Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-09
LATEST EROM WASHINGTON

Special Dispatch to St. Louis Republican.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The move
ment to test the cOnstitutionality of the
reconstruction act, as foreshadowed in
these dispatches aud Tuesday papers,
was carried out with exactuess Of detail
in the supreme court to-day. The case
viii come up for full argument on Friday
next, aud will last for several days.
Tie most Important seton Of the ex-
ecutiva session of the senate to-day was
the confirmation Of Gen. Rousseau as
brigadier general in the regular army by
a vote OF % to Is. Sumner voted ia the
affirmative with q view to reconsider
which motion ne subsequently entered,
SO the nomination is still pending in the
senate. The Kentucky senators had re-
commended Gen. Robinson for this place,
and Senator Morton, Of Indiana, urged
the appointment Of Gen. Joseph hey
uolds. Of Indiana. 1t is understood,
however, that If MIR. Robinson had been
rejected the president would have nomi-
mated Gea. Sickles for the vacancy.
Senator \ Nesmith, of Oregon, nomina-
ted Yesterday as minister to Austria,
was rejected by the senate almost unaE-
imOusly.
The national democratic committee
II ~
their friends throughout the country on
the result of the Connecticut election.
The senate committee on foreign rela-
tions had another meeting to-day on the
Russian Gession treaty, but came to nc
final con sluslon. 1t is thought that the
committee viii report back to-day 70 the
senate without any communication, but
viii submit it for the action Of the
senate.
1t turns out that one Of the stipula-
tions requires the ratification of the
treaty ia ninety days, which will de-
mand the action OF the present extra
session of the senate in order to enact II
into q legal form. II Is very doubtful i
the requisite two-thirds vote can be OBJ
tanned.
The cabinet meeting to-day was unu'
sually brief, though there was full at
tendance. Important appointments are
no longer considered IN the cabinet
I which relieves 1t OF much of its business
The question of Gen. Sheridanis power
| to remove state and municipal officers
and to appoint civilians instead of mill
I tary men in their place, under the recon
/ struotloa act, has been informally dis
eussed 10y the cabinet, It is considerec
quite certain that there will be no inter
4 ference on the part of the administra
| ton. The reconstruction law will proba
/ bly, be hrst inaugurated in Virginia.
Gen. Sc0field is busily engaged in pre-
pairing boards of registry and naming
/ the place and districts for holding elec
| tions for state conventions under th'
! supplementary bill
The registration so far as completed il
Washington gives the colored voterl
/ 100 majority.
A namber Of New York politician
who have been here for several week
endeavoring to regulate appointments
left for home tonight in a body, thor
oughly disguised and demOralized at th
contest between the president and th,
senate. They despair of ever seeing thu
offices filed.
4 Among the applicants for pardon nov
on file with the pardon clerk in tn
attorney generals office, are ninety
seven rom the ex-U. S. navy officers
The naval service seems to have been tn
favorite with the Nirginians, no less thai
tifty-tgo out of the ninety-seven beinl
from that state.