Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-14

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rotary of the Treasury shall prescribe.
who Cares for Uncle SANS Interest
There is official authority for stating
that the report that the Secretary of the
Treasury intends to push the Pacific Rail.
way Companies for the payment of interest
due the Government and appeal to the
courts to enforce payment, is entirely
false. Secretary Boutwell, disclaims any
such intention.
RIGS.
II is said the legislation in the House
to-day reduced the revenue eiehteen mil
lions There is no prospect the Senate
will act upon the several bills abolishing
the duty on coal, salt, etc., the present
session. WAk
The Legal Tender Question.
The Supreme Court was not in session
to day, but is reported to have decided to
rehear the legal tender question, and CIV
en- leave to Clakson Palter, of New York,
and the At orney General to argue the
question during the term.
The summer Business.
| Specisl to the Louisville Ledger.
The excitement among the Republi.
cans over the removal of Mr.. Sumner
continues unabated. The Democrats
though personally sympathizing with the
Senator, are quite unruff1ed at the proba-
bic result, which will likely be anarchy
and disintegration in the ranks of their
opponents. Mr.. Sumner seems TO have
recovered more than his usual good
health and spirits His table is covered
with dispatches and letters of sympathy
| aud confidence, while, since Friday after
noon, calls at his residence have been
more numerous than even during his re-
1 cent illness. Outside friends of the
President are exceedingly angry and ter
| rified at the weak manner In which the
removal is defended in the Senate Cham
Der by Howe and others.
They claim that not only personal but
| official relations between the President
and his Premier and the Senate, ceased
some time since, and that with the nego-
tiations now pending between Great
Britain and this country, it became abso.
lutely necessary that there should be
Senator at the head of the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, with whom
the President and Secretary of State can
hold confidential and friendly intercourse.
Of course this is mere dodge to ex-
| cuse al unpopular act. The President
| has said, since the vote in the Senate,
that he felt justified in whatever action
he has taken, upon the ground that with
Mr.. Sumner the only intercourse that
could be had would be such as might be
held between the State Department and
the representative of some foreign power
with whom our relations might at dpy
moment become openly unfriendly. Ills
claimed by the Presidents retainers that
Mr. Summers opposition to settlement
of the Alabama and Fisheries questions,
on any basis but of his own dictation,
will vindicate the action of the admins
tration in the minds of all Republicans.
Persecution Commenced.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, who
voted for Mr.. Sumner in caucus, COM
plains bitterly of the Presidents course
in relieving the last Federal official in
that State nominated on his (Spencer's)
recommendation. He has had big dis
gust for Grant for some time. Nothing
causes more amusement TO intelligent oh
servers, and especially TO Mr.. Summers
friends, than the idea avowed by Grant
that he has had a victory and regards his
success in deposing Sumner as the great
est triumph of his life. This remark
after such a damaging debate to his
friends in the Senate, and the emphatic
expression of public opinion by the coun-
try, is regarded as another signal proof
Of his utter incapacity and stupidity.
The Catspaw.
1t is now asserted by prominent and
we'll informed Republican that Grants
chief favorite is Senator Howe, of Wis
consin, and that he has been his counselor
and catspaW IN this business. Morton,
for some reason or other, kept in the
back ground, aud now declares that lie
was not in favor of the movement, and if
he could do so would now reverse the &C
cton of the Senate and put Mr.. Sumner
back in his former position. Mr. Sum-
ner's friends regard Mr.. Anthony's course
with special suspicion. He presided
over the Republican caucns, and, as they
say, was in g conspiracy TO pack the
committee in favor of Summers removal.
The RetOrt Courteous.
1t is not certain when Sumner will
make bis next attack on the administra
ton. He may take occasion TO expose
the misstatement made by the presidents
friends in respect to his relations with
the Secretary of State and President.
He has in his possession proofs of an
overwhelming character, which, when
produced, will make a great sensation,
but is holding under sdvisement the
question when and how to use them.
The Presidential Ring are curious to
know what will be Summers next move.
They seem to feel they have made
great mistake.
Wilson versus Grant.
There is undoubted suthority for the
statement that Mr.. Wilson of Massachu-
sets, viii oppose the project for annex
ing San Domingo, i'll all its forms. He
has announced his position On the ques-
ton with emphasis. The discomfort with
Grant in Republican circles i5 largely on
the increase.
Part OF IN Outrageous System.
The stOppage of the mails between
Louisville and Lexington is only part of
the general plot to use the outrage dodge
in order to galvanize the Republican
party into life, and to make an excuse for
such legislation as will enable the Presi-
dent to take military possession of the
Southern States, and thus prevent free
expression of opinion. The delegations
waiting on Grant, the Star Chamber in
QUESTION of Conkling and John Scott,
and this Kentucky fraud are all part of
one system. Your correspondent is salts
fed from his inquiries that the POstof1ce
Department proposes to keep up this
wretched farce of not daring to run their
own mail for some time longer. In re-
Spouse to inquiry, the Assistant Postmas-
ter General stated in substance that
they would not renew tie mails
until there was change in public
feeling. The Department will not allow
Marklsnd's report to be seen and exam
ined, for some reason or other, but they
have compiled their own statement of
pretended facts and given it TO the press,
in hope thus to vindicate their course.
MARYLAND is to be seen at he Department,
ard if he d;sapproves of the course pur-