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WASHINGTON, D. c., March 13.-Col.
Benet testified before the Senate Arms
Committee to-day. In bis opinion the
government should be held to the contracts
made with Remington q Co., after it was
discovered that they were agents for the
French government. There are enough
arms on hand now to supply an army of
100000 men, and at the end of thirty days
one hundred thousand breech leaders could
be turned out month. He thought Gen.
Grant at the head Of an army thus armed
would be able to resist any force brought
against the government.
The Committee adjourned till to-mor-
row.
Rotten Seneca Stone.
r. O'Neil, witness before the House
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, testified to-day that the best Sen
eca stone viii not stand over ten thousand
pounds pressure TO the square inch, while
that used by Mullet in portion of the
foundation and walls of the new State De
partment viii not probably stand more than
two thousand pounds. The walls are ruined
by its use, twenty places being cracked and
the stone in the arch is split through.
JaPs.
The President entertained the Japanese
Ambassadors at dinner this evening to-
getber with other invited guests. To-mOr-
row evening the Embassy holds a reception
at the Arlington, to which all distinguished
officers Of the Government have been in
vited.
Looking Toward the Cincinnati Con.
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There are some very important political
movements being inaugurated just now.
Some of the reform Republicans are very
anxious that tho Cincinnati Convention
shall indorse the candidates for President
and Vice President recently nominated by
the Labor Convention, and for this purpose
are here to ascertain the views, and, if pos
sible, to secure the cooperation Of the re-
form Republicans in Congress. A meeting
for the discussion of this important propo-
sition viii be held early this week; though
it is not probable that the result will be an
nounced before the meeting of the Cincin-
natl Convention, when it will be laid before
that body. It is claimed that large NUM-
Der of Democrats are in favor of an in
dOrsement of the Labor candidates by the
Democratic National Convention, and if
that class of Democrats get the controlling
influence in the Democratic Convention it
is believed that course will be pursued. A
prominent Democratic Senator gave it as
his opinion that the only chance for the op-
position to beat Grant viii be in the united
action of the three opposing parties. The
Democrats like Cox, Holman, Niblack,
Potter and others are believed to favor the
same view. The Labor people will not
support Trumbull, on account of his oppo-
sition to the eight-hour law and other meas
ures. There is quite a discussion among
them on the Columbus nomination.
An Old Story RetOId and Corrected
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
The administration organ here revamps
the Chandler story with reference TO
Trumbull's connection with the McCardle
case, asserting that the Illinois Senator was
employed by Andy Johnson as counsel for
the government in said case, with a fee of
ten thousand dollars, and then goes on to
intimate that such employment had much
to do with Trumbulps subsequent vote on
impeachment. As mere matter of history
the following facts in connection with that
case viii destroy its supposed damaging ef-
feet: Senator Trumbull was employed by
Secretary Stanton and Gen. Grant to act as
government counsel in the case, and not by
Andy johnson. The COnstitutionality of
the reconstruction acts being involved in this
case, and johnson having vetoed them in
a message declaring them unconstitutional,
and Attorney General Stanbery sympathiz-
ing with johnson in bis opposition, having
refused to represent the government on this
occasion, Trumbull was resOrted to by the
Secretary of War and General of the
armies as best fitted to act as counsel for
the government, especially in view of his
legislative connection with reconstruction
measures.