The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
FinnucinI-Mustcrcd Out-The Cotton
Tux

New YORK, December l2.-The Her
AIDS special says: The Finance COM
mittee have not taken up the consider
alton Of the House bill restricting the
retirement of tue currency. AT the first
assembling of the committee they
are deeply engaged i'll maturing a bill
for the funding of the public debt. The
bill will be reported by Senator Sher-
man. The feeling of Il majority of the
members of Congress is decidedly adj
verse to the financial policy of Secretary
McCulloch.
A large number of officers of the
United States colored troops have been
mustered out, among them Brigadier-
General o. o. Howard, who will doubt
less be retained as a civilian and Assist
ant Commissioner OF the Freedmen's Bu-
reau in the Washington district.
A number of officers of the Veteran
Reserve Corps also have been mustered
out.
General Sheridan i: expected in Wash
iDgtOn, TO take part in the consultation
on Indian Affairs.
The Worlds special says: The Senate
Finance committee to-day agreed to re-
port the House bill for the repeal of the
tax on cotton. 1t will probably pass
the Senate without amendment.
The Tribune's special says the cotton
bill has been materially amended, con-
corning the present crop.
Republican Senatorial CaHcus-Gea.
eral Ord-General Whisky Convcn.
ton.
A.. Ia 4
of the Republican Senators WAS held
tins evening, to consider the propTiety
of a new election OF officers of the
Senate, and particularly Il Sergeant-at-
Arms, III place ofthe present incumbent.
After the expression of their views, an
Adjournment took place under such cir
cumstauccs as 10 produce the impress
sion that the whole subiecr was iLdeti-
nitely postponed, there being no dis
position OH the part ola majority at this
time to make such change.
General Ord has issued an order de-
claring that the Convention has been
carried in Mississippi and also in
Arkansas, and be orders convention
to assemble at Jackson and Little Rock
respectively on the 9Th January. The
order says that there are snch irregu-
laritieS ut some of the precincts as to
make it impossible TO give the total
vote in the State for and against the
Convention.
The Whisky Convention reassembled
to-day aud the following National Ex-
ecutive CoGlmittcs was appointed: o.
Perrin aud 5. NJ. Murphy, Ohio; Ii. ID.
Hunter and ID. X. Ebortwell, Mass; =.
l.. Hewlett and Charles III. Curtis, Hi
nois; Z. NJ. Schirley and James NJ. Nell
vain, Kentucky; George W. Simpkins
and Henry e. Hartuck, Missouri; ). Z.
Ingraham, Jr., George ". Kidd and &.
A. Stein, New York: Randolph Sailer
and Joseph Sanuctt, Pennsylvania; Ed
ward Walters and VI. CorchtOn, Mary
land, and Mr.. julius Doru, of Kentucky,
representing Indiana.
A motion that the Convention meet at
the call of the Chairman was adopted.
A resolution providing for the licens-
ing of distilleries in $3.50 to $1,000, and
taxing the sale of distilled spirits, was
adopted; also, that the Convention use
all its efforts To promote the collection
of the legitimate tax on spirits; also,
defining the term distilled spirits to
be crude spirits, the product of one dis
tillatiOn only, and each barrel shall be
stamped, and any barrel found leaving
the dlstillery unstampcd, shall be con
demned and destroyed, and the distiller
tscd $500; the purchaser to saiier the
same penalties.