Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-29
FROM WASHINGTON.


special Dispatch 70 the St Louis Republican.l ]
WAsHrSGToN, March 25.-Congress
TODAY. as was intimated it would In the
| dispatches OF last night, reversed Its po-
sitfon on the final adjournment question.
The action In canysssing yesterday
among those who favor continuance OF
the session, and the the absence Of many
members who favored Il on Saturday as
I an unconditional adjournment, caused
this result. The movement commenced
in the senate by & recall Of its resolution
| from the house, passed on Saturday IN
favor of an adjournmAt from tomorrow
until December. ~ q
The house then Ipassed concurrent
! resolution that each house OF congress
| give consent 10 the other to adjourn on
4 Thursday, the 2Sth inst, until the fret
/ Wednesdays respectively in May, June,
September, October and November, un-
less the president OF the senate and the
speaker of the house shall, by joint pro-
ciamation, issued ten days before the
time mentioned, declare there Is no occa-
sion for the meeting Of congress. So ae-
tive had been the caucusing on yester-
| dav that Notwithstanding the vote on
Saturday, this resolution passed the house
! by a strictly party vote, and is regarded
\ In a measure as the triumph Of the i'm
neachment party. The resolution was
sant To the senate. and that body having
crave doubts as to whether congress
eouId delegate power TO its presiding Of
fieers TO convene. The senate referred
I n 10 the judiciary committee. There Is
prospect, therefore, 1t may yet be
The most interesting subject in the
senate to-day was the consideration OF
the resolution TO authorize the sale to
! friendly belligerents Of vessels and mu-
nitions Of war.
MI. Chandler, Of Michigan, made q
! loud voiced speech, in which he de-
manded that the Alabama claims should
be settled at the mouth Of columbiad
with fifteen-inch shells. The speech
excited derisive laughter, and no vote
was taken on the resolution
THE president had prepared q proela-
noafion in view OF the final adjourn
mant OF congress tomorrow, cOnvening
thgsenate In extra session for the con-
sjderatinn Of executive business, but the
change in the adjournment programme
obviates the necessity Of its issuance.
The constitution for the new state Of
Deserat. now known as the territory of
Utah has been HeeeiVed by congress, and
duly referred. ItproVides for universal
suffrage. No aetiOn or question is pro-
posed at this session.
The CON missioner Of the general land
office has received returns from the local
office at Jackson, Miss, showing that
forty-eight farms, comprising an aggre-
gate of 2227 acres, were added TO the
5roductive force Of that state during
February last under the act Of last
session. providing for homesteads to
actual settlers in the states of Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and
Georgia. the entries being confined to
eighty acres each.
Senator EIuson in a letter to John NJ.
Waskonl, of Texas, relatiye tc the re-
eonstruesion laws, says: In reply 70
your question Does the law as il now
exists disfranehise the rank and file Of
soldiers who had never taken oath to
support the constitution of the United
states - / have TO say, it does not dis
franchise them. The constitutions
amendment disgualiAes fFom holding
office certain persons who had taken an
oath to support the constitution Of the
United States and then engaged in re-
bellion or gave aid and comfort 10 1t.
This class of persons are disrranohised
and all other persons are entitled TO vote.
The president has been urged by prom
inent republicans to release Mr.. Davis
upon his own recOgniZance because
there Is no prospect of Chief Justice
Chase holding a court in Virginia so
long as that state is under control Of
military authority, he deeming it be-
meath the dignity Of judge of tie su-
preme court 70 preside in 2 district under
Such control. ...
There il good reason Tor saying thai
within the next ten days Mr.. Davis will
be released upon his own reeogniaance
to answer when called upon, ~
A special TO the Chicago Times says
Considerable Importance is attached to
the fact that Gen. Grant was on the fioor
Of the house to-day, and advised mem
bers not to adjourn over until December.
He thought that some provision should
be made for meeting st any time In the
Sumner.
Mr. sher.zer reported from the COM
mittee on finance, 1pint resolutions pro-
viding that
WHEREAS, There are now in the
hands of the treasury depart
ment several millions of dollars,
6e proceeds of property captured
during tie rebellion which is under the
eontr0l 81 tie seereyary OF Ehe tFsasufyI
srid, as Ii now stands, may be disposed
of in settling claims preferred by alleged
former owners Of said captured property
without sanction Of congress and
Whereas, It IS considered proper that
such claims should not be settled and
ps5d with ut first receiving the approval
Of coug6 IS; therefore be it
Resos5ed, That all moneys thus held
by the treasurer ef the United States
shall at once be conveyed by warrant into
the United States treasury, only to be
drawn py autnoEity OF lsS-
On molten OF Mr.! sherman, it was
postp oned until December.