WASHINGTON, May 6. – The gunboat Ham captured on the 19th ult., off Charleston the schooner Glenn of Charleston, while attempting to run the blockade. She was bound to Nassau and was [loaded] with one thousand bales of cotton and five tierces of rice. The papers and log book were thrown overboard during the chase.
A number of the members of the Committee on Military affairs, of both Senate and House, accompanied by Gen. Clarke, executive clerk of the Senate, and Mr. Smith, Clerk of the House Military Committee, have gone to Fortress Monroe and the headquarters of Gen. McClellan, to prosecute enquiries touching the charges against Gen. Smith and other matters of importance in the prosecution of the war.
Senator Wade’s bill in aid of agricultural colleges, provides that the public lands shall be donated to the States and territories which may establish colleges to teach the science of agriculture and the mercantile arts, in the proportion of 30,000 acres for each Senator and representative; the funds acquired by the sale of the lands to be in Government or other stocks, yielding at least five per cent; one college at least must be endowed and supported in the State or territory which received the donation.
The Senate Committee on Finance has reported about 260 amendments to the House tax bill, after having heard the representation of delegations representing various interests; among the amendments they have stricken out the tax on all rectified and mixed liquors and increased that on distilled spirits to 20 cent per gallon, to be collected at the distilleries, but not to operate on the stock in hand previous to the passage of this act; the tax on domestic wine is stricken out; lager beer and other malt liquors remain undisturbed; three per cent is proposed on the gross receipts of railroads, steamboats &c.; thirty instead of fifty cents a head on cattle, adding five cents on calves, tobacco twenty cents per pound; cigars from ten to thirty five cents, according to the quality, the tax of one per cent per pound on cotton is stricken out.
WASHINGTON, May 7. – The Senate will, without unnecessary delay, proceed to consider the tax bills which have been presented, and it is thought the report of the Committee on Finance will be adopted without material change. The tax of twenty cents per gallon on whiskey and twenty cents per pound on tobacco it is stated will yield $40,000,000. Should the views of the minority of the Committee prevail it is supposed the revenue from this source would be considerably increased.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3
A number of the members of the Committee on Military affairs, of both Senate and House, accompanied by Gen. Clarke, executive clerk of the Senate, and Mr. Smith, Clerk of the House Military Committee, have gone to Fortress Monroe and the headquarters of Gen. McClellan, to prosecute enquiries touching the charges against Gen. Smith and other matters of importance in the prosecution of the war.
Senator Wade’s bill in aid of agricultural colleges, provides that the public lands shall be donated to the States and territories which may establish colleges to teach the science of agriculture and the mercantile arts, in the proportion of 30,000 acres for each Senator and representative; the funds acquired by the sale of the lands to be in Government or other stocks, yielding at least five per cent; one college at least must be endowed and supported in the State or territory which received the donation.
The Senate Committee on Finance has reported about 260 amendments to the House tax bill, after having heard the representation of delegations representing various interests; among the amendments they have stricken out the tax on all rectified and mixed liquors and increased that on distilled spirits to 20 cent per gallon, to be collected at the distilleries, but not to operate on the stock in hand previous to the passage of this act; the tax on domestic wine is stricken out; lager beer and other malt liquors remain undisturbed; three per cent is proposed on the gross receipts of railroads, steamboats &c.; thirty instead of fifty cents a head on cattle, adding five cents on calves, tobacco twenty cents per pound; cigars from ten to thirty five cents, according to the quality, the tax of one per cent per pound on cotton is stricken out.
WASHINGTON, May 7. – The Senate will, without unnecessary delay, proceed to consider the tax bills which have been presented, and it is thought the report of the Committee on Finance will be adopted without material change. The tax of twenty cents per gallon on whiskey and twenty cents per pound on tobacco it is stated will yield $40,000,000. Should the views of the minority of the Committee prevail it is supposed the revenue from this source would be considerably increased.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3
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