The Portland daily press., 1866-12-06
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BY TELEGRAPH 70 THE
PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
Thursday Morning. December 8, 1886.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Standing Committees of the Senate.
SALE OF GOVERNMENT GOLD.
John III. Su7ratt to be Tried
by CisIJ Court.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Committees of the Senate
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.

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| WASHINGTON, Dec. g.
Gen. j. M. Thayer and ID. w. linton, Senat
ors elected from Nebraska, have arrived. The
former brought with him the Constitution o.
the State, S. NJ. Marryett, Representative
elect, will >on arrive. 1t is ascertained the
| population Of Nebraska is nearly ninety thou
sand. The Memorial and Constitution will
| soon be presented to Congress An act will
| have to be passed before these Senators and
| Representatives can be admitted to Congress.
The heads of the various Bureaus Of the
| Treasury Department have joined in letter tc
| the Ways and Means Committee of the House
urging the passage of the bill prepared at the
| last session for the reorganization of the Treas
ury Department. In the letter they recon-
mend increase of salaries, owing to the fact
! that experienced clerks, in consequence Of
| small salaries received, are forced to resign to
accept positions with better pay, very much to
| the Inconvenience of the Department. Z
| The Republican Senators r-day completed
| their arrangement of standing committees. On
the Committee on Foreign Relations, Mr.. Doo-
| little, who was next to Mr. Sumner, chairman
has been placed at the foot and Mr. Ramsay is
made head of the Post Office Committee, vice
| Dixon displaced. Mr.. Henderson was made
chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs
| instead of Mr.. Doolittle, while Mr.. Cowan has
been transferred from the head to the foot OF
the Committee on Patents. Thus Messrs Doo-
little, Cowan and Dixon, friends of President
| johnson, are deprived of chairmanships
| The amount Of gold thus far disposed Of by
| order of the Secretary of the Treasury, is be-
| tween four and five millions. 1t is not Mr..
McCullochs purpose to sell freely of his gold,
but in small amounts, and for the present prob
| ably his sales are over, except in a small way.
Mr.. Boutwelps bill recommending the pub
lie sale of two million dollars in gold per week
| by the Treasury, is much discussed, but serious
doubts ale expressed of its passage. The bill
is now in the hands of the Ways and Means
Committee, some of the members of which
| have already expressed their opposition to the
measure. -
1t is reported by Mr.. Summers friends that
he intends to bring up a resolution looking to
the withdrawal of the Franco Mexican uues-
ton from the hands of the President and Mr.
Seward, and placing it in those of Congress-
Mr.. Summer is chairman of the Senate Foreign
Committee.
The statement that the appointment of j. C..
q. Kennedy, as Commissioner of Agriculture,
would be sent to the Senate next week is un-
authorized and incorrect
The monthly public debt statement will show
very little variation from that for October, ow-
ing $24 100000 in coin having been paid as in
terest on 500 bonds, and as the regular dis
bursements for the last month will probably
absorb the receipts ET
1t is said John III. Surratt will be brought to
Washington, and his trial take place before a
civil court.
tatives tonight, the following measures were
agreed upon: 1st-A bill regulating the organ
ization of the House, directing the Clerk to
place no names upon the roll from States not
represented in the preceding Congress or de-
clared entitled to representation and providing
that no electoral votes be counted from any
State not represented at the time in Congress.
PA bill remedying the defect in the law which
may prevent any State canvassing the votes for
electors of President or Vice President. "a
law to change the time of the meeting of every
Congress, with view to assembling on the 4th
of March. $40 raise special committee for
the rigid investigation of the New Orleans riot.
"a select committee to investigate the collec-
ton of direct taxes in the rebel States, and the
seizure and sale of abandoned and confscated
lands, &c. 6-The Committee on Pensions to
inquire whether any pensioners in disloyal
States who were struck from the rolls, have
been restored in vio' alton of law. IA special
committee to investigate the release of the
murderers of Union soldiers in South Caroli-
ma.
Mr.. Raymond, who was present. ii answer
to the questions of the members, made expla-
nations similar to those he has already editori-
ally given of his connection with the Philadel-
phia Convention, and declared that he approx
ed thelmeasures put forth in the caucus
Mr. Scholfield moved that he be permitted to
remain in the caucus, which was agreed to.
A subsequent resolution of Mr. Schenck, ex-
Guiding from the caucus any person who ad-
hered to the Philadelphia address, after consid-
cradle debate was tabled 80 to 36.