The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-08-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

CHlcAao, Aug Il.
A Washington special says: The announce.
ment that ex-Gov. .Andrsws Of Mass, will
be appointed Secretary Of War is generally
discredited Sensationists are full Of stories
Of other suspensions Of other prominet Oh.
cials. An evening paper goes 20 fur AZ TO state
that IN order will be issued to- morrow sus,
pending Judge Advocate Holt. / have aus
thority for contradicting this. Judge Holt
IL regular army officer, and Gil that the
President can do is to transfer him to other
duties in the army. Official authority Is given
thst neither Secretary Randall or McCnlloch
has announced his intention Of resigning, nor
has Secretary Seward made any intination
conversation outside in sustaining Secretary
Stanton has generally led to the belief that
is~ s'sa.
TlD<H1alds Washington despatch says:
The - step towards the development Of
the now liberal policy for Southern recon
strucsion vas brought forward IN The Cabine.
yesterday and Grant promptly favored it. II
is believed by the President that reconstruc-
ton can 20 on without abohshing every trace
Of civil governments in matters Of local leg.
islation, not opposing the theory Of recon-
struction. Il is considered that the State
Legislatures should be allowed to have their
own way. The nav order to General Sickles,
| therefore, is the result of these views and
| may be regarded as the FIRST check to des
po,ic administration in the South.
Since the suspension Of Stanton it is be.
| lievsd bS some that Gen. Sickles will resign,
but others assert that he wont.
The policy towards the Military Com
manderS will be one Of gradual decapitation.
Sheridan will probably be the 6rst victim,
and Pope next. Should those Of the other
commands profit By the fate Of these two and
fall gracefully in with the Johnsonian policy,
they will be allowed to remain in Office for .
long time, and may not be selected at Ill il
their support il given heartily and in real
earnest; but if, whom Sheridan il removed,
the rest under their resignAtions no obstacle
will Be thrown in the way of their retirement.
not contemplate making any changes in the
officers at the War Department office, but
some few changes may be looked for among
the officers in the different Bureaus of De-
paftments.
The Times Washington special says That
all important questions relative to the army
srs 70 be referred TO Gen. Grant, who looks
upon his assignment to the War Department
% military order, which he had no right
even4o protest against or decline rigning. A
fun understanding exists between Grant and
Stanton, and the present position of Grant
cannot be accepted as an indication that he
has changed his views regarding rcconstruc
ton.
1t ia asserted that the attempt to have Holt
removed is prompted by the desire Of certain
parties in New York to obtain possession Of
The records Of his Office, embracing affidavits
inculpating politicians with ex-rebels. Some
Of these afidavita, asserting that q member Of
Congress vas in league With Sanford Conover,
viii hood b made public.
A bill i being prepared by prominent loyal
men in the South to enforce the present CON-
6scation laws, and 20 modify them as TO re>
survey al Of the seeded States in the same
msn1qEas public lands are surveyed, and to
grad e.emption rights to the freedmen and
soldx& Three hundred million dollars of
the proceeds arising from the sales are to be
used 10 reimbursing loyal men for property
destroyed spd conlscstej hY tAe Eopfedera.s
Govsrnnsnt, and the balance Will be set aside
for paying pensions to disabled Union SOL
diers.
WARRINGTON, August IA.
II is certain that to>day an order wasissued
by direction Of the President, through Gen.
Grant, addressed to MAJOR General Shields,
instrncuDg him that no order can be proper
" issseA and enforced tnst j. ia oonAiot With
The oeSkts' III ths United States. This res
yokes Gen. Sickles' order No. TO-