The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-22
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WASHINGTON, June 20.
Tue FINANCIAL. BILLS.


The financial bills are to be taken up
in committee tomorrow. The urrency
bill is in Sherman's committee for con
sideration of the House amendments.
Both retire the three per cents, but while
the Senate proposes to Issue but forty
five, the House goes for ninety-tive mil
lions of new national bank currency.
The House redistributes twenty-five and
the Senate twenty millions. The Sen
ate is for free banking on gold basis,
but this provision is not in the House
bill. Sherman's committee will proba-
bly not concur in the House amend
ments, and ask committee of Confer
ence. The other bill is for funding the
national Indebtedness, which Schenck's
committee is to talk over again, though
it is not likely they will changeitin any
material respects.
e. THE TAX on COAL
The tax bill, as reported in the Senate
to-day, fixes the duty on coal at fifty
cents in place of the existing duty of
one dollar and quarter. The House
declared for free coal by large MAORI
ty and such an amendment will be
moved in the Senate when the bill comes
up for action. Sherman and other
members of his committee, will oppose
and the fifty cent duty seems likely
enough TO be finally adopted by both
branches of Congress.
CONGRESS-.
Business moves so slowly through
Congress that some of the charmen of
committees expressed the opinion to-
day that the session would have to be
extended beyond the 18th Of July
The new fiscal year commences in ten
DAYS time, and one-half Of the appro
priation bills are yet enacted into laws.
The tax and tariff bills, the whisky and
tobacco tax measures, and the funding
and currency bills, are the most i'm
portant ones pending besides the appro
priation bills
BUTLER TO BE INVESTIGATED.
General Butler, who has been con-
tinually at the head of some committee,
investigating somebody, is at last him
self the subject of investigation today,
as Treasurer and President of the Ma
tional Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home. He appeared before the House
Military committee as a witness, that
committee having been directed to
thoroughly investigate that institution.
He made a statement of the way he had
received and disbursed the funds, which
the committee did not appear to be sat
isfied with, and therefore decided to
send for persons and papers. 1t seems
that Butler got a bill passed turning
over the unclaimed bounty fund and
draft communication fund, &c, TO this
institution, which amounted to over a
million and quarter of dollars. He
recently drew nearly two-thirds OF this
amount, and Congress is determined
that he shall show what he did with it,
THE APPoRTIoNMENT BILL.
The bill fixing new apportiomment
for the future Congress, is on the
Speakers table in the House The
Western members are very anxious to
have it passed, and made an Intellectual
attcm pit to consider il to-day The only
difference between the two Houses is
the Senate fixes the number OF Repre-
sentatiyes at three hundred, instead OF
two hundred and severty-fve, which
latter number the House will probably
adhere to.
wHITTEMORE.
The case of Whittemore comes mp
tomorrow. There does not seem TO be
any prospect for his admission, though
the debate may put an entirely new
phase on the question. Some mem
beers say that they dislike toyote against
his readmission when the House voted
that Butler, of Tennessee, should not
be expelled under a similar state OF
things. Whittemore, it is asserted 10y
a friend, will make an affidavit that a
leading Republican member who was
active in getting him out of Congress
aiterward advised him to so home and
get reelected, and that he would then
be readmitted to his seat.
THE INDIANS.
The posts along the Missouri river
on the Indian frontier have been strong
" reinforced, and General Sherman Is
of the opinion that no trouble need be
Appreciated from that quarter. Since
our troops Struck the Kansas Pacific
railroad, on the Big Sandy river, the
Indians have quoted down considera-
Div. They threaten to do the whites
iniury. but no hostile demonstrations
are expected,
THE SAN DOMINGO REPORTS
The San Domingo Committee cannot
report TO the Senate before Wednesday,
and perhaps not before Thursday, as the
evidence is not yet all printed and con-
sideration of the treaty also goes over
for two or three days more. The ma
jority will be very severe on Consular
Agent Perry, who was the principal wit
ness against Babcock, and whom they
mean to extinguish by trying to show
that he is thief and perjurer The
Senate to-day conidentially received q
large package Of papers from the Pres
ident, covering the correspondence
and orders from the Executive TO our
| naval commanders and others relative
/. to tile treaty negotiations - - - ~ =
THE NEW STATE OF LINCOLN. ..
The House Committee on Territories
are ready to report an enabling act for
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