Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-31
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WAsHINGToS, March 30.-The Presi-
dent to-day issued the following, a copy Of
which was addressed 10 each Senator
Whereas, objects of interest to be adj
judged require that the Senate should be
convened at ~ o'clock on Monday. the
FIRST day Of April next to receive and act
upon such communications as may be made
to il on the part Of the Executive, nov,
therefore, /, Andrew johnson, President
OF the United States, have considered il
to be my duty TO issue this nay proclama-
tioa, declaring that an extraordinary occa-
sion requires the Senate of the United
States to convene for the transaction Of
business at the capitol, in the city of WASH
ington, on Monday, the first day of April
next, at II o'clock N. on that day, of which
all who shall at that time be entitled to act
as members Of that body are hereby re-
quired to take notice.
Given under nv hand and the seal of the
United States, at Washington, the 30th day
of March, in the year of our Lord 1867,
and of the Independence of the United
States the ninety-frst.
[Signed] ANDREW JOHNSON.
BY the President
w. IL. SEWARD, Sec'y State.
Speaker Colfax was in the chair TO day,
his step-father having passed the crisis OF
his disease yesterday, and is now reported
out of danger.
1t is believed that all bills which have
passed the House have become laws by the
Presidents signature.
The Senate to-day confirmed the follow
ing collectors of internal revenue:
Gen. James B. Steadman, Of Ohio, LIST
district of Louisiana.
Assessor of internal reyenue-Calvin w.
McLane, 10th district of Illinois.
Postmasters-Wm Cromwell, Bloom
ington, ILL.,; s. g. Smith, Peru, Ill.
Register Of land ofice-N. Gloss, Hum
| bOldt, Kansas.
Receiver of public monies-Dayid Bere-
ment, Humboldt, Kansas.
To be Colonel of infantTy-Capt. Rain
bold Michigan, corps engineer.
The Senate rejected the following nomi-
nations
To be Brigadier General-Col. James B.
Fay.
Register of land office-Asa Wadsworth,
Tranarse City, Mich.
Postmasters-J. B. Rogers, Verden, H.;
J. c. A. Young Pitchfeld, H.; NJ. G..
Pearce, Elkhart, Ind.
The President communicated to the Sen
ate whilst in executive session, the treaty
with Russia, by which that power surren-
| ders to the United States its sovereignty
oyer all Russian America and the adjacent
islands. 1t especially includes the strip of
four hundred miles long, which extends
down to the coast, thus nearly excluding
| British America from the ocean. The
treaty was laid ON the table, and will be
| taken up at the next weeks executive SEES
sion. 1t creates intense interest among in
! fiuential parties, VINO regard il as significant
of the Russian policy in view of the inn
pending European complications over the
| Eastern question. Russia cedes her Amer
| lean territory for the same reasons that
| induced Napoleon to sell Louisiana. In
the event of war, Russia would probably
lose this territory, and by parting with it
as proposed in the treaty, the Gar secures
the friendship of our government. The
English press is deeply chagrined oyer it,
and it is said that Sir Frederick Bruce will
telegraph to Earl Derby for instructions to
protest against it. The acceptance by the
American government Of this acquisition,
will more than double that of the United
States coast on the Pacific.