The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-03
THIRD EDITION
FROM WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO EVENING TELEGRAPH.I
WASHINGTON, April 3.
: Extraordinary Session Of the Senate.
Directly after prayer and reading yesterdays
journal, the senate went into Executive session.
The Southern Relief Fund.
The Joint resolution for the relief of the desti-
tute i'm the Southern and Southwestern States
does not contain a specific appropriation OF
SlOCO.OCO, as originally proposed, but was passed
That the Secretary OF War be and hereby
is empowered and directed to issue supplies
Of food sufficient TO prevent starvation
and extreme want to any and all
classes of destitute or helpless persons
western States where failure of the crops and
other causes have occasioned wide spread des-
titution; that the issues be made through the
Freedmen's Bureau, under such regulations as
the Secretary of War shall prescribe, and to
that end the Secretary Of War is hereby authOs
rized and directed, through the Commissioner
of the Freedmen's Bureau, TO apply SO much as
he may deem necessary for the purposes afore-
said, of uneXpended moneys heretofore apprO-
priated TO supply freedmen and refugees with
provisions or rat1ons.
Provided that the expenditure shall not eK-
tend beyond the present appropriation already
made for the Freedmen's Bureau.
The Currency.
Mr.. McCulloch's policy is not to contract the
volume of currency fo- the present.
Democratic Advice.
The Iptelii0encer this morning calls on the
South to reject reconstruction under the Con-
gressiona1 act, and wait for more Democratic
The Test Question.
The Southern leaders in the Injunction mat
ter confess they have little nope that the Su-
preme Court VIII grant their prayer.
Opposition to Testing the Constellation
Rlity Ofthe Military Bill.
Judge Wiley p, Harris, Colonel d. Q. Glenn.
General j. r.. Chambers, and other leading Mis-
slsSippians, oppose the scheme of Judge Shar-
key TO commence suit in the Supreme Court,
in the name of that State, against the Military
Reconstruction measure. President Johnson
openly repudiates having encouraged this legal
The New York whisky Frauds.
Internal revenue agents at New York report
that they have at last d discovered the manner in
which the whisky distillers have been defraud-
issues of transportation, under which liquor
has been removed from bonded warehouses
without having paid any duty.
Celebration.
The colored population here intend to have
a gran d procession on the 10th, the anniversary
Of the emancipation OF slaves in this District.
The Supreme Court on Reconstruction.
The Supreme Court will refuse to grant an
Reconstruction act. The Southern leaders en-
gagged in this movement have no hope of sue
Retiring the Greenbacks.
1t is three months since Secretary McCulloch
has retired any greenbacks and 1t is not his in
tention TO make use-of his power in this respect
| during the coming summer, unless wild specu-
| lation should be INDUCED in TO danGeronS
| extent at the commercial centres.
Trial OF Surratt.
| Surratt will not be tried until the next term
| OF the Criminal Court, but District Attorney
| Darlington is still actively engaged in procur-
| ing testimony. Several of those summoned
| here as witnesses, however, have been told,
| alter having been examined. that he would not
| REQUIRE them in Court. The prisoner is fre-
| quently visited by his brother and sister.
Going to Rome.
! Archbishop Spalding OF this diocese, will
| leave in a few days on visit TO Rome, and the
| cornerstone OF st. Patrick Catholic Cathedral
| will not be laid until his return.
Local Politics,
Delegates from the Republican association,
had meeting last night to select candidates
| for the coming municipal election. The coloreC
| delegates, who represented large majority O
the voters, were very orderly, but the white,
attempted to introduce offensive resolutions