Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-04-12
PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL
RICH rs BILL.

Galleries last Friday EVENING"
scene Fever Before Wltmoss-
ed in that Chamber--Intense
Popular Interest.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The interest in
Congressional proceedings centered in the
Senate again to-day. The galleries were
packed from the beginning to the end, and
during the greater part of the day forty or
City members of the House were on the
floor. The session was one OF unusual in
terest, and also one Of unusual turbulence.
The journal was hardly read before MI.
Lane, efKansss, offered bis joint resolutions
proposing q basis Of reconstruction. He
called attention 70 the fact that they EN-
bodied the views Of the President as given
in his message, letters to State Conventions,
and the letter to Governor Sharkey. There
was at once an effort to learn II the measure
was held out as an olive branch by the
President, and for q moment Mr.. Lane
seemed inclined to let il appear that he
spoke for the President, but the cross ques-
tioning Of Mr.. Trumbull and Mr.. Brown
forced him into admitting that he had no
assurance or warrant for assuming that the
executive would new sanction a measure
embodying the idea of the Sharkey letter.
Mr.. Lane opened tho debate with a most
violent and vindictive assault upon Mr..
Wade. for his brief speech of last night
The Ohio Senator responded in very much
the same spirit and manner, and for an
hour or more the most direct personalities
were hurled across the chamber from one
Senator to the other. Mr.. Lane tnok the
opportunity to air his services in Kansas,
and talked himself hoarse in defense OF the
President. He said the Republican party
was going to pieces, and he had been labor
;n0 Co.. Iox, and nioht for UaaRe and mnnths.
to prevent il. The burden Of his speech
was that he had concluded it could only be
done by sustaining the President, and finally
he announced that hereafter he should be
found with Cowan, and Doolittle, and Nor
ton, and the Democrats Of all shades, from
Hendricks to Salisbury. The unreserved
manner in which he made the avowal,
prompted Mr.. Wade to characterize him as
ready to wear the collar of Andrew johnson,
which of course Lane denied with much
warmth, saying that everybody who knew
what Jim Lane had done in Kansas, would
pronounce it false. The fact that Mr.. Lane
said to two or three Senators yesterday that
he should vote for the Civil Rights bill. and
I against the message, gave additional inter
est to the lively debate. Ii was, OF course,
seen that his views had undergone quite a
., material change during the night or NOR
htuH, u tfICEC al u kCuCtot OOoitS ~ hNcV
. what had induced the change. 0"
= Mr.. Lane. without any apparent shame
finally gratifed this desire by avowing thai
he, yesterday, intended to vote for the bill
his action therein contingent upon some
adjustment which could not new be made
s This was what Judge Trumbul waited for
{ and he at once fastened Lane, by askins
n him If he wanted it understood that hi
o vote wss to be given in consideration o
g something. or, in other words, that it wa
n to be given rs a part of a bargain. There
d was great interest to hear Mr.. Lanes an
swer. He was very careful not to deny tn
e suggestion. and the galleries and the Senate
e were, left to believe that Mr.. Lane fount
# reason, within eighteen hours, to chang
his purpose on this most important measure
If There is, of course, considerable query as T.
the means used to effect this change. II!
. answered by saying that the fierce speecl
of Mr.. Wade, made last night, was tn
Is Gauss. g... .f.' yf
e The debate hetwcen Mr.. Wade and Mr.
,e Lane having closed. Mr.. D%r,little got tn
n floor on the veto message. He distributes
1t compliments pretty freely among the mem
le hers Of the Judiciary Committee, and o,he
Ie members who supported the bill. nnd thei
y made a long and laborcd speech to .Io'
Is that the Johnson policy Of tec,ustruc,iq
was inauenratcd By Mr. Lincoln ...,-
judge Trumhnll and Mr.. Henderson wor
ried him seriously with questions apt
e brought out the point very clearly that AIR
e Lincoln never bv word or deed indicated
IS belief that the Executive could dictate as t
the admission o fmombers of Congress.
Mr.. Doolittle read letters from gentlemen
" in Louisiana and Alabama, to prove thos
, States were in a coalition to be admitted t
representation. and that the evidence befOr
J. the joint committee of fifteen, and as fuI
nished by the correspondents Of Northern
newspapers, is incorrect. as Indicative, q
It Southern opinion, Mr.. Davis got the foo
10 at about hall. past three, for a few remarks
f" aud saving he would proceed q good dos
D. like an October rain-viz: with deliberatiou
3. and very much at his leisure, he wearie
the Senate and galleries with a characters
IS tic harangue Of two hours and a half, closin
n at a little after six. Mr.. Salisbury follow
~ ed in a brief and furious speech, which plair
p ly indicated that the private conversatio
on tho floor had settled the fate Of the vet
\. and the passage Of the bill. He denounce
the measure as unconstitutional, and sal
= its passage would he the beginning Of a revS
Il luton. He affected to deplore war but sal
State, who would attempt to execute th
: provisions Of the bill, and the people Z
10 Delaware would see their land drenched j
d blood before they would permit it. He ha
opposed the war Of the last four years, an,
q was now more than ever glad that he ha
done so, for he knew it preluded disunior
n For his part he could see nothing in the II
a ture but blood.
Il Mr.. Davis responded that if the bill pas
';s cd he should consider himself an alien I
the Government, and justified in hereafte
AZ resisting its action. =.
~ Mr.. McDougal also denounced the bill
y" and predicted that its passage would inaui
urate q revolution.
,st This closed the debate, and at quartz
al past six the vote was called, amid the mos
al intense excitement. The galleries wer
~ crowded, and hundreds of people rose I
their feet, forgetful of the place, and th
II rules Of the Senate. Mr.. Wright, who al
~ peared in the Chamber for n few minute
adj 10 the early part Of the day, and then n
az tired to one Of the committee rooms, wa
now supported to his seat by his friends
liz Mr.. Dixon was not able to leave his bed
~ Whom, in calling the roll, the name Of Nj
bo Morgan was reached, aud he rcsponde