New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-19
WASHINGTON.

HOWARD AND GREGORY TO BE MUSTERED
OUT-SPEAKER COLFAX AND HIS COMMIT
TEEs--GEN. sCHENCK's ARMY PAY BILL
THE ADDRESS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA
ANTI RECONsTRUCTIoNIsTs. -.
By TaLEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE
WAsHYGros, Monday, Nov 49, 1867
The House Judiciary Committee was in session
this morning at the Capitol, all the members being
present except Mr. Woodbridge of Vermont. 1t was
intended to take the sense of the Committee to-day
on the supplementary impeachment testimony, but
on account of the absence of Mr.. Woodbridge the
question was postponed until that gentemans
arrival. Among the witnesses before the Committee
to-day was Coye of The Iptelgencer who it is under
stood was examined on the distribution and sale Of
| Offices on which subject some valuable testimony
was elected. The Committee intend TO probe this
matter to the bottom and to that end other parties
holding intimate relations with the President will DO
summoned There is no truth in the reports sent
from this city that Gen. Grant is to be recalled by
! the Committee
The President il is said, intends in few days to
direct Gen. Grant to cause to be mustered out Oh
| the service as Major-Generals Of Volunteers Gen.
Howard and Gen. Gregory, both of the Freedmen's
Bureau The latter is full Brigadicr and Brevet-
Najor-General Gen. Howard will still hold his posi-
ton in the Regular Army hut Gen. Gregory goes out
of the service altogether.
Speaker Colfax arrived here this evening. He
states that all paragraphs that have been published
concerning the formation of the Committees Of the
House are mere speculation. The Speaker has
lected all the Committees, but he has communicated
nothing about the same to any outsiders.
Gen. Schenck intends at an early day in the coming
session to revive his Army Pay BILL which passed the
House last Winter but failed in the Senate. The
chief features of the bill that it reduces to
stated salary all the various allowances and commu-
tations that now make up officers compensation.
and gives the largest pay to officers serving in the
| field with troops Under the present system an OIL
Ger doing a clerks duty in Washington gets about
third more than one risking his life in fighting In
dams on the Plains.
The article published in The National Intcltgeacer.
arguing the unconsttutionality of additional SEES
sons of Congress, written by law clerk in ono
of the departments in this city, not the Attorney
Generals office, and his name is only withheld from
motives of delicacy, and at the suggestion OF the
author The soundness of his legal opinions is not
| questioned here.
There is no prospect of another trial Of John II.
Surratt 1t may possibly take place, however. ia
January or February next.
1t is ascertaned from official source that Jefer-
son Davis will be tried on the Indictment now pend
| ing.
The latest Southern papers received at THE
TRIBUNE's Bureau contain the address of the Con-
servative Convention of South Carolina The docu-
ment which is about three columns in length, says
We therefore, feeling the responsibility of the subject
and the OCCASION enter our most solemn protest against
the policy OF investing the negro with political rghts
The black man Is what Cod and NATURE ana eirc.
with those important rights no fault OF his but the
exercise the highest functions the citizen The Gov
eminent Of the country should not be permitted 70 pass
from the hands OF the white man INTO the hands OF ths
negro The enforcement Of the Reconstruction acts by
military under the gnlse OF negro voters ana negro
ment in South Carolina Il may for time hold in
subsection quasi civil Government, backed by NIL
ary force but IL do more. AS citizens OF tho
United States should not consent to live under negro
supremacy nor should we sc4ulesese ~ ~ negro sqgs
and blood in this country do protest against ths
Of the great social law m aoT
the yirtuous, the educated, and the refined
In reference to negro juries it argues:
Think you that when the great masters Of the Common
Law of England pronounced their eneoniums upon the
by jury that they contemplated for moment such
bat when the trainers Of the Constitution Of the United
States incorporated into that instrument the provision
they Intended TO engaft upon such enorny as ne
gro uymen fresh from the cotton and rice fields Of the
South Think you that when John Rutledge and his IL
ustrous compeers signed that instrument on the part OK
South Carolina that they intended to forge chain Which,
drag their grandchildren who were then playing around
1 Talk Of additional SftSS hunstiOS Talk Of
The Government Of the United States has enforced
against the Southern people the most stupendous act OF
conscaon that has been enforced ia the history OF
nations Their property in slaves has been to
the amount 5000 10000 Other personal propery-in
has been captured or DESTROYED 20 the value OF 5000
100000 and from these causes their land has deterlorated
e. the extent OF ON-makng IN the aggregate
| the enormous sum OF s5OOO,OOOOOo.
| 1t concludes as follows:
What do reconstruction acts propose not
equality merely, but negro supremacy. In the namo
then OF humanity both in the name of citizen
ship under the Constitution, in the name Of common
history in the past in the name OF our AngoSaxon race
blood In the OF the civilization OF the nine
teenth century in the name OF nagnanimity ana the
noble instincts OF manhood, in the name Of God and
Nature, protest against these acts as destructive 70
the peace OF society," the prosperity OF the country anu
peope of the South are poweress to avert the Impending
ruin We have been overborne, and the responsibility to
posterty aud to the world has passed into other hands
Brevet Major-Gen. Barry has been assigned by
! Gen. Grant to the command of the post of Fortress
Monroe and of the artillery school of practice which
has recently been established there by the Secretary
of War. Gen. Barry was identified with the artil-
lery during the war; having organized the whole ar
| tillery of the Army of the Potomac, and Of Gen.
| Shermans Army of the West.
| The Commissioner of Patents viii issue Sl3 new
patents for the week ending Friday next, the 10th
inst. During the past week 175 applications and %
| caveats were filed.
The President has recognized Juan Bautista Abello
rs Consul General of the United States Of Colombia
| for the United States, to reside at NewYo
| Secretary Welles is still improving in health.
though he is not yet able to leave his bed.
Members of Congress continue to arrive, and there
is prospect of full attendance IN both Houses on
the first day of the session.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUTS CRUISE.
HIS VISIT TO PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND.
| WASHINGTON Monday, Nov. IS.