The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-28
FROM WASHINGTON.

w ASHlNGTON, July AI.-AIlSOn,
from the Committee on Ways and
Means, reported back substitute for
the Secretary to provide for the as
certainment and appointment of the
proper quota of the direct tax for
1861, between the States of Virginia
and Western Virginia.
An official letter from the Paymaster
General to an army officer mustered
out at the close of the war says that
the amount due 1st Lieutenant un-
der the original act of Congress grants
them three months extra pay proper,
one hundred and fifty dollars, the
combinations and allowances are not
included in the payment of the amount.
Other officers are allowed in the same
proportion to their rank.by the original
act. Officers resigning or mustered
out for other reasons than their ser
vices being no longer required are not
entitled TO its benefits. The present
act grants them to all officers who
served until the close of the war.
WASHINGTON, July 26.AThe clos
ing hours of Congress are unattended
by any important debate, or the pas
sage of any very important bills. Per-
haps the most important considered
and passed to-day was the bill report
ed by the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs in the House, to better enforce
the neutrality of the United States.
It is very elaborate measure, and
revolutionizes fully the present neu-
trality laws, which have been on the
statute books for forty years. The
vote on the passage of the bill was one
hundred and twenty-four yeas, every
member present in the House at the
time voting for it. The Fenian in
terest was very great, President Rob-
erts of the SFenian Brotherhood be-
ing presentaon the floor of the House
during its consideration.
The House passed a bill to-day
paying the rewards for capturing the
assassins of President Lincoln and
to those who captured JEFF. Davis: In
the latter case the Colonel of the Mich
igan receives $1,000, and the line of
officers S. to 800 apiece. The high,
est reward paid for the capture of
Booth is $4,000 to E. J. Conger, who
was present at the time, and the next
is $4,000 to Lieutenant Doherty, who
commanded the squad. The attempt
to give Detective Baker 81, 900 failed,
and he was voted-only $3,000.
Information of a character which
cannot be doubted, has been received
| in official circles that Napoleon has
agreed to disband twenty thousand
French troops in Mexico, to allow
them to enlist in Maximilian's For
eign Legion.
The President sent to the Senate
this afternoon about three hundred
nominations, most of which were pro-
motions in the regular army, and bre-
vet promotions in the volunteer forces
The Senate, at the evening session,
confirmed about four hundred naval
promotions, one hundred military
promotions, and a considerable num-
ber of Postmasters. The contirma-
tions were not given out tonight
owing to the latenesss of the hour al
which the adjournment took. place:
The President has signed the bill
J regulating the manner of holding
J Senatorial elections, which some per-
sons expected he would dveto. This is
the last of. the bills Of any political
significance to be presented to the
President at this session.
E The managers of the Philadelphia
. Convention are being rapidly over
y whelmed with knotty questions: In
f connection with the Vallandigham-
r Wood contested admission case, az
e equally difficult one has arisen, name
e ly:
d Whether in consideration of tn,
feelings of the Southern delegates i
S will be good policy to display the ma