The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-07
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Washington News and Gossip.
wAsn,NaroN. January 8.

w NhhninRlon news ana 1OHSlps
WASHINGTON, January 3.
The Senate Finance Committee have Ia
Nen up the Presidential appointments A
proposition was made and advocated TO re-
ject them en- mdsse, but, upon consideration,
this WIS rejected by one majority, being
considered as an Indication Of a spirit Of
spite which would be unbecoming the Sem
ate of the United States.
lt was finally decided that the nomination
OF men who formerly acted with the Re-
publican party aud who severed their con
nectlon with the party with the presumed
object of obtaining office, should be re-
Jectcd In other cases where the appoln-
tees have served IN the army or navy du-
ring the war or were consistent Democratic
and good officers. the committee viii rec
ommend the confirmation OF appointments.
The receipts from Internal Revenue TO
day, were SD33028. TCtal receipts for the
week, S7,0O0,000, or at the rate Of S3Gi.00O,
600 per year.
TIE National Bank circulation to date,
amounts TO S29S,000 4l9.
Spaulding, In his speech on Reconstruc-
ton, pitched flcrcely into Thad. Stevens.
lie has, he said, often been called the id
Radical from Ohio, [laughterl but latterly
he had been charged with being somewhat
Conservative, Radicalism certainly did not
mean dcspotism nor anarchy. Was Con-
gress prepared, at the buglc blast of Rad
icalism, to run Into the ground all the pop
ular Institutions Of our popular form of
Governments Were they ready, at the
command Of their great leader, to throw
into the condition of Territories and Prov
inces the old States that had entered the
Union nc its beginningY And, having done
that, were they ready 60 go still further,
and, at the sound of the same bugle, inn
peach the Executive officer of the Govern
ment.
The District Suffrage Bill veto message
was read in Cabinet council on Saturday
General Grant was, by Invitation, present
during the reading of the document, and
said that he fully and uuequivocally ap-
proved the message, A. also the members Of
the Cabinet, except Mr.. Stanton, who read
a short opinion, taking the ground that the
bill was Constitutional, and adv ising the
President TO approve It.
The people Of this District have, hereto
fore, voted upon the negro suffrage propo
sitiOn and rejected IL. IL cannot be claim
ed that the proposed extension of suffrage
in this District is necessary to enable
persons Of color to protect either their
rights on interests.
A Washington special says Rcprcsenta-
tive Newell, of New Jersey, has drawn up
articles of impeachment against President
johnson. which he Will present to the
House. Newell said such catalogue of
high crimes and misdemeanors was never
before presented against any executive
officer In the whole range of history as can
be presented by the present Congress
against Andrew johnson,
m THE IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES.
lfImmediately upon entering on the du-
ties of his Office, without consultation with
the law-making power legislatlne for the
Southern States in the most 0utocratic
manner.
2. Assuming powers which Congress
only can exercise, and laying down laws
for whole sections of country, IN fact maxi
ing and unmaking statutes for the people
of the United States.
3. Assuming 90 decide who are and who
are not citizens of the United States, and
excluding loyal meh from the right of suf-
trage.
{. Authorizing unpardoncd rebels TO eX-
ercse the same right.
3. Handing over the rebel.States to dis
loyal men and putting loyal men under
their tyrannical sway.
9. Elcvating the rebels who had fought
to destroy the Union. and putting down
loyal men who had fought to preserve It,
7 Appointing men Governors of States.
whose hands were yet red with the blood
of slaughtered Union citizens and soldiers.
s. For letting loose rebels In New Or
leans upon legal and peaceable assembly
of loyal men. resulting IN massacre, such
as froze the heart of the North with horror
aud dismay, and caused every loyal South
ern heart to utterly despair of his country.
8. For aiterward shaking the bloody
hands of those murderers In the reception
room OF tho Presidential mansion, while
he complimented Them upon tho manner In
which they had executed his programme
for wiping out loyalty at the South.
10. For denouncing this body as usur-
patton.
IL. Not satisfied with exciting the pas
slons of the mob against the lawful au-
thority of Congress through the press. by
fulminatiOns of himself and his satellites
but descending TO the arena of stump or
atory in this and other cities, aud deliver
ing harangues calculated not only to excite
a breach of the peace, but q revolution of
the Government itself.
l2. On the pretense of laying the corner
stone of monument 10 deceased states
man, repeating those harangues at every
point on his route, the only object of which
was to bring the Congress OF the United
states into contempt and derison.
There Is no case before the Supreme
Court involving the status of Alabama, AS
to whether she is In or out of the Union
Such an issue has been mootcd before
Judge Busteed in Alabama, but no appeal
has been made TO the court here.
Mr.. Moulton, of Illinois, presented in the
House yesterday, memorial from one
hundred citizens of Illinois, In favor of the