The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-26
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ITO TRk REGIsTER--
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Try Telegraph to the ltegister.l
WASHINGTON, August 25.

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From latest information received b!
Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Rich
ardson, it appears there is no prospec
of the immediate printing of the cur
rency notes by the Bank Note Compa
mics that have contracted to do tn
work. These bank note printers, afte
pursuing every Secretary that has ha.
control of the Treasury for the pas
seven years, in order to put an end t.
note printing by the Government ant
themselves get the job, now, having
obtained the contract, fail to complet
it, to the great inconvenience of TIL
public and the annoyance of the Fede
raj officers in the Treasury Department
the failure being the result of their re-
fusal to pay q few dollars increase o.
wages to about dozen note printers
No doubt this state of affairs viii. result,
in establishing a Printing Bureau IL
this city, under the control of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury.
Congress, not long since, made an ap
propriation of $500, 600 to erect buiid
ing in rear of the Treasury Department.,
to be used exclusively for note engrav'
ing and printing, The site was select
ed-a position just south of the Treas
ury building-but, owing to contre'
versy about control, between Clark, the
then Superintendent of the Printing
Bureau, and McCulloch, then Secretary
of the Treasury, which was not decided,
the building was not erected.
Under law passed March 3, 1869,
appropriations of money not used, could
with the appreciation of the President,
be transferred to other appropriation
funds, and President johnson directed
the money for the printing building to
be transferred to the Treasury building
extension fund. Congress at its last
session repealed the law allowing such
transfers of funds, and it is understood
in the Treasury Department that auoth-
or appropriation will be made next
winter 10 erect building, and that
hereafter all branches of Government
note printing will be done here.
What stokes Says.
Colonel Stokes gives, as his opinion,
that the Legislature just elected in Ten
nessee wili r, fuse TO IA: fly the Fifteenth
Am, ndment 10 the Constitution, not
VIII standing the promises made by
Governor Senter To the contrary. This,
however, is said to be put cut by Stokes
for the purpaSe of exciting the Admin
istration against the successful party
in Tennessee.
why He snys IL.
Stokes wants to create the impress
sion that the Senter party will revn-
lutionize the State, and array itself
against the General Government. 1t
is the opinion of the best Informed
Radical politicians that Stokes mission
here will be fruitiess one, so far as
his alleged object is concerned; but
Stokes says he will make an earnest ap-
peal TO the President, when he arrives
here next week, for interference.
The Plan ROT Popular.
This Radical proposition is pooh
pooled by all but the rule.at-any-cost
wing of the Radical party, and none but
such blind and unscrupuleus politicians
as these for a moment entertain the
idea that Congress or the Administra-
tion has any more Jurisdiction over the
subject than tue learned, astute states
man Stokes would have them control,
than they have over elections to take
place in Ohio and Pennsylvania In Oc-
tober.
miscellaneous.
Rear Admiral foor lett To-Day ior Nc"
YORK. 10 relieVe Admirat hon Oh INC
command OF the North Ahahtlc Squ"u-
ron.