The Portland daily press., 1877-02-20
WASHINGTON.



WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-The President will
leave the White House March Sd, and will be
the guest of Secretary Fish at Washington
until April Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris will be the
GUESTS of Mrs. Louis Dent until May, when
they will sail for Europe. Ulysses Grant. Jr.,
will enter the practice of law in New York
Colonel Grant will return to Gen Sheridan's
headquarters, Chicago. The President will not
give farewell dinner to the Cabinet. Before
his departure for Europe he will 90 West
The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill.
The House Committee on Appropriations
to-day completed the sundry civil appropriation
bill and authorized the chairman to report it at
the earliest opportunity. Among the items
are the following The expenses of the q. s.
courts, inc1dlng marshals, attorneys, wit
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers, $3.50, COO;
signal service, 100000 coast survey, about
$4OO.0O0; for repairs and preservation of public
buildings throughout the country, 100000;
for the purchase of additional land for the
Boston post-ofice and sub treasury, $181, 554;
for establishing day beacons on the coasts of
Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
$40 600; for the establishment of lighthouses
Bed Shoal, R. l., 5000; Taylor Island, Ga
$4,000; Cape Canaveral Fla, $4,000; Cape St.
Bias, Fla $1,000; for the payment of claims of
Southern mail contractors for services rendered
before the war. 1858 900; for Hayden explora-
tons, $4,000; for Powell organizations, $780,
600; for continuous work on public buildings at
Hartford, CT, $4,000, and at Fall River,
Mass, $4,000 The total amount of the bill is
about $14,0O0,000.
The Louisiana Government
There is considerable speculation here to day
as to what action, if any, the President is likely
to take Immediately in regard to the recogni,
ton OF the state governm ent in Louisiana, but
thus far there is nothing TO indicate any further
determination by the administration than was
before known.
This morning the President was visited BY
the Attorney General, Secretary of War and
Secretary OF State, and attention given among
other things to the condition of affairs in Lou
IsIana, and also to an article in the Sunday
was interpreted by the government officers as
strongly advocating violence and defiance of
law, and it was given serious attention SUBJ
sequently IN an Interview of the Attorney
General with the President: Judge Taft Sent
for q. 8. Attorney Wells of this district, With
whom he was in long and earnest converse
tiou.
The President has excluded himself from
the general public to-day and receives ouly
Cabinet officers on business which is regarded
of unusual importance.
Secretary Morrill,.
Secretary Morrill, continues to improve. His
appetite is returning and bis friends feel conf
dent that 1t will not be long before he will be
ont.
Rear-Admiral Goldsborough's condition was
not 30 encouraging to-day as for two or three
days past.
Dom Plat 10 be Prosecuted.
1t is mentioned this evening upon the highest
official authority that the President has deter
mined upon the prosecution of Dom Piatt
editor of the Capitol, for libel and seditious
writing, indictable under both the common aud
statutory law.
I'm General.
The Tribune's Washington special says Til
den has within the past month been offering
Inducements to the Southern Democrats to re-
main faithful to bis cause. Il Is DOW suggested
that it may be possible for the Republicans TO
organize the next House by the aid of Southern
votes.
Gov. Hayes declares that be will not reach
any conclusion concerning his Cabinet until be
has conferred with leading men of the parry.
The Republican Senators have an under
Standing that if the Democrats filibuster in the
house, the President of the Senate should
compete the count and declare Hayes elected.
SuopGnas for forty-two new witnesses in the
LOUISIANA Investigation have been issued to
testify on the eligibility question. This snp-
gests that Field and Tucker contepnate min
acdrra7ato proceedings in the Supreme Cont on
the Presidency question, though MIR Hewitt
characterized the report as sheer nonsense
The Herald's special says MIR. Knott's Honsa
Committee is prepared to show that S150 o0o
was spent by the Republicans in the Ohio
election. Some of the checks have Mr., HAYES
endorsement