The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-01-04
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The parties engaged
in introducing domestic industry among the
Indians have concluded to place loom in one
OF the Interior departments, in order that the
representatives of Western tribes, who will
visit Washington this winter, may have
practical illustration of weaving Ind. an wo-
men, WHO have been taught to weave, will be
present to instruct and explain its importance
and utility. The Indians in many localities
show not only great desire but much skill
IN arranging variety of colored raw material
into garments, and the Indian Department is
DESTROYS of encouraging such manufactures.
SAN DoMuNGo-DECREE IN RELATION TO THE
..-.fr- TARIFF. a--"
Official information has been received of the
passage by the National Congress OF San Do
mingo of decree founded on the necessity of
placing III just relations the appraisement es-
tablished in the tariff on importations with
the actual prices of foreign merchandise at the
point from which they proceed. 1t is decreed
first that the appraisement of merchandise
which may be introduced will be made in con-
formity with the existing tariff. Second, mer-
chandise imported directly from Europe and
the Untsd States into the ports of the Re-
public Will pay 10 per cent less than the same
imported through the West India Islands,
Third, in order that merchandise that is i'm
ported from Europe and the United States of
America may enjoy the benefit expressed in
the foregoing article, it must be proved that it
has proceeded direct without touching at any
port in the West India Islands; nevertheless,
when by any portentlous. circumstance a vessel
arrives at port i'll the West Indies, and is
provided with certificate from the CONNER
ciai Agent of that Republic that she has not
made any operation there, her merchandise
will enjoy the benefit of this decree.
The present decree does away with other
dispositions to the contrary, and is now in
operation.
BUTLER's EXPANSION PROJECT
NEW YORK, Jan "a Washington special
hot i.,t +of+l
Committee failing to propose bill for re-
issue OF greenbacks equal to the amount with
drawn by contraction. such bill will be in
troduced by Gen. Butler.
SECRETARY STATIONS CASE.
Senator Howard, as Chairman of the Mill
tary Committee, has prepared report sustain
ing ex-Secretary Stanton from the char ges
preferred against him under the Civil Tenure
act by the President but the Committee have
not yet adopted the report for presentation to
the Senate. The Committee will hold their
second meeting on the subject next week and
decide the matter. -t
The stories that Grant will at once retire
upon the reinstatement of Mr.. Stanton, and
will refuse to retain his position in the War
Office II SO ordered by the President, cannot be
traced to any reliable source. 4.lptst Z i.t.
-H. THE YANKEE PENTARcHY.
1t is generally agreed that the President has
requested Gen. Meade to follow up the new
policy inaugurated by Gen. Hancock. but the
friends of Meade claim that he will do moth
ing of the kind.
1t is reported that Gen. Schofield will soon
remove the State officers of Virginia and ap-
poiut others.
1t is stated that the President is soon to Is
sue proclamation to the whites of the South
advising them to send delegates to the forth
coming National Convention.
The statement that Gen. Howard has in
dorsed the proposition of a loan of thirty mil
lions or any other sum to the planters of the
South with lien of their real estate and crops
for security, is entirely incorrect. Gen. How
ard has not issued any order dismissing off,
GERS of the Freedmen's Bureau tor engaging
in politics in the Southern States. In the re-
cent cases brought to his notice he has eStab-
hshed the rule that the acceptance of nomi-
nation for an Office must be considered incom-
patlble with the duties required of officers of
the Bureau, and such agents or officers had
accordingly been relieved and succeeded by
others.
BURLINGAME's EMBASSY.
No Information has been received by the Ex-
ecutive that Burlingame has accepted the
Special Ambassadorship of China, and the re-
port is not credited in official circles.
Another special says the selection of Minis
ter Burlingame by the Chinese government as
envoy to the European conference on the trea-
ties with China has been made, it is under
stood, with the full approval of Secretary
Seward, who expects in this indirect way to
have the United States also represented in this
conference.