The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-30
FROM WASHINGTON.

Correspondence of the New York Herald
WASHINGTON, Nov. q, 1865. AS the
session of Congress approaches much
speculation and solicitude exist among
the radicals concerning the Presidents
forthcoming message. Manyprofess to
believe that his reconstruction policy
has disappointed his expectations, and
that he will renounce it to a considera-
ble extent and recommend more strin-
gent measures. There are the strongest
reasons for asserting that these gentle
men are reckoning without their host.
The President has at no time and on no
occasion uttered a word in public ex-
pressing the slightest disappointment
at the practical workings of his policy,
or intimated the least inclination of mo-
difying or changing it in any particular.
On the contrary, he has uniformly de-
clured more progress was being made
than any one would have been warran-
tel in predicting few months ago. In
some instances The organ iZed aotinn OF
Southern men may not have met his
expectations but this is no reason for
abandoning his lavOrite idea that States
are indestructible, and that secession
under our form of government was, is
and forever must be impossible. He
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sage the principles that underlie all his
public utterances for years, and thereby
bring to his support the entire cOnser-
vative elemsnt of Congress, without re-
gard to party affiliations. al
On inquiry it is ascertained that but
comparatively few of the credentials of
members elect of the House of Repre-
sentatives have been received either
frnn 40 loft inSurraati nnnPU the
other states. Therefore the Clerk of
the House has not prepared a list of the
members, and will not probably do SO
before Saturday. No credentials have
been received from the late insurrec-
tonary states excepting from Virginia
in part and Tennessee complete. The
position of the Clerk of the House is
understood to be as follows: That he
is merely to administer the law of 1863
in placing the names of members elect
upon the roll, his course on doubtful
points being controlled by the prece-
dents set by the House in the absence
of judicial ruling as to the construction
of the law. Whatever defects may be
discovered can of right be remedied
by the House. In addition to the
validity and formality of the ere
dentials, should these facts appear,
the only question which could occur
would he whether the states lately
in rebellion are now in full relation to
the other states in the sense contem-
plated by the law of 1868; OF, in differ
ent language, whether they are COM
pletely restored TO their rights and priv
ileges i'm the Union. The question as to
whether certain members elect can or
take the test oath will not prop
erIy occur until after the election of the
Speaker, whose duty ii is to administer
it to the other members before proceed
ing any further on the business of or
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The Secretary of the Treasury makes
40 secret of the fact that his forthcoming
,eport on the finances will be merely an
of the views recently pre-
,ented in his Fort Wayne speech.
Among the Congressman arrived to-day
ire G. w. Anderson, of Missouri Sen
tor John II. Stockton, of New Jersey;
3olonel StilIwell, of Indiana, and s. w. |
fulton and III. M. Brownwell, of llli-
lois.