, 1864-06-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Matters Military aud Congressional

Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribuns1
WAeusoroH, Wednesday. Juus q, 1874
TIE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.
The Senate spent most Of yesterday on the
Overland and Russian Telegraph bill. The
vote on taking 1t up WIS "a to Is. Brown,
Grimes and TenEyck made vigorous attack
upon the section giving subsidy Of $5O, 600
per annum to the company aud the ruaEan-
teeipg Of all government accounts over that
Inns. The section Was finally stricken outby
81 to 16.
~, YEAss7Anthony Brown, Bnekalew, carli1e.
%es a.ss GsR'1 ps K.us f scFo, o
Van Wlntle, Wiley.
uiser Ho%sr Howe onseIs Mepousap Mofsa Mos.
r1l, Neamith. Sumner, Trumball, Wade. Wilkln-
sou.
Tho subsidy section having thus been
stricken out, Mr. Chandler said the bill WAS
worthless, and he did not want It passed
His motion to kill it by laying 1t on the table
was lost and 1t then passed By So to 3, the
nays being Chandler, Howard, and Lane, Of
Indiana
As passed, the bill simply gives Collins aud
bis associate the right Of way aud the use o.
10 acres for each one hundred miles Of line.
and allows the Secretary of the Navy to give
them the use OF vessel to assist In surveying
the route and laying the cable across the
Struts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Mr.. Washburne Of Illinois made very
strong speech last evening 'against the amen
datory Pacific Railroad bill, characterizing It
| as monstrous ewindle In almost every sec-
/ NJ %rtr n In $ha
| to the advantage Of an unprinclpled Execu
tive COMMITTEES who have got control Of the
franchise for the ensuing three years, and
are using their power to the injury Of stock
holders, without building any road or In
tending to build any.
REVENUE MATTERS.
Secretary Chase went to the Capitol yes
tesday, and in person presented to the Con
ference Committee On the Tax bill the letter
to which reference has already been made in
these dispatches, enforcing the necessity OF
raising moro revenue THAI can bo derived
from the bill in its present shape, and urging
the Increase Of duty upon distilled spirits to
be two dollars, to be imposed Immediately
upon the passage Of the bill. The Secretary
also recommends that the income tar be
raised during the continuance Of the war to
ten per cent.
The Committse postponed action upon
both subjects.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-Since the decision
| upon the bids for the aeventJ-fve million
loan, enough offers have been made at four
per cent. premium to take up the whole
amount Of the loan. This for the present,
at least, relieves the Secretary from any oc--
casion to negotiate foreign loan.
Since the 1st Of June, ,05o men have died
in the hospitals Of this department.
was tonight confirmed BY the Senate as Con:
sul-GeneFal to Canada a large number ot
solicitors for that place are disappointed.
It Is said that Secretary Chase stated to a
member ofkthe Finance Committee that the
expenses Of the government fo5 od ths fscal sca
and that the entire National debt would be
81, ~, ,0C0, 900.
4 The PRECEDENT today communicated to the
Senate dispatch dated June 10, from Tho
mas Savage, Acting Consul General at Ha-
vana, relatiye to the case OF Don Jose Angus
rest was sought because Of his opposition to
the slave trade. 1t appears that Arguellcs
! captured Slaves in the expedition, as was his
official duty; but instead Of eurrendering
them to the Governor General, he sold por-
ton Of them, and accounting for them BY re:
porting that they had died Of smallpox and
lad been burned, and he brlbed curate to
attest it.
The testimony shows that SO were sold to
one man, T. to another, and the rest were
distributed In similar way. Captain Gen
l.. eral Dulce, who has been SO much abused BY
Arguelles, has been very efficient In captut-
ine slave expeditions, claiming that bnt five
; have escaped him during his administration,
: while four and half Of another have been
captured Consul. General Savage further
avers that the story Of Arguel1es' Wife's pres
ence in New York is not true. he represents
that these captured sleyes surrendered to the
Governor General are termed ''emaucipados,' -
and contracts with planters at nominal
sum arc made for their temporary service,
but that great frauds arc perpetrated upon
them; a common one being to report portion
of them dead, or when other slaves die to ta5-
tit, to the death Of "emauclpados" By which
they are retained in slavery.
The Eiyniny Rst's special says 1t IL report
ed in Congressional circles that Mr. Chase
will negotiate foreign loan Immediately
after the passage Of the s4oo, ,ooo, 900 loan bill
now before Congress. The bill contains q
provision authorizing Mr. Chase to negotiate
| such loan.