The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-22

ana Means Commi,tee. No change was made IN IL
whatever. 1t Is generally thought that 1t viii not
pass the Senate and ,ts friends are fearful that the
Whole subject will 40 over until next session.
Session OF the Cabinet.
The Cabinet session was attended to-day by all the
members, including Mr. Evarts, the new Attorney
General
The New Attorney General.
secretary Browning, who has been performing the
dntes OF Attorney General SINCE the resignation OF
MIR. Stanbery has turned over the entire business
to Mr.. Evarts. Mr.. Evarts was visited ths morning
at his office by large number OF distinguished ind
yiduals including several Senators and members
OF Congress, who called TO pay their respects
Cnrpet-Bnggers.
The carpet-baggers still pouring in. Every day,
it seems, new delegation is heard humping at the
doors OF Congress Tor admission. Alabama to-day
was restored to her representation The appearance
presented by the floor of the House is now quite
striking The outer semicircle Of seats occupied
by the carpet-baggersl almost exclusively, who
pletely invest the trunk members within. There
does not as yet seem to be much affilaton between
these two elements. or the five members to-day
sworn In we learn the following as to their past
careers:-
q. W. Buckley, who halls from the Second district,
was born in Otseco county, N. w. in 1885, When he was
quite young he emgrated to the West and graduated
at BelOit College, Wisconsin. He afterwards entered
Union Theological Seminary and was ordained
Presbyterian clergyman in New York city. During
the war he served as chaplain IN one OF the New
York regiments. Being discharged from the army
he was employed IN the Freedmen's Bureau in Ala
bama, having gone there in 1855.
Benjamin w. Norris represents the Third district
He was born in Maine In 1919. and graduated at
Waterville College and then studied law. During
the war he connected with the Pay Department
of the United States Army At the close of the war
he was attached to the Freedmen's Bureau in Ala
bama and is the owner Of an extensive plantation
In that State.
c. W. Pierce is from the Fourth district He is a
pative OF New York and was born in 1923. In 1S47
he moved to Ohio When the war broke out he en-
tered the Eighty-nfth Illinois volunteers as lieu
tenant. He settled in Alabama In 1857
John B. Calls represents the Fifth district. He
was born in North Carolina in 1928. He emigrated
to Tennessee in 1s41, and from thence went to Wis
consin. At the commencement of the war he en-
tered the Seventh Wisconsin regiment as captain
and rose to the rank Of brigadier general. He went
to Alabama in 1885, and at the close of the war he re-
ceved commission as captain in the Forty-fourth
regular infantry, which commission he still holds.
Thomas Haughey, who represents the Sixth dis
trict, was born in Scotland in 1926 He emgraed to
Alabama when fourteen years old, studied medicine
and practsed his profession until the breaking out
OF the war. He was surgeon IN the federal army
and at the close OF the returned to Alabama and
resumed the practice of medicine
When these gentlemen presented themselves at the
Speakers stand to be sworn considerable interest
and amusement was excited by a cOlloquy between
Mr. Dawes, the chairman of the Committee on Elec-
tions, and Mr.. Brooks, OF New York. Brooks, who,
according to Mr. Dawes, always gets OF speech on
mel cosfn taI
bama being sworn In, because he said, they were
not citizens Of the State and had been elected by
he people. One OF them he said, was from Maine.
Dawes inquired where Brooks was FROM
The latter replied sharply that he born in Maine,
nut that when he left the State, many years ago, he
,ame to New York with trunk
This hit at the carpet-baggers created great
aughter among the democrats, and the republicans
manifested their disgust by calling Brooks to order.
The latter Is already Familiarity known among the
oarpet-bagge as trunk member Ross, OF ILL.,
nois, who Is democrat, and who has a tendency TO
be witty on such occasions, walked down the aisle
to where the Alabama members were standing and
looking deliberately at Mr. Pierce, who formerly lived
in Illinois, said he was constituent OF his and he
yoald not object to him. During all this time the
;arpe.-baggers stood amazed and embarrassed I'M
der the gaze of the spectators In the galleries and
the insinuations Of Brooks as to their places OF
birth. When they were finally sworn in they retired,
greatly relieved to their seats in the rear Of the Hail.
Mr. Kellogg, the only remaining member to be
sworn in from Alabama has not yet arrived in this
city.
Consistency Of Leading Radicals.
proposition was made In both houses OF Con-
gress to-day which may be taken as a fair specimen
Of the consistency OF some Of the leading
radicals in their schemes of economy. Hav.
ing already, f"r political claptrap purposes,
reduced the public appropriations, particularly
in the case Of salaries OF clerks and at the same
time squandered thousands on various jobs 1t was
to pay the carpetbag delegations from the
beginning OF the present Congress to March T. $780,
which would amount to $1,000 for each Senator or
Representative already admitted or who may sub
sequently appear for admission. The proximity of
the elections and the stir raised by the democrats
over this unparalleled exhibition Of economy &C
cording TO the ancient Spigot and Bunghole maxim
led to modification Of the resolution to give
the persons In question pay from the date Of their
election. Some OF the carpetbaggers are consider
ably exercised at this lack Of gratitude OH the part of
Congress-
The Distribution Of Arms South.
II appears the action Of the Senate yesterday In
reference to the distribution OF arms to the States of
the South received by the democrats inimcal
their interests and, having failed to secure the
defeat OF this provision of the Army bill, declare
that the President would oppose such measures to
the utmost limits Of his power
The Mississippi Northumberland Gillcm's
Report Thereon.
General Gillem has submitted TO General Grant the
report OF his action regards the condition of Mis-
sssippi under the Reconstruction acts. He states
the result ofhe late electon:-For the constitution
So 23i against IT, eS,soo; being majority against the
constitution of 1929. General Gillem says
As II generally the case IN elections, fraud is
charged by both parties. All reports and complaints
bearing on the subject herewith transmitted for
the consideration OF the proper authorities merely
remarking that am satisfied the election fair
aud free from intimidation or the influence of fraud
as II would be possible to effect under existing cir
cumstences, and that no undue influence was exer-
cised at the polls. II intimidation used at all it
was beyond the power Of the military to reach
IL. As the defeat OF the constitution renders
II possible that the state may for a time
remain under military control consider IL my duty
TO call attention to the almost impossibity Of find