Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-02-13
Washington News.
WASHINGTON, Feb. II.

II is understood that the. Secretary OF
the Treasuryi is about to sell a considerable
amount of gold in order to meet the re-
QUESTIONS upon the Department Last
month he was compelled TO sell 1910 bonds
for the same purpose. There are now ten
millions in gold in the Treasury which
the Secretary can afford TO dispose Of
without embarrassing his payment.of the
March interest on gold securities. The
order to sell will probably be given to-day
but exactly how much viii be sold is not
known.
Some of the newspapers are insisting
that the supreme court OF the United
States has dismissed the McArdle case
The opinion which was delivered yester-
day. was in support of the order hereto
fore made, dismissing for want OF political
jurisdiction the Georgia and Mississippi
bills fled al the December term of 1866
praying for the interposition of the court
to restrain the military authorities from
carving into execution certain parts OF
the reconstruction act The court has not
vet pronounced an opinion on the motion
to dismiss the McArdle case for want OF
Jurisdiction Yestarday, after the Georgia
and Mississippi cases had been disposed
Of, Judge Black filed new bill in behalf
Of the State OF Georgia against Generals
Grant, Meade and Ruggles ct al. 1t is
understood that the bill seeks to avoid all
the difficulties encountered in the former
argument, and raises distinctly question
of property, TO wit the Treasury of the
State of Georgia, an injunction to protect
this is prayed for The time of hearing
the argument is not yet determined upon,
President Johnson's last letter to Gen.
Grant. together with letters from Secretary
Seward, Wells, McCulloch and Browning
and Postmaster-General Randall sustain
ing Mr.. JohnSon's stetements regarding
Gen, Grant have just been read in the
House. There is nothing new in the
Presidents rcjoinder. He merely reiter-
ates his former statements and argues the
points against Gen. Grant. The letters
from Abe Cybinet officers are long and for
the most part restatements of what has
already been published, concerning what
took plrce in the Cabinet meeting on the
Tuesday after Mr.. Stanton was reinstated.
They all agree substantially upon the
statements made by the President, which
have appeared in print. The reading OF
the various letters was received with
much laughter on the Republican side OF
the House. When Mr.. Wells letter was
read the Speaker was obliged to call the
House to order so great was the rherri-
ment among the members There was
also much laughter over the Seward let
ter, which is extremely diplomatic. He
says he did not understand Gen. Grant to
admit the charges Of duplicity made
against him by the President. Nor did
he think Gen. Grant directly denied
them. Altogether his memory is at fault
as to What took place on the occasion I;
still he thinks Mr. Johnson's theory is IN
the main correct. When the reading was
finished Mr. Bingham moved to refer the
correspondence to the reconstruction COM
mittce.
Gen. Logan said he understood there
was reply to this letter from Gen. Grant
and he wunted to know if the President
had furnished it. The Speaker replied
that he had not. Gen. Logan. said there
was reply from Gen. Grant, and he
moved that the President be called upon
to furnish it TO the House. This was
agreed to and the entire correspondence
was ordered to be printed together and
referred to the committee on reconstruc-
ton.
A full meeting of the reconstruction
committee was held to-day, at which the
names of several ex-rebels were presented
in petitions for the removal of political
disabilities, incurred in participating il
the rebellion. No action was taken il
their case. The demonstration com
mittee was also in session this morning
The examination Of J. B. Stillson was con-
cluded. The committee asked him to
produce the original memoranda OF the
conversation between himself and the
President. but at first he refused III
nally after taking the advice OF several
LAWYERS n the shbject he cons5nte