Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The Attorney Generalship was tender
ed, Friday to Judge A. w. Strong, o
Philadelphia, and accepted.
The Star says land so do the CORES
pondents) that the President has de
TO succeed Mr.. Grier on the Suprem,
Bench.
The Secretary o. the Treasury ha
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to omit the sale of gold on Tues
day and Friday of the present week.
This order does not affect the sale o.
gold on Thursday or purchase of bonds
as advertised.
The Secretary has also given order:
for the payment of January interest OF
and after Friday Iext without rebate
AS interest to the extent of $50, ,000, 900
will be due January first, the anticipa.
ton of one week will give sufficient time
for its entire payment at that date
There is pow in the Treasury about
S10S, ,000, 900 of coin, $3S, ,000, 600 of which
consist of deposits for which gold certifi-
Gates have been issued.
The House Committee ON Banking
and Currency, held their first meeting
Friday. The Committee found before
them dozen bills relating to currency
including four for free National bank.
ing, one for redistributing the bank
circulation and for repeating the act
taxing!the circulation of the State banks
Mr.. Ingersoll's. bill to issue forty foul
millions more of legal tenders Mr.
Morrell's bill to do banking on a foul
and half per cent bond, and four Others
of less Importance. The committee
discussed matters informally, and finally
adjourned over the holidays. The mem
oers, judging from their individual
views, are about equally divided on the
question of redistributing bank circula.
ton, and of authorizing more banks.
The first real lively time of this ses-
sion occurred Thursday. 1t was in the
House, and grew out Mungen's so-called
financial speech, in which he fairly and
directly advocated the reputation of all
picture of prosperous times that would
work on his speech for a long time
The fact that he would come out for
reputation got noised abroad, and many
friends tried TO prevail upon him TO
destroy his pile of manuscript. He.was
not to be persuaded, and the House
gave him an hour in which to read it.
There was perceptible uneasiness all
over the Democratic side while he spoke,
and as soon as he finished his party
friends sjumped for the floor in order to
repudiate him. Messers. Cox, Randall
Slocum, Woodward and others, washed
their hands vigorously of the whole
thing, and spoke their minds about
Mungen with charming freedom and
derisiveness. 1t was good thing to
hear, though, one could not help
marvelling at the sudden apparent con-
version OF these gentlemen from the
Pendleton greenback scheme for half
reputation. The afternoons work
renders it clear, however, that the
financial part of the last Republican
platform was made of good timber.
The President, accompanied by Vice
President Colfax, called on ex-Secretary
Stanton Saturday evening, and told him
that he Should nominate ihim to the
vacancy on the Supreme Bench, made
by the resignation of Judge Grier, some
time in the month OF January, and the
President desires this fact to be made
public, so as to stop all questioning, and
relieve him from the pressure for other
persons. 1t may be added that on Fri
day all the Republicans of the Senate
but three, who were partially commit
ted elswhere, signed a strong request to
give this appointment to Mr.. Stanton,
and on Saturday a similar paper was
signed by many members of the House.
Nearly all the Republicans here who
have learned of the Presidents inten-
tions in this regard. are delighted at
such a recognition of the great War
Secretary's services and abilities. VI.
Stanton informed the President that
he would accept the appointment.
The memorial in regard to Tennessee,
introduced in the House, is signed by
ali of the Representatives in Congress,
and by Senator Brownlow, and sets forth
that the recent election in that State
was carried by fraud and violence; that
the registrars appointed by Governor
Senter entered certificates to every dis
franchised rebel, and to thousands of