The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-24
Declaration by General Grant ast 10 His
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Iu convcrsation at
army headquarters TINS morning with senator
Thayer General Grant rcmarked:-'l want o
say to you that shall send into the senate t1e
name OF Major. General schodeld as Secretary
of War, but IT is likely that he viii decline, ana
return to his old position in the army shalI
then nominate a CIVILIAN for that othce, and l
want the Senate to know this"
Turning TO Represen' alves Dickey and Nor
rel, of Pennsylvania, aud Root, OF Arkansas;
who were at short distance rom him. he sud
he had no objection 10 their hearing what he
had TO say ou the question OF the Cabinet. He
then remarked 81 am opposed to appointing
officers of the army aud navy to civil offices,
and therefore want a acigllIan at the head ofeach
department"
The statement comes from members of Con-
gress who were prescn, and they express their
satisfaction at the utterauces of the General,
and believe from the conversation that he Will
have straight out" Republican Cabinet.
Committee of Conference.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The committee of
conference on the constitutional amendment
are Messrs. Stewart, COnkhng and Edmunds.
The New York Election Frauds-Report
of the Minority.
Representative Kerr, on behalf of the minority
OF the select committee, consisting of himself
and Mr.. Ross, yesterday submitted a report of
considerable length, which was laid on the
table, and ordered to bPiprinted with the report
OF the majority. 1t contrOvers most OF the
conclusions OF the majority, viNdCates the
Judges OF the courts in New York, and all their
clerks and officers, against the charge of uu-
lawful or corrupt participation in or knoW oWledge
OF the alleged frauds III the Drocuration of natu-
ralizatiOn and charges that there is no decent
! or credible testimony taken by the committee
! which tastens upon them any personal know
! ledge OF or conniyance in such frauds. 1t very
| fully discusses the testimony on which these
| charges agaiL ST those officers is based,
The minority find that great irregularities in
! the city and State of New York have grown up
! in connection with the manner OF transacting
| the business of naturalization, but that these
| irregularities are Ch0rgeable to no political
party, and were tolerated, established, and
| praCtsed alike by all parties, and by clerks and
! judges chosen by both parties.
| The minority say that these Irregularities
| demand a legislative remedy by amendments Of
the laws, which may be easily made, but they
earnestly favor shortening the required period
| of bona tide residence to one year in the country
aud six months IN the State, and to dispense
with the first declaration OF intention entirely
In response to the election frauds in the city
Of New York, they aver that there is q signal
failure to connect with them and their perpe-
! tTatOn, by testimony worthy of any respect or
belief, either the Dem OCratiC party Of that city
or any leading or influential member Of it, but
| they do, however, i'm mDiiCate in numerous frauds
Republicans Of considerable prominence. They
alege that the testimony sho VS. that great
| numbers OF deOased men did engage in the
business OF procuring fraudulent naturalization
! certificates, by perjury, and by deceiving the
courts and their officers; and did also engage in
| the infamous business of voting and repeating,
| but always as mere individual criminals, cor
| rupt and lawless adventures, ready alike, and
| on the same terms, TO serve any 0ody or party,
and having no regard to the success or failure
of either, They say that these base men were
many times used in the interests of men and
combL ations, but little better than they, Of
both political parties; but not in the employ
ment of the responsible and decent men Of
either party, with very few exceptions, and
that more or these exceptions disgrace the Re
publican than the Democratic party; that the
entire number of frauds proved could not
change the result as 10 a gle officer of the
city or state declared elected in November last
that the charges of the majority of corruption,
fraud and violation of the law against the
Democratic party are wholly unsuetained by
p the testimony, and retort by referring to in
, stances of alleged stupendous frauds and out
: RACES by the Republicans. They. alleee, also
) that the whole investigation in New York was
, gotten up by the Union League as a mean
, partisan attempt to cast odium upon Democrats
. and that it was conducted in a spirit of undis
guised partisanship, and that the evidence wa;
all gotten up ana manufactured by hired auC
. corrupt agents of the League, and In the mair
is discreditablc TO the League aud sanderous
and false