The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-09
Washington Items.
General sickles' Report.
What the Richmond Pa
pers say of the Recon-
struction Report.
Etc, Etc, Etc,
FRoM WAsHrNGrON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, May THE Senate
Committee on Public Lands have sew
eral important measures before them,
which will be reported In Few days,
looking to an early development of the
Northwest Several leading railroad
men are here In conference with them,
among whom is Mr.. Morse, who is
urging legislation to Insure the COM
pletion of the road from st. Paul to
Bayfield,, which makes an outlet TO the
lakes.
The Eomnissi0ner Of Internal Res
eEue. In letter In reply TO IA gentle
man in Buffalo, New York, dissents
from the recent decision Of Judge
Smalley, of VT, while sitting in equity
In the western part of New York.
The Commissioner says that the rule
laid down by Judge Smalley, as to the
cases (which he thinks the Judge
ought not TO give aid to the Assessor,
must be supposed to be taken as the
rule Of that district. as Judge Hall
appears to concur in the opinion of
Judge Smalley, but as to the right of
making q second assessment, the Com
missioner does not regard Judge
Smalley's opinion, even in his district,
either as authority or precedent. and
in its legal effects beyond the point on
which the case turns. nainely. the
Assessor 5 right Of Investigation in
the manner proposed in that class of
cases represented By the case Of Mr..
Brown, which class moreover embra-
ces only such assessments as were
made prior to the time wheG the law
of June Both, 1864, took effect, and
not such assessments as have been
made since that time The. rest of
the Canamissfon er s opinion eontaihs
views not called for By the case actuE
ally before the court
DIR. Rayne, of New York, at the
head of the Committee Of eminent
physicians, appointed BY the Medical
Commission recently d assembledS at
Baltimore, were today IN conference
with the Senate Committee of Conn
merce for the purpose of devising
some legislation to prevent the intro4
duction and spread of Asiatie Cholera
In the United States. After a free
interchange of views the COMMITTEES
unanimotsels- INSTRUCTED their .chair-
man To report a joint resolution to the
effect that the Secretary of Warland the
Navy, with the cooperation of the
Secretary of the Treasury, shall call
for an efficient and uniform system of
quarantine against the. introduction
into the country of the Asiatic Chol-
era through its ports of entry.
The Herdld's Washington special
says the President has signed the bin
incorporating the International Tele-
graph Company between the United
States and Cuba
Senator Dixon expect to leave for
his home in Connecticut within ten
days. His Improvement here is grad
ual, but will probably be accelerated
by the quiet of home life.
Mr. Baker, on behalf of the Union
Pacific Railroad, is here for the pur-
pose of obtaining another installment
of United States bonds, in payment
for twenty-five miles of additional
road lately ly.aecepted by the Commits
sioners. The line is now completed
beyond Elkhorn bridge, about sixty
five miles westward from Omaha.
The War Depart has suspend
ed the payment of over one hundred
discharged officers who have failed to
make the proper returns.
Dispatches from North Carolina
reveal further malfeasence on the part
of Agents of the Freedmen's Bureau
in that State. Col. Whittlesey, the
Commissioner for the State, and sew
eral Of his subordinates, with the
assistance of the Massachusetts phi
lanthropists, it is alleged, have beer
discovered running plantations on pri
yate account, and working deEnquen
or disorderly darkies on them for pun
ishment Several arrests have beer
made and more will be, it is reported
The Times Washington specia
says, nearly all the claiments of th,
cotton seized by the Government a
Savannah, have commenced suits il
United States District Courts of New
York, against Simeon Draper, Cottol
Agent, for the recovery of the valu,
of the cotton. The names numbe
122, and a strong array Of counse
has been retained by the plaintiff s
among whom are James S. Brady
VIM. Eyarts, and others of equa
ability -
Gen. Sickles, who arrived here yes
terday with several members of hi
staff from Charleston, had an inter
view with Gen. Grant to-day. Ger
Sickles reports affairs gradually i'm
orovin0 in the State THE labor olIes