The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-30
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Amnesty Bill-California Rev.
enue Case-Moderate Funeral Bills
The Coal Question-Texas Pacific
Railroad-Seneral Items.
WAsHINGrON, June y.
THE AMNESTY BILL.

WAsHISGToS, June ~.
The AMNESTY BILL.
The Reconstruction committee con
sidered the amnesty bill to-day, and
agreed to postpone il till December.
Mr.. Beck first submitted substitute,
which was agreed TO, simply granting
amnesty to all except the classes emu
merated by Butler, and striking out
from the bill of the latter those clauses
which relate to property and rights of
property. This Beck was instructed to
report at the first call Of the committee
next session.
THE GREAT CALIFORNIA REVENUE CASE,
Pending before the Treasury Depart
ment since September, 1869, has reached
another stage in its solution. The
l409 barrels of whisky in the posses
sion of Platt Il Newton was owned by
Horace Webster d. Co., New York; Be
rile, Miller L. Co, and Guize, Haterhop-
fer a Co, New York. The charge
made against the whisky by the officers
seizing the same was, that while pack
ages had on tax paid and warehouse
stamps, they needed also the stamp OF
the rectifier. In other words, the of
fee claimed the whisky to have been
rectifed, and it rested upon the claim
ants to prove to the contrary This
was done several months ago, in the
case Of Webster a. Co., who had three
hundred barrels released the balance
being held for further investigation,
with other lots. Now an order has
been issued to release the l4O9 barrels
seized, in possession Of Dewitt, Kittle
Il Co., the balance in possession Of Plat
d Newton, belonging to the parties be-
fore nained, being held for further tcsti-
mony. The counsel in the case have
no doubt Of the release of all in good
time.
MODERATE FUNERAL BILLS
The bills for the funerals of Sccreia-
ries Stanton and Rawlins having been
paid by the disbursing officers of the
department, under the orders Of the
Secretary, has been rejected 10y the Sec.
ond Comptroller, for the want of an ap-
preparation. Application is, therefore,
TO be made to Congress, to provide for
their payment. Some Of the charges
are enormous-eyen for Washington.
The carriages for mOurners are charged
at eight dollars each, the collins are
charged at three hundred dollars each,
while the number OF white gloves
charged is very large. The bill for the
burial Of Secretary Rawlins is about
four thousand dollars, that OF Mr.. Stan
ton twelve hundred
rHrscuxr Qus1sftesr y''''
Some little excitement was gotten up
late in the day by the Pennsylvania,
Maryland and West Virginia Senators,
over the amendment to reduce the duty
on bituminOus coal from one dollar and
forty cents to fifty cents per ton. Mr..
Boreman said this attempted reduction
was instigated 10y New England, and if
it succeeded, the coal interest in these
three States would te destroyed, and in
revenge West Virginia would hereafter
send free traders to Congress. The
Senate adjourned pending the vote.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Five OF the cadets at large, appointed
bv the President last year, to enter
West Point the lst OF July, have been
set aside by the Board of Examiners as
incompetent, and will not be admitted.
The amount of specie on hand in the
Treasury is $ll1,S27,946; three per
cent. certificates, $50, ~, 900; currency,
$22 l32, ,S26 Of.
The total number Of stills for distil-
lation of brandy from fruits Is 3G6I.
Virginia has 962, New York 90, Penn
sylvania to, Massachusetts IS, New
jersey l92, Ohio SO, and the rest of the
StatcS and Territories the remainder.
rENA> PACIFIC RAILROAD
The Texas Pacific railroad bill, rs
passed bv the Senate, is in twenty-nlne
sections. The effort of Howard to keep
Fremont out of it was defeated by Il
great majority, and Fremont and Rose
Grams are both among the incorporators,
which include the names of about one
hundred and fifty gentlemen, more or
less known in railroad and political
affairs. The line chartered is from
Marshal, Texas, to San Diego, Calitor-
MIA. On the section from Marshal to
FL PaSso, the State of Texas gives land;
in California the Government grant is
twenty sections per mile, and in New
Mexico and Arizona it is forty sections
per mile. There is connection on this
end with Fulton, Arkansas, to Dallas,
Texas, which branch gets no land grant
There is also u connection from Mar
shall by way of Shreveport, Alexandria,
and Baton Rouge, to New Orleans,
which branch gets ten sections per
mile. There is also connections from
VickSburg to Shreveport, without any
new grant. There are connections on
the other end with existing roads in
California on grants OF twenty
sections per mllt. american iron
or steel is to be used, except
on sections for which foreign pur-
chases have already been made The
company is authorized to issue constrnc-
ton bonds at forty thousand dollars per
mile on all the property aud rights of
property. The line must he finished IN
ten wears. and three years thereafter all
lands are to bc sold at S2 ID per acre.
The guage is fixed at five feet to CORE
spond with the majority Of roads in the
South, so that through trains may he
run. Cameron has entered Il motion 10
reconsider the vote on the passage OF
the bill, o>tensibly because 1t permits
the Use of foreign iron or steel already
purchased, though Southern Senators
say it is because the guage does not cor
respond to that of the Penn svlvania