WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. – The only amendment made to the United States Note bill, by the committee of Conference at their second meeting to-day, is of an unimportant character, namely, to receive the fifty millions of demand notes heretofore authorized in payment of duties on imported goods while apart from these, such duties are to be paid in coin.
The president has approved the Fortification bill. It is therefore a law.
Both houses yesterday agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the Treasury Note bill. It retains the provision that the notes be redeemable in five years or payable in twenty years at the pleasure of the Government. It also makes duties on imports payable in coin, and pledges it to the payment of the interest on the notes and bonds. It strikes out the pledges of public lands.
The communication from the Russian Government on the subject of the Trent affair, was communicated to the Senate to-day. It was characterized by the strongest feelings of friendship for the United States.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 1, 1862, p. 3
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