Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-12
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WASHINGTON, March III,
The Senate is not iii Session to-day, and the
House, as is usdal Saturday, is moderately in
session. to the extent OF a or two of itsmem
bers, who take their turns at set speeches on the
state of the country.
This afternoon the attendance is somewhat larger
than usual in the expectation that Thad. Stevens
will take the floor for an hour ut scoding.
The President has pardOned lab individuals in
the State of Alabama since the publication Of the
! Amnesty Proclamation, under the twenty thousand
dollar clause. The number pardoned under Il Q
thirteenth exception in the Border States are very
few. Most of those who have been pardoned come
under the tenth exception.
Commissioner Newton, of the Agricultural De-
partment, has just received, direct from Europe, a
large quantity OF valuable seeds, vegetable and
real which will soon be ready for distribution.
Ii is said that since its introduction the Tennessee
Enabling Act has lost strength in Congress- and it is
thought by that the Senate will not hesitate to
reject it. The Committee was much divided when
the report was made, aud circumstances since have
not given the plan new strength.
John C0vode, always known rs an ultra PARTISAN
has given the result of his observations nearly a
wear ago in the South, and the Committee on Re-
construction present this testimony to prove the
present state of public feeling there. John is swift
witness suited exactly to the purpose OF the Com
mittee who are laboring to find out Z" how not to
do it."
Several conferences have taken place between the
Secretary of State and Sir Frederick Bruce upon the
subject of Fenan movements, which have resulted
satisfactorily to the British Minister, who has been
| assured that no violation OF the neutrality laws
would be permitted.
The clerks of the Attorney Generals office are
making up q most ample report of persons who
were engaged in the rebellion" specifying each one
by name
1t is not generally knownthat women in the South
| owning property also require pardOns There have
been far more Of these pardoned than would be sup
posed.
| The present report comprehends only those inclu-
ded the the thirteenth exception, or S2O0OO clause.
There will probably he from twelve to fifteen thou
| sand Of these, and about equal number uncer
the other exceptions of the Amnesty Proclamation,
making in all about twenty-five or thirty thousand
pardons granted by the President. Virginia, Ala
hama, Georgia and North Carolina lead the other
States in point of numbers. Only few officers of
| high rank in the rebel" army have been pardoned,
| and hardly any SOutherners who were educated at
West Point, and went from the United States service
| into the Confederate army.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day, notified
forty clerks in the different Bureaus that their
vices would be dispensed with after the close of the
present month, and it is understood that Il number
of others will receive similar notices before the first
of April.
| THE RINDERPEST.
| Our Consul mt Liverpool England, in his des-
patches to the Department of State dated February
% 1866 says that this terrible scourge is still the
increase. No remedy has get been found that meets
with any general confidence, although there are sew
erll that promise well. The official report for the
week ending February 18th, state the number of new
cases To be 49, COL This is an increase of 2 l3 over
the number reported last week, aud 3,SIS over the
number reported having been attacked in the
week before last.
DEFEAT or ANOTHER AMENDMENT (so-cALLED.)
On Friday The Senate voted upon the following
resolution, which had passed the House:
Resolrcd, BY the Senate and House of Represen
Ifnttn al
assembled, two.thrds OF both Houses cOncurring,
That the following article he proposed to tho Legls-
| aurcs of the several States an amendments TO the
Constitution of the United States which, when rati
fled by three-iourths of said legislatures, shall be
valid as part of said CoRssitation, viz;
Article - Representatives shall be apportioncd
| among the several states which may be nClnded
within this Union according to their respective num-
| bel, counting the whole number of persons in each
State, excluding Indians not taxed. Provided, that
whenever the elective franchise shall be denied or
abridged in any State on account of race or color,
all persons therein of such color shall be eX-
cuded from the basis of such representation.
The vote on the above was as follows:
| YEAs-MessrS. Anthony, Chandler Clark, Con-
ness Cragn, Crcsswell, FcssendeD, Foster. Grimes
Harris, Howe, kirkwOod Lane, Qnd.l McDongal,
Morgan, Morrill,, On. " Poland, Ramsey, Sherman
Sprasue TrumbuII' Wade Williams and WILSON,
NAYs-Mcssls, Brown, BUckalew- Covan, Davis
Dixon, Doa!jttle GRthrie Henderson, Hendricks
johnson, lane, of Kansas Nesmth Norton, Pome
roy, Riddle, Salisbury Stewart, Stockton, Sumner
! Van Wrinkle Wiley and lates-22.
| The Chair announced that the joint resolution.
| having received less than two.thrds vote had
| failed.
Mr. Henderson moved a reconsideration of tie
above vote, which motion prevailed.
This brought the joint resolution again before the
| Senate, and
Mr. Doolittle offered the following amendment:
That the following articles be proposed 10 the Legls
aurcs of the several States as ~ amendment to the
Constitution Of the United States, which, when rat
fed by three .lOuUt.s Of said Legislatures shall be
valid as payt Of said Constitution, viz: Z" After the
! ccpS,is De taken in the year eighteen hundred and
seventy aud each succeeding census. Representa-
tives shall be appOrtOned among The several states
which may be included wiIbin this Union, according
| to the number ~ Gaoa stale oil male electors over
twenty-ogO years Of age. qualified by the laws there
| of Ia chnOst members of the most numerous branch
of its Legislature, and direct taxes shall he appor-
| toned among the several States according 10 tine
value of the real aud personal and taxable property
situated in Zach state not belonging tn Tie stag OF
| to tho United States"
At six o'clock, on motion of Mr.. Fessenden, the
further consideration of the question was postponed
| to Thursday.
THE FENIAN MOVEMENT AND THE GOVERNMENTAL
PROCLAMATION EXPECTED-BAD TREATMENT or
CITIZENS IL THE SOUTH by OFFICIALS--THE sOVTH
AND TILE PUBLIC DEBr-LULL IN THE POLITICAL
| CuNTEST-REMOVAI.S AND APPOINTMENTS.
Correspondence # ;ha Baltimore SUM-
II is thought bGlo that the Government Will be
obliged worry soon to intervene on the Canadian Dor
der for the preservation of our neutrality. The Fe-
MAN movement, before il ends i'll smoke, may show
some fire; ut any rate, the Canadian authorities
have been put to the trouble and expense Of military
preparations for defense FROM hostile combinations
| made within our own horJpIs. \ Proclamation from
| the President on this subject IS expected.
Private letters trnm citizens ot southern STATES
have been received here, and brought to the Presi
dents notice, exhibiting very different state ol
things. in the cotton States particularly, from that
which has been assumed 10 exist by the committee
| ON IecunstrIcton According To these statements,
| evidence of which is offered respectable citizens IN
the South are subjected by the Federal authorities
to the most cruel and unjust treatment Such state
Inents will, of course seldom reach the committee
and the counter statements come from those whose
conduct is complained of.
Little evidence appears as yet to sY-'ain tfe ale
cation that the Southern representation u admlttel
would come pledged ~ :te reputation OF the public
debt; besides ii is decidedly conradcted by the
well.infurGlcd Senators elect now here, That the
Northwestern States may, whether ral0al or demo-
cratic make that issue, ~ Solae future Congress, is
not impossible.
| There il lust now a lul in the political conflict
here. Politicians are watching the movements of
the President with interest Nothing since the DEM
onslration of the 22d ultm0 has come from that
quarter which indicates early resumption or
prosecution of hostilities.
The President. it is said and believed, / waiting
for the close Of the present seG1on he or he will
make n change of his oabiaet. Removals and APP
pointments VIII both pe resisted By the Senate
Then, aa1IN viii the Senate persist in Il el present
purpose; IL now declared, OF remaining in session
until March, 1851 in order To defeat nominations
1t is very cear that the President can make no i'm
portant changes, except during the recess of the
| Senate.