The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-28

the late insurrectionary States excepting
| from VIRGINIA.
The position of the Clerk of tht
House is understood to be as follows:--
That he is merely to administer the law
of 1868 in placing the names of members
elecl upon the roll, his course on doubt
full points being controlled by the prece
dents set by the House in the absence OF
judicial ruling as to the construction o1
the law whateverIdefects may be discover.
ed can in right be remedied by the House
in addition to the validity and formal.
ity of the credentials Should these
facts appear, the only other question
which could occur, would be whether
the States lately in rebellion are now in
full relation to the other States in the
sense contemplated by the law of 1865
or in different language, whether they
are completely restored to their rights
and privileges in the Union. The ques-
tion as to whether certain members elect
can or cannot take the oath will not
probably occur until after the election
of the speaker, whose duty it is to ad-
minister it to the other members before
proceeding further in the business of or
ganization.
Few of the visitors at the white house
to-day obtained an interview with the
President, owing to the pressure of i'm.
portant public business.
R. M. T. Hunter and the rebel Briga-
dier General Raines of Arkansas, are at
the Attorney Generals Office to-day ur-
ging their claims for pardon.
Tt ic oocarfaipad fhot hnf onrp ra iva.
ly few of the credentials of members
elect of the House of Representatives
have been received, either from the late
insurrectiOnary or the other States, and
therefore the clerk of the House has not
prepared list Of the members and will
not probably do so before Saturday.
The Commercials Washington special
dispatch says: Herschel V. Johnson, of
Georgia, arrived in Washington this
morning He brings encouraging &C
counts of the return of Union sentiment
among the people.
The Chronicle to-day contains an arti.
Gle representing ex-Speaker Colfax as
having endorsed the Presidents policy.
This is the construction that the friends
of Mr.. Colfax seek to put on his speech.
The Treasury Department is deliver
ing the bonds of the S5O,OO0,0O0 by the
FiveTwenty conversion loan at the rate
of eleven and half millions day. Be-
tween nine and ten millions only remain
to be supplied to the subscribers. The
Secretary of the Treasury makes no Sc
cret of the fact that his forthcoming Ie'
port on the finances will he mainly an
enlargement of his views recently pre-
sented in his Fort Wayne speech.
The trial of Commodore Craven was
continued to-day, but nothing especially
interesting was elected.
The Tribune's special says large guam
titles of government lands are being
taken up and settled upon by soldiers
discharged from disbanded colored regi-
ments.
The Worlds Washington special says
General Grant yesterday received tt le-
gram from General Logan, who is at his
home in Illinois. He states that he will
be in Washington about the lst of De-
cember, when he will decide what course
TO pursue respecting the Mexican mis-
sion. Before this information was re-
ceived, communication was sent to him
by the Department of State desiring to
know about whether he accepted the ap-
pOlutment OF not.