The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-07
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washington News and Gossip.

leave for Washington on Friday night.
The total amount Of the public debt on
the lst inst. was S2,543 349,749 &C. or this,
| 81. APO. 1854 80 bears coin interest aud
| Ssl9,672,740 bears currency interest.
The Ways and Means Committee have
voted almost unanimously against any re-
duction of the tax on whisky.
| The President and his friends have go
changed the first section of the reconstruc-
/ tion plan agreed upon few days ago. that
It now simply declares the ORDINANCES Oi
secession in the Southern States null and
void
The recent robbery of the Treasury |
amounts to 100000. The defaulter is said
to have been the clerk named Lee, from New
York.
On Saturday next 1t is expected that the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
J viii decide the case of General Magruder,
| who asks to be permitted to resume the
practice of law in that Court.
| Magruder was in the rebel army, and can
not therefore take the test oath; and ne
claims that under the recent decision in the
Supreme Court of the United States he is
entitled to pursue his profession without
taking the above named oath. This is re-
sisted, singularly enough, by lawyers, who
claim that the decision of the United States
Supreme Court is not binding upon the
District Court in this instance, and the
anomalous and novel legal proposition Is
argued that an inferior Court may revise,
and, If it pleases, disregard the decision ol
a superior and supreme tribunal.
General Joseph S. Bartlett has been nom
, mated for Minister resident at Stockholm,
pSce McGinnis. rejected
A Convention of Tobacconists is now in
! session here, to look after the interests Of
e that product in the tariff bill.
f The following is an extract OF letter
received in this city yesterday by promi-
nent citizen from our State Capital:
MONTGOMERY, January 2S, 1867.
"IntelIigence from Washington Is very
discouraging. Our friends write and tele-
- granh from there that there Is little doubt
, of the impeachment and dismissal OF the
President 1t Is also regarded as certain
' that an act will be passed, providing for a
reconstruction of the State, based upon ne
gro suffrage, with sweeping prescription
i of whites Governor Parsons spoke mere
4, ON Friday last. just before speaking, he
- received a telegram from the President
: stating that an alarming crisis is at hand.
II His speech was tame and he hurried OH 70
Washington by the first train"
# Among the appointments confirmed to-
~ day, by the Senate, were, Consul Morgan
e L Smith at Honolulu; Holland X. Hurl
e burt, Controller of the Currency Thomas
Al O'Brien, Surveyor of Customs at wheeling
- Edward w. Wynkoop, Agent of Upper Ar
'V kansas Indians Colonel BelIja w. Brlce
Pavmaster- general United States Army, Il
l. rank as igadier-general; Alfred hilger
NJ United States Attorney for the District
:, Indiana; John +. Rosett, United state
IL District Attorney for the Southern Distric
. of Illinois. LA. 80
{. Among the recent reflections were Nose
Kelly to be Judge and s. B. Moe, to be U
S. Marshal tor the Northern District o
ns Ohio; also John E. Cummins of the Fourt
r District and Thos. Cunningham, of tn
pf Internal RpVp
at nue..
az The returns received by the Commls
III sioner General of the land office from th
.e, Office at Menoska, Wisconsin, show tina
e. 100000 acres of public lands were dispose
Va of during January
'e Chief Justice Chase and General Gran
SIS gave receptions tonight, which wer
he largely attended.
,ts The receipts for internal revenue to-da
was S6,355715.
The Senate disagreed to the Hous
" amendment to the Tenure of Office Bill, an
lie the subject will have to go to commute
of conference.
The point in dispute is the right of tn
as President TO remove Cabinet officers with
v, out the consent of the Senate. The Hous'
by its action, denies, and the Senate assert
,o this right.
W Mr.. Wilson, from the Military Commit
OF tee, reported the bill providing that fc
~ officers of the army below the rank of MI
Tor General shall be paid an addition
thirty-three and a half per centum TO the
u, present pay proper, and the pay or all mel
in officers and other mounted officers sha
10 hereafter be the same as is now provide
" by law for cavalry officers of like grad
ne The act to increase the pay of soldiers, al
at proved June 20, 1864, is continued in fu
force for three years from the 2Oth of Al
49, gust, 1866.
The same bill authorizes the Secretary
War to sell the Government property
- Harpers Ferry.
Mr.. Stevens, from the Joint Committ
on Reconstruction, reported bill to pr
vide for the more efficient government
the insurrectionary States, by dlyidir
D. them into five military districts, and placil
NJ the military in supreme control. 1t W
iGh pass, by party vote.
Zen The House joint resolution, to extend I
5 Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to claiI
es for quartermaster's stores and subsisten
di, supplies. actually furnished to troops und
Ity Major General Lewis Wallace during I
ri v John Morgan raid into Ohio and Indiana
It = 1863 was passed.
ry The House Joint resolutions, donating
the State of Ohio the buildings, sheds fl
niture, lumber and other property of Car
Chase Ohio, to be used in the erection OF
State asylum for idiots, was passed.
OF the ratification of the constitution
amendment the secretary OF oIaJe Io-u
reported that authentic evidence of su
ratification has been received from 20
of neeticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, oh
ne Vermont West Virginia, Kansas and nj
ire souri,, and that printed copy of jo
resolution ratiying it had been receiV
pCr from New Hampshire.
The appropriations reported for the
dian service, for the next fiscal year, w
so enormous that the House refused tod
To pass them, but recommitted the b
They amount to S2500000.
The special Committee on the murder
M colored soldiers in South Carolina, hei
LAu the evidence of General Sheridan tod
ion on the question of continued military p
esf lection TO freedmen in the South. He {
gh- pressed the opinion that such protect
was still necessary.
The President has already commenced
an fiji some of the vacancies In Ohio, eau
tn by the rejection of his appointments too
lists by the Senate. He appointed james Ley
l3 Assessor in the Ninth District who Is
. Radical.
Collector Harris and Alex. c. Sands
KS, Cincinnati, together with large mum
of Ohio and Indiana politicians arrived
sell day TO look after certain vacancies In
y or EadaroI Officae hpinU created by reject