Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-30

value of the claims disalloWed has been
 about $500, GOO. Congress will have to make
 an appropriation before any of the adiudica. ted claims can be paid. The department has
 not yet decided whether it will recommend
 that the claims shall be paid through ths re-
 spectlve internal revenue collectors or from
 Washington. The revenue department is 1 aoslsed Of very extensive practice among l tobacco dealers of putting inferior brands of cigars into boxes labelled with some noted Cuban marks. Collectors have been notified that all such cigars are liable to confscasion. The PresAdent's View. on 1atsrnal Taxes.
 WAsHNGToH, Oct. 29-The President has had furnished him the chief points of the reports of the heads of the executive de- partments. He is in the quiet of the Sol diers' Home considering his message. A re- port has been circulated that he will recom- mend the abolition of the entire internal revenue system, and thus take the wind out of the sails of Mr. Randall, who is seeking to commit the Democrats to that position. This report, however, is not credited. It is doubted whether the President will go any further than he did last year, when he recommended the repeal of all internal rev enue taxes except the tax upon distilled spirits. Treasury officials are very confident that the revenues will not permit such wholesale reduction of taxation as the aboli- ton of-the whole internal system They have no confidence in the maintenance of the surplus at the present figure. Their opin- ions are based upon their thorough study of the effect of the reductions by the last Con gress and. of the necessities of the govern ment.
 The Real Estate Pool-A Revival of It's
 Scandals fa Court.
 WASHINGTON, Got. 29-In the Hallet-Kil- bourn case curious order has been entered in court without opposition. It was that the ledgers of the firm of Kilbourn & Latta for the years 1S73-1876 should be produced in court for the inspection of the defendant It is difficult to see what bearing the books have upon the case, or how their contents can aid the ex -sergeant-at-armsinh his defence, as the only issue appears to be-did the ser geant- at arms act within his legal and consti- tutional authority in imprisoning Mr. Kill bourn? The United States Supreme court in the habeas corpus case has already said that the House erred, and Congress is obliged to recognize the force of that provision of the constitution which protects the private pa- pers of citizens. Now 1t happens that the books called for are the books for the failure to produce which Mr. Kilbourn was ad- judged 8 contumacious witness, and was imprisoned by the House. The Demo- cratic investigators at the time hoped and expected to 'tcatch Grant" in the transactions of the real estate pool, for which Kilbourn and Latta were the agents. Kilbourn said that Grant could not be caught, but he declined to produce the books. The Democrats also insisted that the books would show that other prominent Republicans were interested in this 'tpool" to an extent that would compromise them in their official relations. The Republicans were not caught, but two Democratic mem- bers of Congress were shown to have had an interest in the pool. The curious fact about the entering of this order is that Kilbourn made no opposition. The supposition is, either that the books are not in existence, that they are in existence and contain nothing that Kilbourn is not willing should become pub lie, or that Mr. KiIbourn thinks that his suit will in some way be aided by the production of these mysterious books. One curious re- suit of the real estate pool operation was that most of the original managers were unable to survive the panic, and long since became bankrupt while those who inherited the ben- efts oftheir energies and foresight, but who did not succeed to their misfortunes, have become wealthy from investments in the old morass which has become the fashionable vest end.