Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-15
WASHINGTON.
Drexel Suggested as B0utWell's Sue.
cessOr.

NEW YORK, March l4--A dispatch from
| Philadelphia says unauthenticated rumors
arose out Of the Presidents visit to that
city Yesterday, connecting Drexel's name
with the Secretaryship of the Treasury
| Mr.. Drexel is member of the Philadel-
phia banking house of Drexel & Col
Boutwell, still Abous.
WASHINGTON, March l4.--The Cabinet
session was attended by all the members
to-day, Boutwell, being present from the
Treasury.
Mr.. Boutwell, has not yet ,resigned, and
the President has not decided on his sue.
cessor. He said tonight that he will not
determine on one before Monday.
1t is lenied that the visst of the Presi-
dent to Philadelphia had any political sig
nifcance that Robson is to leave the Cab.
met. The rumor that prominent Phila-
delphia banker is to succeed Boutwell, is
also pronounced untrue.
The Extra Session.
The President has no occasion to keep
the Senate in session longer than it chooses
to remain, but until an adjournment shall
take place he will continue to send in NOM
nations for its action.
The President will leave for St. Louis
some time in April.
Appointments, ETC..
Among the visitors appointed by the
President to the Naval Academy is Prof. q.
G. Rogers, of Tennessee.
Among the appointments of the Senate
to-day were the following: Cornelius A.
Logan, of Kansas, Minister to Chill; John
Foster, of Indiana, Minister to Mexico; J..
+. Casey, Collector of Customs at New Or
leans; John A. Burbank, of Dakota, Gov
ernor of Dakota.
The Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clsred dividend of 10 per cent in favor of
the creditors of ihe Eighth National Bank
ofNew York, making in ali dividends of 60
per cent.
Impeachment Bingham
The name of Ex- Congressman Bingham
has been mentioned without authority in con
nection with the Japanese Mission. It. is
certain the President has not even intimat
ed that be would appoint him to that posi-
ton, although he is disposed to send him
abroad in q diplomatic capacity.
Three Important Cases Under the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-The Supreme
Court of the United Safes will soon de-
eide on hree very important cases, already
argued, coming within the provisions of the
first section Of the Fourteenth Amendment
to-the Constitution. As this section has
not yet been construed by the court, the
importance of the decision in the cases can
not be over-stated, The first of these three
cases is known as the New Orleans
slaughterhouse case. The Legislature
of Louisiana, in 1864, chartered an
organization known as the 'Slaugh-
terhouse Company" and con-
ferred upon it the exclusive right of provid-
ing all the landing places for live stock COM
ing to New Orleans, and also gave it the
exclusive right of the building and furnish
ing of all buildings wherein the killing of
animals for food should be allowed. The
corporation was required to provide, under
penalty, sufficient landing room and ade-
quate quarters for the slaughter of all ami
mails required for food in the city. The
butchers of New Orleans claim that this
act of the Legislature is an exclusive privi-
lege, and that the restraint on them is VI
olstion of the section of the Constitution
cited above, which is as follows:
NNO OIdJ0 eudl LlAko OT 6uIOrC0 any law
which shall abridge the privileges or immu-
mites of citizens of the United States, nor
shall any State deprive any person of life,
liberty or property without due process of
sw, nor deny to any person within its ju-
risdiction the equal protection of the laws"
Another case involving the construction
Of that portion of the section above quoted, |
which has been argued, is that of Barte- |
myer against the State of Iowa. The plain |
,iff claims that under that section he can |
recover the value of certain liquors belong |
ing 10 him, which were seized and destroy |
ed under the State prohibitory liquor law. |
The third case is important as setting the |
question as to the citizenship of women and |
indirectly as to suffrage, and is entitled |
Mrs. Myra BradweIl, of Chicago, against |
he State of Illinois," Mrs. Bradwell, who |
publishes cIeditable law magazine, made i
application for admission to the courts for |
he purpose of practicing law. She vas re-
used, not on the ground that she was not
earned in the law and fully competent, but |
she was woman. The question, |
therefore, to be decided is, whether, under |
he following paragraph in the first section |
1f the Fourteenth Amendment, woman is
! citizen of the United States: "All persons
BORN or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside"
It's expected that the Court will finish |
Is business so as to adjourn on the 1st of
May.