The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-02-02

training ana professional aDlllty are ma lie
before this committee. Every proposed
change in the constitution and in the
statutes of the United States, of very
great Importance is referred to and must
be considered carefully by the committee
The Committee on Pensions has charge of
all pension bills except those relating to
the late Civil War.
Among the bills introduced by Mr. Hen
derson are:
/. One to amend the Civil Service law
all officers and employees therein shall be
for the term of four years, and that at the
end of such term each officer and employ ee
shall be out of Office, unless he shall be
reappointed.
2. Another bill to apportion these offices
among the several Congressional districts
in proportion to population.
8. A bill to erect a monument to the
late General Nathaniel Greene on the bat
tie field of Guilford Court House.
4. A bill to provide for paving, grading
and adorning the proposed avenue leading
from Salisbury to the National Cemetery
near there, and appropriating So, 900
therefor
5. A bill for the total repeal of the In
ternal Revenue taxes.
6. A bill for the total repeal OF the taxes
on tobacco.
7. \ bill for the total repeal of the taxes
on spirits made from apples, peaches,
grapes and other fruits.
8. a bill to amend the Internal Revenue
laws and to relieve the people from some
of its most oppressive features,
8. A bill to modify the Internal Reve
nue. system of legislation and for ether
purposes-on the same line as the preced
ing, but going into greater detail.
These are the bills of the greatest i'm
portance he has introduced. The others
are of minor Importance, mainly private,
The following is the full text of an i'm
portant bill, introduced by Mr.. Henderson,
and reported favorably by the Judiciary
Committee. The great Importance of the
subject of which it treats warrants the
CHRONICLE in giving space to it in full.
The bill reads
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
whenever III any statute denOunclng any
violation ct the internal revenue laws as a
felony, crime, or mlsdemeanor, there is
prescribed in such statute minimum pun
ishment, less than which minimum no fine,
penalty, Imprisonment or punishment is
bor zaA 70 ha mir
imum punishment is hereby abolished ;
and the court or judge in every such case
shall have discretion to impose any fine,
penalty, Imprisonment, or punishment, not
exceeding the limit authorized by such
statute, whether such fine, penalty, i'm
prisonment be less or greater than the
said minimum so prescribed.
SEC. ?. That 10 warrant, III any case
under the internal revenue laws, shall be
issued upon an affidavit making charges
upon information and belief, unless such
affidavit is made by collector Of internal
revenue or by a revenue agent, and with
the exception aforesaid no warrant shall
be issued except upon sworn complaint,
setting forth the facts constituting the
offence and alleging them to be within the
personal knowledge of the affiant. And
the United States shall not be liable to pay
any fees to marshals, clerks or commits
sioners, or other officers for any warrant
issued or arrest made, in prosecutions un-
der the internal revenue laws, unless there
be a conviction or the prosecution has been
approved either before or after such arrest
by the attorney of the United States for
the district where the offense is alleged to
have been committed. or unless the prose-
| cution was commenced by information or
| Indictment
SEC. 3. That whenever a warrant shall
| be issued by commissioner or other judi
| cal officer having jurisdiction for the ar
| rest of any person charged with a criminal
| Otfense, such warrant accompanied by the
| affidavit on which the same was issued
shall be returnable before some judicial
officer, named in section 1914 of the Re
vised Statutes, residing in the county OF
| arrest, or if there be no such judicial Off
Ger in that county, before some such judi
cial officer residing in another county
nearest to the place of arrest, and the
| judicial officer before whom the arrest
warrant is made returDable as herein pro-
vided shall have exclusive authority to
make the preliminary examination OF every
| person arrested as aforesaid, and to dis
charge him, admit him to bail, or commit
him to prison as the case may require, pro-
vided nothing in this act shall apply to the
Indian Territory.
SEC. 4. The Circuit Courts of the United
States and the District Courts or judges
thereof exercising circuit powers and the
| District Courts of the Territories are au-
thorized to appoint in different parts of
the district in which said courts are held as
many discreet persons as may be deemed
necessary as commissioners of the Circuit
Courts, and said courts or judges shall
have authority to remove at pleasure any
commissioner heretofore or hereafter ap-
pointed.
SEC 5. That the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue, with the approval of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, may compromise
any civil or criminal case, and may reduce
or remit any fine, penalty, forfeiture OF
assessment, under the internal revenue
| laws.
SEC g. That this act shall take effect
sixty days after its approval.
At the request of the Democratic mem
bers of the Ways and Means Committee
Mr.. Henderson has drafted the interna
revenue provisions of the tariff bill, which
are these: 1st.-The absolute repeal O
the tobacco tax, amounting to $50, 900, O0(
with proper rebate; 2nd.-The absolute
repeal of the tax on spirits distilled from
apples, peaches, grapes and other fruit:
amounting to $1,O90,379 with rebate
| 2rd The abolition of the wholesale an(