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REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA long and high Nv inn
poraant caucus o. Republican Senate ,rs was
held yesterday afternoon devoted Principally
to a proposition that the Republic ans should
take an affirmative and congratu .iatory view
upon resumption of specie payments. It was
represented that as the bill for the resum ption
Of specie payments after Originating in the
Senate passed the House four years ago. while
that chamber was in Republican hands, it was
lifting that the triumphant completion Of the
policy then originated should be noticed by the
Senate before it passed from Republican hands.
The suggesu.on met with great and General an.
prevail, ana committee was appointed TO
draft resol ntlons on the subject. 1t is under
stood that they will embodv the Republican
doctrine on the question and be cast in a shape
TO invite the opposition by men as far
apart Democratic side as Thurman
and Voorhees,. 1t is hoped in other words. bv
emPha:1sniiy endorsing the currency as it is to.
make support of national banks an i'm oiled re-
suit OF their adoption. The resolutions recent
~ proposed by Senator Edmunds on the con-
tion. but no special action beyond their gen
eral approval was taken.
THE CIPHER DISPATCHES.
resolution Will be introduced in the House
next Tuesday from the Potter committee, ask
ng Tor sum OF money to enter into an inves-
tigation of the cipher dispatches. This reso-
luton would have been introduced Yesterday.
had 1t not been for adjournment out of respect
10 Mr. Schlelcher's memory. The sudden reso-
lutlon OF the Potter committee to investigate
che cipher dispatches, and the fact that a Ii the
administration members Of the committee
voted against the project, causes it to be sur
missed that counsel of Tilden has seen his wit
nesses and got his case ready for trial. 1t is
known he has written lately to members of the
committee, asking that the inquisition be ex-
tended to the clphering infamy, and there is
reason to say that the resolution Of the COM
mittee has been taken up on his motion with
a view rather to whitewash the galvanized
m ummy rather than to intensity his blackness.
THE NATIONALS AND VOORHEES,
The Green backers here insist tnat the National
party will have 10 be conciliated before Voor-
bees be elected. An Influential Green
Senator for six years beginning March 4th, but
declares that he may after all be defeated un-
less his friends accede to the demands Of the
Voorhees, should get every Democratic vote in
joint convention he would still lack one vote of
sufficient number to secure an election, if he
| is returned he must get that vote from the Ma
tlonas. of which party there are twenty-six
members in the legislature. Now, in order to
! gain that vote the Gseenkackers say the friends
OF MIR. Voorhees, must support James Buchanan
OF Indianapolis and chairman of the State
convention of the Nationals, for the United
States Senatorship for the time elapsing be-
tween the assem- bling Of the joint convention
and March 4th, being about six weeks. There
Is a precedent in Indiana for such an election.
ARMY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BILL,
Western Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Pit seems generally
conceded the Burnside bill for reorganization
of the army cannot pass. Tie bill az a whole
will be vigorously opposed bv some of the
| ablest members Of both houses on the oronnd
that it tends to subordinate the war DEPART
ment and even the President himself to the
general OF the army and establish q sort of
military arlstocracy, which is not in harmony
el5ner with The wishes of the people or the
aplr1t OF our institutions. Some of its leading
! opponents DO not hesitate to say that the au
thority which it gives the general Of the armv
Is not only excessive, but wholly unconstitu-
elonal. onder the conviction that the bill in
us present shape, or in any shape which it is
Likely to assume, will fail to receive the an
oval Of Congress. Representative Atkins.
WIZ the counsel and suggestive
officers of the army, has prepared
another as substitute, which although it is
OF the same general object as the Burnside bill.
differs considerably from the latter in its meth
DDS and details. Its principal provisions are
| as follows:
'ho arr 10 TO 1a
strength, not by summary dismissals or en-
forced retirements, but by the slower operation
OF natural laws. Vacancies created by death.
casualties, and resignation are to be left I'm
hlled. regiments are to be consolidated as
their affective strength decreases, and the
whole ar army line and staff alike allowed to
gradually shrink to the desired numer-
zeal limits. The retired list, instead
OF beng restricted as now to AGO.
Is to be made as large
as the necessities of the service may
require and all officers without exception are
to be placed on that list as fast as they be-
come lncapacitated for active duty, or reach
the age OF 62. In the meantime the supply of
new officers from West Point is to be cut off.
The bill provides that members of the next
two classes graduating from that academy
shall. If they SO desire, receive $3.50 each nnon
completion of their studies, and be permitted
20 return to their homes subject to recall at the
expiration of two years if their services are re-
quired.
The provisions Of the bill with regard to
reduction of the number of regiments in the
army are similar to those of the Burnside bill
The army, however, is placed under the SUI
preme control of the secretary of war. subject
only to the higher authority of the President
as commander-in-chief. The power of the gen
eral OF the army instead of being increased as
by Burnside's bill, is strictly limited tn it's
present bounds.
The bill provides for the adoption of the
battalion system of regimental Organization
and makes change in the present rule of pro-
motion as regards first and second lieu,enants
Lleutenants can now be advanced only in regi-
ments to which they are attached, while cap
talns and majors may be promoted to higher
ranks IN other regiments belonging to the same
army service. This difference the bill pro-
poses to abolish by giving lieutenants the same
eligibility to promotion in other regiment, that
| higher officers enjoy.
The general features of the PROMISED oroani
cation of the staff departments are similar to
| those attached to the army appropriation bill
| by the House last session, and subsequently,
abandoned. The interchangeability
OF line and staff officers, which is the much
crltlslZed feature of the Burnside bill is not
included in this substitute. Other changes of
| greater or less Importance are made in the de-
tails Ut army organization, but the above
are the salient features of the proposed law II
Is now under consideration of the sub-com-
AiVtee Oh Cne navy appropriation bill. and it
IS believed the latter will be recommended to
the full committee for adoption, at least its
more Important provisions. If, however. it
should not be incorporated in that bill, it will
shortly be introduced by Atkins or Hewett of
| New York, on its OWE merits as substitute
for the bills of Generals Burnside and BAN
ming.
WEATHER TO-DAY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-For upper Missis
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