New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-24
WASHINGTON.
pprp.pArroN, FOR THE COMING SESSION OF
coNcRpse-FIFCTIoN FRAUDS IN ALABAMA
PROSPECTS OF THE CANVASS IN GEoK"ia'
TO rIIR TRIRIINKI

PREP ARATIONS FOR THE COMlNG sE'IVN
CON GREss-ELECTIoN FRAUDS IN ALAD n,,
PROSPECTS OF THE CANVASS IN Ehoi'"i'
[BY TELEGRAPH TO TIB TRIBUshI
wAsuNGroS Wednesday, Nov 49, 1870
Most Of the clerks and officers OF the two houses Vi
gress have returned for the Winter session. ana are
now engaged in arranging the flies and bils' ana an
vancing the business far possible, ready ror te
session which begins days hence. In the Senate 10
changes taken place. either by death or resgnaoh
In the House there have Deaths Smith Of iowa.
and Ridgeway OF Virginia For the first time In the his
tory Of Congress will occupy scat In the House,
H. Raney OF the Ist District OF North Carolina being
elected place OF the cadetsp broker WhittemOre re-
signed. THUS far objection has been made 70
giving him a scat, and probably none will be made.
caucus will he held at the be ginning OF the session to
revise the Senate Committees but Is thought that few
changes will he made. Many Of the Senators are dis
satisfied with their places committees, ana many are
dissatisfied with the places which some others hold pu1
any changes, they will be few There Is not
the slightest probability that effort will be made 10
interfere with tho position of Senator SchurZ on the Com
mittees The Senator is the friendest terms with
those of his colleagues who here and they ceny that
any effort will made to prescribe the Missouri senator
The Committees OF the House being appointed Dy the
Speaker remain unchanged during the existence OF .
Congress- and hence there will be no change during the
approaching session.
Letters have been received here from prominent Re
publicans In Alabama, claiming that tho Democrats car
red the state by such will not bear legal nves
tigaton They also that the Legislature viii not
be Democratic joint ballot. Alabama Republican,
now in this city, however think that there Is no doubt
that tie State been lost to the Republicans through
party discussions. There 1900 more coored than
white voters re gistered in Alabama.
Secretary Delano returned from Georgia this evening
and will be tho Department OF tho Interior Friday
Mr. Delano reports that the political canvass in Georgia
has only just opened but that the Republicans arc very
hopefuI and arc confident OF cecng five out of the
seven members OF Congress TO be chosen In that State
Senator Cameron will return tomorrow night
Secretary Belnap says that the statement which has
been prnted purportng TO he abstract OF Gen. sher
mans report contains matter which has never been alu-
ded to the War Office and Is not referred 70 IN inc re-
port also says that the general acts reported arc
erroneous The reduction Of the army In accordance WIN
the law passed during the Hast session OF Congress- VIII
be accomplished before Jan Many officers have voun-
try resigned The OF 81, who have been dsaDed
In the service nave Just sent to the Retiring Boar
and more than $50 have been summoned to appear before
the Board Of which Gen. Hancock Is President Tor eH
animation as TO their fitness for continuance In mo
service This Board will complete its labors and be dis
solved by the Secretary of War before January ana Gen.
Hancock will be returned to his old post
Senator Sumner IL still in the West and VIII not arrive
here until Dec g. TIVE of his trunks arrived here last
night and this fact is the only foundation for tho state
ments autographed hence concerning the Senator's
opinions important political questions Mr. sumner
will the guest of Senator Fenon on Sunday next al
the latter's residence In jamestown, n. Y.
Supervisor butcher, Gen. Barlow aud Mr. Tracy nave
been here day two, and had an interview with
the President to-day There have been rumors OF
changes among the Revenue officers In New-York ana
Brooklyn but there good authority for repeating the
assertion that none Immediately contemplated.
Commissioner Wilson Of the General Land ONCE Is con-
stanty receiving of additional surveys In the
Western States and Territories. The latest arc from
Dakota and embrace 100000 acres OF fine undulaing
paires watered by the Big Sioux River and its rib
tares The soil Is rich and well adapted TO farming
poscs The only timber this tract Is along the Big
Sioux River and Its tributaries, and around Lake
Tctonka-