The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-09
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Washington News and GossiI

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@ WASHINGTON, March s.-The House 4 gec
tion Committee to-day took up the coni test
ed case Of Delano versus Morgan. ] t3otl
parties were heard, and the time for T. kinl
testimony was extended for sevent! '-fivi
days. t. .........t..-HfY.
A Virginia delegation is here ln consul
tatiOn. with the Attorney General g to The
mode Of procedure that should be pursuet
IN organizing that State under the Military
Government Act, .,.#. '....'.t. ..u-8 =
The Cabinet had long session t. p-day or
appointments and the Reconst ruct ion Law
Generals Sherman and Schofield have beer
agreed upon for two of the military dis.
tricts, and General Thomas will doubtless
have the third. ......, ,.f.r. ......is| '.
The Senate rejected the fol lowing nomi.
nations; Postmasters-Ch es Weisbro
| Oshkosh, Wis; Warren Bar nhard, Inde.
| pendence, Iowa, Assessors of Internal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT w Mat news. Fourth
District of ohio
| A delegation from Coiumbuls :, Ohio. head.
ed by General Wright, Is hertz, urging the
Government to locate the So'ldierS Home
for Ohio in that city.
i John W. Dwyer late Pension Agent al
Columbus, Ohio, has been reilDpointed by
! the President and confirmed lJy the Senate
vioe E. L. Cox, rejected.
A fire tonight destroyed a building on
| the southeast corner of PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue. and Sixth street. Six or seven persons
it is supposed, were killed by falling walls
Two dead bodies have already been dis
| covered. .aa4.tt.a
It is not true, as reported, that General
| Grant recommended the appointment OF
Generals Sheridan, Sickles. and Others, for
commanders of the districts. General
Grant will be consulted in the matter, but
has not undertaken to advise the Admins
tration ON the subject.
MIR. Price's resolution will be pressed
next week. If passed it viii compel the
sale of thirty millions of coin. rgq
In the Senate there Is no disposition to
touch the financial question at this time.
Certain members will push, next week, d
resolution to allow fifty per cent. of the
tariff duties to be paid in currency.
The Senate held another caucus last
night, and resolved TO continue the present
session until the bulk of the pending
executive business, aud especially the ap-
pointments under the Military Reconstruc-
tion Act, should be disposed OF. An adj
jouTnment till October or November will
then be proposed. #.r .un
The President and Cabinet are busily en-
gagged in the, necessary Preparations for the
execution of the Military Government Bill
for the South. .a. ...ll.
. The President sent to the Senate large
number of nominations for various offices.
II Mdlly Ol lnOSc WHICH Ttlnalltu ulacIeu on
. when the last Congress closed have been
again communicated for confirmation.
John Jay Knox, Esq for a long time one
of the confidential clerks of the Secretary
of the Treasury, and recently in charge OF
the Mint and Coinage correspondence of the
Treasury Department, was to-day appointed
Deputy Controller of the Currency, in
place of II. r. Hulburd, who was recently
commissioned Controller OF the Currency
The statement OF General Howard Com
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau was
transmitted to the Senate by the Secretary
of War. He states there are 32622 whites
I and A.238 colOred people in the South who
r will need food from some source before the
next crop can relieve them. The number
of rations required, for one month Is 1910.
600, and for five months. the probable time
required, 8,535,000. At twenty-five cents
q per ration, the estimated cost will be So
l33750. OF this, $825,000 has already been
appropriated, leaving Sl,50S,750 to be pro-
vided. ... ...r.rU-
One Of the last acts of the House of the
late Rump was to allow the new member
from the new State of Nebraska to be
sworn in so that he could draw 81, 900 mile
age, and $4,000 pay from the beginning
of the session. The Senators from Nebras-
ka would have done the same thing but for
the fact that they would thereby have rated
themselves as members of the Thirty y-ninth
Congress and have rated their terms of ser
vice. They prefer two years prospective
service and pay, to two years retrospective
pay without service.
1t is no longer q secret that a majority
, of the Radicals in the Senate are bitterly
, opposed to the impeachment project. They
denounce 1t In unmeasured terms as folly
and madness. One of them said to-day. In
! private conversation. that he would like to
! know II the Republican party Is to be
dragooned into such thing by men like
Logan and Butler, who are In the Repub-
lican party only on probation, and who at
one time since the war, not much over q
. year ago, were doing their best to revive
E the old Democratic party with President
johnson at its head,