New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-02-12
WASHINGTON.

& ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DAVIS TO AN
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sTusFT COX-GEN. HALPINE BEFORE III
svrSTDFNT on THE RIGHTS OF NATURAL
IzED CITIzENs-HANCOCK, J. ROSS BROWNE,
H'CIFLLAN, AND WISEWELL'
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WASHINGTON. Tuesday Feb. IL, 1868
The Noteworthy feature of the proceedings IN the
Uouse today was the reading of the long-talked-ot
reionder of President Johnson 10 Gen. Grants last
letter nresented to the House about week ago.
This letter was accompanied by letters from all the
members of the Cabinet save the Attorney General.
Close attention was paid to Mr.. JOhnsons letter, and
At was received without comment. OF the letters
from the Cabinet Ministers, that OF Secretary "eies
was read first Welless brief but emphatic sanction
Of Johnsons version of the quarrel with Grant oc-
eas;oned derisive laughter among the Republicans.
Secretary McCulochs letter also caused genera
laueb That of Mr.. Seward was the last read ana
the ingenious manner in which it is written created
laughter and sarical comments from all parts OF the
House The whole correspondence seemed 10
fall rather fat ON the members when the
Clerk had finished reading The correspondence was
sent TO the Committee of Reconstruction. Gen.
Grants reply was called for, and the House went
quietly on with the Legislative and Executive appro
priation bill Members did not seem TO care to dis
euss the subject Late in the day Gen. Grants reply
came in from the President. 1t and some accompa-
journment All these topics have been discussed
more or less this evening. AS a matter to be ex-
pected Gen Grants friends claim that he comes out
ahead, while the friends of Mr.. johnson
stiu bet on their Gen. Grants ad
miners boast that this s2--.22Srr22@aenee makes
him next President. while the johnson men
assert that it totally annihates him Gen Grant, as
Presidential candidate. The Presidents letter is
somewhat disappointment to many. They were
led to expect that 1t would be much sharper ana
moro yndictiye and malicious than It's 1t is under
stood that the letter read in the House to-day from
Mr. johnson was not the originally intended for
Grant It has been greatly altered aud toned down
1t the suggestions of Mr.. JohnsOns friends. This
comes from those who know of what they speak
Mr. johnson felt very bitter toward Gen. Grant and
Intended to make his letter rs scathing as
possible, after the style of his speeches on
the swinging around the-cirele trip. The pnnclpal
movers in impeachment are of the opinion that thls
last addition to the correspondence does not help I'M
parchment at all, but rather changes matters. 1he
Presidents letter is viewed as an apology Tor any
supposed violation Of law, in ordering Gen. Grant TO
disobey Secretary Stanton. Altogether the prevail
ing desire is that the thing shall end just where
it is.
In the Senate to-day the proceedings consisted of
three hours speech from Garrett Davis. AS soon as
Mr. Davis had taken the floor his Senatorial brethren
made geeral rush for their hats and the door, and
before he had been speaking Is minutes, he had the
Chamber pretty much to himself He spoke In his
accustomed strain about the Constitution and the
fathers and made most ancient and tsh-Ilke argu-
kent against everything and everybody. He finished
Mt o'clock and then Executive Session was held,
during which Leslie Combs was rejected as United
States Marshal of Kentucky No action was taken
ON the nomination of s. S. Cox as Minister to Aus
tria Ben Wade opposed him in o strong speech and
the indications arc that the Senate will reject him.
The Senate Finance Committee to-day postponed
consideration of Wisewella confirmation for some
time longer. This done at the request OF WISE"
we'll who desires to lay some facts before the Com
soittee on tho charges that have been preferred
against him.
Tho Committee on Foreign Relations to-day con-
sidered the nomination of Mr.. j. Ross Browne, as
Minister to China but reached no conclusion. The
Committee will not act until they have ascertaned
that Mr. Burngame has definitely resigned. The
Danish Treaty was also discussed but not finally
acted on.
Senator Edmunds's Impeachment Proceedings bill
has been under consideration in the Judiciary Com
nttee, and is to be taken up again tomorrow. The
Committee is said to be opposed TO the measure as 1t
stands. and will undoubtedly amend it before re-
porting.
The Special Committee, appointed by the mass
meeting at Cooper Institute the 18th of November
last of Irish soldiers called by the surviving officers
and men of the Irish Brigade and of the COrcOran
Legion, had an interview with President johnson
yesterday, Gen. Frank p Blair, who was not member
of the COMMITTEE, being present. The Committee
presented TO Mr. johnson the resolutions which
adopted at that meeting, and explained that Judge
Charles T.. DAILY Of York, Chairman OF similar
Committee appointed at mass meeting of citizens,
irrespective of race party held in Cooper Institute
ct about the same time the same subject had in
tended TO be present. but was unavodably absent on
account of accident to the train on which he was
coming TO this city. Gen. Hapine Chairman of the
Committee then presented the resolutions adoptedat
the meeting of Irish soldiers and suggested to the
President the following points First: That where
American citizens, some native-bom and some
adopted, had been seized and imprisoned in Ireland
by the British Government without charges trial,
aud without accusers accusation and who had
been held there for Iperods varying from two to 20
months on fare and with treatment of common felons
being finally discharged only under agreement to
omit Ireland Immediately, and being escorted by
armed guards to the deck of an Amercan-bound ship
or steamer Government should be instructed to
make demand in all such cases for exemplary dam
ages. Second: That where American citizens, chiefly
honOraby discharged soldiers of the United States
had been charged with overt acts and tried before
ordinary juries not mixed uries provided by British
law in the of foreigners their rights as Amer
lean citizens being thus forgotten, and the judges
and prosecuting officers for the English Government
declaring that said Government held to the doctrine
Of once citizen, always ctizen" that demand
should be made by the American Government
either for the immediate release of all such prison
ers for their trial again 10y mixed juries--
half of Britons and half of foreigners: and that in