The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-26
NO mo" Senate Combinations Ex.
cept i'm Cases Of Necessity
Redistributing the Ma
tiOnal Currency-Trans-
atlantic Steamship
Projects.
Special Despatch 10 The EUeY,tt0 Telegraph.
No More Wholesale Combinations

shall be confirmed during the present session.
There was considerable feeling between those
Senators who favor and those who oppose the
policy of making combinations of Johnson's
appointments. resolution was offered to the
OBJECT that ne more combinations should be
made except where vacancies occur and the
necessity exists for confirmation, which was
adopted by vote of 2s TO 8, several Senators
having left the caucus before the vote was
taken.
Reduction i'm the Number of Army
Officers.
General ancock was before the Military
Committee this morning, and was examined at
great length in relation to the reduction of the
officers of the army. General Hancock gave as
his opinion that the reduction proposed by the
Committee might be made in certain grades OF
officers without detIiment to the public SER
vice.
Steamship Projects.
A number of steamship men, among them G.
e. Bushnell Of Connecticut, were before the
House Postal Committee to day, relative to the
construction of vessels for the New York Steam
ship Company. They stated that sufficient
capital was waiting the action OF Congress on
the bill relative to this company to build all the
steamships that were required without asking
subsidies from the Government. Other parties
we're before the committee asking for the same
privilege that it is proposed to confer on the
New York company.
The South American Missions.
Secretary Seward has written letter to the
Senate Appropriation and Senate Foreign Affairs
| Committees, howing the absurdity OF the action
| of the House in consolidating OF the South Ame-
| rican missioos, and asking the Senate to strike
out Buffers amendment, as 1t would be mpossl.
BILE, as we'll as impolitc, to carry out Its proyi-
| sions.
RECOMMENDATION.
| Mr.. Bingham will report back his bill from
| the Reconstruction Committee providing for
| the representation Of Mississippi in Congr ress,
| with an amendment which the Legislature of
| that State is required to make to the Consitu-
| ton before the bill takes effect,
National Banks.
Mr.. Hulburd, Controller of the Currency, was
before the Banking Committee to day to urge
| distribution of the national bank circulation
| among the States and Territories. The proposi-
| ton was discussed, but no astion taken.
| The Louisiana Contested Election.
The House Committee on Elections held
| meeting this morning and heard the concluding
| arguments in the Louisiana contested election
| case for the seat of Colonel Mann, deceased.
| Menard, the negro claimant addressed the
| Committee first in behalf of his claim, and was
followed by DR.. Price in favor of the claim of
| Colonel Hunt who was not able to address the
| Committee himself on account Of illuess. The
| Committee will now prepare their report and
submit it to the House at an early day.
A Civil Service Bill.
Senator Sherman offered resolution to-day
which was adopted, that select Joint committee
of seven be appointed to sit during the recess to
prepare Civil Service bill.
The Danish Treaty
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee had
Count Raaslof before them to-day, who com.
menced his argument in behalf of the Danish
treaty. He was compelled to suspend on account
! of the caucus meeting.
Despatch to he associated Press.
Attorney Bradley's Case!
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Yesterday a peremp-
! tory mandamus was served upon the Supreme
| Court of the District OF Columbia by order OF
the Supreme Court of the United States, COM
maDding that Joseph II. Bradley be restored to
that Court as attorney and solicitor lin all his
! franchises. This morning Chief Justice Cartier
drec ted order TO be entered, in effect restor-
! ing Bradley to the Criminal Court only. The
Supreme Court of the District, he said, in doing
this, simply yielded obedience to the
commands OF superior authority. They
made the order because, the ultimate
| tribunal commanded it. 1t was imp0ssi.
BILE TO follow the logic of the opinion of the
| Supreme Court of the United States in detail
| for the whole proceeding inv olVed the Supreme
| Court OF the District in ruin. The decision of
the superior court was based on the theory that
this District Court had no jurisdiction over
| the otIenses of attorneys committed in one of the
branches of the court, and inasmuch as the
| Ofense was against an independent court, the
| punishment must be meted out there and not
| here. 1t was difficult for him to reconcile to
| his Judgment the fact that a majority of the
United States supreme Court ever read the
organic law establishing the Supreme Court of
the District To assume that the Circuit,
Criminal, and District Courts were independent
tribunals, was to assume that the law-mdkng
power for the District did not understand the
organization of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The law spoke of the Court
as unit as one Court. 1t made but one clerk
and provided for but one seal. The effect of
this decision was to debar Bradley from
a bar that never existed, for the Crlmi
nal Court never had q bar, ex,
cept so far as that bar was divided from the
Supreme Court ef the District. / had no roll of
attorneys. and never bad. II had no SEAL no
clerk; had no other regulations of an ndepen-
dent court aud could not have under the Or
ganization OF the present system. II would.
therefore, be seen that 1t was utterly impossible
for the Supreme Court of the District to carry
| out the logic of the opinion of the Supreme
| Court OF the United States. But inasmuch as
the Supreme Court of the United States has
declared in effect that Bradley was member of
| the Criminal Court, aud not member OF the
| Supreme Court of the District OF Columbia; and
inasmuch as 1t created roll of attorneys which
never existed before, the Supreme Court of the
| District would yield 10 the command Of the
Supreme Court OF the United States to the extent
| of restoring Rradley to practice in the Criminal
| Court. The Supreme Court OF the District could
| do no more II it would, and would do no more if
| nv NUaa WA d1n cuIt 70.