Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-19

o'hatof W aAV HAN aFNtlN receive
+ numerous applications for appointment
to office, when he shall have hecom
President.
A majority of the senate judiciar
committee are opposed TO special lcgisla
= tion ON the subject Of the admission O
Alabama
Alderman Coulter Of New York
owner of two rum distillerics, has been al
pointed an internal revenue assessor.
Gen, Siekles has been ordered beior
the impeachment committee, after wiriri
he will take command of his regiment a
sacket's liarbor. n. Y.
The bill Of Mr.. Eliot of Massachu
sc.:s, providing that in case of sickness o
the death of the chief justice, his plac,
shall be filled by the senior Judge, viii
soon be put upon its passage.
Senator Sumner sleeps. There wa,
neither black man nor woman in the Sen,
ate galleries at the impeachment show
Hundreds waited and begged for admis.
sion. but white folks got all the tickets 4
The bill for the temporary removal
OF taxation from certain articles, and tw,
or three important appropriation bills will
be passed in the Senate before the i'm,
parchment trial begins
The Interior Department has received
the report of the United States commits.
sioners on the first section of 40. miles OF
the Sioux City and Pacific railroad, and
the issue of the bonds and the patents
due the company has been made
Mr. Evarts, one Of the President,
counsel, was upon the floor of the Senate
for while. on Tuesday, conyersing with
Senators. 1t was loosely remarked that
the counsel for the prisoner has the right
to converse in private with the Judge.
-Rumors that Thad Stevens was dead
have been numerous in Washington for
two days, but he made his appearance in
the House =. AVA .elel- Ms.--rr-lluy ufftrr-
noon, and remained two hours. He is
feeble, but says he means to live till Ben
Wade is President
ten Hancock viii soon be in Wash
ington. The President consents Ia his
removal on he ground that if he re-.
manned much longer at New Orleans Con-
gress might ruin him. There need be no
fears that Hancock will incite the Presi-
dent TO make any resistance 10 congress,
or that he will join any eopperhead plot
Ia overthrow the government.
The gossips say that Secretary Sew
ard, before he left for Auburn, expressed
the opinion to his private secretary that
Wade would be President before June,
and that Senator Sumner would be the
head of the State Department. The Re-
publieans there do not believe Sumner
would leave the Senate for any other
place.
"A number of interested persons, in
Guiding Senator Trumbull we're in the
supreme court on Tuesday morning, look
ing to see the McArdle case decided. It.
is generally expected that the decision
will be announced next Monday. The
Democrats say McArdle will be released,
and the written opinion will be reserved
till the next term of the court when the
Presidential election will be over.
1t is said that Secretary Stanton is
really apprehensive of an attack ON the
War Department from the Virginia shores.
but it is hardly credible Nevertheless. it
is stated positively that he has ordered
forty army wagons, with teams and team
sters, to be kept in readiness to move
at u moments notice for the transnorta
ton OF supplies; and that private orders
have also been issued to commanders Of
about the city, to keep their
commands. both officers and men, in ouar-
Lers.
The effect of the bill so quietly !
passed by the Republicans in Congress ON
Tuesday, and about which the Democrats
IRE so indignant, is not generally under
stood The net of February >, 1867 |
imendatory Of the Judiciary act of l,19 |
provided, among other things, for the j.
zeal OF hubeas corpus eases from the /
United States circuit court to the United .
states supreme court. This provision of
bout four lines, is simply repealed. The
,nly class of reconstruction cases il can
Effect are those coming UP on hnhnns cor
ons, which, Of course. includes the Nc I.
Ardle case.
The expansionists fee! sore over their
decisive defeat in the House, Monday
afternoon. lngersoll has tried three
lines before to get the House to agree to
IN addition Of forty-fve millions to the
and this time was sanguiue Of
nccess. The demand for the prev
question was a test vote, for had :. hao,
arried, the next vote would -. -.
lpon the resolution. The paaa.,.,,..;a
Democrats voted agair' = exn,ns;nn R,+-
er voted with II gersoll for additional
No. ematter goes to the ways
, '''' A'''''s' here it will sleep till after
- mp achment trial is ended Expan-
i got 40 votes, and there were -
90 INST it. That is decisive for the pres
at.
The Department of State ON Monday
sent to the Senate large mass Of cores
pondenee, etc, relating 10 the arrest and
trial OF Rev Robert B. Lynch and Others
oy the government Of Great Britain. for
alleged participation in the Fenian raid
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