The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-09
THE WHEELING
Washington Specials.


! The members OF Congress are coming
in slowly and taking up their quarters
tor the approaching session. Notwith-
standing the defeat at the ballot box in
New York. the feeling among Republi-
cans is hopeful, and better day coming
| is the universal expression. The Grant
movement is rapidly increasing in
strength, but the friends of Chase are
actively at work, and are leaving no.
thing undone TO advance his interests
in the Presidential way. Leading Re
| publicans entertain no doubt of Grants
political faith. He stands straight with
them and but a few days may roll
away ere he shows that he is proud to
be classed among the foremost of that
school OF politics.
THE MESSAGE.
The President is engaged in the prep
aration of his annual message. 1t will
cover many pages of foolscap, and the
knowing ones confidently predict that
he will take bold ground against Con-
gress and its plan of reconstruction.
Under the impression that the recent
Democratic triumphs are endorsements
of his policy, he Is inspired to go even
beyond his old limilS. anu will pre-
cipitate Il crisis on the National ASSEM-
bly,.
GRANTS REPORT.
Grant is busily engaged in preparing
his annual report to the President. His
friends assert that he will not depart
from plain statistics to obtrude any po-
litical opinions OF his own, but will i'll
no heSitnting manner make known his
views regarding reconstruction so far
us the Military Department Is CON
cerned. His report, it is claimed, will
place him squarely i'll the ranks OF the
Republican party and will make GER
tain of his nomination in 1865 tor the
Presidency.
THE NOVEMBER SESSION OF CONGRESS.
1t should be borne in mind that the
November session can last but eleven
days, including Sundays, and that there
will be but nine working days before
the regular constitutional December
session must commence. The Consti-
tuition provides that Congress shall as
Semble at least once in every year, and
such meeting shall be on the first Mon
day in December unless they shall by
law appoint different day. Congress
has not appointed different day, but
has enacted that in addition to the pres
ent regular times of meeting there shall
be II meeting, &C., &c. The coming
November session must therefore adj
journ by noon of Monday, December
ID, and commence Il regular session at
that hour. If the President shall have
any measures that he deems necessary
and eXpedient to recommend to Con-
gress for their consideration, they VIII
be communicated about the usual Pc
Rod, probably in December. Under
the existing provisions of the laws there
are several difficulties presented. If
Congress shall pass an act even as early
as the twenty-first day of November,
the President can't hold the bill the
constitutional term of ten days during
the November session, because after
excluding Sunday there can be but
nine days left.
THE TENURE OF OFFICE Law.
So, likewise, in the tenure of office
law. which provides that the President
shall report the suspension of officers
and appointments of their successors
within twenty days after the first day
of the next meeting of the Senate. BY
the time that half of these twenty days
shall have expired, the November ses-
sion must cease by limitation of law.
TO BE DISCUSSED IN CABINET.
Such are some of the legal inconsist-
encies, it is argued, have resulted from
recent Congressional legislation, and
which it is understood are to be consid-
cred in the Cabinet tomorrow, with
the view OF determining if possible
what course the Executive shall adopt
to best meet the requirements of the
Constitution and the purposes OF the
late acts of Congress.