body practicing crime against the laws |
of the country and from disability under |
WHICH Jus missionaries 1aDOf IN spreading /
their faith. The committee were intro |
duced to the secretary by Senator Allison /
and Hon. ". p. Hepburn. of Iowa, Score /
tary Frelinghuysen took the memorial and /
promised that the appeal should be con
sidered
The following circular has been issued |
by the commissioner of pensions and APP
proved BY the secretary of the interior:
The following regulations are prescribed
for the purpose of carrying into effect as
speedily as possible the provisions of the
act of congress approved March Sd, 1888.
TO $50 per month the pensions
Of those who lost leg at or above the
knee, or an arm at or above the elbow, and |
of those who have been so disabled as to
be incapacitated for performing manual
labor. but not so much as TO require regu |
lar personal aid and attendance, and who |
are now receiving a pension at the rate of |
S24 per month; and to @24 per month the
pensions of those who have lost one hand,
Or one foot, or been totally permanently /
disabled by the same or otherwise so disa
Bled as to render their incapacity to per-
form manual labor equivalent to the loss
Of hand or foot and now receiving $18
q month.
Inasrnuch as said act has immediate eff
feet upon such admitted cases as have been
at the rate of ga and S18
month, respectively, no formal application
BY the beneficiary is necessary to be made I,
other than to forward to the commissioner
Of pensions. the pension certificate accom- 4
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