The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-29
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Special kilograms to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, March %, 1870
Senator Wilson's Army Bill.

| Special kilograms to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, March %, 1870.
| Senator Wilson's Army Bill.
Upon comparison of views by members
of the Senate Military Committee to-day it
was found that they we're not willing just
now to give their assent to such sweeping
changes as are proposed in Senator Wilson'S
army bill. The subject was postponed
until the next meeting of the committee.
1t is understood that General Logan and
several others of the committee will OPP
pose the Wilson bill.
Nayy.Yards and Naval Ordnance.
Captain Almond, chief of the Bureau of
Yards and Docks, and Captain Sands, of
the Ordnance Department of the Navy,
were before the House Appropriation
Committee urging additional appropriations
on the ground that they require additional
ordnance of large calibre and need more
yards. The committee do not favor the
propositions, and do not think there should
be two classes of officers, civil and naval,
to manage these yards. They favor re-
duction of the number of navy-yards to
four-three on the Atlantic and one on the
Pacific.
The Tariff and Funding Bills.
The Committee on Ways and Means have
finished the amendments and notifications
of the tariff bill, and the chairman declares
his intention to close the debate ON the bill
in the House tomorrow. The opponents of
the bill feel confident that the bill will be
recommitted without action.
The committee expect to report the fund
ing bill during the present week. The
national bank interests are yet industriously
Mt work to defeat the clause concerning
national banks.
Rumored Cabinet Changes.
There have been for some days past
rumors floating about Of impending changes
in the Cabinet. They do not emanate, as
far as is known, from any authentic source,
and probably there is not the slightest
ground for the reports. AS mere gossip,
the substance of these rumors is here named.
Frst-lt is said that Mr.. Boutwell, is be-
coming prominent candidate for the Presi-
dency, and as he grows stronger in that d.
rection the cordial relations existing between
tue President and himself are proportionate-
ly weakened, and that this must result in
the withdrawal of MIR. Boutwell, from the
Treasury Department, and that this with
drawal will place him prominently in oppo-
sition to Senator Wilson as Il candidate for
senator from Massachusetts, and the pres
t'ge Of this canvass will give him promi-
ncnce as candidate for the Presidency in
the campaign of 1872. Second-It is
stated that the President and Secretary of
| State do not concur in our foreign policy !;
that they have differed widely on the Cuban
question, the San Domingo treaty, and
important diplomatic questions, and there
| fore MIR. Fish will retire from the Cabinet.
And, lastly, it is asserted, for the twentieth
time, and with as little truth, probably, as
heretofore, that Acknowledgement Hoar
| will shortly withdraw from the Cabinet
| According to the programme of the gossips,
these changes will occasion a general
breakup Of the Cabinet, resulting in the
resignation of Postmaster-General Cres-
we'll and Secretaries Cox and Robson.
| These Cabinet-makers do not assign any
reason for the three last-namcd resigna-
| tons.
Supreme Court-The Florida Case.
1t was expected that the Supreme Court
of the United States would to-day decide
the case er partc the State Of Florida, e1
rel A. +. Meek, Attorney General Of the
State, but the court did not dispose of it.
This was proceeding in the nature of q
quo irdTranto against William II. Gleason,
claiming to exercise the functions of Lieu
tenant-Governor of the State. Pursuant to
an election held under the acts of Congress
| for the reconstruction of the State the in
formation is that by the existing Con-
stitution of the State no person is
eligible to the Office unless he has
been nine years citizen of the United
States and three years next preceding the
election citizen of the State of Florida
and that Gleason is not eligible under the
latter clause. Gleason pleaded want of ju.
risdiction in the court because the election
and his rights to hold the Office depended
for their validity upon those acts Of Con-
gress and not upon the State Constitution
concerning whose provisions the court has
no original Jurisdiction until the Legisla,
ture shall have prescribed the means of its
exercise. Other technical objections were
raised, but the above particulars re-
present the controlling facts Of the
case. By final judgment of the Supreme
Court, the objections of the Jurisdiction
being overruled, Gleason was ousted, the
court being of opinion that he was not eli
gible in the particulars alleged. The mat
ter is now before this court on motion te
dismiss the writ of error in the case based
on the suggestion that the case is wholly
| within the control of the laws of the State
and that, therefore, the State courts have
sole Jurisdiction. The motion is resisted
on the ground that the claim to the Office ie
founded on the acts of Congress; which
fact, it ia urged, brings the case within the
appellate jurisdiction of this court.
| Alleged Postal Frauds.
The House Retrenchment Committee are
| investigating the alleged frauds in the
postal contract for carrying the mails or