The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, March o, 1869.

/ THE CABINET EMBARRASSMENT, &c.
The Cabinet embarrassment has been
again to-day the all-sbsorbing theme Of
conversation. The rumors are various and
conflicting, but the truth seems TO be that
no absolute, definite determination has
been arrived at by President Grant. Never
theless, from the best sources Of informa-
ton we learn that Mr.. Stewart has written
q letter and submitted it to the President
declining the Office Of Secretary of the
Treasury. T
President Grant has Withdrawn his COM
munication to the Senate asking the re-
moval of the disabilities Of Mr.. Stewart,
80 that the whole matter, If these state
ments be correct, is open for consideration
de mono 80 far as the Secretary Of the
Treasury is concerned. r.
Another report, which was current this
afternoon and this evening, is to the effect
! that Mr.. Stewart had himself determined
to remove his disabilities by withdrawing
from commercial affairs, and had made
over his mercantile business to three trus-
tees-Messrs. Astor, Hilton, and Brown, Of
the firm Of Brown Brothers & Co., the pro-
ceeds of the business during the term Of
Mr.. Stewart as Secretary Of the Treasury
to be applied to such charitable purposes
rs the trustees shall decide.
There does not seem to be any we'll
founded report as to the ultimate decision
Of President Grant relative to the disability
of Mr.. Stewart, but all is speculation, the
final decision of the matter resting upon
the consultation with the President and the
Cabinet with Judge Hoar, the Attorney
General elect, who arrived here tonight.
The most plausible deduction from all the
facts and rumors of the hour is that Mr..
Stewart will decline the Office Of Secretary
of the Treasury, and that Massachusetts
will receive the appointment to that Office,
as heretofore indicated in these dispatches,
and that New York will have the Office of
Attorney-General. Affairs official are
hanging upon the result, and business in
the departments is stagnant in consequence.
It is expected that the events of tomorrow
will determine the thing finally.
Secretary Cox arrived this afternoon, and
visited the President at his residence to-
night. It is understood that Mr.. Cox will
be sworn in and assume control Of the In
terror Department tomorrow.
Secretary Borie took the oath Of office and
| paid short visit to the Navy Department
| this afternoon. He will comm ence his
duties tomorrow morning.
CABINET MEETING.
The President received all those who
sought admission until noon. When the
| Cabinet assembled the President invited
the assistance of all those departments
which we're not yet represented by the Cab
met officers to attend the meeting Of the
Cabinet, and when the hour Of noon ar
rived there we're present Secretary Wash
burne, Postmaster General Creswell, Gene
raj Schofeld, J. Hubley Ashton, Assistant
Attorney General; Assistant Secretary
Hartley, of the Treasury Department AS
sistant Secretary Faxon, of the Navy, and
Assistant Secretary Otto, of the Interior.
The meeting was of brief duration, some of
the members retiring before the door had
been closed an hour. No business Of any
| importance was transacted.
THE TENURE OF OFFICE Law.
The repeal of the tenure-of-office act,
which passed in the House this afternoon
with an almost unanimous vote, will meet
with strong opposition from Radical sena-
tors, and the final action of the Senate is
prOblematical.
APPLICANTS FOR OFFICE.
The ofice-seekers are sWarming here,
and pertinacious senators and representa-
tives are beseiged by them for their infu-
ence, and about 500 applications for Office
were presented at the White House this
morning. Not one Of these applications
reached the President all of them were
referred by the Presidents secretaries to
the appropriate departments, and probably
not one in hundred will ever reach the
Presidents eye.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
Judge Swan, member Of Congress from
Maryland, has purchased house in the
Brown Row on Fourteenth street, in this
city, for which he paid $50 900.
Members of President Grants late mill
tsry staff have raised fund for, and are
erecting monument to, General Grants
late adjutant, who was killed by railroad
accident some two years ago on the Hudson
River railroad, and the monument will be
erected at West Point.
1t is reported that the President has re-
voked the commission Of Mr.. Snow as d.
rector of the Union Pacific railroad.
The schenck bill which was reported in
the Senate to-day from the Finance Com
mittee will be called up tomorrow, and
probably pass. The House will take the
bill as it comes from the Senate and put
it on its passage without reference to COM
mittee.
The White House was thronged with visi-
tors to-day.
General Sherman has been looking around
for successor to Phil Sheridan, in com.
mand OF the Indian country, and has set
tied upon General 0. 0. Howard, late Com
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. Gen.
eral Howard was not subject to removal BY
the War Department, as he held his posi-