The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-04-17
WASHINGTON.
Rumored Cabinet Cbaup...

WASHINGTON, April 16-Rumors are again
current here that Mr.. Evarts will be requested
to resign, as not being IN accord with the Re.
publican party; that Devens is to succeed Davis
on the supreme bench; that Secretary Thomp-
son will succeed Devens, and Gov. Rice, Of
Massachusetts,, is to be Secretary of the Navy.
The Quakers and the President.
A delegation of Friends had an interview
with the President to-day, and presented a petit
tod from the Universal Peace Union, asking
him to continue the Indian peace policy. The
President said he was, as far as consistent, in
favor of peace.
Reduction of Clerks.
In day or two, two hundred employees of the
bureau OF engraving and printing of the treas
ury department will be dismissed. The reduc-
ton will be followed at the end of a month, by
an additional dismissal of two hundred.
The bank note company that has been print
ing tue backs of the ST. and 50 legal tenders,
have also reduced its force to great extent,
owing to the excess of these denominations now
on hand, and it is the intention of the Secretary
to bold the notes of these denominations in
reserve and exchange for silver.
Major Reno's Case.
Major Reno, recently tried by court martial
on charge of insulting the wife of brother
vice, has forwarded to the war department a
request for delay in the presentation of the
case to the President, claiming that he has adj
ditional evidence, which will tend to the miti-
cation of the sentence. The request was
granted.
Supreme Court Decisisn.
The Supreme Court decided today the case
in which Chas. Fox of the city of New York
devised his entire property to the government
OF the Y nited States for the purpose of aiding
IN the discharge of the debt created by the war
for the suppression of the rebellion. The sur-
f0QatA held that the TTnifo1
take real estate nnder the statutes of New
York and that the will was void as to the de.
wise OF lands, but that the government could
take the personal estate. The instrument was
admitted to probate as a will of the personal
estate. The Court of Appeals affirmed this
Judgment. 1t is here said there is no question
but that the United States may hold real prop.
erty IN the state whenever needed for the use
OF the government in the execution of its DOW
ers and in such case if it cannot be acquired by
may be taken against their will by the govern
ment in exercise of the power of eminent do
main. But the power of the state to regulate
the tenure of real property within its limits
and the means of its acquisition and transfer
and the extent to which a testamentsry dispo.
sition of it may be exercised BY the owners il
held to be undOubtei. -
The right of the state in this respect follows
from Its sovereignty within its limits as to all
matters over which jurisdiction has not been
expressly OF by necessary implication trans
ferred to the Federal government AS the
statutes of New. York prohibit such devses
there is no power TO make them. The iudg-
ment of the Court Of Appeals is affirmed.
The Supreme Court in the case of Clam.
collector, vs.. Mason (error to the Circuit Conrtt
for the district of Massachusetts, it was de-.
cided that SUGGESTIONS to real estate ara onlv
taxable upon the successor becoming liable to
possession. W
The Chief Justice announced that the term
will close on the 9TH of May. The insuficiencv
OF the appropriation for printing the records is
the cause of this early adjournment.
Post ONCE Employees.
The Postmaster General has issued an order
providing that hereafter all original appoint
mail route messengers, and local agents. shall
be made only for the probationary term Of six
months. - Ola
Various.
This afternoon companies A, B and D. of tho
colored district militia. paraded in honor Of the
anniversary t1 OF the emancipation proclamation,
speech.