The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
varisns Stories About she Impeaeh.
useas-The Basiness Of the Different
C~uRsessisna N Ceuauaittees.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-The Herald's
Washington special says: 1t has been
stated on good authority that in approx
ing the bill authorizing the assembling
Of the 4th Congress on the 4th of March
next, the President has contributed to
his own impeachment, and that the
committee on Judiciary are working
very industriously in the collection of
evidence, but will not report until the
close of the session, and then the report
will be in favor of impeachment. The
task of Offering the articles of impeach-
ment will devolve upon the next Con-
gress.
The Presidents veto of the Nebraska
bill was finished yesterday and will be
sent to the Senate to-day.
The Times Washington special says
letter was received in that city yester-
day from . broker in New York, whose
name and address can be furnished, and
who is vouched for as reliable, charging
that the sum Of $4,000 was subscribed
in that city to induce the offering Of i'm
peachment resolutions in the House.
The letter refers to one broker who adj
mits having subscribed $1,000. 1t does
not appear that any money was ever
paid. This may possibly explain the
premature announcement in New York
Of the impeachment resolutions.
There was q rumor aflOat yesterday,
which is UNIV orthy of notice, that the
vessel bearing the Assistant Secretary
Of State, Frederick Seward, is on her
way to meet the vessel with Surratt on
board. II is unnecessary to add that
Stewards real business is the purchase
Of o harbor for our government in the
Indies, rs has already been stated.
The Times Washington special says:
Mr.. Boyer, Democratic member Of the
New Orleans Riot committee, has sum-
moned large number of witnesses, and
. IL is probable that the report will be
ready before the end of the session.
Speaker Colfax, who is suffering from
sore threat, did not occupy the chair in
the House during the night session.
A number Of freedmen arc being reg
istered in Georgetown, d. c., under the
suffrage act. 1t is not improbable that
the Radicals will carry the election. A
larger number Of whites We're regis
tered than ever before voted.
The Judiciary committee will report
bill to give the Government patronage
only to loyal newspapers in the South.
The President has thus far sent to the
Senate over four hundred civil nomina-
tons.
The Herald's special says: The nu-
merous frauds perpetrated on the PEN
sion Bureau are receiving thorough in
vestigation. Indictments have been
found against man named Tobias, in
Albany, and ]. Brenner has been CON-
mitted in New York.
The Tribune's special says: Reports
that the Judiciary committee are taking
impeachment testimony are without
foundation. They are waiting the move
ments of Ashley, who is arranging data
upon which the committee will proceed.
The horse railway men were before
the Ways and Means committee yester-
day to get an extension of the provision
in the internal reveneue law, which eI-
pires next April, allowing them to i'm
pose the additional tax upon passen-
gers.
The gold bill still meets with oppo-
sition in the Senate Finance committee.
The Ways and Means committee have
determined, owing to the lateness Of the
session, not to report any bill reorgan-
ixing the executive department..
TIE Woxld's special says: Secretary
AcCulloch contradicts the story that he