New-York tribune., 1868-03-30
WASHINGTON.


BAMA-MORMON REPRESENTATION ARMY
EGULATIONS-THURLOw WEED AND FELlA
WCLoSKEY-MAILS TO CHINA.
~ rELEGRAPH
WAsHNGrOS March 90, 1868
The House Board of Managers of Impeachment
have requested Secretary Seward to furnish them
from the records of the State Department since the
foundation of the Government list of the heads of
departments appointed and removed while the Senate
was not in session. and without its advice and con.
sent; also a list of persons appointed and removed
with the advice aud consent of the same body The
first removal, without the Senates consent, was
that of Timothy Pickering who re-
moved by President John Adams, May Is.
1900. Twenty-three appointments in all have been
made without the concurrence of the Senate since
1859.
Some of the Presidents friends who called on him
yesterday and to-day, say that lie is very gloomy
aud profoundly respondent He feels agGrieved that
his counsel were not allowed longer time for prepa
.-aion, and thinks that the Senate need not hurry
along so rapidly. They say that he is glu1n and
fdgety, and cannot speak any other subject than
the trial and on that point he is nervous, agitated
and anxious
There has been considerable talk here to-day in
political and other circles relative to ChefJustlce
Chase and the impeachment proceedings tomorrow
The rumor is that he will tomorrow insist that he
hs the right decide all legal questions that may
arise on the trial, and will refuse to preside
on any other conditions As sensational dis
patches may be sent tonight on this point
it may be well to say that it is all speculation
winch has its origin in casual question which Mr..
Chase asked one of the associate Judges few days
ago rs to the position which he thought that he
Judge Chase) occupied in the trial of impeachment
This has been magnihed into meeting of the su-
preme Court to consider the question, and many via
and improbable stories have been manufactured
,,lpon it and put in circulation.
The opening speech by Gen. Butler to-morro" oh
behalf of the impeachment managers VIII consume
three hours The General viii take up IN order ana
comment npon Each Of the articles after which the
Managers will present their witnesses and fuliy
enter upon the trial The rush for tickets is unpre-
cedented. as the number OF strangers in the CITY,
who have come for the purpose of witnessing the
trial IS unusually large The members OF both
Houses promised the tickets under their control sew
tcral days in advance.
The President has directed Gen. Grant to promul-
pate An order relieving Gen. Hancock from the COM
grand of the Fifth Military District and assigning
him TO the command of the Military Division of the
Atlantic. with Headquarters at Washington Ihe
order was sent over to the War Department yester
day morning by Gen. Grant, though whether for the
purpose of having it printed and regularly published
kaown. The order was taken TO Mr.. Stan
ton when it reached the Department and was
soon followed by Gen Grant, who remained
long time in consultation with the Secretary. The
Presidents action has called in question his right TO
establish the District Senator Edmunds introduced
= resolution yesterday calling for information on tins
subject The resolution requires the President to IN
form the Senate whether a new military department
had been created since August, 1867, and if so, the
thereof The object of this resolution is to get
the new Department before Congress.
The debate on the conference report on the Manu-
facturers Tax bill continued in the Senate yes
1erday. and resulted in non-cOncuueDce. 1t was
mainly opposed on the assumption that the tax on
gross receipts is virtually tax the necessares of
the poor and that the so-caed dstillerS amendment
would be unjust to honest manufacturers, lnasmuch
AS it provides that all the dstilleries in districts
where fraud-whskyis is sold shall be closed at the dis
cretiOn of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
In the House on Saturday the debate on the Ala
bama bill consumed the whole session. The Repub-
licans were divided clear majority being opposed
10 the bill as it came from the Reconstruction Com
.mittee substitute which was proposed by Mr..
Spalding was finally accepted by Mr.. Stevens IN
opposition to Mr. Bingham's plan and was agreed TO
.by the House. The bill as passed contempates
proysional government for the State, the officers to
consist of those persons elected at the recent eec
tioD This government is empowered TO call another
election for voting a Constitution. The bill mas
vet to be passed by the Senate. 1t Is doubtful
.S,hetber that body will soon take it in hand The
understanding seems to be that neither House VIII
transact any general business until after the I'm
>oeacbnent trial shall have been finished
The Committee on Elections have virtually de-
cided the Utah delegate case to-day MI Hooper
xill lose his seat on the general ground that Nor
mana are organized into community hostile 10 Tue
coverprnent of the country. In the testimony winch
uas taken Yesterday morning. it was sworn that
IIoonsr IL AN Elder in the Mormon Chuch'
.nd that such officers are Obliged 10 take
chat il termed the endowment oath. Aihda-
sits we're read of who had taken the
ootb showing that it requires those who take II 10
.o te Tinted States Government 10 do all IN ther
o,~er IN overthrow il, to teach this sentiment 10
their children and TO impress 1t on theH oyng peuS
Az Cbapler of New-York has been selected 10 ara"
IN the renort and he is known to favor the uprootng
OF Mormon rule entirely.
The House Military Committee have had undei
consideration the report of Gems Sherman oherluan'
and Ringer upon the revision of the Army hegula-
tiOns The work is nearly finished, ana the Oopini'
tee will report upon it when II IS next caleu up
Among the very important changes proposed
g. one revising the methods of organizing courts
,nar+;aI at posts and detailed stations, and in
sertinc a provision which enables military courts 70
,,ol the attendance of witnesses not in the mil
80 service-a power which these courts do not now
.,ossass The want of such authority was the cause
- forre to convict certain persons involved IN the
.o-r;ble explosiOn of the steamer Sultana on the
Mississippi River during the war, and o'her cases
eonally glaring have been cited.
Tic Committee of Conference on the dlsagreeihH
- .bo two Houses on the bill repeating the