The Portland daily press., 1872-04-30
BY TELEGRAt
WASHINGTON.


senate Caucus-Order of business.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-The Republican
Senators held an adjourned caucus this morn
ing. 1t received and adopted the report of the
Committee heretofore appointed to prepare
plan for business. ~
1t proposes first to complete action ON the
deficiency bill, next to act upon the House
bill repeating the duty on tea and coffee, the Ma
Wy and Post Office appropriation bills, the amnes-
ty bill and the bill to amend an act approved
May 31st, 1870, entitled an act to enforce the
rights of citizens of the United States to vote
in the several States of the Union and for other
purposes, and the bill to continue in force until
the end of the next regular session of Congress
the provisions of the 4th section of act OF
April Goth, 1871. The fourth section provides
that whenever in any State or part of a State
organized, unlawful combinations shall be able
by violence to overthrow or set at defiance the
constituted authorities of the State or of the
United States, the President may, when in his
judgment the public safety shall require, sus-
pend the privileges of the writ of habeas cor
pus, to the end that all such rebellion mey be
Overthrown The other general appropriation
bills are then to be taken up. M
Bank Statements Required. sai
The Comptroller of Currency has called upon
the national banks for the reports of their con-
dition as shown by the books at close of the
business Friday, 18th inst .5a.
Democratic Congressmcn not for MIR.
Adams.
The Patriot to-day publishes an article UNI
derstood to be the result of an informal confer
ence of the leading Democratic Senators and
members of the House of Representatives last
night, in which it says:
We feel perfectly safe in saying that Adams
is not even the first or second choice of any
will not be accepted by them more readily than
Judge Davis, Brown, Cox or Trumbull. In
deed, we fear that even if aided by the Demo-
cratic Convention, there will be some difficulty
in ralying the Democratic masses to his sup
port, despite their evident wish to sustain the
action of the Cincinnati Convention. No mat
ter what transpires at Cincinnati Democratic
Convention will be held and will command the
respect of the country, and its conclusions will
be accepted by the political organization It
represents.
, Methodist Callers.
The President was called upon this morning
by large number of members of the Metho
dist General Conference. Brief and pleasant
conversations characterised the affair.
Workingmen from New York.
The President was also called upon by dele
cation from New York city, representing repre- the
asked that eight hours be enforced on the work
on the New York Post Office, and that the
workingmen be paid the highest local wages
for similar work at 81 per day.
The President said that this request must be
granted and that they must be treated the same
as men employed on public buildings in South
Carolina, receiving full days pay for eight
hours work and extra pay for the extra hours
they may feel disposed to labor. He gave the
Committee note to the Secretary of the Treas
ury asking him to listen to this complaint and
saying, II have stated to the Committee that
all the employees of the government are en-
titled to the benefits Of the eight hour law, so
long as it stands on the statute books"
The delegation afterwards had an interview
with Judge Richardson, who promised to inves-
tigate their complaint at once. ..l,.s aa
A Denial.
The report of a conversation with Senator
Sumner on the Cincinnation Convention, tele-
graphed from Washington to New York and
then back to Washington, is pronounced by him
as unauthorized and inaccurate. He says words
and things are attributed to him which he never
uttered.