Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-02-22
.Celttryg)rl;a,pl3ltI.. II
FROM WASHINGTON,
Decisions by the second Comp.
lrOller.

Decisions by the second Comp
trOller. ....- II
NBw York, Feb. 2l-The Second Comp
troller yesterday decided that disbursing
officers. when paying fees to witnesses, are
not required to deduct therefrOm the 3 per
cent. revenue tax, as such fees are not of
the nature of salary to Government
officer. ...r r.'a
The same officer, In reply to an inquiry
addressed him by all American temporarily
residing In Syria, as to whether he has for
feited his claim to the bounty provided by
law in the case of his deceased son, who
died in the military service of the United
States, leaving neither wife nor child, has
decided that no citizen temporarily resi-
dent of any foreign country forfeits his
right to bounty due his son killed in the
military service OF the United States, and
that it will be paid on proper application.
GEN. Grants Order suPPressIDg
Ihe Richmond Examiner Sus-
pended.
New YORK, Feb. 2l.-The following is
the official order Of Gen, Grant permitting
the publication Of the Richmond Examiner:
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE U. ST.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10th, 1866.
Gen. A. II. TerN Commanding Department Of
GENERAL-Your order of date the 18th
inst, taking military possession of the
Richmond Examiner, a newspaper publish
ed In Richmond, Va, and prohibiting its
publication, made In pursuance OF the di-
rections of the Lieutenant General COM
manding, Is hereby temporarily suspended,
and the Richmond Examiner will be per-
mitted to resume its publication upon the
express condition that in future it will not
pursue course inimical to the Govern
ment, or to the growth or expression, in
other words, of Union sentiments among
the people of the States lately in rebellion,
or to the cultivation of friendly relations
between the people of the States or any OF
them, or other States of the Union: and
that it will not in any wise, fail, in its edi-
tOrials, correspondence or transferred arti-
cles from other newspapers, to give sup
port, countenance and friendship to acts
and expressions of loyalty to the Union
and its supporters.
By command of Lieut.. Gen. Grant.
tSignedl L. S. BOWERS,
Asst. Adjt. Gen.
The Negro Suffrage BiII-AhOIher
Freedmen's BiII - IndOrse the
PresIdent-A DefnuIGer Arrested.
NEW York, Feb. 2l.-The Posts special
says: The Senate committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia has decided to report the
House suffrage bill, and ask its immediate
| passage by the Senate.
The chairman of the House committee on
| Freedmen (Mr. Elliott Is preparing new
bill, providing for a Freedmen's Bureau.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
by the Board of Aldermen to-day indorsing
President Johnson's veto. -
This morning an alleged defaulter from
Jacksonville, Morgan county, ILL.,, named
Edward T. Dawson, was arrested on board
the California steamer New York, The
prisoner was Surveyor and Collector in
Jacksonville, and it is alleged he decamped
on the 10th inst. with $1,000 in public mon
eys. About SLJ00 were found in his pos
session. lie is held to await instructions
from the Illinois authorities. t.
Gen. Terry-A New Freedmen
Bureau BilI-Freedmen's Affairs
| In Texns.
New YORK, Feb. 2l.-The Herald's spe-
cial says: Gen. Terry has testified before
the Reconstruction committee and left
for Richmond, 81
| IL Is SJdltu mTs LOOllJIl6 VIII lnUTOuuCt
new Freedmen's Bureau bill to-day, in
cooperating the Presidential features.
Brig. Gen. Gregory, Assistant Commits.
sioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the
State of Texas, under date Galveston, Jan
81, reports to Gen. Howard very satisflc.
tory state of affairs throughout the State.
Secretary Stewards Dispatch 10
! MIR. BiGelOw. r..
NEW YORK, Feb. 2l.-In the reply O
Secretary Seward to Mr.. Bigelow's dis.
patch inclosing the speech of the Emperor
Napoleon in reference to Mexican affairs
has been printed, and which will be for
warded to Europe to-day, Mr.. Seward al.
ludes with considerable severity to, and de-
nies the assertion of the Emperor that oul
Government had been invited to join
France In the Mexican Intervention before
army of Macmillan. ..... 7r,-.-, r
Throw all the Blame ON the PresI.
| dent.
New YORK, Feb. 2l.-The Tribune's spe.
cial says: 1t is now come to light that the
| instructions under which the Freedmeni
Bureau in Louisiana was so completely dis,
rupted in November, its three hundred
schools brought to close soon afterward
the freedmen and discharged colored sol.
diers arrested as warrants in the streets o.
New Orleans without trial or process o.
law, and the orphans of freedmen returned
to former slaveholdersas apprentices, were
imparted by the President himself, and that
Gen. Fullerton acted in accordance with
Executive instructions. ~
Merchant TaIIOrs Looking After
| v their Interests F... rv
1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l.-A large delega.
tion of merchant tailors are here from
Pennsylvania and Maryland, Joined by
some of the trade in Washington, to ap,
pear before tina COMMITTEES on Ways anC
Means with a view to obtain an amend
ment of the internal revenue law. They
say they are now required to pay $50 OF
every thousand of gross receipts, which
they think e altogether too much. They
are perfectly willing to pay what is re-
commended by the, Treasury commission
namely, $50 on $1,000. ,of ,sss "taij,b
Rumored Cabinet Changes-OM-
ciaI Corruption fn the south.
NEW YORK, Feb 2l,--The Commercially
Washington special says: Rumors of Cabi
net changes prevail, aud appear we'll found.
ed. Secretary Stanton's friends say he,wil
4 not resign, and the Presidents friends say
there must be new Secretary of War. SO