Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-14

PRESIDENT requesting that his nomination to
the Office of Char Jus,ice NJ thu rr,i,s, 9, -.
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rnn,, s ,,,,n 70 tne senate this after
h''N "Hhufa"tng the lOmlnauon.
THR SENATE Cos>urrvx ON pp,yuvova
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day morning to consider Mr.. Morton,s resolu
ton changing he mode of cond acting Presideu-
tisl elections, a,d making the President and
VIC resiuehe eiecIlve oIIectiy oy the people
The CUsHTSe- DAVIS I,Krrzs.-senators ar
GENT who. An the rsnnb,ican senato-iaI csncns
sent, .no' IN 'uo iepaohean oena'o'isi caucus
yes'erosy aiterhooh' reau ene letter purporting
10 have been written by Hon. Caleb Gushing to
jefferson Davis in March, 1861, positively re-
fused to allow any one to make a copy of the
letter for publication. He says he was besieged
for copy. but that he declined all requests, for
the reason that he was under special obliga-
lions to the party from whom be obtained the
letter not to permit 1t to be copied.
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PUBLIC pUILplSSs'-ih mouse co"m'teee
on Public Buildings and Grounds this morning
heard several members Of Congress with refer
ence to the publie bnildings under construction
in their respective districts. They have CON
cLuaeu 70 inHlte All meInDets 70 nave CONFER
themgelyes as To the necessit;es ef tbe nnbiic
service in this direction. The committee is
decided In the opinion that while under the
present oisordered conditon OF the afalrs or
tne souhtiy ~ is unMise 70 begin any new work,
yei tne numoer Oh uhe mpioyed men IN the large
eiues, Wno a,e IN pressing neea Oh me common
neeessitles OF nie, Is sumcient argument
against suspendibg operations on government
ouldings already UNDER way. They will recon.
memo 10 tne House mat &C present no more new
on partially constructed ones be prosecuted
until completed.
THyCARrNyr ON TuV CuIvv Jrsr,cvsu,,
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Inc speciAi Oapinet session OF to-day lasted
about 10 hours, and 1t Is understood the time
was wholly taken mn with a discuss;on of the
CuslSpa. The President, at the openiug of the
meeS = announced his determination to with
draw NE Nomination. and IL II nositiveiv known
that be would have done so yesterday had the
Senate remained longer in Session a. he was
then apprised of the letter in the session of
the War department, which was presented by
n Iea.ar AZ 'ne caucus yesterday as a
be confirmed. SO thai it is now ahsolnteiv
certain that Mr.. Cushng's nomination
would have been withdrawn without letter
from him making the request that it should be.
mere are some wno believe that the Cabinet
conference to.dsy resulted IN the choice OF
new name, out tnat u Will NOT DC made known
until whoever mas been decided upon will ex-
press MS Willingness TO accept the position.
TIE WEST yIpctNIA Ftrcrrou Coxrrsrs
sro cou,nH,ar,, 49, - 80 ,"o.,c
are completely muddied, ana II now looks as II
the subject will take wide range OF debate in
the House, inssmuch as the Co mittee on Eec-
for two weefs to throw light on the matter,
have not a s1ff Gent vote in one direction to
make an absolute majority report There will
be three reports by the committee: Nessrs
Smith, Thomas, Spear, Lamar shd Grassland
(fve) favor the absolute lie ality of the October
election. Mr.. Todd concurs in the view that it
was held on the proper day, but nevertheless
holds that the matter should be referred back
to the committee with instructions to send for
persons and papers, to satisfy all concerned
that the October election was a fair expression
OF the opinion of the people. Messrs Hazelton
and Robinson hold that the August election
was valid; while Messrs. Pike, Hyde, and Har-
rison are OF the opinion that neither the Octo-
Der nor the August election was legal. Those
recorded against the October election are
Messrs. Hazelton, Pike, Robinson, Harrison
and hyde, (hve,l with five In its favor, and the
remaining members divided as above stated SO
tnat IT is impossible for tie committee to pre-
sent majority report
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ries this morning the subject of woma snfrrage
in Jrtab camar1 NJ wTIoox S.I... -
tbs Sau, Vnrb W o ~. 1900 .. ueIegate from
inS,tsS 70 S5n, sV ,ns suninage society, Deihg
dataii the Gi.,orn n, th pIocseueu 70
9omar s,tftn,ai ~ IN suuyeS., stattn8 that
aSdrsss bafors ta az ~ u Vi from an
room i've xeaTssoo and psn.,oS IN ena' very
MING SrkR at tbs fine NJ Gsnnnn haida.so
from IItah was nreaan. 81 "a t.ss NJ. Do.e
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