Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-02
Washington News.

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New YORK, juno 3O.-The morning paper
have the following specials from Washing
ton
Receipts from Various Sources.
The total receipts from ~Intorual Revenue
Customs, sales of land, &c., for the fsca
year ending TO morrow, VIII amount 10 owe
five thousand and fifty million dollars. TIL,
receipts from Internal Revenue, as est
mated, will be 1915, 600, coo Customs, SI70,
100000 direct tax, about So nG. 0OO; from
miscellaneous sources, 500, 000, geo and from
sales of public lands about S6J, 90, 800.
The Military Bill.
The report that the Military bill of the
House ana Senate were in the hands Of q
conference committee is untrue.
Senator Wilson intends amending his bill
in one or two particulars, when it will prob
ably commend the assent of the House and
Senate.
The bankrupt Bill.
The Senate judiciary Committee have not
yet reached any conclusion in regard to the
Bankrupt bill. The majority of the mem
oers of the Committee are in favor of the
passage OF q bill OF some SOFT, but are Op-
posed to Mr.. Jencks' bill, although attempts
will be made to have it reported in a modi-
lied form. The shOrtness of the session and
hostility 1t will receive in the Senate will
throw it over till next year.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Commission.
The Rousseau Grinnell Commission con-
cluded the taking Of testimony in the case
Yesterday, and are preparing a report. Mr..
GrinnePs friends feel confident that Rous-
seau will be expelled, while the friends of
the latter are equally sanguine Of nothing
beyond a resolution Of censure will be re.
commended. The Commission has wisely
kept its own councils, and all reports con
corning its future actions are purely specu-
lations.
The BIaine-COnkIIn Commission.
The Blaine-Conklin Commission have not
yet concluded summing up the testimony,
which IS VOluminous. The general charac-
ter OF the forthcoming report is reported 10
be IN Justification of Conkling and damag-
ing to General Fry.
Health of Gen. Hooker.
The continued i'll health of Gen, joe
Hooker from, a severe stroke of paralysis.
has decided the War Department to relieve
him in command at New York, and he will
be granted q long leave of absence. Gen.
John Pope will succeed Gen. Hooker in
command of the Department of the East.
Gen. Hancock will succeed Gen. Pope in
the West, and Gen. J.. NJ. Scofeld, who has
lately returned from Europe, will be sent
to Baltimore.
Discharged.
Twenty five clerks have been DISCHARGED
from the Pension office to make nlsces for
partly disabled soldiers, and twenty addi-
ones will be discharged TO. morrow
ne Ietlred clerks are said to have been
selected from those who have been longest
n The employ Of the Government, some of
"hoin had held their places from five to
Ten years and even longer There will be
ahother slaughter OF the innccents to-mor-
row. For.y or fifty Assistant Quartermas-
and COmmissary's will also De mustered
3ut of service.
Parties interested in the Omaha or main
Inc OF the Pacific Railroad are here press
ns the President to veto the bill lust pass
d. allowing the Kansas branch to be run
Tue west toward Denver City and Califor-
ala, and TO build eastward. Tkay seem
'anguine of success, but it is doubtful
whether the President will oppGse a nm
political measure that so large a majority of
10Th Houses, and Of all parties, have en-
The Conference Committee on the Tax
~ nod their first meeting tomorrow, and |
indications are that they will fix the
iuty on cotton at S!c. per pound.
Sentenced.
James W. Duncan, late of the Confeds-
ate army and of Andersonville prison no
oflety, recently tried by a Military Com
at Savannah, Ga, has been SEN
enced to be confined at hard labor for if
cen years at Fort Pulaski, Ga, for murder.
Health of Hen. +, ID. WasuBurns.
hon. E B. Washburne is improving
lowly but will not be ready FOR work for at
east a week. This will prevent the Mem
ms Investigating Committees Report from
ieIng made before the close of the session
Untrue.
The Times special says that the reported
hanges in the Cabinet are untrue. Mr..
peed and Mr.. Harlan deny having remote
: suggested to the President a desire to re-
ire.
Radical Convention.
The Herald's special says the Radicals in
' a~shlngton have, in a series of c~aucuses.
etermined to call a convention of he
tates represented, which shall determine
n a platform a~ntGgonistic to the President
he name of General Grant is to be nut
nomination as a successor to the Prssi-
ent.