The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-05-07
WASHINGTON, May a.

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WAsHINGroN, May a.
I THE RrBrLLIoUs STATES.
The House passed bill to day providing
for military government for the seeded
states, as precedent to the establishment
| Of civil authority therein. All the border
state men voted with the Democrats against
1.-THE bill. Governor Boutwell, closed the
debate on the bill in one of tho most rad
| ical speeches ever delivered in the House.
He took oldground even against the re-
construction or readmission of some OF the
Southern States with their present names
| in the Union, and at the same time de-
| clared that the pending bill should elevate
all the slave population OF the South to Pc
litical, military ana social quality WIN
white people. That omission, ne SAID, was
the great objection to the bill but the
rapid march Of events would soon over
come it. He clearly intimated that TINS
denial of suffrage to negroes would justify
their revolutionizing. His main argument
| was on Mr.. Stevens's ground, that the in
surgent states are not in the Union, and
that the power over them by the gem
eral government was Of q territorial char
acter
The following provisions are to be in
Icorporated in the new state constltu-
tons 1873
First. No person who has held or exer-
cised any Office either civil or military,
| state or confederate, except the office be
merely municipal, or military below the
grade of colonel, under the usurping pow
err, shall have the right to vote for or be
| member of legislature or governor.
Second. Involuntary servitdde is forever
prohibited, and the freedom OF all persons
is guaranteed in the said state.
Third No debt, state or confederate,
created by or under the sanction of the
usurping power, shall be recognized or PAID
by the state.
The bill further provides that every per-
son who shall hereafter hold or exercise
tany Office civil or military in the rebel ser
vice, state or confederate, except the office
be merely municipal or military below the
grade of colonel, is declared not to be a
citizen Of the United States.
Tho bill has yet to be acted upon by the
Senate y &. Is .sa e. ~ N-
THE CORRUPTION IN THE TREASURY DEPART
| MENT.
The committee to investigate the affairs
of the Treasury Department were in seS
sion last night Tor upwards Of four hours
| Colonel Baker, who investigated Mr..
Cark's department in the Treasury laid
lbefore the committe mass of information
/ of the most astounding chara ctcr in egard
ito Mr. ,Olark's operations. The dispositions
of some ten women were read-somc OF
them arc now employed in the department
which are wholly unfit for publication
1t was also shown that the entire response
bility of the issue Of greenbasis and cur
rency Of the country rests with this man,
and there is not now nor has there ever
been any check upon him The committee
are now unit upon the subject, and are
determined to unearth everything relating
to this matter and lay bare his character.
THE CHASE AND nLAIR EMBRoGLIo.
The trouble between the President and
Secretary Chase still continues. The late
ter cannot of course, resign, pending the
investigation of his official conduct; but as
the committee appointed are in the hands
Of his friends, he expects triumphant &C
quit,al Should such be the nature of the
report. he will, as his friends assert, retire
from the cabinet, as his official relations
with the President, and with Mr.. Blair, and
Mr. Seward ale of anything but pleasant
character 1t is said that he realizes that
his influence in the administration has per-
manently gone, and that he has nothing to
hope as apublc man from his further con
tinuance, in the office of Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr.. Hooper, of Boston, who has
been his most intimate adviser, is generally
named "a his probable successor.
... ~ A QUID-NUNC IN THE HOUSE.
has discovered that there is, in the Treas
ury Department, person Of the name of
Garnett He does not appear to be n pre-
cious stone, for tits alleged be is unsUund
on the loyal goose The declaration was
made in the House that this Garnett is not
only secessonist. but has been rebel
officer, and the circumstances of his con-
nection with the Treasury Department is
looked upon with much suspicion. 1t is I'M
derstood that Garnett IS the same man who
was prisoner on parole here about year
since and against complaint was made
of his being on the floor of the House du-
ring ITS session.
TACIT RECOGNITION OF sEccSsi :
The Senate to-day, by passing IL, rcso
luton fixing the number which shall consti-
tutea quorum at twenty five instead of
thirty five members, took long step in ad
yanrc nf thoorieS hprat nforo onf orfo;nod
Nov q precedent is established whereby it
may be claimed that the rebellious states
have 40 place in the upper chamber. Three
years ago such proposition as this would
have been Indignantly secuted.
THE CONDITION OF THE RED RIVER.
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