NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: How the Expenses of the War are to be Met; A Proposed Tax of One Hundred and Fifty Millions (01/08/1862)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 1/8/1862

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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 7.

The Committee of Ways and Means have concluded to provide by taxation for a hundred and fifty millions during the current year.

The Committee of Ways and Means should not fail to impose a monthly tax on those who perform the office of sutlers to our armies. It is an exclusive privilege and a very valuable one. Merchants in civil life always pay a license. Those who sell in the camps should do likewise, and the funds go into the Government treasury. The average value of a sutlership to a regiment is said to be $6,000 a year. If we have 600 regiments in service, the furnishing of sutler's goods to them yields a profit of nearly four millions annually. Why should not a fair per cent. of this sum go to the Government, that furnishes the customers and the money they buy with?

Senator HALE's bill to protect the Government Treasury from swindling contracts comes none too soon. Its introduction to-day was marked by a severe speech from that Senator.

The appropriation for compensation and mileage of members of the House is under the control of the Treasurer of the United States as disbursing agent, and he has refused payment of the claim for extra mileage whenever presented, nor has mileage for the extra session been paid to any Senators by the Treasury Department before the recent decision of the Secretary, as has been erroneously stated.

THE DISCUSSION ON THE TRENT AFFAIR.

The speech of Judge THOMAS, of Massachusetts, was listened to with deep interest by the whole House, and it was received with surprise from one so quiet, grave and dispassionate as the able and venerable Representative of the old "Quincy District."

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News from Washington: How the Expenses of the War are to be Met – 2-3
News from the Rebel States: The Fight at Dranesville – 3
Important from Cairo: A Satisfactory Gunboat Reconnoissance to within Two Miles of Columbus – 3
Editorial: Now and Then – 3
Pillow’s Case – 3-4
St. Hickory’s Day in Dixie – 4

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