The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-20
LATER FROM WASHINGTON.
Presidential Homins,ions.


8oectni DeSp ,tch 10 the EUeYsinO 1eLeU1 uph.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-The President tG-da-,
sent the folio wing nominations to the senats:-
EDMUND Cooper, of Tennessee, to be Ccmmls-
sioner of Internal Revenue.
John L. Dawson, OF Pennsylvania, to be
NJ mister to Russia.
W. W. Waite. OF Penusylvsnia, TO be Minister
to Austria.
General John A. McClernand to be Minister
TO Mexico.
General W. s. Rosecrans to be Minister to
Spain.
C. c. Cox, Of Maryland, to be Commissioner
of Pensions.
Judge Foots, of New York, to be Commis.
soner of Patents.
w. P. Wells, of Michigan, to be Assistant
Secretary OF the Treasury.
The Senate Rides Over the VetO,
Immediately after the reading of the Presi.
deIts message, vetoing the Electoral College
bII, the Senate Iepassed the bill over the veto
by a vote Of 35 to 8.
The Carolina Delegations.
Israel G. Lash, member Of the House of Re.
rresentatives, from North Carolina, who was
supposed to be lost, turned up to-day, and was
sworn in. This completes tRe North Carolina
delegation in the House. c. G. Bowen, of South
Carol ma as also sworn in. Que other mem
ber from that State remains to be admitted
He participated IN the Rebellion, aud will have
10 have his political disabilities rene die before
he can be sworn In.
The Electoral College Bill Vetoed.
Despatch to the Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 20.-The President to-day
sent the folio wing message to the Senate:-
To the Senate of the United States, Il have
given TO the joint resolution. entitea "a reso-
luton excluding from the Electoral College the
votes OF States lately in Rebellion, which shall
| not have been reorgaulzed," as careful
| exam ination as l have been able to bestow
upon the subject during the few days that have
mlervened since the measure was submitted for
| my approval. Feeling constrained TO withhold
| my assent, | herewi h return the II solution to
| the Senate, III which House it origlua ed, with
bret statement Of the reasons which have
| induced my acton.
This JOINT re- olution is based upon the as
sumption that some OF the States whose people
| were la ely in Rebellion are not no entitled to
| "repIesenIauOn IN Congress and to participate
| in the election OF President and Vce-President
| OF the United States. Having heretofore had
ion to give in detail my reasous Tor dissent
| ing 1om this view, it is not necessary at this
| time 10 repeat them. 1t is sufficient to state
that continue elropg in my conviction; that
! the acts OF secession by WI ich a pumbe of the
States sought to dissolve their connection with
| the other States, and TO subyert the Uut n,
direct violation thereof, were from the begin
| ming absolutely null ard void.
| II follows, necessarily, that when the Rebel
| lion terminated, the several States which mad
atten pied 10 secede continued to be States in
| the Union, and all that was required to euabie
| them 10 ret ume their relations to the Union was
| that they should adopt measures necessary to
| their practical res oraton as States. Suoh
measures were adoped and the legitimate
| result wasihat those States, having conlormed
| TO all the requirements of the Constitution,
| resumed their former relations, and became
entitled TO the exercise of all the rights guaran-
| teed TO them by Its provisions.
| The joint resolution under consideration, how.
ever, seems to assume that by the insurreetion-
| ary acts OF their respective inhabitants these
| States forfeited their rights as such, and can
| never again exercise them except upon readms-
| zion into the Union on the terms presented Dy
| c. ngress. IL this position be correct it folio VS.
| that they are taken out of the Union oy virtue
| of their acts OF secession, and hence that the
| war Waged UnOn tn IN was illegal and unconsti.
tutional. We would thus be placed In
| the inconsistent attitude that while the
war was commsnced and carried on
| States, beng component parts OF the Union,
we're in rebellion against the lawful authority
| of the United States uOon its termination, we
| resort to policy of reconstruction. which as.
| sumes tbat 1t was in fact a REBEL on, but that
| the war WAS waged for tle conquest OF terrific
| rles assumed to be out OF the Constitutional
| Union.
| The mode and manner in receiving and count
| ing the electoral vO es tor Presd dent and Vice
| President OF the United States, are in plain and
| simple terms, prescribed by the Constitution,