Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Armes Heard In His
Own Behalf.
HE MAKES OUT A GOOD CASE.
Corporal Tanner Continues to Show
a Very Soft Side to the PEN
siOn-Seekers.


siOn-Seekers.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.l
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The opinion
gains strength that Frank Palmer, of Hi
nois, will be appointed Public Printer.
CONSULAR LECTURE ON TAXATION.
Charles DENLY, United States Minister
to China, in his report to the Department
of State, says that the system of taxation
in China presents some decided contrasts
to the systems in other countries. Taxes
outside of Peking are paid on arabic land
only, the tax varying with the crop and
the quality of the soil. Inside OF the
city of Peking, there is no tax on land,
houses, or personal property. Goods
brought through the city gates pay the
''Lekin" tax, but are exempt from taxa
ton afterwards. The only tax on land
and houses in Peking is on the
sale of real estate, ten per
cent being charged on the price
obtained for the property sold. There is
also tax resembling license fees. Out
side of Pekin, Chinese subjects are liza
BILE to be called on to perform certain
duties whenever the Emperor passes
through their districts, but this duty may
be avoided by the payment of small
tax. All moneys spent on the public ac-
count in Peking come from the Imperial
Treasury, and the expenditure is not
| limited to the funds raised by taxation
within the city. The bulk OF the people
| in Peking pay no taxes whatever. A
man who owns his house and lot and his
implements of labor, enjoys his earnings
without toll or deduction.
The Minister closed with the following
comment on Chinese taxation as con-
trasted with the system of taxation in.
the United States: "How different this
condition is from that of our own cities,
where, sometimej, 3 per cent. on high
valuation is exacted for public purposes.
To the absence of taxation of the
body of the people may well be ascribed
the permanence of the government, the
tranquility and contentment of the
Chinese race. The lesson of the taxa
ton in China might be profitably studied
by the civilized world. But in view of
the National, State, county, township
and city indebtedness, piled mountains
high, the lesson must now be valueless
to the United States"
| MORE OF "Lo's" cEDED LANDS.
The act under which the Sioux Com
mission was yesterday appointed, is SIM
liar in its general objects, provision and
form to the act passed in the first session
of the Fiftieth Congress which the In
dians rejected, chiefly because of the un-
| 90 E,afa aof knx
for the lands to be ceded hereunder.
The points of difference, summarized are
as follows: Pine Ridge reservation 10 be
extended east eighteen or twenty miles,
and the Rosebud Reservation ceres
pondingly reduced on the west. The
| Findsrau Sioux, who may elect not to
take allotments on the great Sioux Reser-
vation, are to be paid $125 per
acre, in lieu of allotments, instead
of fifty cents as previously provided
Tho quantity of land to be allotted to
heads of families of the Sioux nation on
their diminished reservation, is double
the quantity previously provided. The
allotments in severalty are not to be
compulsory, except as TO orphans, with
out the consent of the majority of the
male adults of the tribe. Every allottee
is made citizen of the United States
and is given the benefit Of, and made
subject to, the laws of the State or Terri
tory within which he resides. Heads of
families who desire to take allotments on
the ceded lands will receive 32O acres,
instead of 160, and the Poncas get double
the quantity on their own reservation
that they would have been entitled to
under the former act. Horses (mares)
are to be substituted for oxen, in the dis
cretion of the Secretary OF the To-
terror in the distribution of the
articles and things to be given to
the allotees, and $50 in cash is to be
expended for their benefit. The Perma-
nent Fund is increased from 81 900 900 to
$3 ,000, 900, and, at the end OF fifty years,
the fund is to be expended for the benefit
of the Indians, or distributed among
them. Religious societies must pay 81. .25
per acre for any land they want. instead
of fifty cents. Ceded lands are to be
sold to settlers at 81, ,25 for the frat three
years, at seventy-fye cents for th3 next
two years, and at fifty cents for the next
five years. Then the Government is to
pay for the remainder at the rate of fifty
cents an acre. The United States paws
$1.25 per acre for lands reserved for
school purposes, instead of fifty cents. as
provided in the previous suits.
The ''Red Cloud" and "Leaf" bands
are to be paid for the ponies taken from
them in 1876.
BRITISH COMMERCE LOOKING UP,
Consul General Waller, at London, in
bis report to the Department of State,
says that there has bean a general re-.
vival of the trade and commerce of the
United Kingdom. The returns, he says,
clearly show decided improvement in
both the volume and character of the
business done in 1888 over the previous
year, and this increased prosperity,
which promises to continue, is not con-
fined to any particular industry. 1t is
apparently due to legitimate trade, and
not to speculation. The Improvement
in business is especially notable in
the building industry.
POsTMAsTERs APPOINTED.
The President to-day appointed a mum.
Der OF Postmasters, among whom were
the following: Edward Angel, Athaley,
Idaho, and George II. Cook, Flagstaff,
Arizona.
BANK AUTHORIZED.
The Acting Comptroller of the Currency
to-day authorized the Washington Ma.
tional Bank at Tacoma, w. T., to begin
huHinaaa with q "a nital of &10O n0n