The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-07-26
WASHINGTON.
Ku.Klux Committee.

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mony Of Hon. Thomas Hardman, ex
member of Congress Of Macon, Geor.
gia, before the Ku.Klux Commission
was very brief. He said he knew Of no
Ku-Klux organization in his district,
and had no knowledge Of its existence
there. Instead OF colored persons
being intimidated at the polls, the col.
ored people had intimidated the whites
and taken possession Of the polls. There
was no violation of the law except in
one case; a number Of negroes threat
ened to punish another negro for voting
the Democratic ticket, but the row was
suppressed.
weIlman the DefauIter.
The friends of Wellman, the late Dep
uty Collector OF Customs for Savannah,
Georgia, have arranged to make good
to the Government the entire amount
of his defalcations, $4,000.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury bal
ances at the close of business to-day :
Currency, So, 100000 coin, $S4,S32,0 900;
coin certificates, S20, ,306,0 900.
Subscriptions to the New Loan.
The subscriptions to the new loan to-
day amounted to $4,000.
Receipts of Internal Revenue.
The receipts OF internal revenue TO-
day reached $267 900.
C0nvicts Arrested.
Ebenezer II. Bullock and Frank W.
Morgan, a United States pensioner, con-
victed of forgery, who broke Jail in
Winago county, Illinois, last Septem.
Der, were arrested in this city yesterday
after an exciting chase through and
around the Patent Office buildings.
The Quarterly Interest on the
| Funded Loan.
About eight hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars will be required to pay the
quarterly interest on the funded loan
due on August /. This money cannot
be sent direct to the money centres as
heretofore, and the change made in the
paving of interest direct to the bond
holders meets with favor in the west.
That section of country has always
complained that New York has had an
excess of floating capital, owing to the
government disbursements being made
there. And therefore the rates Of ex-
change were fixed at low rate in New
York, while in the Western States it
was at a high rate.
FarIoughs to be CurtaiIed.
The liberal system of granting fur.
loughs, which heretofore prevailed in
the Treasury Department, particularly
among the heads of bureaus and other
high officers, has been curtailed. The
Secretary has issued general order,
stating that no more than thirty days
leave of absence in his department
would be allowed in any fiscal year un-
der anv circumstances whatever, and
that no appeal from this decision will
be considered.
Smuggling Goods from Canada.
Cases Of attempts to smuggle goods
along. the Canadian border are becom'
ing very frequent, and the regulations
are becoming more stringent, and are
enforced more rigidly by the Treasury
Department. The Secretary has re-
Gently refused, in large number Of
cases, to grant the applications for the
release of goods seized for attempts to
evaie duties, most OF the instances be-
ing where the goods were discovered on
the persons OF the smugglers. Only
the payment of the appraised value Of
the goods will hereafter effect their re-
lease.
Boutwell's Opinion.
Secretary Boutwell,, yesterday, in
transmitting to Commissioner Pleasan-
ton the opinion of the Solicitor of the
Treasury relative to the collection Of
the tax on coupons, said: II accept the
Solicitors conclusions and have to re-
quest that you will communicate this
decision to the officers Of the Internal
Revenue for their guidance, calling
their special attention 10 the fact that
it applies only to the interest on bonds
paid previons to the decision of May
18th, 1871, and not to dividends upon
stock"