The Portland daily press., 1868-07-24
WASHINGTON.
BUSINESS BEFORE THE COMMITTEES


WAsHNGToN, July 23-Ihe Committee OIL
Ways and Means tins morning postponed un
TIL Congress again meets the bill for the abo
lition of public warehouses in the Atlanti
cities. The tariff men not only demand
Moorehead's tariff but Morrilrs anti-ware
house bill
The Committee on Reconstruction to-day
added to the Texas bill Virginia and Mssssp
pl, SO as to provide provisional governments
for all three of these States. The bill will be
reported at the earliest opportunity.
The committee from meeting OF Southern
Representatives and loyalists to-day were una.
BILE to present their resolutions to the Recon.
struction Committee which had not time tC
receive them.
THE TAX BILL SIGNED.
The President this morning signed the soir-
its and tobacco tax bill, accompanied by a pro.
test, which was filed with the tax bill in the
3 tate Department. 1t is understood the APP
pontment of supervisors is given to the Sec
rotary of abe Treasury and Commissioner of
Internal Revenue.
EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS.
The President nominated to the Senate to-
day Gen. Noah l.. Jeffrias of Maryland, now
Register of the Treasury, to be Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue; Samuel MilligaL OF
Tennessee to be Judge of the Court of Claims,
to supply vacancy This gentleman is now
Adjutant General in that State.
The President also nominated the following
named persons to be Postmasters: Richard
Sinton, San Francisco; j. M. Heating, Mem
phis; Mrs Mary Martin, Burlington, N. j.
ana John A. CLARK TO be Surveyor General of
Utah. - qF ~
MIR. WILSON'S BILL FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF
MISSISSIPPI
The following is Mr.. Wilson's bill introduced
in the Senate to-day:
Be it enacted, &c., That the present govern
ment OF Mississippi being provisional only and
subject to the authority of Congress il is here
by provided that all theofices under said gov
eminent shall. be vacated on the passage of
act and that the persons voted for at the re-
cent election for the ratification of the Consti-
tuition anC for the election of officers under
the same who have received IA majority of
votes, shall enter upon the offices for which
they were voted for and shall constitute the
provisional GOV eminent of Mississippi until
otherwise ordered by Congress, provided that
II any person voted for at said election cannot
take and subscribe to the oath required by the
act, entitled an act to prescribe an oath Of of
nee and for other purposes, approved July q
1867, the duties for which he was elected shall
devOiye upon the person receiving the next
highest number of votes.
Sect. z That it shall be the duty of the mil
itary commander of the district of which Mis-
sissippi forms part, to see that the provisions
OF TINS act are Carried into immediate effect.
.. CONTRIBUTIONS. ~, ~.
The Senate in Executive session tonight
confirmed w. r. Lee, Assessor of the Sd Dis
" -ANNSoteOAANoOooog
Lebanon. N. HI. ...-..,--.-
The Senate rejected the nomination of VIM.
Z. Wells, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
QUICK WORK.
The Senate passed tonight in the course of
two hours ITO private bills. ..--
THE ARMY BILL. 9'
NEW YORK, July 23-The Times special
says that there is a feeling of opposition aris-
,sol, Iall-
The argument is this, that the advantage to be
reaped by a reduction of the army is to be lost
in political respect by the issuing of arms to
the militia in the Southern States, and South
ern members themselves say they much prefer
the position of the army as it now stands to
any distribution of arms. The fear that the
President may veto this bill will not therefore
stand in the way of adjournment.
THE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS
Messrs. Bingham, Farnsworth and Beck the
sub-commttee of the Reconstruction Commit
tee, to whom the petitions of the Union men
OF Texas fo- provisional government in that
State were referred, have proposed bill for
that purpose, which they intend to have re-
ported to the House soon. 1t places the con
troll of she State in the hands of the Constitu-
tional Convention now in session for the pur-
pose of selecting the provisional offices.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE TAX BILL.
The Commissioner of internal Revenue, af-
ter conference with the Finance and Ways
and Means Committee, have unofficially deci-
ded that under the new tax law the tax on
spirits and tobacco may be paid in the usual
way until the stamp tax takes effect which is
sixty days hence.
RECIPROCITY WITH THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
The strong influence against the ratification
of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty is developed
among the newly admitted Senators from Lou
isiana, Alabama and Florida, who are opposed
10 the provision allowing sugar to be imported
mao the United States from the Sandwich
Islands free of duty; they find no objections to
1t on other grounds but will probably oppose
it for that reason.