The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-15

4 delegation of officers of the national
banks called at the Executive Mansion
this mcrOing merely to pay their re-
spects 10 the President.
TROOPS ORDERED TO TENNESSEE
Tie President and Secretary of War,
after consultation, have ordered four
companies of troops 10 Tennessee, to aid
the revcnRe and other United States
officers in enforcing the laws. Two
companies are ordered to MurfreesboEo
ana two to jackson.
THE KANSAS MILITIA.
Colonel ASper, of the Military COM
miltee, has prepared report in favor
of paying FIVE hundred thousand dol
lars to Kansas for services of the militia
of that State during the Price invasion.
HALLS ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
Massachusetts, ard Ohio, asking Con-
gress to make an appropriation to ena-
ble Captain Hall to continue his explo-
ratiOrs in the Arctic region. The one
from MassaCt usetts was signed by the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Execu.
tive Council, and all the heads of de.
partments at State House, the Mayor,
Collector and many prominent mer-
chants. The one from Ohio Is issgned by
the Governor, all the State officers, and
neatly all the members of bOtl branches
of TIE Legislature.
APPOINTMENTS BY The LEGISLATURE.
The determination of Mr.. PrOsser, of
Tennessee, to appoint negro TO West
Point has been followed by the al
nOuncement that Mr.. Mccormick, Of
ArIz na, will recommend an Ildian as
Il cad.t, and the delegate from Wyo
am. declares that hC will appoint IL
woman.
SALE OF CONGRESSIONAL FAVOR.
Some person lii indiana who seems TO
SuppCss that The House Military COM
mitte1 is Investigating all manner OF ir-
regularities, writes that one of the AS.
sisraut Assessors Of his district paid
member or mis- brother h5Ie five hun
dred dollars to be retained, and that the
same brother secured the 'enJing Of
bu lding for a poStoffice at twelve hun
dred dollars per year, when the building
itself is not worth over three hundred
dollars.
TENNESSEE.
General Butler has about finished
bill which he will try to get through
the Reconstruction committee the com
ing week, regulating affairs in Teunes.
see. The bill only interteres by reciting
that Governor Senter was elected by
fraud, and that the reconstruction acts
6 x,tnl,tal -,
ton, aud that the election is in coEsc-
quence null and void. Provision is
made for new registration aud cleo
ton. While majority OF the Tennessee
delegation favor such step, the drift
of conversation am-ng the members of
both houses appears to be decidedly
against the mea-ure.
THE TAX BILL.
The Ways and Means committee have
nearly finished a list OF the modifica.
tions they propose to the tax bill, and
now expect t. submit their amendments
10 the House the coming week.
MONEY FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS.
The President has approved the reso
luton providing that the unexpected
balance of the fund created by act of
February, leGi, for the benefit OF
SEX aud wounded soldiers shall b.
transferred 10 the national asylum for
disabled volunteers. The moneys with
held because of the deSerion of any
person from the volunteer forces of the
United States is prohibited being paid
to him exc pit the record of desertion
has been cancelled OF the sole ground
that it was made enormously and con-
trary to the facts, but such money shall
remain the property Of the national
| asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers
for the support of its beneficaries.