IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON: Passage of the Treasury Note Bill in the House; The Legal Tender Clause Retained by a Large Majority (2/7/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/7/1862

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WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 6.

The opponents of the treasury note legal tender met a Waterloo defeat to-day. The majority in favor of the legal tender clause astonishes even the friends of the measure. Before the hour of the meeting, the fate of the latter provision was deemed doubtful. As soon, however, as a canvass showed a certain majority of 15, the wavering all came into its support as an administration measure. The measure was strengthened also by dispatches from the Cincinnati banks and Gov. SPRAGUE to the Ohio and Rhode Island delegations, urging the indispensability of the legal tender.

VALLANDIGHAM, MORRILL, PENDLETON, ROSCOE CONKLING and HORTON acted together constantly against the scheme.

The decided vote of the House, it is believed, [???] the concurrence of the Senate.

The statement that a rough draft of a tax bill has gone to the printer is erroneous. It is not yet prepared. Mr. MORRILL has been too busy for a fortnight, fighting the Treasury note scheme; but now that it has passed, he will probably have time to mature the Tax bill, which the country awaits with natural impatience.

An English gentleman who has just arrived here from the South, having left Richmond on Tuesday last, states that he saw and talked with several members of the rebel Cabinet, and they assured him they had positive intelligence that France and England would recognize the independence of the South by the 4th of March. He says that DAVIS will foreshadow it in his communication to the rebel Congress on the 22d of February, at which time he is to be inaugurated. This gentleman brought dispatches to several of the legations here.

It has been arranged that to-morrow Senator POMEROY, Messrs. CONWAY and COVODE, of the House of Representatives, and Dr. WEED,

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