Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-01
FROM NEW YORK.
Sentiments Of the Press ON the Re-
construction COmmiIIee'e plan.

| construction Committees plan.
New YORK, April 30.-The Tribune says
| Of the plan for reconstruction agreed upon
| by the committee: The exultation of pro-
| rebels over the inability to agree of the
Joint committee of l5, has proved illusory.
The committee has agreed on proposition
which will to-day be reported to both
Houses, and which has received the vote Of
u to 3-all but the Democratic members.
We may therefore accept and consider the
Union pafty's plan of reconstruction. Our
own preference for amuch shorter and sim
pier programme is well known Universal
amnesty, impartial suffrage; such are its
conditions, and the whole of them.
The Herald says: The plan is singeniously
contrived. 1t is considerably milder than
anything heretofore emenatng from the
committee, and nearer the policy and the
views of President johnson. 1t may be
unreasonable in some things, superhuous in
Others and unfair in its continued exclusion
OF the Southern States after having, on their
part, fulfilled the conditions Of the Admin
istration, charged with discretionary powers
over the whole subject, but we have only
now to await the issue before the two
Houses sirn 1af (. a1
The Times says: The scheme would seem
sweeping enough to satisfy the most exact
ing Radical. 1t could hardly be much more
sweeping, indeed, unless it provided for the
wholesale confiscation and determination
or Punishment of the Southern people. As
plan of paciticatiOn and reconstruction,
the whole thing is worse than burlesque.
1t might be styled farce. Were the cOun-
try not in the midst of very serious dra-
ma, its proper designation would be a ulan
to prolong indefinitely the exclusion of the
South from Congress, by imposing condi-
tlons to which the Southern people never
will submit.
The World says: The purpose of the
scheme would not have been more apparent
had 1t been labelled by the committee, San
iniallible plan for preventing the South
from voting at the next Presidential cleo
tion." So transparent is its intent, that it
fails entirely in respect to its secondary OBJ
ject, that of putting the onus of exclusion
on the South itself. 1t is not an honest
proposition; it is not offered with any ex-
pectatton OF its acceptance, but with a
deliberate design that it shall be rejected.
Cholera disappearing at Lower
Quarantine.
NEW YORK, April 30.-The cholera is
fast abatingat lower quarantine. No deaths
have taken place, no additional cases have
been received on board the hospital ship
since Friday last, and all on board are re-
ported to be in fair way of recovery.
Financial.
The Commercials money article SAYS the
stock market opens quiet and with fewer
buyers. There was partial fall in prices,
especially in Cleveland & Pittsburg and
Michigan Southern, both of which closed
about 21a lower than ab the close of busi-
ness on saturdays board There appears
to be a disposition among the bull cliques
to afford an opportunity of partial de-
cline, which they hope may be construed
by the bears as indicating weakness and
encouraging short contracts. There is a
reaction from the late activity in Govern,
ment securities and further slight de-
cline in prices. There is every reason for
believing that the extraordinary activity of
last week was purely fictitious, the result,
indeed, not of demand from the outside
public, but of purchases made in behalf of
the Secretary OF the Treasury. To-mor-
row the interest on each issue of 5-20's is
payable. Coupons of the bonds are selling
at one-half per cent. below gold.