The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-21
WASHINGTON.
OLD CAD INTERIM"

OLD SAD INTERIM
WASHINGTON, March 20.-Among those ar
my officers who personally urged Gen Inomas
to return to the Resident his commission as
Secretary of War ad interim was Assistant
Adiutaut General Townsend, Mr.. STATIONS
right hand man in the Department. General
Thomas thinks it would not be solderlike to
decline any duty imposed upon him. but he
told Gen. Townsend to say to Mr.. Stanton thai
be had never contemplated using force to oust
him from the War Department, and that he
need not apprehend any action on his par,
which might make it advisable to remain there
day and night.
THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
The Democratic congressman have organic
ed an Executive Committee with Senator
Doolittle as Chairman, Representative Ran
dali OF Pennsylvania, as Secretary, and
Representative Barnum Of Connecticut, as
Treasurer. They have repudiated the Resi-
dent Cemmttee, headed by Col. Tom Flor
ence and Cornelius Wendell, but have invited
Jonas d. Hovey, Charles Mason and Thomas
Ewing, Jr., to act with them.
LIGHT FOR CONNECTICUT
Several Republican Congressman will leave
here to morrow for Connecticut, where the
Union victory in New Hampshire is to be re-
peated, giving these two New England States
the head of the Grant column.
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.
The influence brought to bear by the large
squelched Mr.. Baldwin's copyright bill.
EXECUTIVE NoMINArIoNs.
Major Burnside of Illinois, a soldier dur
ing the late war, from L. b. Washburne's dis
trict, was to-day nominated to the Senate for
I'd Auditor Treasury, in place of Z. b. French.
Major Burnside is a relative of A. Z.
Burnside, Governor of Rhode Is'aod. The
President also sent TO the Senate the follow
ing nominations: NJ. A. Blanchard, Pension
Agent at Portland, Me-; w. w. Daily, Re-
ceiver of Public Money, at New Orleans; E.
H. Smith, Collector OF Internal Revenue. of
the First District Of South Carolina; John r
Drobell, Assessor of Internal Revenue, Second
District of West Virginia: Peter A. Clllau,
Assistant Surgeon; Capt. Augustus L. Case to
be Commander; Comman Ter 81. B. Caldwell
to be Captain; Commander Fl. r. Davenport.
TO be Captain; Lieut.. Commanders Stanton
and b. b. Taylor, to be Commanders.
CONFIRMATION.
The Senate in executive session to-day con-
frmed Munroe A. Blanchard to be Pension
Agent at Portland, Me.
ARRIVAL OF GEN. HANCOCK.
Major General Hancock arrived this after
noon from the South, accompanied by Col.
Mitchell of his staff. During the evening
many OF his friends called to see him.
AID TO CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY.
NEW York, Mlrch pa Democratic COM
mfttee is here from Connecticut to get some
patronage turned over to them.
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
Arrangements have been so made by the
managers of the impeachment trial that all
testimony will be confined to one day, leaving
nothing but arguments to consume the rest of
the time.
THE PRESIDENT ANGRY WITH BLACK
The President is said to be considerably an
noyed at Jerry Black for talking SO freely, out
side, OF the hOpelessness of his case and now
swears Justify he never entertained the idea
OF resigning, but will see the trial through to
the end.
THE TAX BILL.
The amended tax bill, which passed the
Senate ye terday, will pass the House and be-
come a law in week. Thad Stevens an
pounces his continued opposition to the bill
admitting Alabama.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
The companies on duty in Washington have
been filled up to about one hundred me q each,
and the cavalry the same. A considerable
number of recruits have arrived in Washing
ton within the past few days. Several COM
panies of infantry were ordered to the garri-
son of Washington, mostly from the north.
These troops are intended for the reoccupa-
ton of those forts on the Virginia side which
are as yet retained by the general govern
ment.
wADE's CABINET.
Several caucuses of Republican Senators
have been held on the subject of Wade's Cab
met, and the following is their programme:
Secretary of State-Henry Wilson of Mass,
or Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas; Secretary of
the Treasury-Zachariah Chandler of Michi-
gan; Secretary of the Interior William D.
Kelley of Pennsylvania or John Covode of
Pennsylvania; Secretary of War e. M.
Stanton; Secretary of the Navy-Charles D.
Drake of Missouri; Postmaster General-Johh
+. Farnsworth of Illinois; Attorney General
George T. Edmunds of Vermont or Mathew
Carpenter of Iowa.
THE RUSSIAN TREATY.
Interested parties have endeavored to pre-
vail upon the Foreign Committee to rescind
their vote postpOning the Russian treaty until
May: The Committee, however, refuse to re-
scindH
ABANDONMENT ,oF buffers IMPEACHMENT
ARTICLE.
One despatch says: The impeachment man
az RS will probably abandon "Butler's article"
of impeachment.