The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-04-06
WASHINGTON NEWS.
(From E~xchangcs.)
WAsH1soroS April 2, 1870.


INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU,
The friends of Commissioner Della
no say that he will not be satisfied
until every vistige of what is now
known as the Harlan ring is removed
from the Internal Revenue Office -
Some of these parties were originally
appointed by Mr.. Boutwell, himself
at the Inauguration of the Inaugural
ton ofthe Internal Revenue Office,
but as the Secretary of the Treasury
is determined to let Delano conduct
the Internal Revenue entirely in his
own way IN the matter of appoint
ments holding him responsible for the
proper execution of the laws, he takes
little interest in the disposition of ap
pointment of the officers in close Off
cial connection with the Commission
er. 1t is stated that w 7. Sherman,
of Ohio, will be made Deputy Com
missioner in the place of Darncll-
Sherman was formerly chiefclerk of
the Third Auditors Office.
JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
Associate Justice Strong has been
assigned to the Third Judicial District
embracing the States of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware. Asscci-
ate Justice Bradley will be assigned
to the Fifth judicial District, COM
prising the States Of Georgia., Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas. This District has been for
some time past attached to the Sixth
District, to which Judge Swayne has
recently been assigned.
TEXAS MEMBERS ADMITTED.
The two Senators and four mem
bers appearing to-day Texas was ad-
mitted to full representation in Con-
gress, thereby making 224 members
Of the House and II members of the
Senate. and leaving only Georgia to
be represented, and another Senator
from Mississippi to be admitted to fill
the complement of Senators and mem
bers from all the States in tho Union.
There was, however, quite an excited
debate in the House over the admis
sion Of John G. Conner, Democratic
member elect from the Second Texas
District. who is so young as to be
barely. eligible to his seat.
But objection was not made to him
for that rea, OIL, but vas based on the
ground that his conduct prior to his
election, and when he was an officer
of the regular army, stationed in
Texas, was such toward tn, enlisted
men under his command, together
with allegations that he had made
declarations in his campaign speeches
that were disloyal, that needed inyes-
legation 10y a committee before he was
sworn in. General Butler, who
made the charges, had read er parte
afidavits to sustain them, but the
most Radical members of the House
expressed the opinion that they could
not go into the moral record of O mem
Der before his election, and Others
having denied, on behalf. of MIR. Con
ner, these allegations that were made
against him, he was sworn in, Butler
only securing. twenty-one votes for
his motion TO refer, the credentials.
During the discussion Mr. Shanks
of Indiana, denounced Conner very
severely, and said that it was only a
few years since that he had nomina-
ted him rs a cadet to the Naval Acad-
envy, from which institution he was
soon dismissed as. worthless,
THE BANK DELEGATION
their base of operations
to- day from the Ways and Means
Committee to that of Banking and
Currency The former, therefore,
held no meeting on the Funding Bill,
but the latter gave them a long hear
ing, and obtained a good deal of prac-
teal information of the workings of
the National banking system. Sec
rotary Boutwell, was present and took
notes. The delegation stated their
objections to the Funding Bill, to-
with a mass of statistical in
showing that they could
not do a profitable banking business
a four and a half per cent. bond,
with the present restrictions and tax
alton imposed upon the banks. The
delegation were in favor of legisla
ton for tree banking. The Comp
troller of the Currency was also pres
ent. "
GENERAL AMES ADMITTED.
The judiciary Committee OF the
Senate were again overruled to-day
on the Ames case by forty to twelve,
and he was sworn in as Senator from
Mississippi. The extraordinary large
vote in his favor caused great sur
prise. Three Republican Senators,
Trumbull, Conkling and Stewart, vo-
ted with the nine Democrats that
Ames was not eligible at the time he
was elected to the Senate. rr
TARIFF BILL.
The General speech-making OIL the
tariff was concluded in the House to-
day, with the forty-third set speech,
and the details of the bill we're at last
taken up and considered, the pending
motion being to amend it to as to -ad-
NIT teas free of duty. The rate on
the bill is twenty cents per pound, be-
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