The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-25
WASHINGTON.
The Amnesty Bill-Promfnent ~
.sa.,.tes NOW Entitied % Vote an"
Hold once.

!. Hold once.
WASHINGTON, May A.-The amnesty
III, which has just become law, re-
b ,es the political disabilities OF up.
NOV { one hundred and fifty thousand
ward Among those well known as
persons. ith the late ConfederacT who
connect'dw' ms now entitled to vote
are by its te are Alexander Il. Ste
and hold Office ys1.Governors Letchsr
phens, Of Georgia via; General Forrest,
and Wise. Of Virgl. Georgia; General
Benjamin Hill, OF IN. Herschell, OF
Wade Hampton, v 3sr.well, Hhett,
Virginia; johnson, l e.ConfedersI sIe
Hon. James A. Sedden, llsn q. Csper.
Secretary of War Hon. A [oael 6. A.
ton, OF West Virginia; c. "a, A. r.
Henrie, of Tennessee; HI +. Ken,
Wright, of Georgia; Duncan Sf,Lou-
ner and John F. Herkens, Jr.,, r;hars
isiana; Chiffon and Dargan, Me. po-
of the Rebel Congress; ex-Gove K
Henry s. Foote, Of Tennessee; w.
Gentry, Berock, Pryor, Linke and Smith
Hon. John C. Breckenridge, Judge
John A. Campbell, Generals Joe John
ston, Bragg, Cooper, Hardee, Besure-
gard, G W. Smith, Hood, Custis, Fitz-
hugh Lee and Gary; also Captains M.
q. Maury, Semmes and Bryke; Secre-
IS Jacob, Thompson, and Graham
tan, "a Carolina; Conrad, OF Louis'-
of Nor, listers Forsyth and jackson
ana. Gym, Preston, Of Kentucky. /
anJ William '.r ban number several
TT Tboss .,;Il nm ,un are JEFF Davis,
bundled among VIII, johnson, Yu'
ex.Senators Clay, A. ". osen, neHgs
lee Mallory, Toombs, Iv, eShas.se' 4
min and Wigfall; Repre-; s No.
Hugh, Cory, Scott, Crawford, l CO.
Vance, Miles, Bonham, McQn,
Reagan, Dejarmet, J. w. Jones, j. ",
Wright, of Tennessee; Hon. James
LYONS, John Goode, Jr.; Hon. John b.
Baldwin. Walter R. Staples, Fayette
McMullin, J. P. Hsdcombe, Lewis Z. O.
Harnie, w. w. Crump, Charles Bruce q.
OF Virginia; c. Y. Memminger and u. i
A. Trelholm; the Secretaries OF the =,
Confederate Treasury Department, 1. y w
II. Wells OF Alabama; George Davis, b
of North Carolina Confederate States !,
Attorney General, aud others. a
Effect Of the Amnesty Bill.
The passage of the amnesty will dis T
pose OF great number Of cases now Il
pending in the United States Supreme u
Court, where Information has been made
against persons holding office contrary :,
to the provisions of the fourteenth =
amendment. One Of the most import :
ant of these cases ia that Of Hon. A. o.
P. Nicholson, of Tennessee. 1t is
thought that the Attorney General will
enter a nolle prosequi in this and all
similar cases.
Cabinet Meeting.
At the Cabinet meeting to-day only ,
routine business was transacted, after [
which a general conversation ensued
relative to the probable fate Of the sup.
plemental treaty now being considered
in the Senate in executive session. phe
gene raj expression OF opinion lavoredits
passage, in a modified form. L
Navy Appropriations.
There seems to be strong proba-
bility th at the appropriation OF three
millions in the sundry civil appropris-
ton bill to build ten new iron clads for
the navy will be defeated. There is no
show for its passage unless suspension
Of the rules can be obtained, and the
necessary two thirds vote for that pur>
pose, it is tho ughr, canhot possibly be
secured this g. ssion. The Democrats
oppose it on poll tical grounds. /