The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-26

NEW YORK, April 25.-The Times
Washington special says: The Inter
nal Revenue bill will probably be re-
ported tomorrow. Since the bill pass
ed through the hands of the Commit
tee the following changes have been
made on a second consideration of its
items. The tax on stock and bullion
brokers was fixed at two per cent. on
the hundred dollars. The tax on eX-
change brokers remains as heretofore,
but are put in under the same stamp law
as others. The tax on candles has been
finally fixed at five per cent. and all
rolled iron at So per ton.
Moses F. Odel was yesterday con-
frmed by the Senate as naval officer at
New York.
The President has filled all the ap-
pointments in Virginia for the Internal
Revenue with parties, who it is said,
have taken the test oath.
BY an order from the War Depart
ment to-day a number of claim agents
in Washington and New York were
detained from practice in the depart
ment for fraudulent practices. The
names of these agents are withheld for
prudential reasons.
The Tribune's special says that the
amended Bankrupt bill is ready to be
reported to the House whenever an OPP
pOrtunity is offered. Its principal al
terations consist in rendering its prac-
teal execution less cumbersome and
expensive. 1t is thought that the
changes made will SO far obviate its
difficulties as to insure its passage.
The Government offers for snle the
military railroad in Texas, running in
from Brazos Santiago to the Rio
Grande. Purchasers will be required
to transport all troops in Texas at the
same rates as charged by the New York
Central.
Speaker Colfax gave it as his opinion
to-day that Congress could not take its
recess before the 1st of July.
The Secretary of the Treasury is con-
sidering the proposition of putting a
five per cent. long loan in the market,
as a means ofrelieving our rapidly ma
turing obligations. Such has been the
successful arrangement of our finances
and the faith of the American people in
the national securities, that such loan
is deemed warranted, and is thought
to promise success by many of the best
financiers in Congress. The Secretary
has all the requisite legal authority,
and it is understood to be only the
question of expediency which now
claims his consideration.
The numerous detailed statements as
to what the reconstruction committee
will or will not report are totally I'M
trustworthy, although they may emil
nate from member of that COM
mittee, as it is generally apprehended
they do. The principal fact is that not
a proposition yet considered has as yet
been finally agreed upon.
The TriDune's special says:
The Assistant Commissioner of the
Freedmen'S Bureaus in the States of
Missouri and Arkansas in his last re-
port says that il is an indisputable fact
that very much of the cheerful indus
try of the freedmen is owing to the con-
fidence they have in military authori-
ties and the bureau to protect them in
their civil and personal rights. Under
the present laws there the testimony of
n negro cannot be given in any court
justice demands the admission of such
of this Bureau, and when negro tes-
timony can be dispensed with the cases
are turned over to the civil courts.
Gen. Howard to-day received from
Sir Morton Peto and Arthur Kinnard,
NJ. p, the English capitalists who re-
Gently visited this country, countri-
button of so pounds from each, which
they request to be applied for the re-
lief of the destitute and suffering freed
men of the Southern States.
Col. j. B. Kinsman, who has been on
the staff of Gen. Butler, has been or
dered to visit Texas to investigate and
report on the management of the Freed
mems Bureau there.
Ten assistant quartermasterS, two
paymasters, one assistant adjutant
general and one assistant surgeon were
to-day honorably mustered out of the
military service by order of the War
Department