Des Arc citizen., 1866-05-12
THE PRESIDENT SUSTAINED BY A
 MAJORITY OF HIS CABINET AFTER

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 We clip the following from the Mem- phis Aayus of May the Sth:
 Secretary Seward stands firmly by the President, and most of the other members of the Cabinet, in opposition to the disor- ganizing disunion scheme reported by the Reconstruction Committee, commonly called the sCentral Directory" Secreta- ries Seward, Stanton, McCulloch and Welles, are now known to give their ad- hesion fully to the whole policy of the President. Much to our surprise, we arc told that Mr. Stanton supports the Presi- dent and opposes the schemes of tho Con- grcssional Radicals with ardorand enthu- siasm. The following dispatch is said to have been prepared for transmission, over the disseminating wires, to every part of the Union, by Secretary Seward under the supervision of the President himself:
 WASHINGTON, May l, 1066.---lt is undcr- stood that in tho Cabinet meeting to-day the President invited an expression of opinion from the Heads of Departments respecting the propositions reported on Monday last by the Congressional Committee on Reconstruction
 
 to have ensued, in which, if the rumor be true, Secretary Seward declared himself in very decided and emphatic terms against the plan of tho Committee, and in favor of tho immediate admission of loyal representatives from the lately rebelliousr States. Secretary ATcCulloch was as positive as the Secretary of State in his opposition to the plan recommend- ed by the Committee, and expressed himself as strongly in favor of all immediate consum- nation of the Presidents restoration policy by the admission into Congress of loyal men from the Southern States Secretary Stanton was equally decided in his opposition to the lCommittee's propositions; he was for adhering flo the policy which had been agreed upon and Fconsstently pursued by the Administration: and he was gratfed that the President 5had brought rne subject 10 tiie consideration of the Cabinet Secretary Weles was unequivo- < callv against the Committees s scheme, and was earnest in his support of the Presidents poli- cy, comprchending the instant admission into Congress of loyal representatives ofthe States ] lately in rebellion. Secretary Harlan was ra- ltller retlcent, and expressed no opinion. 1 Postmaster G eneral Dennison was in favor of carrying out the restoration policy of the 1 President, but expressed some doubts as to the precise time at which loyal representatives from the Southern States should be admitted to seats in Congress- Attorncy-GeneralS Speed was not present at the meeting, being on a visit to his home in Kentucky. The President was earnest in his opposition ito the report of the Committed and declared himself against all conditions precedent to the admission of loyal representatives from the Southern States in ! the shape of amendments to the Constitution, ! or by the passage of laws. He insisted that under the Constltution no State could be de- prved of it's equal suffrage in the Senate, and that Senators and Representatives ought to be at once admitted into the respective Houses, as prescribed by law and the Constitution I He was for rigid adherence to the Constitu- l tion as it is, and remarked that having sus- l tained ourselves under it during terrible re- bellion, he thought that the Government could berestored without resort to amendments He remarked, in general terms, that # the or ganic lasc IS to De changeduat aH, a should De a l C ti,ae schen aU hc States and al the people ca' participate in the alteration. ~ l :