The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1865-12-02
From Washington.


I'm inouirv n [, that but comparatively
few Of the credentials Of members elect of the House
of Reufesentatiyes have been received Therefore
the Clerk Of the House has not prepared b Of tie
members and will not probably do 90 before satuI-
day. No credentials have Leen received from the
late insurreetionary States excepting from virginia
In part and Tennessee complete The position o. the
Clerk Of the House u understood 10 De s loli0Nsi
That he 10 merely to administer the Law OF 1908, IN
plarinR the names Of members elect upon tho fOili
III course on doubtful points being controlled by tns
precedent. ss, by ahe hoass "a ~ ~ ,ss
detects may be- discovered can OF Htht be iemsuIeo
by the House addition 70 th9 na 5.c,. anu anp,.r
the only other question which could occur would ue
whether the states lately IN rebellion ar, no. ~
full relation TO the otl States In the ten'e eonein-
plated by the law OF 1858 or, In dho tent Aneusge,
SheIher they are compe,eiy restored 10 th,n tehu
whether ccrt ain members elect eau or cannot take
the test oath vii not properly occur untI hiet we
election Of the speaker, whose duty H. 70 admins
Ter mi. oath 10 the other n.empers before pfocsed'
ing IuTtheT in the business OF organization
10 day the military commission composed Of Gens
Hitchcock, Mott and Seth Williams, met and organ
lied This commission 10 ordered To Investigate GER
tain frauds alleged have been committed At Boston
Mas by agent. who by fraud and misrepresenta-
tion induced and forced German eniuant' TO enter
our army as substitutes The commission will probs-
bly, In short time move to Boston, where u vii
hear the evidence Of witnesses.
Robert Heth, committed to the Old Capitol, With
Taylor, for apprOpriating to their own use about
$4,000 Of the specie belonging to the Rebel Govern
nent and which fell into their hands after the cap
ture Of Richmond, were this morning, released from
the Old Capitol, by order Of the Secretary OF War.
II. Hitchcock and C MolAns were also released and
turned over to the civil authorities.
Very few Of the visitors al tho White House to-
d.y obtained Interview with the President owing
~ the pressure Of important public lusinefs. X. H.
7 Hunter and the rebel Brig. Gen. Roane, Of ArEan-
,as, were at the Attorney Generals Office today
ssulng their claim for pardon.
The Treasury Department 10 delivering the bonds
Of the fity millions Of the hve-t-euy convention
loan, at the rate Of one and half million day
Between nine and ten millions only remain 10 le
supplied to the subscribers.
The Secretary Of the Treasury makes no 'ecret OF
the fact that his forthcoming report the finances
will be merely an enlarrem OF the views prescntod
in his Fort Wayne speech.
Commodore Palmer ha, received preparatory order,
for the command Of the West India squadron, which
is now being formed.
Tho trial OF Commodore Craven vas continued
to-day, but nothing especially interesting wss ell
cited.
George G. Whiting, Esq., Acting Chief CLERK OF tho
Department OF the Interior, has been dispatched ny
the Secretary a. special agent of the Department. to
visit the Miami Indians Of Indiana and psy them
their annuties. lie left the city to-day for that
puipose
Tie officers Of the Treasury Department have
seized counterfeit plate Of the ten-orty bond. OF
the denomination Of five hundred dollars, so vol
executed that the spurious bond. would have been
difficult Of detection.
General Grant started Oh his southern tour this
morning
Eleven hundred dollars has leon paid to Mrs
Washington, widov Of Lewis Washington, rebel
Officer, in compensation for household properly
seized and sold during the
Up 10 the present time, prize claims to the
amount Of slJ,OO0OOO have teen adjudicaied ana
over ~, 100000 have already been paid over
In o. edience to orders from the War Department.
tho sth and lth Connecticut and issth Penn'vlvA-
Il a. and Ais, and O3d New York volunteers serving
| in the Department Of Virginia, are 81 ones W DO
mustered out OF the service.
The President and the Pardon-Seekers
The Washington correspondent OF the fhilAdelph'a
IsQURFR tells these stories Of the seeEe"or pardon
/ ON SATURDAY. not over thirty were present. AZ inc
white House, among whom Wa NliiiAih IoIshet tSt :
Miies OF south Carolina. Approaehins the rtesiot ~
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