Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
MIR. Davis and the Assassination of the
President,

WASHINGTON, June ia New Yorker of the
name of Campbell has just given to the world
some queer revelations concerning the testimony
lately adduced by the Judiciary Committee of the
House. tending to implicate Mr.. Davis in the as
sassination of the President. He shows that a
gross system of frauds and perjury has been re-
sorted to, to prove Mr.. Davis and Others conspir-
ators in the matter, and backs up his assertions
by facts that startle all who familiar with the
testimony. 1t seems that many of the witnesses
testified under assumed names and that no such
persons as the ostensible and recorded witnesses
exist.
In addition to this he states that Mr.. COnnor
who was the principal witness and detective in the
case was asked to proceed to New York and pro-
cure some cOrrObOTativge violence Ofhis own state
ments which he had previously volunteered to
furnish that he gave the officer who was sent
with him the slip in New York. has actually run
away, as is supposed, to avoid a prosecution for
perjury, and has not been heard of by the officer
or committee for several weeks. Other witnesses
have come forward and confessed to having sworn
falsely.
Washington was in favor of the relea Sc of Mr.
Davis, he was asked by Radical If the report
was true, when he retOrted by asking his nterrog-
ator If he was IN favor OF the indefinite ImpTlsOn-
ment of the representative of five millions OF peO
pie, without conviction or trial
Mr. Greely was in consultation with Senators
Chandler. Wilson and Others on the subject of
Mr. Davis Liberation on bail, and favored it to
the extent of alarming, if not dispeasing some of
his party associates. He left for New York this
evening. Mr.. OCOnner Is still here, but has thus
far made little or no progress in the matter. The
presumption is that he expected to obtain some
favorable consideration of the case, or he would
not have devoted so much time to 1t. A day or
two more. it is expected, will decide the matter.
The National Bank Fraud.
The House Committee on Banks and Currency
will make an elaborate report in few duys
the Washington bank frauds, and present a bill
guarding against such Interpretations of pub
lie moneys in the future.
Proposed Equalization of the Pay of
Members of Congress.
A proposition will soon be introduced in Con-
greSs equaliZing the compensation Of members uu
der the present rates. Some members receive
over $4,000 pay and mileage for each session of
Congress, while others receive only a few hun
dred over $1,000. 1t viii be proposed to pay ev
cry member $4,000 session, and his actual tray
cling expenses.
IWhile the House committee on Ways and Means
may not be willing to increase the duties to the
amount proposed, they are DESTROYS of giving all
possible protection to our manufacturing and
The Tax Bin.
The Senate will take up the tax bill and finish
that before entering upon the consideration of the
the constitutional amendments.
The Constitutional Amendment.
The House will take up the constitutional
amendment on Wednesday, and concur in the
Senates amendment by at least n three-fOUrths
vote. The presiding officer will then transmit it
to the Secretary of State, whose duty it will be to
transmit it to the Governors Of the States, to be
laid before their respective Legislatures.
The President is known to have expressed the
wish that Congress would pass, rs concurrent
solutions, the supplementary acts declaring the
powers of Congress under the constitutional
amendment
Tax on Cotton.
The Senate Committee have agreed on two
cents per pound on cotton.
Memorial of Negroes.
memorial signed by one hundred freedmen of
Charlottsville has been presented to Gen. How
ard by committee of the signers. 1t asks for
continued military protection, and rectes that
they are deprived of reasonable safeguards against
bodily injury by their former masters, and that
SOjOurn in Charlottesville, consulted forty white
rebels and not one cOlOred lOyalst.