Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-01-25

rom Meade ...
Unless the pending lill IN Con
grc-s directing tho military 4" hll
the offices In their departments
rc,cinds the test oath in the prnNis'
ion "a select qualified votes, ! am
informed that is execution ~ tbs
department will be entirely imprac
ticablo." Adjourned.
Jackson, Miss, Jan, 1.-THE
President has announced the stand
ing committees. Mr., Holland Of
f,red the following Whereas the
Minority Report OF Committee on
compensation is believed to be in
tended as an insult To this Conyen'
ton, in MS much rs II declares the
reconstruction acts unconstitutional
and this Convention an Illegal BODY
and a farce; Therefore resolved,
that il is tho sense of the ConVeh-
ton that the minority Of that com
mittce withdraw from THIS body
which thsy consider illegal, and
without compensation, aud pay their
own expenses while here and com
ing to and going from this place,
The day was consumed debating
this resolution and the substitutes
therefore. The following, ms a sub
stitute for the above, was hnally
adopted by forty.nine to thirty
three Resolved, that il is the sense
of this Convention that the delegate
from Marshall in the minority re-
port which hc has submitted, has
violated the spirit and obligation OF
the registration oath, which he
claims to have taken.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE fol-
lowing Bureau Bill was introduced
Yesterday. Section LIST cont nu,3
in force the act of March 3D., 1863,
another year from July l6th, 1858,
with notifications contained in TINS
bill. Section I'd authorizes the Sec
rotary of War in his discretion to
discontinue the operation OF the Bu,
reau, when II State is fdN{ restored
to its constitutional relatlSn to the
Union and is represented in Con
gress, provided, however, that the
Educational Bureau remains undis,
continued until such State sha !
have made suitable provisions for
the education Of the children OF
freedmen.
Section 3 provides that uncxpcnd-
ed balances shall De applied, in the
discretion of the commissioners, to
educational purposes, subject to the
pi DIVISIONS Of the law applicab G
thereto. Section 4 authorizes the
Commissioner Of the Freedmen $
Bureau to retain the bureau,
whenever their services are rcquir-
ed, officers, medical men, &c, who
have been, or may be, mustered out
of military service, with the same
pay, compensation and al lowance
as they previously received.
WAsulNGroN, Jan. 15.-This morn
ing's Intelligercer says: sit is un
derstood that within a few hours
after reception of the dispatch an
nouncing the removal by General
Meade, of Governor Jenkins of
Georgia, on account ofhis refusal to
sanction the payment of the Geor-
gia negro Convention, out of the
State funds, Geoeral Grant express
ed the opinion that General Meade
had acted hastily, and should not
have removed Governor jenkins,
and that the Convention had no
right to be paid out OF the State
Treasury.
A paper was circulated in Con-
gress, signed by many Republican
Senators and Cong ossmen, urging
Stanton not to resign. There is no
probability of his immediate resig-
nation. Nothing has been deter
mined on by the President relative
to Stanton. 1t was mentioned =.
Cabinet to-day but not formally
discussed. The President did not
receive the certified copy on which
Stanton and Grant acted, until 9
o'clock this morning. At half past
nine General Grant formally resign,
ed the office to Stanton. At half
past eleven the President received
Il note from General Grant, quoting
the Senate resolution and adding
that under the Tenure Of Office bill
he Grant considered himself no
longer Secretary Of War ad interim.
The President asserts tat Gen
eral Grant repeatedly assured him,
the President, that he, Grant, would
take no action without informing
the President, but would leave the
war department as it was when
Grant assumed the Secretaryship,
nominally vacant. The President
accuses Grant of bad faith.
Up to this hour nothing has been
decided upon by the President
The Supreme Court had before it
the case of John X. Elgee, admins,
traitor, plaintiff in error vs.. Oliver
Lowell. Elgee it appears was Pres
ident O the Louisiana Secession
Convention in 1864. About four
hundred bales of cotton belonging
to him was seized in Mississippi by
an agent of the Treasury Depart
ment as abandoned property, and
transferred to Mr.. Lowell, also a
Treasury agent, and under the pro-
visions of Congress removed it to a
State not in instruction. Suit was
brought in a Missouri court to recov-
er the property. Sometime after
the commencement oflegal proceed
ings, Elgce availed himself of the
amnesty proclamation of the Presi-
dent, by which he claimed he was
restored to all his rights of proper
ty, and among others his right to
the cotton. Distinguished counseis
are employed on both sides of the
-u..:a.. Attarnar CanaroI Ctoo