The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-12
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News Items.


WASHINGTON, April 11.-The Pre-.
sldent's illness will probably prolonp
the Senatorial session.
The Georgia petition is signed by
Messrs. Black, Brent, Cowan and
O'Conor, with certificate of the
georgia Governor attached. 1t prays
an Injunction against Stanton, Grant
and Pope. The proceedings in the
court tomorrow, is looked for with
intense anxiety. Some New York
papers have made arrangements for
verbatim reports of the argument.
The proof of Georgia's petition was
read last night by Charles O'Conor,
who probably wrote it.
The amount paid for Russian Ame-
Tica was 81, 200, 900, and not $40, ,OOO,-
600, as reported.
The following papers have been
named by the Clerk of the House as
Official organs: Republican Tribune
and Iliad, New Orleans; Meridian
Chronicle and Vicksburg Republican,
Mississippi; Little Rock Republican,
Arkansas. Two in Florida, two in
South Carolina and one in Texas have
not yet been named.
Rousseau has been finally confirmed
q Brigadier- General.
Charles O'Connor, in the Supreme
Court, to-day, asked leave to hand to
the Clerk of the Court the petition of
the State of Georgia, which, to-mor-
row, he intends to ask leave to file.
The Court said he could do so. At
torney- General Stanberry said this
petition differed from that of Missis-
sippi; in fact, that the President was
not made party in the Injunction;
and further stated that Stanton, in
behalf of the military authority, had
requested him to take entire control
of the defence. The Court was re-
quested, but declined to take the order
as to the arrangement for arguing this
question; it is probable, however, that
the motion to file two petitions will be
Jointly argued.
In the Senate, resolution was in
troduced calling on the President for
any legal opinions officially given him
regarding the tenure of Office bill:
passed. Resolutions fixing the day
for adjournment occasioned charac-
terlstlc debate, and developed the
fact that the Senate is willing to
divide the offices-half radicals and
half Democrats; but the President is
firm in his determination to adhere
to his friends. In reply to the argu-
ment that unless the President Weld
ed, during the recess, of placing
persons in Office Objectionable to the
Senate, he should be put out of the
way in July, Fessenden replied that
the President, equally with the Sc
nate, was part of the Government,
and might, with equal propriety,
threaten to put the Senate out of the
way unless it accepted his measures.
The whole question was indefinitely
postponed.
Applications from 153 former
United States officers, 81 members of
Congress and 1O4 prominent Con-
federate officers are on file in the
Attorney Generals Office for pardon.
1t is said the President has legal
advice of his right-the Senate fail
ing to confirm his nominations
I'LL Offices vacated previously to the
passage of the tenure of Office bill.
NEW YORK, April ia despatch
was received to-day by James M.
Brown, Treasurer OF the Famine Re-
lief Commission, from San Francisco,
which says: The San Francisco Fa-
mine Relief Commission will send
You in few days, by transfer,
$50, 600 in gold, to assist in relieving
the suffering ut the South.
The death penalty has been re-
stored in Michigan.