The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-28
FROM WASHINGTON TAls kFTERNuoN.
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WASHINGTON, July 2S.

W WAShlhdION, July Ho'
Senate Conformation,
The Senate, some time last night confirmed the
nomination OF Mr.. Browning 10 be Secretary of the
Interior. The lresident ana q 4 the members OF his
Cabinet at the Capitol to-day in the Vice-Pres
dents room, attending to business in connection
with the bills which require their exa ninatiOn, and
the M3nature OF the President
Murder I'm Maryland. 1
Charles Clements, o butcher of this city, was
lied by boy in q store in Prince Georges County,
Nd, last evening.
Paris Exposition, =
The following named gentlemen have been ap-
pointed as Commissioners for the United states to
the PARIS Exposition ..f.
Louis ARassiz, of assachusetts; Henry d.
AleRny, Of michigan; henry Farng, of Oregon;
James II Bowen of limos; Samuel r. Ruggles OF
New York; John 4. Kennedy, OF MARYLAND; j.
Lawrence smith, OF Kentucky; John Ericsson, OF
New York; " illiam Slade of Ohio. .-
Jefferson Davis aud the Assassination
The Committee on the judiciary have made 70.
port in which they say it is notorious that Jefferson
DAVIS was suity Of the crime OF treason, according
to the Constitution and laws Of the United States;
and the Committee are of opinion that there are no
obstacles to speedy and impartial trial which
be removed by legislation. They say the evidence
in possession OF the Committee connecting Jefferson
Davis with the ASSASSINATION OF President Lincoln
BILE cause to believe that Ee was privY
to the measures which led to the commission OF the
deed; but the investigations which have been made
by the War Department and bv the Committee, have
not resulted in placing the Government posses
sion of all the facts in the case 1t il probable how
ever that the further prosecution Of the investga.
ton by the Committee. and by the officers of the
Government, will result finally in develo Dment OF
the whole transaction The capture OF the Rebel
|
mass of letter, papers, and documents of various
kinds only portion OF which has as yet been ex.
| amined.
Sales of Railroads.
1t appears from O statement made by the War De.
partment, relative to the sac of railroads and rail-
road stocks in Southern States by the Quartermas-
ter-Genera that the amount of such sales for cash
SO 403 4O2 % and for credit 81 30 Gene
raj McCullam says the greater portion of this pro-
perry had been on land and in use q long time,
and though the pr.ces obtained we're below the
cost With some exceptions, they believed to be
! very favorable 10 the Government. The sales on
credit better than those for cash. In order to
secure the payment for sales credit, companies
| purchasing were required to give bonds in double
the amount OF property transferred to them THESE
| bonds all on file in the War Department. They
give the Government a lien upon the property and
require prompt payments all instaliments of pur.
chase money. great number OF companies have
| failed to comply strictly with the terms OF
| their bonds, but owing to the PROSTATE con.
| dition of the roads, and the expense of repair.
ing them, 1t is believed they are actually unable
to meet their obligations 1t is thought that an at
| tempt 10 enforce immediate payment would arrest
the operation of the roads and defeat the very pur-
pose had in view in making credit sales. Tne roads
all manifest willingness to meet their engagements,
| and large proportion of the payments already
made have been cash. All moneys accrulng to their
credit for transportation of troops supplies and the
mails, are stopped against them and applied in
liquidation OF their indebtedness, and it is conf
| denty believed that this manner the whole
amount will ultimately be secured.
| Evasion of Revenue Laws.
The act OF Congress, authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to remit certain fines ON the payment
of the appraieed value of certain articles by
Collectors of Customs valued at less than $1,000 for
violation evasion of the Revenue laws, has had
the effect to precpitate vast amount of labor on
| the Department 1t is rapidly becoming branch
of business OF great importance to the coentry,
affecting as it does some very fine technical points
1t estimated that cases involving over $751; 900
being received daily, and properly adjudicated.
| Nomination Rejected.
The Senate has rejected j. Stokes, of washington
appointed Internal Revenue Collector for the Fourth
District of Pennsylvania. An attempt was made
last night in Executive ssion to reconsider the vote
| by which Sloanaker was rejected as Collector of In
ternal Revenue In the First Pennsylvania District,
but it failed. The Senate Committee on Commerce
have agreed to report adversely upon the nomiAa.
ton OF Ex-Governor Johnston, of Pittsburg, to be
Collector of Customs at Philadelphia.
The articles entitled memoirs of the Con-
federate War lor Independence, by Heros Won
Boreke, Chief of the Staff to General J. E. B..
| Stuart which have appeared in BL1cI7yOOd,S