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Show VASHI(,10V. fcverybody 'Kublue tor Hay em. i Washington, 10. There is much) favo.-j.blc c jf:nuc-nt on the action o1 the S'.-nute in cor: lir : ni r: the cabinet I uppointmenl.i. It is the impression that ti.e administration will, without! di.l.iy, p.;t into (tk-et through the : various executive department f, the I policy outlined in the inaugural. 'I no pr'-siuent, this afternoon and evening, 1 w,n coM-r.uuLtti-d upon the tact thai ' h: government in now fully organized. ! All Lho members (if thu cabinet will , take the oath of office on Monday, jam! enter immediately upon their : respective duties. Tne first cabinet meeting will bj on Tuesday, in accordance ac-cordance with custom. Mrs. lfuyc heid her first reception at the white house this afternoon. It was very numerously atlented principally prin-cipally by ladicB resident in Washington, Washing-ton, and included a hirge and distinguished distin-guished representation of tiie unofficial unoffi-cial class as well. Fur the first time in a number of months a eettkd feeling pervades Washington, and there is no excitement excite-ment present or prospective to distract dis-tract the public mind. Tho unexpectedly unex-pectedly prompt confirmation of all tne cabinet appointments lias removed re-moved tho last remaining doubt of tho thoroughness ot the settlement ol the long existing presidential com plications, nnd everybody now awaits with calmness the practical workings of the now administration whicli has at last been fully organized anil equipped for tho work of earrynif out its avowed statesmanlike anil conciliatory policy. The nominations of dchurz, Key and Evarts, thougl sharply criticized nnd opposed bj Heveral republican leaders in the sontp. hv l.nn "'""''j; '"rr"'1" by Sargent, Cooth and Mitchell from tho first, and Sargent has taken nr n,-,or.;.iilir nniivn and nromiuen t par: especially activo and prominent part in instituting their speedy confirmation. confirma-tion. Jones cf Nevada regarded theso appointments with strong disfavor, but in common with some other republicans who thought them unwise, he relraincd from any factious opposition, when their ultimate confirmation was found to be evident. Sargent and Booth do not intond to recommend any new appointments for federal officers m, California unless some unexpected. 1 emergency should arise before the expiration of the respective terms of tho present incumbents. This accords ac-cords not only with their own lines of action hitherto, but with tho civil service principles ol President Hayes, as announced in his letter of nccep-tauco nccep-tauco and iu his inaugural address. Local politicians will save trouble and postago by considering this announce : ment author itivo. BegulatioiiB will bo prepaied and issued some timo this month by the interior department to carry into effect a new loan and providing for the sale of desert land. Among the amendments agreed on by the conference con-ference committee and enacted ns part of the bill, was one requiring a1 cash payment of 25 cents per acre at the dato of making application for entry. A telegraph blunder omitted a portion of tho dispatch of the 1st instant, about the California Bchool indemnity bill, so as to erroneously give Wigginton and Luttrell tho credit, which belongs to Booth cud Sargent, of obtaining the passage of the bill by the senate and of making earnest personal representations to President Grant to secure its approval. ap-proval. Tho Bundry civil appropriation bill, as it became n law, provides that tho coat of surveying ordinary public lands shall not exceed ten dollars per mile for standard lines, seven dollars for township and Bir dollars for section sec-tion lines, but authorize! the land office to nllow for the survey of heavily timbered or mountainous recions as uiucn aB sixteen dollars per mile tor standard lines, fourteen for township and ten for section lines. The act also provides that its appropriations for surveys ot public lands shall be available immediately, s Mrs. Hayes this morning received ' a beautiful bouquet of rosebuds and violets, accompanied with a card bearing the words, "from a Mississippi Missis-sippi republican who stands by the statesman who has said he who best serves his country gerves hia party best.' " Chicago, 10. Specials any Thur-man Thur-man and Eaton were the democrats who voted against tho confirmation of the cabinet to-day. Senator Jones of Nevada i3 said to havo cast the only vote against Schurz in lho committee. com-mittee. Jouea dislikes Schurz' theories theo-ries about tho bonanza mining and opposes giving Schurz appelate jurisdiction juris-diction over all important mining titles. Tribune'sjyashington: One point made against Key was that republicans republi-cans would feel humiliated to ask for postofficcs from an old rebol. It is generally understood, however, that Key will make so few changes in the postoftices that asking will not be worth while. Ingersoll, though it has bcon announced an-nounced that he will speak soou in New York nnd airnign tho administration, adminis-tration, states positively that he will do no such thing |