, 1870-05-09
WAShINGT
Speculatfons Concerning the
Final Adjournment Of
Congress.
Testimony in the coward In
vestigation.
Appropriations for the Improves
ment Of Western Rivers.


TIKI GEORGIA BILL
The House Reconstruction Committee will meet !!
on Tuesday next, As General Butler will rcturn BY
tiat ttac. The understanding Is thht the Georgia
I'LL will be Immediately considered. Members of
tho committee feel confident the action will result
In tneasurc similar TO the MlsstssiPrl and Wiz
fnia bills, with the addition OF section declaring
tue terms Of The State officers now holding posi-
tluus tu begin on the restoration Of the State The
President Is strongly opposed to keeping GcoEEts
undtr military control &nd is desrous thai prompt
:tiuu b. taken To alnt the Stats to full rcprc8en-
tlti0D.
CONGRESSIONAL EICEkStOSS.
Two Congressional cxcuraiona wctc y,at1nR in
Virginia to-day. One, Numbering about thirty,
WAS entertained At Richmond, and second. Of
como 15o, went cut on the Luwdon Railroad, and
returned tonight
CITY REGISTRATION.
The registration In nve Of the seven wards OF
tnis city ehowE total OF II, ,06s Of which 6,6is arc
white and 4, $50 colorcd. This Is an increase Of
about 100 over Last year.
AN-EM6AEx EE1tDISC. .-.-,..--x------
WASHINGTON, May a.-Une Of the morning pa
peEs reports the building IN wh,ch the Quarter-
masters Offices ntc Is unsafc. II Ia the same
lately occupied by the Internal Revenue Bureau
There is good deal Of complaint amoug the
c.erkB that careful Inspection Of the structure Is
net nade.
Private letters from Paris bring the Information
that Pierre Bonapaste has really made his arrange
,nvn,s to visit this country next month.
TIE noW1KD INVESTIGATION.
To meet the motion made In the Howard inyes-
tEn.ion yesterday to strike out the evidence OF
irregularities Of the Assistant Commissioner Of
This District the prosecution to-day submitted an
.frler. and circulars from the burcau headquar-
trrs informing ali employed uy 1t
tnat they will BE- subject to MILL
tsry regulations and instrpcuug all Assistant
Commissioners to communicate regularly with the
Commissioner here, and sead copies OF all orders
and transcripts OF Ill disbursements, and make
tic return called for by army regulations. Gen.
cfal Ballach, Chief ptsbursIng on,cer OF the bu-
rtau and Treasurer OF the univcraIrJ, testified
ttat, on Gcueral HowaEds order, the amounts be-
ing respectively $soooo 3aa 900, and $ia5 o0o. had
been turned over from the bureau funds to the
university. The first instalment OF tho Congre.
cational Church bonds we're purchased by the
university, with retained colorcd bounty
fund paid orer BY General Howard
~ the university, for tho purpose
SIX thousand dollaI1 OF this WAS loaned to him on
{; mortgage The ycEt Vas paid 10 the Church. It
wse held by the bureau that this wasa trust fund,
over which Congress had no control The land OF
7nc university WIS paid Tor bT the bureau. The
nr.,eectls Of the ealc Of tots-some $130 0o0-hall
nut f,ceD used to repa5 THE government, but had
tcrn deposited tn the Freedmen's Bank, to the
Ct, dit Of the TruEtecs. The buildings had been
t.r,rte d by the bureau, and were finally turned
over, upon the order Of Secretary Rswlins.
AZ Inc time of the general tsausfer
Of the school buildings to the CORPORATION they
we're occupied ! ne salailes OF kotue u Tut lao
ffsslrS we're ratt By checks on tue Treasury, lhe
restitution was out Of debt, and owned several
,n.s Mt lam, In the District purchased for it bY ths
,,~o,,, ,atn nnvcnas. ~ 1,n1 han hcen 1nnt,e
for which $4,000 cash had been paid anu ID eomt
gases fuel and quarters had been pail to freed