Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-21
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| WASHINGTON, May 1B.-Ihe supreme
/ court, to-day, dismissed the original bill
| filed on behalf of Mississippi, and direct.
! ed against Gen. Ord, to restrain the en-
| forcement of the reconstruction act on
/ the same ground as stated in the Georgis
! case-that this court had not the original
! Jurisdiction. It also dismissed the
amended Mississippi bill for the same
| reason. This was fled few days since,
and was finally argued yesterday. Thir
ends all attempts by the judicial process
| in this court to prevent the enforcement
! Of the reconstruction law.
| The whole question is likely to come
up again at the December term Of the
court on regular appeal through the
! lower courts, in which event the su-
preme court will have appellate jurisdie-
| ton, and thus open the merits of the
/ whole question. a list Of cases will be
made in one or more of the southern
states, and by some of the counsel en-
/ gagged in these just decided
! The judiciary committee did nothing
| to-day with the Impeachment investiga-
! ton, but took up the question of title in
! the Kansas branch of the Union Pacific
| railroad, which they were directed by
! the house to investigate. Two parties
| claim the road, and as the government
! advances its bonds on the completion OF
! certain sections, the ownership becomes
/ a matter Of no little interest to them.
/ The issue not having been settled by the
| courts, congress directed its judicial COM
mittee to examine into the law and the
| facts.
! A letter from New Orleans says that
| the returns from registration in Louisi-
ana show that but very few white peO-
pie are being registered. In st. Charles
| parish, for instance, the registry stands
| 345 eolored TO 8 whites; in st. Bernard
parish 800 colored to 50 whites.
The summons which has been served
| on Gen. Burton, commanding at Fort
Monroe, TO appear before the Judiciary
committee is for the purpose of having
him detail certain conversations which
he is reported to have had with Mr..
Davis.
Secretary Stanton and Welles, At
torney General Stanbery and Postmaster
! General Randall had interviews with the
executive this evening, during which the
opinion of Attorney General Stanbery on
the reconstruction act was opened again
for discussion.
The president informed several Boston
gents to-day that he did not think there
| was any doubt but be should visit their
/ city in June. He should make sea
voyage, he said, and not proceed by rail.
The country over seems TO be infected
| with common desire to become the
| head Of whatever designs of a pioneer
| character that the government may
| have in contemplation for the territory
of Russian America. Countless offers
have already been received at the state
department from well-knOwn savans
| offering their leadership to any expedi.
! ton that may be formed. 1t is under
stood that no enterprise Of this character
is deemed desirable by Secretary Seward
before another summer, when, if possi-
/ bic, the aid and conduct of the distin-
| guished naturalist and traveller, Profes.
sor Agsssiz, viii be sought.
The completeness with which congress
| has shorn the president OF any interest
or authority in certain local offices of this
district, is best exemplified by the man
ner in which the executives endorse
ment Of applicant papers are received
now days. Among those ineumbents,
whose official creation has been trans
| ferred to congress, a printer, known to
Mr.. johnson, during the latters's career
in Tennessee, to-day, presented a letter to
Mr.. Defrees, public printer, in which his
eNcelSucg Neulueu the earnest nope
that a place would be made in the
department for the bearer, faithful
typo and an old friend. The response to
this presentation upon the part of De-
frees was sharply Indicative that he
owed nothing TO the president beyond q
removal which congress had counter
changed, and that no Endorsement from
the white house could have any weight
| in influencing an addition to or subtrac-
ton from the list Of employees engaged
in the Office Of public printing.
Gen. Butler has indicated these several
days past that he has yet in reserve his
strongest card against Mr. Bingham's
conduct Of the conspiracy trial. It il
supposed it relates more particularly to
certain notes and data derived from Mr..
John I. Ford, the proprietor of the
theatre wherein President Lincoln met
his death, and who, it VIII be remember
ed, was imprisoned for six weeks in the
old capitol with score )r more Of per
sons, arrested upon suspicion of COM
plicity. The conversations and general
communication had among these prison.
eFs, together with the aifrighted utter
ances of the government witness WEIGH.
man, then also under d1'ress, are said tC
have made up important conversations
affecting the theory of the guilt and in
nOcence; all of which Mr.. Ford had
committed to diary and now submits
to the keeping OF Butler.