Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-23
Bank Robbery.
Washington News.
constitutional Amendments.

Constitutional Amendments.
NEw YoRK, June 22-The morning pa
pers contain the following dispatches from
Washington:
The President will place no obstacle in
the transmission of the Constitutional
amendment just passed by Congress to the
Governors OF the several States.
Ways and Means Committee.
The Ways and Means Committee are
holding daily sessions and hope to complete
the tariff bill by Saturday. They are said
to have agreed on recommending an in
crease of fifty per cent on the duty on i'm
ported cigars, wines and liquors, and will
probably add eleven and a half cents per
POuhd 70 tne present teT on imported wool.
An equal increase on all imported realan
fabrics would in this case be also necessary.
The question of giving sixty or ninety
days notice for the proposed tariff bill is
provoking a discussion.
The general tariff of 1913 went into exc
cution from and after the day o fits passage.
All special tariffs bills except that of July,
1852, also went into immediate operation,
though some of them were quite general in
their character. and that of Anil. 1864 was
Since the renee of the war all
provisions efieeting our importations have
taken effect from the day of their passage,
excepting that of July, 1862, OF which a very
short notice was given.
The Array Bill.
The Schenck army bill, which passed the
House to-day by a vote of - to4I, will un-
~doubtedly be Killed in the Senate. Many
of its provisions were hastily passed over
on this supposition, and the indifference
manifested 20 its tate in the House is sup
posed TO nave arisen in a knowledge of the
forthcoming action of the Senate.
Memphis News.
Mr.. Washburne, from the Congressional
Committee to investigate the Memphis riots
in a private conversation reports that a de-
plorably bad condition of things exist in
Memphis. The temper and feeling of the
people is as bad, if not worse, than at any
previous period since the outbreak Of the
rebellion.
Lost Coupon Bonds.
The Committee on Claims to-day reported
a case which establishes q precedent in
certain respects for the reissue of lost coupon
bonds. 1t appears that a gentleman Of
Maine lost a $500 bond, but subsequently
recovered it in a damaged and mutilated
condition, together with thirteen of the
coupons. He asks Congress to authorize the
Secretary TO reissue the bond and coupons.
The Committee recommend that on the re-
mainder of the mutilated bond a new one
be issued without coupons; hat the thirteen
coupons attached to the old bond be held
valid, and that they cannot authorize the
reissue of coupons supposed to be lost, for
there is no evidence but that they may still
be in existence. The House agreed to the
above report.
Nominations.
The President has emit 10 the Senate for
confirmation the following nominations Of
~postmasters in Hon. Roscoe Conkling's Dis
trict of New York: Chas. II. Hopkins,
Utica; D. W. H. Shelly, Rome, and Morris
S. Wood, Clinton. No other nominations
were made.
The COnkIing-Fry Investigating Com
y mItfee.
The Conkling-F Fry Investigating Com
mittee have closed the evidence, and Mr..
~Shellsbarger, the Chairman, is engaged in
writing the report There has been a good
deal of important information ELECTED in
regard to the manner in which Fry car
ried on the Provost Marshals office, and
also in reference TO the bcunty-Jumping
business generally. Most of the evidence
will be very damaging to the head OF that
buresu. Ills understood the report will be
severe on Fry. ---1
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