The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-05
Washington News and Gossip.

WASHINGTON, February 4.-The tariff
hill when it gets from the Senate to the
House, will find cold comfort. 1t will be
slaughtered, either by that body or by a
UetO.
In the Senate, to-day, the House amend
ment to the bill to pay the Kentucky Mill
tia called out to repel the invasion of Kirby
Smith, was concurred in, and the bill goes
to the President.
The Bankrupt Bill was debated from one
till five o'clock, without any result except
the defeat of motion to rec6mmit, which
indicates the passage of the bill.
In the House, the currency question was
extensively discussed, involving the gold
sale proposition; resulting in resolution
declaring that the public interest did not
demand that during the current year there
should be any reduction of the amount of
greenbacks in circulation, and instructing
the Ways and Means Committee to report a
bill to that effect. This was adopted by 81
to 81, all of the Western members present
voting in favor of it.
The chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee moved to lay 1t ON the table,
which was rejected by twelve votes. This
is decisive of the opinion of the House, af-
ter a long struggle, that contraction
should be limited to the compound-interest
! notes, which after all are not regarded as
| currency.
The Joint Committee on Reconstruction
| will hold its next meeting on Wednesday.
To-day three new bills'were referred to 1t.
Two of them provide for abolishing the
| present State Governments In the South
1t may be positively stated that the Com
mittee on Ways and Means have virtually
decided not to recommend the reduction OF
| the tax on distilled spirits. The sub-com-
mittee who have been investigating it have
reported against any change at present.
The investigation into the Treasury
Printing Bureau has been concluded; and
shows that the work has prospered with
dispatch and correctness, there having
been found only few tri6ing defects.
| An informal Investigation is going on
into the charges which have been made that
fund was raised by gold speculators 70
urge on the impeachment project.
Owing TO the rule of the Senate, aside
from other reasons, the rejection of Bassett
Langdon as Assessor at Cincinnati, can moi
be reconsidered, as was proposed last Fri
day. The motion will be withdrawn at the
next executive session, and he will stand as
rejected.
AMERICAN SECURITIES IN PARIS.
Advices have been received at the Bureau
of Statistics of the Treasury Department
dated Paris, January l9 1857, in which oc.
ours the following information from tn,
Paris Bourse:
l UNITED States Securities have not fiuCt
uated much. The Five-twenties OF 1856:
closed to-day at S216-a little higher thar
on the l0th. Prices have ranged from 81
on the llth, 20 sl1l, which latter figur,
has been touched on several different days
THE INDICTMENT OF sURRAfT.
This afternoon the Grand Jury presentet
an Indictment against John II. Surratt
The indictment is accompanied by pre-
sentiment charging John Wilkes Boot
with the murder of Abraham Lincoln, AM
John II. Surratt, David E. Herold Levi
Payne and George A. Atzerodt for beini
present, aiding and abettlng on or abou
tho l4th Of April, 1865. The indictment
for murder, and, in its first count charge
that John II. Surratt, on or about the lat
of April, 1865, did murder Abraham Lin
coin.
The second count charges that John
Surratt and John Wilkes Booth did murde
Abraham Lincoln.
p The third count charges with the murde
of Abraham Lincoln, John II. Surrat
Lewis Payne, John Wilkes Booth, David
HerOld, George A. Atzerodt and Mrs. NJ.
lSurratt.