The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-20
BY TELEGRAPH.
Washing ton News and Gossip.


WAsHINGrc,N, Feb 19.-General Grant
has just issue d general order that here
after none 'out unmarried men, who are
not less than five feet five inches in height,
will be enlis ted into the Army Of the United
states for any arm of the service. This
regulation VIII not apply to men enlisting
IN the Veteran Reserve Corps, or men en-
listing rs m usiCiaus.
The following is the amount of taxes
paid by National Banks for the year ending
December 81, 1896:
United States taxes on circulation and
deposits, 50 ,l45 400; on dividends, surplus,
&c, S2,924,537. Total, S8,O63, 93S.
state taxes for State, county and munici
pal purposes. $3.50, ,45l. Total taxes, Sl5-
9l9,3S9.
Colonel Sprague Assistant Commissioner
of the Freedmens Bureau for Florida. re-
ports that Freedmen are still arriving from
South Carolina and Georgia. and many are
entering land under the Homestead Bill.
The Secretary of the Treasury issued
circular mourning the loss of Professor
Baehe, and ordering the Coast Survey office
to be drapeW in black, and closed on the
day of the funeral.
General Bassett Langdon's name was
again sent to the Senate to-day, as Assessor
OF the First District. This was done with
the understanding that the Senate will con-
firm the nomination.
The following nominations were also
made to-day: Eugene Powell, Collector
Eighth District; Willard Slocum, Assessor
Fourteenth District; James Beatty, Col
lector, Seventeenth District.
Several unimportant bills were passed in
the Senate, this evening:
To forever abolish peOndqe in New Mex
leo; to give the regular army officers, by
brevet, the highest rank they held as a
volunteer; to give three hundred dollars to
drafted men who found substitutes, and
were again drafted and went into the SER
vice; to give increase of pay for two years,
from the 1st of July, 1866, TO army officers
below the grade of Major General.
THE MILITARY sUBJEcTIoN BILL.
The House has snon-concuryed in the SEN
ate amendments to the Military Recon-
structlon Bill, by seventy-three to ninety
eight, and asked a confereh9e committee,
Messrs. Stevens, ellGfbargef and Blaine
! were appointed aComIhittee of Conference.
The result was Immediately sent to the
Senate, with request that Conference
Committee adjust the disagreement. The
bill was Immediately taken up in the Sen
ate, where three hours debate followed,
the tenor of which was against granting
the House a conference. The debate was
personal and spicy. Finally, the Senate
refused the Conference Committee, and
| sent the bill back to the House, insisting on
its passage. The yeas and nays were not
taken. An amendment to the bill may be
offered in the House in efforts for further
compromise
The tariff bill has been piled upon that
it is questionable If 1t will get through. AS
the bill ranges the duties average from
seventy-fve to $50 per cent. and upward.
On salt the duty is considerably higher
than $50 per cent. The present complicat-
ed state of the BILL and the general disposi-
tion to complicate it yet more. will proba-
bly, kill it. SO say good judges.
The bill to prohibit the President from
removing any civil officer from office, in
Guiding Cabinet members, without the con
sent of the Senate and better known as the
Civil Tenure Bill, was sent to the President
this evening for his signature. 1t Is thought
that he will not sign it.
Dan Rice, the Snowman, was the only one
who had an official interview with the Pres
ident to-day.
sURRATT IN JAIL-HE DENIES HIS NAME
Especial to the Cincinnati Commercially
Surratt was removed tonight from thu
Swatara to the county Jail on bench war
rant issued by the Criminal Court of this
city. The transfer was very private. Large
crowds have visited the Navy Yard to-day
in hopes of getting glimpse of him; but
no communication was allowed with the
vessel. Even the mail was put on board
by a rope. The officers of the Swatara say
that Surratt has been in good health during
the voyage, and is quite well at present
He was very reticent on his way to the
United States, and intimated nothing thai
would tend to criminate himself or others
He was closely confined on board, and wei
guarded night and day, being only allowed
few hours to enjoy the air and take sucf
exercise as the accommodations of the
ship allowed. To some of the officers, ht
has emphatically denied that he is Surratt