The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-12-02
WASHINGTON.
The Election Of Ex-Governor Vance,
of North Carolina, as senator.

the election of Ex-Governor Vance to
the United States Senate by the Legis-
lature of North Carolina, TO succeed
Senator Abbott. A careful examination
of the acts of the Thlrty-ninth and Fer
tieth Congress, and of the first session
of the Forty-second, show that his polit-
ical disabilities for participating in the
rebellion never have been removed. and
will certainly refuse to relieve him now,
and his admission to the Senate, there
fore, is regarded here by the Republican
Senators as very doubtful. 1t is sup
posed that the friends of Ex-Governor
Vance will urge that he opposed seces-
sion until the State Of North Carolina
went out of the Union, and that during
the war he was elected Governor by the
people of that State on the platform op-
posed to the Confederate administration.
His opponents claim, however, that
these facts will have little influence on
Congress, since they also remember that
as the Governor of North Carolina he
was as bitter rebel as any man in the
South.
]. w. Douglass to be Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue.
1t is rumored that the President has
settled on J. w. Douglass for Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue. Douglass
is at present acting in that capacity.
Mrs. Edward A. Pollard,
Whose incarceration in the Govern
ment Insane Asylum in this city, a
couple of months since, caused some
comment, is again at liberty, and
threatens to bring suit against parties
who were instrumental in depriving her
of her freedom. 1t is reported that, since
her release, her insanity was the result Of
drugs administered by an owner of
hotel, of which she was lessee, with
a design of getting her out Of the way
and securing the control Of the proper
ty. Her husband, the well known his
torian of the Lost Cause" Edward A.
Pollard, from whom she has been seper-
ated for two or three years, is now in
New York. She has written to him
with view to reconciliation and to Sc
cure his aid in the intended suit.
The Committee on Ways and Means.
General Schenck, chairman Of the
committee OF Ways and Means, has ar
rived and with Maynard, Niblack, ALI
son and one or two other members Of
the committee, now here, propose to
90 to work and prepare the legislation
for the coming session. General
Schenck, with majority Of the COM
mittee, who have been heard from on
the subject, are opposed to any increase
Of the tax on whisky Schenck has no
doubt, however, but that strong effort
will be made by Western whisky ring
to have the tax increased, but he does
not think they will have any effect upon
the House.
Schenck and the English Mission.
With reference to the rumors a6oat
for some time about Schenck being OF:
fered the mission to England, while he
is very reticent about it, he neither de-
nes nor confirms the report. The be-
lief is general among the Western men,
bers and Senators that Schenck is the
man fixed upon by the President.
a Legal Question.
WASHINGTON, December THE ques-
tion whether the Treasury Department
can reserve for interest dne from rail
roads, Ito which subsidies of land have
been granted the entire amount pay
able for interest and transportation,
has been submitted by the Secretary Of
the Treasury to the Attorney General.
Pending the decision, payments to the
railroad Tor such service, will be de-
layed at the Treasury Department.
General order from the War Depart.
ment
Says that fifty dollars will hereafter be
charged against every enlisted man
who shall lose by carelessness or dis
pose of a breech- loading musket Of the
Sharpe or Remington pattern.
Treasury Statement.
The statement prepared by the
United States Treasury, for private in
formation shows that the Government
has paid of the bonded debt alone, from
March II, 1869 to November II, 1870,
in principal interest and premium
SlS2,942,7S7, equal to S333,S37 per
day. The total premium paid has been
S2l ,317 400 and interest $2,035, $40;
on purchases, Sl59,5S9,750 of United
States bonds since the llth Of March
1869, on which day the Secretary Of
the Treasury made purchases for the
sinking fund. The total estimated for
the year ending June Both, 1871, $685.
516,7 The amount appropriates for
the year 272,30S,337. The total esti-
mates for the year ending June 30th,
1872, as prepared by Secretary Bout
well to he submitted to Con-
gress are S2SO27,237. The estimates
are exclusive of all unexpended bal
ances, which amounted on the Both of
June last to $50, ,O0O,0 900, and while they
are rendered unavailable by the fifth
section of the act of July II, 1870, had
these balances remained available the
present estimates would probably have
been between S40,000,0O0 and
S50,0O0000 below the present fig
ures. The Treasury Department now
prints 1000 copies Of the public debt
statement in German and 1000 in Eng
lish. Prominent bankers at home and
abroad are regularly supplied with
copies of the debt statement. 1t has
heretofore been telegraphed to Europe,
but the present interruption Of the
Atlantic cables temporarily interfered