The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-28
Washington Items.
speciI Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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WASHINGTON, April 25.
The Reconstruction Committee had
hare-up to-day, and came near makinj
an end Of their work by agreeing Il
disagree, and report that fact 10 Con
gress, with a request that they be dis
charged from further consideration O.
the matter submitted to them.
hr. Boutwell,, Of Massachusetts,, pro.
posed resolution providing for repre-
sentation based on population, with 8
proviso that, where citizens over the
age Of tHentyone years are excluded
from suffrage, there shall be no repre-
sentation for that class He urged,
also, that the question of negro suf-
irage be left to the states to decide,
and he argued that, with the excep>
ton of two or three New England
States, the whole Union would vote
against universal suffrage.
Thsd. Stevens proclaimed that if the
Committee was now going to undo all
that they had done, they had better
throw up the work and adjourn sine die.
Mr.. Howard, Of Michigan, was Of the same
opinion, and hereupon a great hubbub Ell
o..
adjourned 70 Saturday next.
afr. Stan on was before the House Judi
ciary Committee to-day, giving his views
upon the assassination plot, and arguing
that JEFF. Davis was engaged in it.
So far as theSenate is concerned, the Colo
RADIO question was disposed OF this afternoon,
BY the passage OF the bill 10 admit that ter
ritory as a State within the Union. The
vote stood nineteen yeas 70 thirteen nays,
making six majority for the bill-iust the
number which the friends Of the measure
claimed FOR it yesterday.
AS stated in my dispatch Of last night, it
is stated freely, on the one hand, that this
sctiOn was materially effected by an agree
ment that the Senator's elect from Colorado
had pledged themselves 10 vote and act
with the Radicals in all measures Of great
moments while, on the other hand, it was
conhdentially asserted that the Senator'S
elect had given assurances that their votes
would be east with the Conservatives of the
Senate.
Nothing occurred in the discussion
to confirm either of these outside as
sertions, except perhaps remotely in
the speech of Mr.. Sumner, who, appa-
rently, quoting his friends remarks,
said we need the votes of the Colorado
Senators; but however this may have
been, Mr. Samner was not a friend by
any such promises, for he opposed the
bill to the best of his ability; nor
would it appear that there had been
any distinct understanding as to the
future course Of the prospective Sena-
tors, if we may judge by the mixed
character of the vote to-day. II was
clearly shown that the population of !
Colorado does not by many thousands, |
the standard which has here |
JOfore been adopted at the admission
Of new States, and even the friends of |
The bill did not pretend to claim that
The population has at any time been
more than one-balf of the basis of rep
adopted in the States.
1t was clearly shown by Mr. Sumner
md Mr. Doolittle that there are not
,Eer five or six thousand votes in the
erritory; that their population and
mining interest have decreased greatly
ince the last census, and no valid rea-
on was shown by those who favored
he bill why Colorado should be ad-
nitted
Mr. Wade, who made an elaborate
peech against the admission of the
erritory five or six weeks ago, favored
he bill to-day, hut did not explain why
lie had changed his vote.
1t is probable that the House may
Ass the bill, but its ultimate fate when
reaches the President is not 50 GER
ain. If there be any reason to form
n opinion as to the Presidents course,
re should incline to the belief that he
viii veto the bill on the ground of in
population.
The French Minister gave levee last
light, which was attended by about
fly persons, among them portion of
he members of the Convention of Med
cal Superintendent Of Lunatic Asy-
ums now in session here. Secretary
stanton was the only member of the
,abinet present The assemblage was
very brilliant one
The Union Congressional delegation
ield caucus to night, which was at
ended by all the members except two
T three. There was general unanimity,
q views expressed on the course TO be
uTsued by Congress and as to work
hat could be done, in order to pre-
erve the Republican party and insure
Is success in the future.
The members were decided in the
opinion that to this end Congress must
,ive them some affirmative policy upon
which the party can go to the people,
nd that universal suffrage must be ig-
lored by Congress and left for the
states TO determine. The meeting was
.lmost unanimous in favor of the adj
mission of the Tennessee delegates in
congress.