The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-02-20
WASHINGTON.
Facts and R.nOrs.
GRANT.

20 GRANT. 5r1rA
On Saturday morning joint committee of the
senate and house waited upon Gen. Grant at ar
ny headquarters and officially informed him Of
the result Of the canvass on Wednesday of the
vote of the presidential electors. Thsspeech an.
nouncing his election to the presidency to Gen.
Grant was made BY Senator Morton, and csasis.
ted OF few well chosen, corteous sentences. In
reply Gen. Grant made speech scarcely longer
than that of senator Morton, but IN all ether re-
spects unlike it as possible. In fact the speech
was al pregnant of meaning as any of the most
oracular utteranoss Of Louisl Napoleon. iwhen I
word from his lips often made all Europe trem-
BILE. Gen. Grant said, in accepting the office Of
president he did 90 with full discrimination to
enforce an honest collection Of the revenues that
he should call around him cabinet Of men who
should be earnest friends of retrenchment and
honesat that he would not hesitate, at any time,
to remove dishonest officer, 10y implication,
whether the tenure-sf-oiice law SLOWED him to
do 20 or not ) that he would announce the names
of the members of his cabinet after his inangu-
ration, and that in the meantime it was nobody's
OuciAaCSo WAo lucy WAC1 Nuu Nv NAu uOS WISH W
be annoyed ON the subject.
The speech has created immense commotion in
radical quarters First, it is looked upon rs an
attempt to bully the senate into passing the bill
to repeal the tsnure-ofsHfoe Law second, it is
interpreted to mean death to whisky rings, rail.
road rings, and ell other rings combinations To-
plpnder the treasury third, it looks like decla.
rs4isn Of independsaoe from all so gressD9Yl in.p
auence in the disposition Of the offices and last.
y. as discorteous to the great party leaders par
ticulsrly in the senate, VINO always heretofore
had been consulted by the incoming president ID
the formation Of his cabinet
Tho house leaders generally express disgust a.
the idea that congressman shail no longer control
the patronage of their districts; official regues
ere also disgusted with his strosg exprsssisns of
a,detsnminatisu to have a hsnSst .AsisJstra-
ton and the Office seekers, Of whom hundreds
already swarm Washington, are disgustsd at the
prospect Of elongated hotel bills and Indefinite
postponnaent of their applications. "
rBE CABINET.
GIN. Grsnt refus,ag fatty to maize known 10
any person the names Of his cabinet, the Nash.
ington specisls are full of specslstieas and
guesses ~ to its composition. Most Of them sgree
that Scho6sh will be retained, ~ Secretary Of
War, and Evarts as Attorney General The state
department, the same sagscions authority says,
lies between Adams and Motley. Dennisoa will
be postmaster, and Isaac N. Morris secretary Of
the iAterior No woader Grant breads being an
noyed to change his slate if this is his list
THE TENURE-os-oFNIcE Law.
In spite Of repeated efforts On the part of SEN
ator Morton to have it taken up, che senate dog
gedy refuses to pass the house bill to repeal the
Law. After ths.pt ntsd ldtima-
tions in opposition to that Law IA Grants speech
of Saturday, Morten thought surely new, when |
refusal to pass the house bill would " equivs.
lent to MA open declaration Of war on Gen. Grant
the senate can no longer refuse to consider the |
bill. Yet adetermiaed effort on Tuesday to have
the blEtaken up asAii ftiled \ A4itkis is not |
the worst of it. The friends Of Gen. Grant are |
Disguised to find, on close examination, that the
principles of the Office tenure law have Ltea |
fdhted late crest yaristx pf laj ttyulgR4t the
appointment Of Federal oihcsts, INA tlMStls re-
peal Of the law itself would but partially remove
The embarrassing restrictions IT Ne Ssaats upon
Tho action Of the President They threaten war