Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-01-15
Washington City Gossip.

the Senate-coyerS 400. 900 barrels OF WhlS-
ky in bond, whereon $40 ,0o0 900 will be col
leeted under the BILL Oe course the hold
ers will make a scramble to get the whisky
out of the warehouses and will probably
succeed in removing considerable, even
though Congress should act with prompt
ness ever SO surprising.
By order of Gen. Grant several compa-
nies of soldiers have within the last week
been sent to various points in South Carroll
ma and other Southern States to aid in pre-
serving order.
The warrants issued by the Treasury De-
partment during the month Of December,
1867, to meet the requirements of the Gov
ernment, amounted to the following sums:
Civil, Miscellaneous and Foreign Intercourse
81, 76l 900; Interest on public debt, $S, 300,-
600; War, 81, $4,000; Navy, $3,620 600;
Interior pensions and Indians), $9S5.000
The advices received at Washington from
New Orleans are not very fiatteriDg. Han
cock s course has resulted in reviving the
hopes of the element which Sheridan so eff
fectualy kept in check, and the Convention
deprived of the sympathy and active efforts
Of the military commander, and at the same
time at the mercy, apparently, of its most
extreme men-finds itself embarrassed and
pc Serless to an amazing degree for SOW
ereign body. Without question. the delay
to reconstruction predicted by Gen Grant
as certain to follow Sheridan S removal is
now being realized.
1t is certain that the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs will report favorably on
making an appropriation for the puchase of
Alaska, and that the House will sustain the
report by a decided majority.
BY the report of Secretary Seward sent to
Congress it appears that twenty one States
have given official notice of the ratification
of the fouteenth constitutional amendment
Maine has ratified the amendment, but has
neglected to give official notification of the
fact to the State Department. Iowa will
soon ratify the amendment making twenty
three States 1t has been given out that
Ohio and New Jersey having elected Demo
cratic Legislatures will repeal their ratifca-
ton of the amendment
The pressure for immediate action on our
financial questions is irresistible. The pledge
of Secretary McCulloch not to contract cir
culation for sixty days has delayed the pas
sage of the House resolution restricting his
power, but the demand for its passage by
the Senate now amounts to camor Prac-
teal Republicans are resolved to press for
ward the other measures, such as the reduc-
ton of taxes and expenses, and to relieve
labor in all sections The whole stringency
in business is the direct result of the rebel
lion, and the men who put down the rebel
hon must remove all the succeeding troubles.
St Marie, on whose information Surratt
was arrested, has put in a claim for the COM
pensation. He lives in Montreal suffering
from having appeared as witness A
board to whom his claim was referred have
reported in favor of allowing him $I5, 1000,
and Gen Grant has referred the matter to
Congress.
Great CONSERVATION has been occasioned
among the en- ployees of the Treasury De-
partment by the appearance of a circular re-
qulrlng each OF them to state the date of
their entry into the service of the depart
ment; whether they are now connected with
the press in any capacity whether they
served in the army during the rebellion, and
whether they pursued special course Of
study to fit them for their positions, as well
as their occupations, previous to appoint
ment, and their ages. The lady clerks are
not required to answer the last question.
There are at present three cases pend
ing IN the Supreme Court which involve
either directly or indirectly the power of
Congress exercised through the reconstruc
tion laws over the States lately in rebellion,
| though one applying for writ of habeas
corpus for man in confinement under the
military act, will probably be dismissed for
want of original jurisdiction.
The Senate Military Committee held a
meeting at which the Republican members
voted solid to adopt the report drawn up by
Senator Howard in the Stanton-J ohnson
case as the report of the Committee. Mr..
Doolittle asked that the committee should
delay reporting for one day, in order that
he might prepare a minority report, which
request was acceded to.
Both Houses have passed the bill requir-
ing the tax to be paid on distilled spirits, be-
fore it is removed from any ware house.
The Reconstruction Committee wi report
to the House supplemental reconstruction
bill, which gives General Grant control of
the commanders of the military districts, and
makes all of their orders Sub;oct 70 b;s ~