New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-25
dispatches to the Associated Press.
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WAsHINGToN, April 24.-Just before the
Senate adjourned the Presidents secretary
arrived with number of messages, I'm.
medtately after adjournment an excited
crowd gathered around the messages
which were opened amid much apparent
anxiety, showing that the Presidents ae-
tiOns are still regarded of some moment.
The President withdrew the nomination of
Mr.. Ewing and nominated J. H. Schofeld
Secretary of War, vice Stanton, to be re.
moved.
General Grant has issued an order in.
structing commanding generals of the mill
tary districts comprising the States of Vir-
gtnia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou.
isiana, and Texas that all vessels arriving at
ports within their commands from poEts in
tected with yellow fever, cholera, or other
epidemic disease, but having had no case
during their passage, be quarantined for
fifteen days and thoroughly fumigated.
A short Cabinet session was held to-day,
at which all were present.
Customs receipts for the week ending
18th, So l4l, 900.
Mr.. Nelson spoke all day, and kept the
Senators and galleries well seated and inter.
ested throughout, attention becoming closer
as the effort drew to a close. Points were
well made, and in some instances startling.
Groesbeck speaks tomorrow. The end will
AOb DS AGdSACu uhNlGI tWO NtEkbs A B0luAeQ
part Of Judge Nelson's speech duplicates
four Of the managers in the Alta Vela affair,
which interrupted the relations between
the President and Judge Black.
Mr.. Nelson continued, quoting Mr.. Bout.
well, that the advice of cabinet officersEWas
that of serfs to their lord. Mr.. Nelson re.
minded the managers that they had put in
evidence message which showed that their
friend Mr.. Stanton had proffered the advice
thus characterized. Mr., Nelson proceeded to
consider the charges separately. He main
tained three propOsitions-that the
tenure of office bill was not valid; that
Mr.. Stanton was not covered by it, and that
even if valid and covering Mr., Slant lns case
the President was not guilty of crime, be-.
cause he acted from laudable motive.
Judge Nelson sustained the Presidents
power to make removals by great number
of quotations from laws, debates, and opin-
ions of Judges, and acts of JOhnson's pre-
decessors. Judge Nelson discussed the
peculiar relations between the President
and the Attorney General established BY the
constitution and elaborated by the laws.
The legal opinion of the Attorney General
must have the weight of judicial decision
in guiding the President, who is often un.
skilled in the law and without leisure to
examine the bearings of acts of Congress.
Mr.. Nelson quoted Jefferson and Jackson,
both Of whom went beyond Mr.. johnson in
claiming the right to disregard laws which
they deemed unconstitutional.
Mr.. Nelson's defense of the Presidents
freedom is regarded as very happy. The
speech occupied seven hours in delivery.
The Arkansas Congressional delegation
has arrived. Nothing has transpired indi.
eating how Congress will dispose Of their
credentials.
BY mail from Kingston, Jamaica, it is
learned that small pOX prevailed at Montego
bay and Falmouth. No clear bills were
given to vessels from either port. There
had been few fatal cases at Kingston, and
great many cases of typhoid fever.
Special kilograms from St. Domingo and
West st. Thomas report that General Bae2
was expected in st. Thomas on the twenty
sixth.
A Jew banker had agreed to loan the
Baez government 100000, according to the
report, provided the payment could be
| guaranteed by the United States.
An anti.Baez revolution had already
broken out.
The American ship Alice Ball had sailed
| from st. Thomas for Peru pursued by Q
| Spanish man of war.
A Mexican special to the Herald via Ha
Vana has adVices from Ssal to the 10th.
| Governor Ancora had arrived at that port
! in the steamer Tehasco. Elections had
| commenced. As his first official act he sus
| pended the dictatOrial clauses of amnesty
as inconsistent with free election. Nine
foreigners had been imprisoned for CompH
city in the late disturbances. Another rev
olution was imminent. Alatorre was to
leave the peninsula.
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