Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-03-04
WAsHIoToN GOSSIP.

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General sherman is stopping with nh
brother, the Senator, and does not occa.
! py the Grant house for some weeks
The friends who are to give it to him
will also make him a present of from
twenty to thirty Thousand dollars in
cash or Government bonds. The price
paid for the house furnished is sixty
thousand dollars, and an effort is making
to run the whole subscription up to one
hundred thousand dollars. The list is
headed with the name of A. L. Stewart,
who put down twenty-five hundred.
There are forty subscribers of one thous-
and each, and no subscription is for less
thzn five eShnmdredszzsBoston1 contributes
twenty thousand of the aggregate, and
the rest comes mostly from New York.
The next statementof the public debt
is expected to show q reduction of about
SO, ,00O ,DvU. iThe heavy payments for
interest have been completed, and ,-the
receipts OF the past. month have exceed
ed the expenditures by the amount
specined.s ~ - la 81. .rs.--.'s. si' 15--
AWashington special to the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin of Saturday
says: "A delegation of Pennsylvanians
visited Gen. Grant Yesterday evening to
ask him if he would recommend themto
draw up memorial requesting him TO
appoint Mr.. Moorhead, ofPennsylvailia,
to place in the Cabinet, which should
be signed by all the delegation. Gen.
Grant read the paper, and said that on
the whole they had better not, and sug-
gested that most of the members had
already signed a request for another
man; some had signed several. If all
these memorials should become known
come of these who had put their names
TO them might feel themselves put in
ridiculous position. Gen. Grant said
that he thought lie should be allowed TO
choose his Cabinet without interference
from anyone. They are his confidential
advisers, and ne must know whom he
wishes to call to him IN that scapacity !;
for the other Positions under the Gov
erIlmemt he is likely TO welcome sugges-
tions, for there are a great many of them {.
and he canrint be e'expeeted in every case
to Know who are the tittsst men; but in
selecting his Cabinet he may properly
act without suggestions from any source.
One thing he would say, that those w nom
he selected woald all be men who, were
loyal to the Onion during the war, and
who gave strong and faithful support to-
the platform and ticket on which he
was elected, They might not prove to
be the best men in practice, but that he
should soon discover, and he could make
a change at any time in that case. There
was no difficulty about that. The men
he had selected would not remain in the
Cabinet, he .chought, if it was not'agree
aDle. He had originally intend d toI
write, week ago, letter to each of the
whbm he had fixed upon for
a Cabinet position asking them to serve,
but he was glad he had not done so, and
he would keep the whole matter to him
self until the appointments were sent TO
the Senate, That saved much trouble
to him and to the gentlemen he meant
to call around him., But he had already
made up his mind. He could send in
the whele Cabinet at that moment sail
he might at any time Change his, mind,
and SO long as the names were knowni
to him alone he COLD do so without of
fense to any one.- His cautious utteri
ance to the .Pennsylvanians the other,
day. y.had,alreadygivenhim and themmuch |
needless trouble. Some people seemed to |
take it for granted that he had a d.igna- |
ted Mr.. George II. Stuart for a place
He had not said anything. of the kind,
and did not mean to to any one. Wheth- |
n he had ornot. But, as people had |
spoken against Mr.. Stuart, he wished to
'ay to the PENNSYLVANIA gentlemen that !
Mr.. Stuart was a loyal man during the
war, an an honorable man. That did |
aot timply however, that General Grant |
would or would not appoint him The
delegation then withdrew.
.GRANT's, RESPONSIBILITY poCTRIN E. i
Another special ssays: Light contin-
les to be thrown upon the general prin-
,iples which will govern Gen. Grants I
1t can now be said with /
certainty that he depends; largely upon I
he doctrine of the responsibility oi.su-
,eriOrs for the acts of their interiors.
which prevails inithe army. He has re-
;entIy said that he should hold his
Cabinet officers responsible for the pro-
per Administrations all matters belong
ng to their departments AS conse- L
Iuence, he should give them full power
Iver their subordinates, for whose mis-
,onduct they would be held responsible,
md which, should-they fail toistopit, Il
would eventuate in their removal. 7Hel
has therefore said, when application fori.
places, such as heads of Bureaus, have
,een msdeto him, that he should not
promise such places but should ieavek
uch'selections to Cabinet officers, who
would be responsible; for their efficiency
I is certain that he relies much upon
his doctrine of responsibility, aud in
ends to have the heads of departments
g untrammeled as he has Kept HIM
elf. i'a~7sfntnt t'Gia5.+ -Hf.o1tT 1Y"1
With the exceptions of the CofHnifs-t
of Internal Reventie and onef,
n two other Bureaus, tits certain noi1
have been made. lZi5 &so1;s Z II
, 1t may interesta certain class of poll.
itions to know that Gen. Grant hasi,
more than once remarked that men whotl
ome to- Washington after offices aret
mem who ought not to have
hem. 5nE5p tSs1 fu 7'iH's"" T5:iEtcs- +,
The Heraid's Washington special SAYS:
General Grant, in conversation yestertiy 4
With Senator. Pool, OF North, Carolina.
expressed himself as, particularly ,anx-
Gus for substantial reconstruction in the
'outh. North Carolina. and Alabama, he
aid, were amopg the best reconstructed
'tates of all aud when the. resi- we're as
afely aud pleasantly sbaeklin the Union, /,
lie thought ours would be the, happiest 1
ountry on the globe 1t, Is deduced I!
leld with General Terry and another
Gentleman yesterday, that all the South
rn military commanders removed. byI
President Jshnson will be replaced. i,
The graceful withdrawal of Hon.
Henry L. Dawes from the candidacy h
or the speakership leaves the field ap-
,arently clear for Mr.. Blain of Maine, Is
md the nomination. will probably be n
endered him by reclamation at the Rel
publican caucus on Friday night. Mr. h
3laih is yet a young man. only thirty /
light years ofAges He went to Mainet.
It the aye ofatwenty-fOur, and became'i
he editor'of the Portland A advertiser 81 I
lie served four years in the Maine legis-fi
ature, stwe,of them as speakers, so that i
,e is byn6 means without experience as /
presiding officer. He has been a pro- 4
ninent and active member of the Thirty
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