The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-03
From Washington.

| spatch of business as heretofore.
Were this the short session, it would
be within week of its termination,
and, as yet, the wheels of legislation
are clogged by the efforts of Congress
to defeat the Presidents plan of re-
construction. The war between the
President and Congress has begun in
earnest, but the Republican majority
could not, at the caucus on Friday
night, agree upon any plan of hos
tilities. They took measures, how
ever, to save their elections.
Some members now say that it is
useless to pass bills for the President
to veto, and that, as their own
measures cannot be enacted, thew
care for no other. Others propose q
continuous session till the expiration
of the Thir -y-ninth Congress, to pre-
vent the President from appointing
his friends to Office during the recess
of the Senate
To withhold the appropriation bills
IS another mode of annoying the
Executive, but the substantial inter
ests of the country would revolt at
that, and few members who resorted
to it could be elected. There remains
but one mode, and only one-where-
by, if the Republican majority can
recover and keep the two-thirds
power of the Senate, the President
can be put down-to wit: impeach-
ment. The first thing to be done to-
wards this is to obtain a two-thirds
majority of the Senate. Several
modes have been suggested-one is
to create new States in sufficient
number for the purpose.
1t WAS re-asserted to-day in the
Senate, that the Cabinet of President
johnson is unit upon all the mea-
| sures of the President since his
accession. This includes the veto.
Mr.. Seward endorses every word of
the Presidents late speech, and we
have heard, rs yet, no remonstrance
against it from others of the Cabinet.
1t is believed that the Cabinet will
adhere to Mr.. johnson, though Mr..
Johnson may not adhere to them.
Mr.. Sherman has made strong
speech i'll the Senate to-day, against
the scheme shutting out Southern
representatives.
Correspondence Baltimore .Sum.
Forney hos now d. D. added to
his name, which it is doubtful if any
college in the land would have given
him. Senator Nye, of Nevada, who,
ny the way, is something of wag,
proposes to make title more signi-
cant. He has notified some of the
Senators that he intends to offer a
resolution expelling Forney from the
Senate, on the ground that the Senate
chamber is no place for dead ducks.
He is just now engaged vigorously in
the manufacture of public sentiment.
He has issued cards for reception to
newspaper correspondents on Mon
day evening. There are many hungry
young men Of this class about the
reporters galleries and the lobbies
who will attend, get primed with
Forney's whiskey and anti-Presiden-
tlal notions simultaneously, and the
country press will show it in the
course of a week or two.
The disbursements at the Treasury
Department last week amounted to
upwards of 100000 900. This is the
largest outlay that has occurred in
any one week since the close of the
rebellion.
The action of the caucus on Friday
evening, in declining to take issue
with the Executive on an appeal to
the people, meets with general favor
here, as will any and all efforts look
ing to the avoidance of q more gene
raj rupture. In the caucus, however,
there was nevertheless a determine
tlon expressed to stand shoulder to
shoulder in support Of the measures
that may be introduced i'm Congress,
and if the President sees fit to refuse
his signature thereto, so be it.
General Grants absence from the
meeting in New York was said to
have been because he did not coincide
with the measures that he knew
would be advocated there for the
settlement of the questions ut present
disturbing the country.
Governor Cox, of Ohio, had O. long
interview with the President yester-
day. The President talked to him as
sweetly as he had ever talked to
Sumner. Kelly, Beecher, and others,
some time ago, and it is reported that
Governor Cox has not yet made I'D
mis- mind as to the views of the Pre-
sident. t.-New York Iribu 25th.
More than half dozen letters were
to-day received by Representative
Mckee. of Kentnc]Iy detoiIino ont