Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-01-22
ALEX ANDRIA..
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY %.

TUEREARg tT0 actounta IN tne " ~
Treasury of particular interest TO indiVidu
ala in the Southern States. They are htst'
that porticn OF the Sirect tax OF 1862 which
was wlune by fraud ard violence from
few persons within the lines OF the
federal army ; aud second. the remain
ing TART of the value OF the captured
and abandoned property seized from South
ern people, and now lying in the Treasury
held, according TO the decisions OF the U. ..
Supreme Court, in trust for the rightiul
owners. These two accounts stand as toll
lows:
Amount of direct tax due to indi-
yiduals of the Southern States, 81, ,oto VI
Amount of direct tax still owing
by individuals OF the Southern
States, I,f"'i''- ="
Value OF captured and abandoned
property of individuals of tn"
Southern Sla:es now IN the
Treasury, io'o1-'oo' %
Total amount due to South SIS COB, lSS 20
That large sum SO 653 ISIS. %. might have
been recovered for the individuals to whom
it belongs in the Southern States, If the di-
rect tax bill had been properly managed by
the cor gre: siongl representatives from the
Gulf States The Judiciary Committee OF
the U. s. House OF Representatives report,
cd bills TO refund the direct tax and to
open the Court Of Claims for the recovery
of the value of the captured and abandoned
property now in the Treasury. Mr.. Ez o
B. Taylor of Ohio leading republican, re-
norted the direct tax bill, and MIR. Oates, OF
Alabama, made minority report against
that BILL Whereupon Mr.. Taylor returned
him ireland for en- Oliver by making q
minority report 20 The bill for captured and
abandoned property. The direct tax bill
can command two thirds vote in the pres
ept Congress, but if it shall fail, the 51st
Congress. republican in both houses, and
with the President, can and will refund the
direct tax, and wW not open The Court o.
Claims for thu captured and abandoned
property Of the South. Such s the pracIl-
cal OUTCOME Of Mr.. Oates political tactics.
agaiost the best interests of his own section;
for 10 prevent the Northern States from re-
covering $l4 657 .S37 46 of direct tax, he has
DESTROYED the chances of the Southern geo
pie for recouerog SIS .653 ISIS 25 of direct
tax and captured and abandoned property.
The report OF the judiciary Committee of
the House on The bill to reopen the Court
OF Claims to claimants OF the value of the
captured and abandoned property, isVso
able and conclusive so fully establishes, by
the decisions o. the Supreme Court, the
right of the claimants to the money, and the
duty of the government TO return the same,
that no difficulty 10 passing the bill would
have been encountered if Mr.. Oates and his
deadockers had not developed degree of
sectionalism which revived he same feeling
among republicans, and now stands an i'm
passabIe barrier to right and justice against
the people of the South, whose money lies in
the treasury vaults, but got covered into the
Treasury Such is politics, modern South
esn statemanship, political prudence, and
constitutional tomfoolery. The near ap'
preach of he emu ofthe so h Congress makes
ap; ont much of the folly which character
lied is ear Ter days