Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-06
ALEXANDRIA
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER s.

meneed In the House OF Representatives, yes
terday. The Speaker took occasion to an
nounee, thatif during the important debate
about to be entered on, there should be any
manifestations Of approval or %disapproval,
tsuch as had taken place last week, when the
report OF the judiciary Committe was made,)
he would cause the galleries to be cleared. He
knew that this would punish alike the limo
cent and the guilty; but he was determined
that the order Of the House should be main.
tanned, and that proper respect should be paid
to it5by those who witnessed it's proceedings.
The Speaker also stated that if manifestations
we're made by members on the floor, Jas had
been made last week. he would state to the
House the names of members so offending, the
effect of which would be to bring the matter
before the House for such actio on as the House
might see fit to take for contempt of it's rules.
Mr.. Boutwell,, of Mass, took the floor, and by
consent Of the house, had the usual time for
speeches, extended, and spoke until the ad-
journment He recapitulated the views of the
majority Of the Judiciary Committee, and, in
advance, repudiated the project Of suspendipg
the functions of the President pending his trial.
4 he also denounced the dogma that Congress
possessed the power, as an independent prop
s%osition, of censuring the Executive, except in
the way pointed out by the Constitution-that
is, by Impeachment.
The Alabama Reconstruction Convention sp-
pears to give trouble to it's guardians at the
North. A Geographic dispatch from Mont
gomery says; "Mr. Greeley recently wrote to
Senator Wilson to exert his influence to restrain
the Alabama convention from adopting ex-
IRENE measures. Senator Wilson writes to
Gen. Swayne that the policy pursued by the
convention in legislating for divers objects, and
in other ways trapscending their authority, and
the ultra speeches of Bingha II and that class, is
doing great injury to reconstruction and bringing
odium on the Radical party" The Convention
yesterday finally adopted the Constitution
yeas 81, nays 10; absent and not voting, %.
Mr.. Temple, of Montgomery, presented a pro-
test. signed by Is members, some of whom are
absentees. The protest was ordered to be
spread on the journal, but the names of the
absentees who signed it were stricken of. Two
other members gave notice they would present
& protest to-day. Seventeen members in all
have protested against the constitution.
We do not agree with the President or the
administration in regard to the policy of ex-
tension of territory towards the North Pole, or
the purchase of West India islands. We have
territory enough, already; We don't require
Russian America and as for the West Indies,
10 case any of them are wanted or should be
wanted-the time is not no,o. We have never
been believers in an unnecessary expansion OF
the limits Of the country under our govern
ment. We are not ~favorers of a %''boundless
Empsre,"-we prefer a limited Republic of
States. These are all views which the founders
Of our government once held. They are out
OF. fashion now. But, being out of fashion, it
does not follow that they are not correct views.
The National Intelligencer says that, in the
Senate, yesterday, upon a motion to take up a
bill qualifying colored people to fill Offices of
I'll kinds in the District of Columbia, Mr..
Wilson took occasion to announce that the
Radicals did not intend to rece6e a single step
from their position. They would insist upon
perfect equality-civil and political in all the
States, without regard to race OF color. He
admitted a Temporary %faltering' Of the people
in this respect, as he called the result of re-
cent elections, but contended that SO far from
lettering the party from carrying out their
echemes,l the voice of the people, as thus ex-
pressed, had determined them the more peril
a~aeiously TO adhere to their policy"
The Union Pacific Railroad has already re-
duced in point Of time the overland journey to
California, one week. An instance of the val
ne of this saving in time is just annonced. Dis
patches received in New York state that the
mails from China and Japan, which have here
! tofore been sent from San Francisco by sea,
and which have occupied from twenty-five to
twenty-four days in transit from that city to
New York, left the former city by the overland
route Oh the Goth ult., and was due iu that city
yesterday morning, only fifteen days from the
Pacific coast.
Amass meeting was held in New York, at
the Cooper Institute, on Wednesday evening
last, to express q preference for Gen. Grant as
the Republican nominee" for the Presidency.
A.. T. Stewart, presided; Ex-Judge Hill
ton, Cen. Sickles, and Francis B. Cutting, Ly-
man R. Tremaine, and 8. B. Chittenden de-
hvered addresses, setting forth the claims of
Gen. Grant for the Presidency. The greatest
enthusiasm was manifested during the meeting.
The applications for the vacant diplomatic
positions 10 the gift of the Administration are
very numerous and are daily increasing. The