Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-12
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The House Will Concur Wednesday.
Washington News.
Queer Revelations.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE morning pa
pers have the following specials from Wash
ington
Anew Yorker of the name of Campbell
has just given to the world some queer rev
Citations concerning the testimony lately
sdduced by the Judiciary Committee tend
ing to implicate jefferson Davis in the as
sassination plot. He shows that a gross
system Of frauds and perjury has been re-
sorted to for the purpose OF proving the i'm
plicatiOn of Davis and other conspirators
in the matter, and backs his assertions By
facts that startle all who are familiar with
the testimony. 1t seems that many of the
witnesses testified under assumed names,
and that no such persons as the ostensible
and the recorded witnesses exist. In addi-
ton to this he states that when Mr.. ON
merry, who was principal witness and detec-
tive in the case, was asked 10 proceed
to New York and procure som cor
roborating evidence of his W statements,
which he had previously volunteered TO
furnish, he gave the officer who was sent
with him, in New York, the slip. and has
actually gone away, it is supposed, to avoid
a prosecution for perjury, and has not been
heard from by the officer and the Commit
tee for several weeks. Other witnesses nave
come forward and confessed to have sworn
falsely.
~ bDlhk u4AAIlCstDh AldN 11tld bACClCl >
who is in Washington, is in favor of the re-
lease of JEFF. Davis, he was asked by a rad
zeal if the report was true, when he retort-
ed by asking the interrogation if he was in
favor of the indefinite imprisonment of the
representative of five millions Of people
without conviction or trial.
MI. Greeley was in consultation with
SENATOR Chandler, Wilson and others on
the subject of Davis liberation on bail, and
favored it TO the extent Of alarming, if not
displeasiDg. some of his party associates.
He left for New York this evening.
Mr.. 0'Copnor is still here, but has thus far
made little or no progress in the matter.
The presumption is that he expected to OBJ
tain some favorable consideration of the
case or he would not have devoted SO much
time to it.
A day or two more, it is expected, will
decide the matter.
Congressional.
The House Committee on Banks aud Cur
rency will make an elaborate report in q
few days on the Washington bank frauds,
and present a bill guarding against such
Interpretations of public money in fu-
ture.
A proposition will soon be introduced il
Congress equaliziDg the compensation of
members. Under the present rates some
ultulDOI6 IcN6iNG ONeE ElCtVUN luy anu ull6- |
age each Congress, while others only receive
a few hundred. 1t will be proposed to pay
every member $4,000 a Congress and his
actual travelling expenses.
While the House Committee on Ways and
Means may not be willing TO increase the
duties to the amount proposed by Mr.. Ste
phen Colwell, they are engaged in giving all
possible protection to our manufacturing
and mining interests.
The Senate will take up the tax bill and
finish that before entering upon the CON
sideration of the enaetments completed and
made requisite by the Constitutional
Amendment.
The House will take up the Constitutional
Amendment on Wednesday and concur in
the Senate amendment by at least a three
quarter vote. The presiding officer will
then transmit it to the Secretary of State
whose duty it will be to transmit it at once
to the Governors of the States to be laid be-
fore their respective Legislatures.
The Senate Committee have agreed on two
cents per pound on cotton.
The Presidents Wish.
The President is known to have expressed
the wish that Congress would pass as con-
current resolutions the supplementary bills
declaring the powers of Congress under the
Constitutional Amendment.
\ Memorial.
A memorial, signed by one hundred freed
men. of Charlottesville, has been presented
to General Howard by a committee of the
signers. 1t asks for continued military pro-
lection and recites that they are deprived
of reasonable safeguard against bodily in
juries by their former masters and that
General Steedman and Fullerton during
their s%cjourn in Charlottesville consulted
forty white ex-rebels and not one colored
~loyalist.