The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-06-12
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT REPORT.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
NEW YORK, June IL.

AHC uutHiuk papers nave the following
specials from Washington:
A New Yorker, named Campbell, has Just
given to the world some queer revelations
concerning the testimony lately adduced by
the Judiciary committee Of the House tend
ing to lmplicate JEFF. Davis in the assassina
ton. he says he knows that a gross system
OF frauds and perjury have been resorted to to
prove Davis and others to have been conspir-
ators IN the matter, and backs up his state
ments by facts that startle all who are famil-
iar with the testimony. Ii seems that many
witnesses testified under assumed names and
that no such persons as the ostensible and
recorded witnesses exist. In ADDITION he
states that when Mr.. Connery. who was the
principal witness and detective in the case.
was asked to proceed to New York and pro-
cure some coroborating evidence Of bis own
statements which he had volunteered to fur
nlsh, that he gave the officer the slip in New
York and has actually run away, as is sup.
posed to avoid prosecution for perjury, and
has not been heard from by either the officer
or committee for several weeks And other
witnesses have come forward and confessed TO
have sworn falsely.
1t being understood Mr. Greely, Who was
in Washington, was in favor of the release Of
JEFF. Davis. he was asked BY Radical If the
report was true? when he retracted By asking
the interrogation if be was in favor oil indef
mite Imprisonment of the representatives OF
four millions of people without conviction or
trial?
Mr.. Greeiy was in consultation with Sena-
tors Chandler, Windham and others, on the
subject Of DAVIS liberation, and favored il to
the extent OF alarming if not pleasing to
them. Some OF his party asserts that be left
ipr New ork this evening. Mr.. 0'Connori is
still here. bu, has. thus far, made little or no
progress in the matter. The presumption is
that he expected to obtain some favorable
consideration of the case or he would no,
have given so much time to it. A day or two
more is expected TO decide the matter
The House Committee on Banks and Cur
rency will, IN few days. report on the W ash
ihgton bank frauds and present a bill guard
ing against such Interpretations OF public
money in the future.
\ bill will soon be introduced in Congress
TO equalize the pay Of members. Under the
the present regulations some members receive
over eighteen thousand dollars pay and mil
age expenses. while others receive bat a few
hundred over the six thousand dollars Ii
viii be proposed to pay every member of
Congress ten thousand dollars and his actual
travelling expenses.
The Senate will take mp the tax bill, and
finish that before entering upon the consider
alton OF the enactments contemplated and
made requisite by the Constitutional amend.
ment.
The House will take up the Constitutional
amendment, and concur IN the Senate amend
meni by at least a two-third vote. The pre-
siding officer will then transmit i, to the See.
retary of State, whose duty it will be to trans
mt il at once to the Governors of States, to
be laid before their respective Legislatures
The Senate Committee have agreed upon
the two cents per pound tax on cotton
The President is known TO have expressed
the wish that Congress would pass us con-
Current resolves. the supplementary bills de-
clarpg the powers of Congress under the
Constitutional amendment.
A memorial, signed by one hundred freed
men of Charlottvile, has been presented TO
Gen. Howard hy committee of the s,coers
1t asks for continued military Protection. and
states that they are deficient of a reasonable
safe guard 10 protect them against bodily in
jury By their former masters. That Generals
Steadman and Fullerton. during their stay in
Charlottesville, consulted forty white ex rebels,
and not one colored ioyalis..
Specials to the evening papers say the com
mii,ee to investigate the Memphis riot having
returned their report will be made about the
middle of tie week. Their information is
more important than any yet published.
The tax bill will be reported shis week.
Mr.. Anconas resolution 10 repeal the neu
tratity laws was referred to the committee On
Foreign Affairs.
Senator Wilson will report the Freedmen's
Bureau bill with the amendments providing
for the restoration of the Sea Island lands to
their former owners on certain conditions.
and furnishing the Freedmen now occupying
them with other lands.
Congress will not adjourn without ;ucreas,
ing or raising the tariff.
The investigation into the Merchants Ma.
t:oaal bank swihdle is nearly concluded. The
c8nmittee will recommend measures to enable
more summary proceedings in such cases.
1t is quite probable that the Bankrupt bill
and the bill concerning the pay of army off.
GERS will go over until the next session.
A Branch Mint building i to be erected at
once at Carson city, Nevada.
The receipts Of Internal Revenue for last
week were S5.62O, 200. 80.