The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-27
Union State Convention i'm
Kentucky.
s. Barnes Nominated for Governor.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
GOLD CLOSED 1873 Ia.
FROM WASHINGTON.

NEW YoRK, Feb. &c.
A Tribune Washington special says that
Gen Grant has expressed himself to Senator
Wilson and the Secretary OF War,,as wasnly
in favor of the reconstruction bill: CONTRARY
reports are unfounded.
The report of the Committee raised by thet
resolution offered by Mr.. Wentworth, as to an
attempted compromise between certain Re
publican members and the President, will
show nothing improper on the part Of the
Congressman concerned.
Senator Sherman will call up the loan bill
at the first opportunity, and move that the
Senate insist on their scheme of three per
cent loan certificates instead of one hundred
million dollars of ereenbscks, as provided in
the Hoase proposition. Considerable debate
is expected.
The Custom House investigation report is
nearly ready. Tie bonded warehouse busi>
ness is the most corrupt Of all the Irregular
ties found Efforts were made to have some
leniency shown Collector Smythe, but the
Committee were inexorable.
Wm. A. Dart, removed last fall from the
position of United States District Attorney,
for the northern district Of New York, has
been reinssted by the Attorney General.
The World Washington special says that
the President has rendered the Vienna mis.
sion TO Postmaster General Randall, as the
Senate will not confirm Cowan nomination.
The House judiciary Committee to-day
agreed to report bill establishing ight hours
as days labor in all Government workshops,
Navy Yards, &c.
Time ESPECIAL says that Z. Cooper, of the
Select Committee TO inquire into the murder
of Union soldiers in South Carolina, had subs
mitted a minority report, in which he admits
that the soldiers were uuquestlonably delib>
erately murdered, but claims that it is not
proven beyond reasonable doubt that the dis
charged prisoners were guilty of the crimes
He then proceeds at length to sustain the
official action, which finally eliminated in
the release Of the prisoners under the hdbeds
corpus. He also disagrees with the Commit
tee as to the necessity for military rule in the
South to maintain order.
The Tflbtpte'S special says the Judiciary
Committee, IN their investigation of the mat
ter Of the return TO rebels of conhscated
property, show that in Louisiana alone, prop
erty valued 1T fifty million dollars had been
returned TO the rebels by order of the Presi-
dent. All our generals have frequently de.
cided that this property belonged to the Gov
ernment as much as any could be. The
facts connected with the recovery by the
rebels of all kind OF property in all the States
of the South, will startle the public. They
cannot only be shown from the records Of the
Bureau in Louisiana, but from the Bureaus
in all the Southern States.
CHICAGO, Feb. %.
A Washington special says that nothing
whatever was unearthed by the Wentworth
Investigating Committee.
The Bankrupt and Tariff bills are undel
discussion to-day. Neither has much pros
pect of passing this session, although Mr.
Morrill, does not despair of getting the latte
through.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
The President has approved the bill author
izing a submerged tubular bridge across tn,
Mississippi at St. Louis, and the amendstor,
anti smuggling bill, which provides that an,
foreign railroad company, or corporations
whose roads enter into States by means Q
ferry or tug, may own such boat, and shal
be subject TO no other restrictions than
owned hy American citizens