Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-15
WASHINGTON TOPICS AND GOSSIP.

NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.
Representative Wilson will report from
the Judiciary Committee, some day this
week, bill comforting the rights of suf-
frage upon. negroes in the District of Col
umbia.
IMPRESSIONS OF EARL RUssELL's COURSE
The impression prevails here that Earl
Russell, when he receives Secretary Sew
ards reply to his response, to submit the
question of damages committed on our
commerce by anglo-rebel pirates, to a COM
mission appointed jointly by the American
and English Governments, will reconsider
his decision, and ask to submit the ques-
ton to arbitration.
PROPOSED TREATY WITH MEXICO.
There are rumors that General Logan,
Immediately upon communicating with
the republican government of Mexico,
will propose a commercial treaty between
the United States and the Republic of
Mexico, which shall secure to American
citizens important rights upon the great
lines from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific
coast, and such an extension of this list as
will generally extend the Mexican market
for American manufactures, and exchange
for those privileges what may be secured
by military interposition if necessary, the
United States to loan $4,000, 600 or
guarantee Mexican bonds to that aunet.'rtI
IN behalf of the Mexican Republic. This
last should be received with allowances
ON PRESIDENT LINCoLN's DEATH.
The select Committee of one from. each
State, appointed by the House to consider
and report by what token of respect and
affection it may be proper for Congress to
express its deep sensibility of the nation
to the event of the decease of Abraham
Lincoln, met this morning, all the MEM
bers being present. 1t was decided to set
apart the 18th day of February, his birth
day, and to invite the Secretary of War to
pronounce a eulogy on his life and char
acter, at the Capitol of the nation, in pres
| ence of both Houses of Congress, and
that the President of the United States,
his Cabinet, the Supreme Court, and the
foreign Ministers, be invited to attend. The
Committee then considered the question as
to the amount of money Congress ought
to appropriate for the benefit of the fam
| lily. A majority of the Committee favor
| ed $4,000. Quite a number $780, OO0
They adjourned, however, without coming
to any definite conclusion. They will
meet again on Monday, when the matter
will be decided.
WARD BEECHER's' SPEECH.
Henry Ward Beechors speech in the
Hall of the House, tonight, seems to have
been intended as an offset to what his old
friends have been calling his recent back
slidings. He argued that the emancipa-
ton promised by President Lincoln would
not be complete till the freedmen were
given all the rights which liberty means
in this land to any other freedman. He
secuted the idea that suffrage was not a
natural right-it is-if it was not, then
liberty was not, for it was absurd to talk
of giving liberty without all the rights by
which that liberty is to be main
tained. But going beyond this, he in
sisted that not only all men, but all women
had the right to vote. His demands for
the rights of the negroes were received
with loud applause, mingled with a very
few Kisses, but when he came to argue for
negro suffrage, the audience first laughed
and then listened in silence. Chief Jus.
tice Chase presided. The exercises were
opened by Rev. Highland Garnett, anegrC
of amazing blackness and fine education
The old door-keepers at the House say il
is the largest audience ever packed il
there within their recollection.