The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-22

the morning hour" in consideration OF
the bin to regulate the tenure of Federal
Offices" From indications, the vote upon
some Of the more Objectionable features will
be very close. The comparatively few ie-
movais from Office by the present Execu-
tive, as shown In the speech of Mr. Cowan
yesterday, has struck everybody With sur
prise. Strange as it may secm-after so
much talk about the matter--the President
has made but about fourhundred removals.
OF these lin consequence Of impositions
known TO have been practiced upon him not
more than three hundred are sincere friends
! lofhis administration. The whole number
Of onice-holders by presidential appoint
ment" Is about twenty-five hundred max
ing the number Of his political enemies in
office stand as twenty-five hundred to three
hundred of his friends.
SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
1t is intimated now that Congress will
! pass a bill ere the close of the session TO en-
| large the Supreme Court by increasing the
number of JUDGES. so rs to have a clear
avail so long as President johnson Temaias
| in Office, because he must necessarily con-
troll the appointment, but il might be Of
considerable Importance if the impeaoh-
ment programme should be carried out
SUMNER BLATHERsKfrING.
To-day Sumner made blatherskiting
Iharangue. on the tenure OF Federal officers,
which, OF course, he dawdled out from an
elaborate manuscript. He modestly charged
| the President with being 'ad enemy TO the
country "an usurper' "the successor of
| t.,F Al.
rebellionn-with "beaStly intOXicatiOn,"
with making maudlin speeches" using
"brutish language of "sellng pardons,"
and long catalogue of crimes and misde-
meanors which, heaverred, were as nothing
compared TO his enormous offence of "fO-
menting the rebel spirit of the South" and
which, he contended, made 1t "the special
duty Of the hour" to take under the protec-
| ton and subject TO the control of the Senate
this army of office holders. His reference
to the duty of the hour" was made
dozen times during his speech.
| At this point he was reminded that in
case of an impeachment he had. by his
violent charges, subjected himself to dis
qualification from acting rs Juror in a
matter he had coniessedly prejudged.
"What chance said one of the Senators
on the Democratic side of the Chamber,
will the Presidenthavc of fair trial before
| a tribunal composed of such members rs
! the Senator from Massachusetts,. and his
peculiar coterie of Radical extremists
SIMON CAMERON.
While Stevens had but six or seven
staunch friends supporting his election. it
| is notorious that the success of the utterly
corrupt Cameron has little response from
the Pennsylvania people. One of the most
talented Radicals of the State-Colonel
McClure-ldtely wrote of the circum-
stance:
All efforts to avert the blistering dis
honor of the election Of Simon Cameron to
the first legislative tribunal of the nation
have proved utterly futile The people be-
lieved that they had precluded the possi-
lbility of such result, for in no single
senatorial or Representative district in the
State does a majority of the Republicans
desire his election. On the contrary, nine
lteen-twentiethS of the faithful men who
have by noble, patriotic effort given vic
tory to our cause, are earnestly, impaca-
bly, opposed to him.
THE SOUTHERN "LoYALIsTs."
Jack Hamilton, of Texas; John Minor
Bolts of Virginia, and dozen others of
that stripe, are'now here urging the i'm
| parchment of the President and the estab-
| lishment of negro suffrage in the South.
They hold frequent consultations with Rad
ical Senators and Representatives in the
lobbies and committee rooms of the Capi-
tol, and their advice is eagerly sought for
in matters of reconstruction. &C., &c.
Leaving out Bolts, it would be difficult to
find more Godforsaken looking set of
wretches on the face of the earth They
are the very type of political and personal
degradation. The negroes of the party
own all the decency there is in it.
THE WHISKY TAX.
The Ways and Means Committee will
soon decide on the proposition to reduce
the tax on whisky to one dollar per gallon.
SO far as | can learn the committee are
about evenly divided on the question of re-
duction.
TIE DEAD DUCK"
FOrney, you know, Is Secretary of the
Senate, as well as leading editor OF those
two estifnrnns Rndical shnnts the Wnsh