The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-01
THURSDAY, APRIL l, 1869.
the tenure. Of. Office Question.


was not looked for at this early day. The
divergence between the views Of the two
houses Of Congress was 50 marked that 1t was
not to be expected that they would agree
upon compromise without still more pro-
trsoted wrangle than we have witnessed. Des-
patches from Washington state that the
readiness with which both houses yesterday
agreed to the report of the conference commit
tee has created the most profound astonish-
msut; and, Furthermore, that the absolute re-
psalere, who think that they have been de-
tssted by trick, will send a delegation to
President Grant, urging him to enter the veto
business at the very outset OF his official
career. 1t is generally supposed, however,
that the President will promptly sign the
bill, and this course on his part is rendered
the more probable by the fact that the report
OF the conference committee does not mate
rally modify Mr.. Conkling's bill as originally
passed by the Senate, as substitute for the
House bill repeating the Tenure Of Office
act is toto.
The vote by which the Wholesale repeating
bill passed the House of Representatives soon
after the organization of the forty first Con-
gress was almost unanimous only a few of the
most extreme Republican members voting
against it. After protraoted debate, both in
caucus and open Senate, the latter body
finally, on March "a, passed the measure
prepared principally by Mr.. Conklng, with
the provisions of which, it has been confidently
asserted, President Grant expressed himself
entirely satisfied, in view of the formidable
opposition in the Senate to an absolute repeal
OF the original act. The vote stood 81 yeas to
Is nays-amopg the latter being the eight
following Republican Senators: s:-Fessenden,
Fowler Grimes, Nc Donald, Morton, Ross,
Sprague, and Warner, while among the yeas
were to be found Republicans alone. When
the Senate substitute came before the
House, on March 26, the vote on con-
curing stood 70 yeas to SO nays. The De-
mooratio members, fifty in number,
voted solidly against concurring, and
ss only forty nine Republicans joined hands
with them, the vote showed a majority of
twenty one on the Republican side of the
House in favor of the Senate proposition.
This was certainly strong encouragement for
the Senate to hold out in it's determination to
defeat the repealers, and at the same time 1t
discouraged those who favored a mere sus
pension of the original act until the next ses-
sion OF Congress or the end of President
Grants term, from any further attempts at
compromising the difficulty in this peculiar
way.
On March % the refusal OF the House to
CONCUR in the Senate bill was announced, in
the latter body, when motion by Senator
Grimes to recede from it's amendment was de-
feated by vote of 20 yeas to 81 nays, the
Orce of the repealers in the Senate being In
creased on this occasion by the accession OF
Messrs. Cole, Fenton, Pool, Robertson, and
Thayer. Then came the committee OF confe-
renee, composed equally of repealers and anti
repeslers, whose report, already explained in
our news columns, was agreed to by vote of
AZ yeas to nays in the Senate, and l0S yeas
to Ct nays in the House. The matter is now
in the hands of the President, and his action
will be looked forward to by the entire coun-
try with absorbing interest.
THs STATE SENATE yesterday passed, by de-
cisivs vote bill to create public trust to take
out of the hands Of politicians the management
of Girard College. The wisdom of this measure
will be questioned by none who remember the
various disturbances, petty quarrels, and dis
graceful intrigues which have from time to
time occurred among the directors of that
Institution, and the wonderful manifestoes