Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-25

mission Of Gov. Stevenson to the Senate
from Kentucky, in place of McCreary, next
March. Documents containing charges
against Gov. Stevenson have already been
fled with Radical Western Senator. If
these charges which have not been placed
in the form of charges yet prove TO be well
sustained, his admission will be very doubt
fol-
Shall stokes be Ncxti
Among other charges against Gov. Ste
venson, is one that he WAS in Richmond,
Virginia, when the war broke out and was
a spectator on the Rebel side of the battle
of Bull Run. That when he returned to
Kentucky he took with him a Colonels
commission from JEFF Davis, with the IN
derstanding that be was TO raise q regiment
for the Rebel army, but that he subse
qsuntly abandoned the project.
Troops for Nashville.
The Superintendent General of the re-
cruiting service at Cincinnati, is ordered
toforward 200 recruits to Nashville for as
signment.
The Department Of Justice.
The President yesterday signed the bill
creating the Department of Justice. This
takes from the Treasury, Navy and State
Departments their solicitors and their
clerks, and the employees in their Office,
as also that of the Revenue Bureau, and
places them under the Attorney General.
Its approval caused great futter among
the employees of bureaus to be transferred
to the new department.
1t is understood that Solicitor Bonfeld
will resign and accept the place of Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
Alderman Will not Qualify for u
The commission of Col Alderman, At
torney General, will not be issued for sew
eral DAYS. His friends say they have rea-
son to believe he will not qualify for
month to come, until which time Judge
Hoar will continue TO discharge the duties
of the Office At the Cabinet meeting to.
day the Attorney General was represented
by Judge Field Mr.. Alderman, by invi-
tation Of the President, called during the
session, and was personally introduced to
the members of the Cabinet present He
took no part in the proceedings.
Money Matters.
Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the payment Of the July interest on and
after the 29th inst, without rebate.
The President to-day signed an act to
pay loyal citizens in States in rebellion,
iOE lL6 CouSub VI lOOO
EIOIIey TO be RemOved---Fish TO Sue
coed him Probably.
President Grant recently mentioned to
several Senators that he intends to remove
Motley, Minister to England, as soon as a
suitable successor can be found.
During the conversation the President
mentioned the fact that when he first
formed his Cabinet, having selected A. T.
Stewart for Secretary of the Treasury, he
intended to offer Fish the mission to Eng
land, but after he had, for well-known
reasons withdrawn from the Senate the
nomination of Stewart, and Washburne
having been transferred to the French
Mission, he rendered The Secretary OF
Staieship to Fish, who reluctantly accepted
the position, but consented to occupy it at
least temporarily.
While there is no question that Fish can
now have mission TO England if he should
desire ii, it is equally true that no words
have passed between the President and
Fish upon the subject,
The San Domingo Opposition.
One of the Senators who opposed the
San Domingo treaty says his inquiries and
observations satisfy him that there are
thirty-one Senators opposed to it.
Democratic Campaign Add ress.
The Democratic members of Congress
have appointed committee and issued an
address advising political friends in the
States to be particular in the selection Of
candidates for Congress those of the
South to be men who, if elected, can take
the required oath. Importance Is also
given to the fact that one third of the num-
Der of United States Senators are soon to
L. - LOO, 4bar
fore they call on Democrats to adopt suit
able means to secure the election of the
largest possible number of members thereof
in view of the fact.
New ApPOrtiOnment.
The House yesterday virtually defeated
the new apportionment bill by referring it
back to the Committee on Judiciary, who
will be unable to report it at this session.
The contest over it was very close, the bill
being lost by only three or four votes, and
the Eastern and Western members dividing
almost even on the question. The bill as
returned by the Senate provided that, after
March. 1871, the House consist of three
hundred members, being sixty more than
the present number, and twenty five more
than the House had originally named.
The Western members moved to accept the
increase named by the Senate, which fact
united all the elements of opposition, espe-
cially among the New England members
The new apportionment was TO have been
made by the bill in time for the fall cleo
lions. The Secretary of the Interior was
requested to ascertain by Sept 20
the basis of representation in the
several Congressional districts by dividing
the aggregate basis of representation Of
the United States by the number
800, rejecting any fractions which might
remain, and he was then required to ap-
portion so many additional representatives
10 the States having the largest rejected
fractions One to each would make the
number of epresentatives-3O0. One
feature of the debate on this bill was the
proposition for minority representation,
which was advocated by members Of both
political parties, but owing to the reference
of the bill no action was taken. The fact
that this principle had been engrafted in
the Illinois Constitution and was applied by
New York to the local elections was referred
TO as a great step forward in popular rep
resentation. Gen. Garfield cited the case
of Ohio in the thirty eighth Congress,
where the Republicans had %, 600 majority
and vet had but five members of the House
TO fourteen Democrats, while in the next
Congress with less than change Of 10000
votes the Republicans had nineteen men,
bers TO two Democrats.