Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-27
WASHINGTON.
RN.T. Hunters Virginia Appoint
msnt of Collector Of Customs.
HE OLD CONFEDERATE CABINET.
Cane Interesting Points About Its Com
ponents---The Revenues Of
the Year.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GENERALLY.
Ssetalto tlAs Reaisier.

WASHINGTON, May 26.-Ihe recent Rp-
DOintment of r, NJ. 7. Hunter, of Virgins,
% be Collector of Customs at the port Of Tap.
DshannOck st painfully small salary calls
stssn6on to the whereabouts and condition
Al the remaining members Of the Confsde-
n,s cabinet. Tyere are fourteen of them
BsBiamin, Bragg, Breckinridge, Mallory,
Nsniuger, Randolph, Sedden, Trenholm,
Walker, Davis, Reagan, Tooms, Watts and
Hunter. Of these only FIVE now remain
Davis, Reagan, TOombs, Watts and Hunter.
Ofthese five only two, Reagan and TOombs,
we're members Of the original cabinet. Hun
Ter is rot only an old man now, but very
much reduced in circumstances. As is
shown by his willingness to accept a posi-
tOn shich pays about $500 year. There
are lew of the members of the Confederate
csbinet who are wealthy. Bob Tooubs, who
lives near Atlanta, is wealthy. Reagan is
Worth something, but not very much. Watts
Of Alabama and Davis Of North Carolina,
though pretty old men, continue in the prac-
tee OF law 81 their respective homes. Hun
ter, as indicated above, is poor. OF those
low dead none, except Benjamin, died
wealthy. He made magnificent fortune,
IS is well known, in the practice of law
s5ruad. OF the few members
sil living each resides now in the
State from which he was chosen for his cab
met position. Reagan in Texas, Hunter in
Virginia, Watts in Alabama, Davis in North
CaIUhra and TOombs IN Georgia. Only
tte civil branches of the Confederate gov
eminent are now represented, all the Secre-
tsrss Of Wsr and Navy having passed
away. Hunter and Toombs we're Secre-
ta:iss of State, Davis and Watts Attorney
Generals ana Reagan Postmaster-Ge General
Reagan is probably the most active physic-
ally ard mentally Of those remaining. he
is strOug and vigorous, though he was at
deaths door year ago, when an operation
by some skillful physician saved him. Mr..
r N. I. Hunters address is Lloyds, Essex
ccsrty Virginia, Mr.. Reagan's Palestine,
Texas Mr. I. Il. Watts, Montgomery, Ala.
bsma Mr.. Geo. E. Davis, Wilmington, n.
C., General TOombs, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Years Revenue.
TIE revenues Of the fiscal year which is
so near at an end will fall of considerably
as aseOmpared with last year. The receipts
Of lsst year were nearly three hundred mil
lions. This year they will fall below three
hundred and forty millions, perhaps as low
as three hundred and thirty millions. There
are number Of causes Of this. One Of
these is the reduction of tariff which
occurred two years ago, but which was not
tslt in all its fUllness in the last rear re-
vssiiiptssa anothsr WILDE the reduction Of
internal revenues which was cut down at
the same time, but which was not as keenly
felt last year as it will be this. Another is
the temporary dely of the payment oftaxes
on whisky through the extension of the time
for the payment Of this on spirits through
Secretary MeCulloeh's remarkable order of
last January. The result of all these will
probably be q reduction of the years re-
Ceipts TO somewhere in the neighborhood Of
$3.50, ,000, 900. OF this sum about Sll0,-
Oh 1000 will come from internal revenue,
that is the taxes on whisky and tobacco and
that sort Of thing, twenty millions or so
from miscellaneous receipts, and the remAiC-
der from customs, or "tsrif." Last year
the receipts were q trihe below two hundred
millions, this year they will probably be
title less than last. The internal revenue
receipts Of last year were one hundred and
and twenty-one millions, this year they will
probably be about one hundred and ten
millions, distributed about as follows:
Alabama, $35, 900; Arizona, S2,750; Ar
Kansas, $50, California, S3,3O0,OO0;
Colorado, 5000 600; Connecticut, 1926, 900;
Dakota, $4,000; Delaware, 100000
+ Crida, $l73,OOO; Georgia, 1915, 900;
Idaho, $4,000; Illinois, $25,00O,O00; In
diana, So, 600 900; Iowa, g, 100000; Kan
sss. $l67 900: Kentucky, Sl5,O00,OOO;
louisiana, S56O,OOO; Maine, $4,000;
MARYLAND. 50 1000; Massachusetts,, 81
400 GOO; Michigan, 81, 100000; Minnesota,
100000; Mississippi, $4,000; Missouri,
SG, 500. .OOO; Montana, Sl25,O00; Nebraska,
81 500. 600; Nevada. So 900; New HamP-
shire, S375,OOO; New Jersey, S3,475,OOO;
New Mexico, $4,000; New York, Sl3,5OO,-
goo: North Carolina, $500, 900; Ohio,
Sl3, 500. 900; Oregon, Sl25, 900; PenusyL
vania $500, 900; Rhode Island, Sl3O,OOO;
South Carolina, $4,000; Tennessee, ST.
$4,000; Texas. SIPS, 900; Utah, $4,000;
Ver2ont $4,000; Virginia, $1,000 900;
Washington, $1,000; West Virginia, $500
600, Wisconsin, S3,OOO,O 900; Wyoming, ST.
200.
Appointments.
WASHINGTON, May 26.-The President
the following postmasters:
Henry S. Benner, Gettysburg, Pa; Maurice
Litsch, Mahoney City, Pa Martin A. Rut'
ter, Meyersdale, Pa; Albert P. Biob, Unl-
versity Of Virginia; Mrs. Oliver A. Hast
iDgs, Port Gibson, Miss; George Il. Paul.
Wis; John F. Regsn, Ierre