Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-07
A GUEST AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

and on the floor of the Senate for the first
time, to-day, since the attempt to assassin
ate him.
A GUEST AT h WHITE HOUSE.
The President has invited George Ban
croft, the eulogist on Mr.. Lincoln, to be-
come a guest at the White House during
his stay in Washington. He has ac-
cepted.
GEN.L LEE ON VISIT TO GEORGETOWN.
This evenings Star says general
Robert E. Lee is in Georgetown visiting
his daughter"
REPAIR OF OHIO LAKE
Judge Spalding has introduced a bill
authorizing the Secretary of War to re-
pair and improve the harbors of Cleve-
land and Fairport, and appropriating
$59,sOo for the former, and $4,000 for
the latter, which was referred to the Com
mittee en- Commerce.
AcAsE OF CONSCIENCE.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived an anonymous communication con-
tanning forty-one interest bearing notes
amounting to $4,000. The sale of the
notes was ordered, and they netted SI6,-
900. Theletter was ~postmarked February
LIST, and read as follows:
"HoN. HUGH MCCULLoCH: The in
closed is money that rightfully belongs to
the United States, though the world
would say that 1 came honestly by it. 1
count a clear conscience of more value
than money can represent or express"
IMPROVEMENTS OF HARBoR AND RIVERS
The Committee on Commerce have I'M
der consideration the subject of appropria-
tions for the improvement of rivers and
harbors. As no appropriations have been
made for several years the investigations
are taking a wide range, and are being
very carefully made. 1t is understood
that the whole subject of the improve
ment of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
has been referred to Hon. Benjamin Egg
gleston, of Ohio, whose intimate acquain-
lance with the business of the West is a
guarantee that it will be fully and ably
attended to.
THEDIxoN CONVERSATION.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says: Whatever eff
feet the conversation with Senator Dixon,
as telegraphed by the Presidents Private
Secretary to the country, may have had
elsewhere, it fell very quietly here, and
unless like q shell with a long and slow
fuse, it explodes at some future time, its
present work is done. Whether this was
q second attempt to raise the banner OF
the new party the country will judge.
Senator Dixon knew nothing of the pub
LEGATION, or even of an intention to pub
fish it. The conversation was taken down
without his knowledge and sent to the
press by the special direction Of the Presi-
dent. This alone giVesit any significance.
Unless this were true it would stand I'M
noticed by the side of the rumors to which
every hour gives birth.
SPEECH BY GEN. GARFIELD.
General Garfield maintained himself as
one of the leaders of the House to-day.
As at Chickamauga he stood by General
Thomas and helped him save the day, so
here he stands unfinchingly by the Union
party, and is an earnest worker in the
great task of saving what the North has
won. Close attention was given to his
speech throughout. Its closing passage
brought the members around him in a
body. Ohio has many able representa-
tives, and James A. Garfield has achieved
high rank among them
sUBDIvIsIoNs OF THE COMMITTEE ON RE-
CONSTRUCTIONS.
The Joint Committee on R~econstruc-
ton has, as previously stated in these dis
pstches, been divided into five sub-com,
mittees, of three members each. These
are as follows:
LIST. Senators Fessenden and johnson,
and Representative Stevens, to whom is
intrusted the general business of the CON-
mittee and the examination of persons IN
the condition of the South as a whole.
I'd. Senator Grimes and Representatives |
Bingham and Order, who make the III
quired Investigation as to Tennessee.
Sd. Senator Howard and Representa-
tives Conklin and Blair, who collect evil
dence respecting Virginia, South Caro-
lima and North Carolina.
4th. Senator Harris and Representa-
Morrill, and Boutwell,, to examine
witnesses regarding the situation in
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Ar
kansas.
4th. Senator Williams and Representa-
tives Washburne and Rogers, who are
the necessary inquiry about
Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
One or more of these subcommittee is
in session for about two hours every
morning-that on Tennessee being par
ti%eularly busy.
h SUFFRAGE BILL.
The action of the Senate upon the
House suffrage bill was purposely delayed
until the pending bureau bill could be dis
posed OF, and will be still further delayed
until Mr.. Trumbulls companion bill, to
the rights of citizens against un-
awful combinations in the Southern