Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-27
Washington Items.


Rousseau, which embraces Oregon and
Washington.
Three Senators who are members Of
the Senate Finance Committee areaway,
which, it is thought, will act against
any attempt to legislate on finances at
the July session Of Congress.
Chief Justice Chase is busy appoint
Ing new registers in bankruptcy to sup
ply the places of those whom the district
Judges have refused to confirm.
Gen Grant returned to Washington
on Saturday, after visiting the Gettys-
burg battlefield in company with Gov.
Geary and the board of managers OF the
Gettysburg cemetery.
1t is stated that a witness has ar
rived at Washington for the Surratt
trial who will testify to his having been
in the conspiracy to assassinate Presi-
dent Lincoln. He will testify this week,
when the truth OF this will be settled.
Mexico have been forwarded, together
with his commission, to the city OF Mexi-
co, via Vera Cruz. He is required to
comm uncate at once with President
Juarez.
Letters received at the capital from
quite number of Senators and men,
flers generally express desire for
! brief session Of Congress. Ten days, it
is believed, will be sufficient to pass the
supplemental reconstruction bill. If
this be adhered to the House Commit
tees will not be appointed.
-Advices have been received at the
navy department saying that the Amer
ican slavers have disappeared from the
coast OF Africa. A United States cruiser
has recently visited the Congo and Ben.
guela coasts, and other points Of west
ern Africa, without meeting with a
single vessel engaged in the trade.
The Surveyor General of Dacotah
has transmitted to the general land Of
fee at Washington for approval, a sur
veying contract and bonds for the sur
vey of the public lands on the Red river
OF the North, adjoining the Pembina set
tlement and the British boundary
Gen Sickles, commanding the Caro-.
linas, has written to Senator Wilson that
the appropriation for the expense of
reconstruction is entirely inadequate
and that the funds devoted to his dis.
trict are already absorbed The navy
and treasury departments have declined
to assist him with funds. The full sum
OF the appropriation was only half a
million and it is all required for the
Carohnas alone.
Gen. Sheridan has telegraphed to
Gen. Or ant, declining TO extend the time
for registration in Louisiana, till Aug
ust, in compliance with the Presidents
conditional instructions, on the ground
that registration has been completed,
and he did not feel like keeping up the
expensive boards to suit new issues com
ing in at the eleventh hour He char
acterizes the Attorney Generals opinion
as opening a broad road for perjury and
fraud to travel upon, and remarks on the
Presi dents bitter aDtsgOnism to the re-
construction law. If after this report,
the time is to be extended he desires to
be notified and he says that he will obey
and would do it at once, but the Presi-
dents telegram was conditional.
Gen. Butler has been relieved from
his position as President of the National
Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, the COM
ptroller of the treasury having decided
that he vacated the office by accepting
that of member of Congress. The act
OF Congress originally stated that, OF
the nine citizens managers of the asy-
lum, none should be members Of Con-
gress, but when Gen. Butler was elected
to the House he got this restriction re-
pealed in order that be might still retain
his office as President OF the institution,
and since that repeal he has continued
to act as such, persistently demanding
that the moneys belonging to the asylum
be paid over to him without the usual
forms of requsition. The comptroller
of the treasury decides, that the repeal
of the restricting clause of the law sim.
ply removed disability, and made Gen
Butler eligible, but that ii does not re.
sore him to the place he vacated legally
aud absolutely by accepting place il
Congress. Congress may elect Gen. But.
Ter to the office again, but he has got t
leave it now unless he is man of more
expedients than is generally known, anC
we all know he is not lacking in thi!
respect.
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