The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-03-04
Congressional Matters.

Several matters of considerable I'M
portance, were probably not reached be-
fore the adjournment to-day. The crowd
of visitors at Washington is represented
to be much larger than ever before, to
witness the Inauguration of the incoming
administration. President johnson gave
his last public reception party on Mon
day evening The Chiacgo Tribune cor
respondent give the following discrip
ton of the scene:
Long before the time much of the
usual attendant official and resident Wash |
ington population arrived. All the rooms
were packed before o'clock The front
porch was damned that few succeeded
either in or coming away Half an hour
later the carriage way was entirely block
ed up with gentlemen and ladies in even
ing dress, and the sidewalks for fifty yards
on each side of the central porch were
crowded full with those fighting to get
in. These were obliged to leave their
carriages at long distance from the front
of the house, and by the time those who
were first inside desired to leave the porch
pavement and roadways were packed
close with people, and all the open part
of the grounds, except the pavement,
crowded with carriages. When attempts
to come away began, the scene became
terrible one for ladies' There was no
intended disorder, but it was impossible
to avoid much most unpleasant confusion.
Ladies got separated from their escorts
on all sides. Men were obliged to come
away without ovAcoats and hats, and
women without their wrappings When
once out it was impossible to find their
carriages, and scores of ladies, in full
party dress, with trails as long as garri
son flag, were abliged to walk home with
out hoods and shawls. Men in full dr. IS,
were seen, by the dozen, with their heads
tied up in handkerchiefs instead of hats.
| Women in elegant costumes were crushed,
through the crowd on the porch, till
their plight was enviable. For an hour
not lady got out except such as were
taken from windows. Quite a number
tainted from the fright and suffocation
caused by the swaying of the crowd. The
police on duty seemed powerless. None
tried to create disorder, but the crowd
was so great that it was impossible to con-
troll or resist its surging. A few of the
Cabinet officers and some of the foreign
Ministers, with small representation of
the prominent visitors in the city, sue
ceeded in gaining an entrance, but the
majority OF each class were obliged to
abandon the attempt to get in.
THE BREAKING UP
Secretary Seward and family will leave
here on Friday, for Auburn President
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sion on Thursday morning. Secretary
Welles will retain his present residence.
Maj Edgar Welles Chief Clerk of the
Navy Department, will resign tomorrow
1t is understood that several chiefs of
bureaus Will tender their designations i'm
mediately on the formation of the new
| Cabinet.
The Committeeson Election and Recon
struction have both agreed to do nothing
with the Georgia case at this session.
The present Representatives from that
state, who were elected in the spring of
1868, are putting IN claim for seats in
the next Congress on the ground that the
Legislature has lately declared their right
to do so, and that the Governor has given
them certificates to this effect but as this
is clearly violation of the entire spirit of
the reconstruction laws and all other laws
relating to the election of members of
Congress, the clerk Of the House in making
up the roll for the next session, will of
course, omit their names Their cases
will afterwards go to the Judiciary or
Reconstruction Committee. AN but two
are Republicans
A caucus of the Republican Senators
will be held soon after the meeting of the
Forty-frst Congress, for the purpose of
revising the committees, and marking out
the business of the new session. Fifteen
new Senators will take their seats on the
fourth of March, and the places of the re.
tiring members on the committees will
have to be supplied. There will be five
vacant chalrmanships, namely: AppN
priations, Indian Agairs, Pensions, Mines
and Mining, and the Library, by the re-
tirement of Morrill, Of Maine, Henderson,
Van Wrinkle, Conness and Morgan It is
believed that many important changes
will be made in the leading committees.