The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-05
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WASHIN GT0N.
WASHINGTON, June 4.

WASHINGTON, June 4.
The President-LonE Branch.
The President announces his inten-
ton to leave for Long Branch on
Thursday Of the present week to spend
the summer. He will occasionally visit
this city at odd inte,ius, providing that
there is any pressing public necessity
for such O sacrifice on his part.
An"Innocent. Clerk Rsinstated.
Major T. S. Atlee, for many years
one Of the principal clerks in the In
dian Bureau, who was summarily re-
moved two years ago, at the demand
of Senator Chandler, on suspicion Of
having written letter to Michigan
paper containing paragraph referring
TO a scandal about Senator Chandler
then current in Michigan, has been
reinstated, through the efforts OF the
member-elect from the Kalamazoo
District, Senator Chandler kindly con-
senting that Secretary Delano should
reinstste a clerk whose entire innocence
of the offense With which he was
charged was established within q month
after his removal. The removal was
generally discussed at the time. and
was alluded to in the Senate Chamber.
The Polar Expedtiionists.
A number Of persons visited the navy
yard to-day for the purpose OF seeing
the Frolic, the vessel that was despatch
ed to St. Johns, n. F., by the Navy
Department, and which has on board
Captain Tyson and others who were
rescued from the ice foe after they had
parted from the ill-fated Polaris, but
nothing was heard from the vessel, al
though it's arrival is daily expected,
having had sufficient time to get to this
city from the time it left st. Johns:
When the vessel does arrive it is said
that a thorough investigation will be
made by the Navy Department. when
the truth 10 relation to the circum-
stances attending the abandonment ef a
part OF the officers and OF the men OF
the Polaris will be ascertaibed. AS
there were a number of Washington
ians on board OF the Polaris, their
friends and acouaintances OF course are
anxious to hear about them.
civil Service.
The conference OF the President and
cabinet officers and members of the
Civil Service Advisory Board, which
took place this morning, was very sat~
isfactory. The changes in the Civil
Service rules, as arranged by the Board. .
were approved by the President and
cabinet.
Revenue Decision.
The Commisriouer OF Internal Reve-
nue. has addressed the following circu-
lar to all collectors OF Internal Reve'
nue.:
"I am in receipt OF the information
that various persons on railroad tralns
are engaged in selling tobacco and cl-
gars without having qualified them
selves as the law and regulation require
by purchasing special tax stamp as
deaiers in manufactured tobacco &c.
Every person thus engaged without
such prior qualification, renders him"
self liable to the penalty Of the law iu
this connection. I would call your at
tention to the supplement for Regula-
tion No. l, section No. 8 and page 7,
and save to ask that you will take
proper steps to enforce the law and re-
auire every person, whether minor or
otherwise, selling tobacco and cigars on
the railroad trains, to pay the special
tax provided therefor.
[Sigued.] ]. W. DOUGLASS.
Commissioner.
The special tax referred to above is
SIS and the penalties not to exceed
S400 or be imprisoned for . term OF not
more than one year or both at the dc
tation of the court.
Our Indian Prisoners.
1t has been definitely decided by the
President not to take any action on the
question as to what disposition to make
of the Modoc,, until it 10 known wheth>
er the Governor OF Oregon will mske q
demand for such Indians as have been
indicted under the civil laws OF that
State. The first question to be settled
is whether the recent conflict between
the Indians and the military actually
produced a state of war. 1t is expected
that the Governor Of Oregon will make
a reouisitiou on the Governor OF Cali
fornis Tor the Modocs oyer which in-
dictments are pending: The Governor
OF California will, it is believed, respond
that the Indians are not in his posses-
zion but in the hands Of the military,
and will follow this up by requesting
General Schofeld to turn the Indians
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