Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-27
From Washington.
The Bill.

New YORK, April 26.-The Tribune Z
special says: Tbe-Senate was the theatre
OF intense interest again to-day. The Col
orado bill being further discussed and put
upon its passage, the vote stood 19 to IS, one
} more majority than would Lave been OBJ.
tanned for ii, although Senator Dixon came
to-day and paired his vote. or the seven
teen absentees when the vote was taken,
Messrs. Cowan, Dixon, FessendeR, Harris,
johnson and Salisbury. were paired with
Aessrs. Wade. Lane, fof Kansas Hender-
son, Yates, Norton and Williams. Mr..
Wright has been conveyed 70 his home
again in New Jersey. Messrs. Anthony,
Morrill, and Brown are claimed TO have
been in favor OF the bill, and Mr.. Nesmith
against il. 4 full Senate would doubtless
have resulted in a vote Of 2S to 81.
The success Of the measure in the House
is assured. The flop over of Mr.. Doolittle
from his previous vote for it to his vote to-
day against 1t, the appearance Of Mr.. Dixon
from his sick room, and the excessive oppo-
sitlon ef those claiming TO monopolize tho
Presidents wish, lead to apprehensions
Of q veto, though the President is on the
record N its favor by q special message
urging her admission Senators Foster,
Sumner, Edmonds, Grimes and Poland
voted with the opposition, to th~edissppoint-
ment Of those who regard the unity of the
Republican party as Of special consequence
at this juncture.
The National
The Treasury Department estimates that
the national income for the present wear
will reach 5000 0 coo. The balances
present at the command of the Secretary
are believed to be fully $3.50, 900, zoo.
Personal.
Colonel Nixon, who to-day received his
pardon, is publisher Of the New Orleans
C~rescentsthe paper edited by General Simon
Bolivar Buckuer, who deserted from the
Union army after two months service, ten.
parD BELL, in 1861. It is the most atroeious
rebel paper published anywhere in the
Southwest, and while under Nixon's man
agemeUt, in April, 1892, invoked the horrors
Of yellow fever against General Buffers
army, then besieging Fort st. Phillip.
The Case of Ia Indiana C~OIlsI,irators.
There seems to be a general misunder-
standing es TO the result arrived at BY the
Supreme Court in the case of Milligsn and
other Golden Circle conspirators. The line
Of argument on the constitutional question
put forth by General Butler, was not Oh
jected TO seriously, but the case went off on
the habeds corpus act of 1868. The court
stood five for the discharge of the petition
ers, and four against. 1t is we'll understood
that no two Judges agree on any line
of reasoning, but each will deliver an
ofhis own.
Miscellaneous Items.
A petition is in circulation here PRAYING
Congress to enact a civil code, a general cor
pOration law, and allow the District a dele
gate in Congress.
A canvass of the different departments of
the Government is st present being made
to ascertain the number of employees who
honorably served in the Union army, with
a view to discharge incompetent clerks and
appoint ex-soldiers and sailors.
a decision materially affecting brokers'
sales will soon be issued by the Commits
s1oner of Internal Revenue.
In view of the immense amount of mutt
lated and redeemed paper money daily de-
at the Treasury Department, the
Secretary has determined to adopt the sug-
OF the superintendent Of that divi
sion, made two years ago, recommending.
instead Of burning, the conversion of ali
paper into pulp for the manufacture of
General Spinner estimates that
the entire department can by this process
be supplied with envelopes, saving the Gov
eminent an expense of from SS,0oo to sI2,-
coo per year.