, 1872-01-15

| to the wisdom Of tue repeal. Soma o.
the members fzsor tie further extension
of the lag. and its continuance IS
long as any internal taxes are collected,
but : majority viii, it is believed, favor
|immediatel ltpeal.
DelegatO Hooper Of Utah has gone
home. While at Salt Lake City he
iFhopesto arrange plan for the admiss-
ion of Utah, which will at once settle
the question Of polygamy. aud be salts
factory to the Mormons and to Con-
gress. His plan is to have Utah ad-
mitted as State during the coming
Winter, ON condition that no more poly
gamous marriages shall be contracted,
but that no families already thus formed
shall be disturbed. Mr.. Hooper has
presented his plan to many Of the lead
ing Senators and Representatives, and
all admit that It is. all things considered,
4 most sensible and practicable that
has yet been proposed. Mr.. Hooper
l.
feels very sansuine Of being able to
induce his people to agree toit.
/ The efforts to reconcile the President
and the most prominent of the disaf-
fected Republican Senators have finally
been abandoned. Those who were
most active in this movement feel con-
siderably disappointed at their lack of
success, and think that good oppor-
tupity to heal the most embarrassing
dissensions in the Republican party
has been allowed to pass. They urged
that in view of the late success of the
Republican party in the State elections
and its acknowledged strength with the
people, the President could afford to be
magnanimous, and make the first ad-
vance towards reconciliation. Much
of the bitter feeling, they said, was the
result of misunderstanding or of mis-
takes which the President has since, by
his actions, if not by direct declaration,
admitted to be such. and done something
to correct; and now Gen. Grant, with a
party behind him such as never exis-
ted in this country before, might forget
the past without any danger of having
his motives misunderstood, and make
friends of those who have always been
looked upon as the leaders of the party.
The greatest efforts, as is already known
were directed to the bringing together
of Mr.. Sumner and the President, bnt
those who approached the latter found
him as immovable as rock. The Pres
.ident disclaimed ever having taken pert
in any movement to impair the influence
of the Massachusetts, Senator in the
Senate or elsewhere, and said that he
had no share in the removal, last Spring
of Mr.. Sumner from the Craftsmanship
of the Foreign Relations Committee;
but he thinks that Mr.. Sumner has
done more to injure him than any other
100 men ever did, and, in perfect llur-
mony with his character, as generally
understood, is too obstinate to make
any move toward peace. The Presi-
dent is reported to feel most sorely re-
mark attributed to Mr.. Sumner, and
extensively published last Summer. that
Gen. Grant was s'the lowest man who
ever occupied the, Presidential chair. :"
MI. Summer, on the other hand, feels
indignant ut the treatment which he
has received Mt the hands of the Presi-
dent, or of those who are supposed to
represent him; but, while he asked no
one to assist in returning him to his
old committee, and while no position
which could be conferred on him would
make him approve much of the Presi-
dents policy, generous treatment at the
hands of those Senators who are under
stood to represent Gen. Grants wishes
would doubtless have removed some of
the feeling on both sides. Bnt, when
the Senate was carefully canvassed ard
only seven Of those who stood by Sum-
ner last Spring were found ready to vote
for his restoration, though it was thought
that a majority would favor it, if they
believed it could be done, it was seen
that further effort was useless. The
efforts to bring Gen. Grant and other
Senators together were not SO great,
and had also been abandoned. There
are, as yet, 10 signs of breaking out
of fresh hos.iIities; and, as it is not un-
lerstood that any of the appointments
now before the Senate will be strongly
opposed, a truce may be expected for a
while at least.
After the adjournment Of the Senate
yesterday, the Republicans of that body
met in caucus, which continued i'll ses-
sion until 4 clock. A resolution was
introduced instructing the Chairman to
appoint a committee to enquire into
the expediency of abolishing some of
the present standing committees, and
to report whether the public service re-
quires that new standing committees be
formed. Everything was moving
smoothly, and no opposition to this
proposition showing itself until Senator
Frelinghuysen, in q short speech, re-