The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-11
l2Y TELEGRAPH.
. IashIngton News and GossIp.

w .s JUNCTION, March l0-A prominent |
eoroto, has received positive information |
from ria, zee Southern States, that they will |
inmadiat. ely proceed to organize State Gov |
ernments 'nder the Military Bill, and 1t Is |
nov, cnntid, ntly asserted that all Southern !
States viii h, organized under its provls-
IONS. and be a, limited 10 their former rels-
tions by the lst OF January.
General Butle, will tomorrow offer In
the House resol ution instructng the JHi-
dietary Committee TO inquire whether a
civil officer can holt office, or must be sus-
A New Orleans disp atch says the Louisi-
! ana House of Represen tatives has concur
red i'm the Senate resolution appointing
! committee to protest against the Recon-
struction Bill of Mr. sherman.
Mayor Monroe, the Lieutenant Governor
and others, had an Interview with General
Sheridan regarding the rights of negroes
to vote at an election, when they were In
formed that if negroes did not vote the
election would be null. A bill was imme-
diately passed in the House postponing the
DR. roposed election.
Another despatch. on the 10th, says:
Trouble being apprehended In case the
municipal election is allowed to be held on
Monday, General Sheridan has asissued orders
that no polls be opened on that day, and
that the election be postponed until the
District Commander under the law Is APP
pointed, or special instruction are received
covering the case.
A. + Lee, the Treasury clerk,who abb
seconded with $38,000 in Treasury bonds
has been brought to Washington and made
full confession, averring that the theft
was not premeditated. but had been drink
ing when he committed it. All the money
was recovered except $500.
At the rate the nominations come in from
the President, IL will take month for the
to raf NnQFIV
the Democrats are rejected, and the Presl-
dent saws that he thinks it is fair to send In
d half Democrats and half Republicans, 50
+ long as his Democratic nominations are
o. first class men.
IS An effort is being made to call caucus
Ne of the Republican members of the House td
agree to a resolution that the judiciary
10 Committee be discharged from the further
consideration of the impeachment investl-
cation. This course Is advised by leading
e. Radical Senators. Bingham has made 9
of dead set after Beast Butler, and lively
IA time Is pending.
'u In the Senate the bill appropriatinl
re S2OOOO for the expenses OF a commission
to negotiate with the Indians was passed
in A Joint resolution was also passed apprO
priating $l.OO0.000 for the relief of the des
wv titute people of the South and Southwest
OF of any and all classes, to be expended unde
ut the superintendence Of the Commissions
OF the Freedmen's Bureau, in supplies o
l.. food.
nc Two items in the army appropriation &C
as $l39,625 for the Arsenal at Columbus, ONO
on and Sl69625 for one at indianapolis
to The French Minister, under date of Paris
February 10, writes to Secretary Sewar
that there is an expression of much goo
he feeling toward the United States, and tina
as there is an announcement of the abandon
49, ment of the Mexican enterprise.
'N The adjournment has been generally can
'ge Vassed among members and Senators tc
at day, and there seems TO be no prospect {
an immediate agreement as to when the r.
- cess shall be taken, or on what tlme. rol
Io- gfess shall meet again. Most all OF u
de- Senators favor recess as soon as the exc
utive business is disposed of, until Noven
in Der, but the House looks upon that procee
ing as the virtual abandonment of the In
gla peachment question.
ere The House Judiciary Committee had
long meeting to-day, and took the eviden
-, of several witnesses on impeachment. Son
VI of them were from New Orleans, and,
ana far as can be ascertained, their testimoI
} or related to the granting of pardons.
inc 1t appears by an act made public to-da
20 that the salaries the United States Judg
en- for Western Pennsylvania, Northern III
tied nois and Southern Ohio Districts were /
creased to $4,000 year.
,irs Four dead bodies have been recover
o.. from the ruins of the late fire in Washin
hiS' ton.