Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-17
.Pierrepont and Washburne to bt
Retained.
Senate In Executive
Session.
CONFIRMATION OF NOMINA-
TONS.
PACKARD TO SUPPORT HIMSELF BY
FORCE OF ARMS.
WASHINGTON, March Is.

A special Cabinet meeting was
held this afternoon. II vas en-
tirely devoted to the considera-
ton of appointments to office in
cases where commissions have
expired or about tn expire. No
diplomatic or other appointments OF
general interest were under cOnsidera-
ton and there was 10 reference what
ever to Southern matters.
Secretary Schurz has notified all the
heads of bureaus of the Interior De-
partment that during his administra-
ton of its affairs there will be no re-
mOvals of clerks or employees, except
for cause, and no promotions, except
for merit. 1t will therefore be use
less for persons tn file papers soliciting
clerical appointments or promotion on
personal or political grounds, and in
addition to this it can he stated that
thereare at present no vacancies OF any
kind to be filled.
Steps are being taken for the repre-
sentation of the United States at the
coming Worlds Fair in Paris. A Cab
met officer is authority forthe statement
that the President will make to-mor
row all the nominations to the Senate
he intends, and that the Senate will
probably adjourn on Saturday. An
extra session will undoubtedly be
called from the 18th of May to the LIST of
June.
The Democratic caucus for the
Speakership is active. Sayler and
Morrison are candidates and are or
ganizing their campaign. Cox is try
ing to secure the solid South by trav-
cling in that section.
Secretary of State Evarts stated to
Chicago Congressman Brentan that
the Department will not hereafter re-
fuse to appoint foreign-born citizens AS
Co lsuls and Ministers to lands o ftheir
birth. This will reverse the policy of
Secretary Fish and give universal sat
isfaction among the foreign population
in America.
There is good reason to believe that
very few If any diplomatic changes will
be made at present. None very i'm
portant seem now contemplated.
1t is positively determined that no
nomination will be sent to the Senate
during the present session to fill the
vacancy on the Supreme Court Bench
caused by the resignation of Judge
Davis. The most influential recon-
mendations from the South for this
position are said to be about equally
divided between HerSchel V. Johnson
and ex-senator Joshua Hill, ofGeorgia,
but it is as yet entirely uncertain
whether or not a Southern man will
be chosen.
CHICAGO, March 10.
A I11bunc's Washington special
says: Southern Republicans to night
are much discouraged. Marcy and
Smith, Louisiana Representatives, are
willing to concede nothing except that
that the result of the Presidents pro-
posed policy will be an abandonment
of the Republican party in the South,
and say ii the troops are WITHDRAWN
and Packard not recognized affirma-
lively, the next election in Louisiana
will be $4,000 Democratic solid, and
Republican voters and organizations
will entirely disappear. They insist
that their entire existence depends up
on the recognition of Packard, which
now seems impossible, and the with
drawal of the troops from the State
House to the barracks seems likely.
Many prominent Southern Democrats
heartily indorse the policy of forming
i'm the South a new party independent
of old party lines. Randall, Gibson,
Levy, and Jones of Florida, hold that
view.
New YORK, March Is.
A Times Washington special says:
A caucus of Republican Senators Is
called to meet to morrow morning, for
what particular purpose no one seems
to understand. The call for the eau
Gus vas issued upon the request OF
three Senators and no reason for the
meeting was stated, but il IL supposed
it is to nominate a President pro tenn,
and a report is current that the friends
OF Conkling have called the meeting
in expectation, in the absence of Ferry,
that they will be able to nominate
Conkling.
New YORK, March l6.
A Iri6une's Washington special says:
The extra session question wears new
look to day. Sherman is understood
to have come to the conclusion that it
will not be prudent to get along until
| December without al appropriation for