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WASHINGTON, March 10, 1869.

| sa SPECIAL TELEaRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1869.
The new Congress hes not been in ses-
sion week, and up to today one hundred
and three bills have been introduced in the
Senate alone. It took fifteen minutes to
read the journal to-day by reason Of the
great number Of bills and memorials with
which it was loaded down. The very de-
cided majority by which the tenure-of-
Office repeal bill was to-day referred to the
Judiciary Committee is generally regarded
as fatal to it for this session.
Contrary to the general expectation, the
President did not send to the Senate to. day
o nomination for Secretary of the Treasury
in place Of Mr.. Stewart, declined.
The fact that Judge Hear has determined
to take the Office of Attorney General, and
Rumor having taken Mr.. Washburne out CT
the Cabinet to accept the mission to France,
has put the Cabinet-makeTs at fault and
started up numerous possible new members
of the Cabinet. The names Of prominent
men in New ork-Griswold, Fisk, Cisco,
Aspinwall, and others-are given severally
as the new Secretary Of the Treasury, but
it is needless to say that all is mere specu-
| lation as to whom Generel Grant proposes
to place in his Cabinet or nominate to the
foreign missions. He keeps these matters
as closely sealed now as at any former
period.
Why Mr.. Washburne should accept and
enter upon the Office of Secretary of State
merely for four or five days. service, and
then give up the Office to accept foreign
mission, the quid names who give out these
reports do not deign to tell US, but if COM
mon rumor be reliable, Mr.. Washburne is
going to France in place of General Dix,
and therefore President Grant has yet to
select two Of the principal members of his
Cabinet,-the Secretaries of State and Trea-
sury-and nominations for these are looked
for tomorrow.
Secretary Cox formally assumed control
of the Interior Department to-day. s.
Secretary Borie went to work in his de-
partment systematically to-day.
Judge Hoar visited the Attorney Gene
RAILS Office, but did not transact any official
business. -. w
The Treasury Department, though with
out its regular head, is carried on smoothly
in the general routine of business by
Assistant Secretary Hartley.
The greatest sufferers for lack of Secre-
tary of the Treasury are the ofice-seekers,
whose applications the President has re-
ferred to the Treasury Department.
Judge Hilton is named as the Collector
of New York in place of Smythe, and Gene
raj Parker, late of General Grants staff, is
named for Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
A great number of persons called at the
White House to-day beside few senators
and representatives and officials. None of
the visitors obtained access to the Presi-
dent, nearly all Of the general crowd being
sight.seers and ofice-seekers.
All of the Departments where the new
members of the Cabinet have taken hold
have been besieged by the ofice-seekers
and their friends.
Mr.. Stewart, who has declined the secre-
taryBhip, leaves here tomorrow at noon fol-
New York.
The Pennsylvania delegation held eau,
Gus last night and appointed committee
consisting of Senators Cameron and Scott
and Representatives Schofeld, Morrell, and
Kelley, to wait upon President Grant and
inform him of the views of the delegation
respecting the disposition Of the patronage
Of Philadelphia and the State at large. The
committee had an interview with the Pre-.
sident to-day, which is understood to be
satisfactory to both parties, though the
names of probable nominees have moi
transpired.
A delegation from Maine, with Speaker
Blaine at its head, had private interview
with the President relative to certain ap
pointments in that State.
1t is given out that there will be large
number of important nominations sent t.
the senate tomorrow. Among them ont
Cabinet officer, and possibly two, three
four, or FIVE first class foreign missions.
J. E. Risley, Deputy Commissioner O.
Internal Revenue, has rendered his resig
nation.
The Republican senators hold a caucus
next Monday for the purpose Of nominating
officers Of the Senate. 1855.
Mr.. George 81. Stuart, of Philadelphia, hac
long interview with the President to-day
1t appears that he came here ct Genera
Grants request, and that it was he who, at
ter declining position in the Cabinet, aug
gested Mr.. Borie for the Navy Department
Mr.. Stuart left for Philadelphia tonight.
WALLACE.
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAM. I'D
QUALIFICATION OF JUDGE HOAR.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-1n the gu
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