Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-23
WASHINGTON TOPICS AND GOSSIP
STATUE OF MR.. LINCOLN.

STATUE OF MR.. lincoln
II. j. Ellicott, a youth of eighteen, has
executed in plaster a life statue of
Mr.. Lincoln, which has been placed in the
Capitol Rotunda, where it attracts much
attention.
STEPHENS.
Alex. Stephens is very much exercised
about the plan of restoration presented to
the Reconstruction Committee by Robert
D. Owen. Stephens is to see the President
about it, by appointment, tonight.
Whether he will present the ultimatum
of Georgia to Mr.. johnson has not trans
pired. 1t is exciting much comment here
that, while the former President of the
insurgents is in prison and about to be
tried for his life, the Vice-President
should be in Washington as a sort of
lobby member in the legislature of the
country.
SENATOR WILSON M C.. c. CLAY.
The statement that Senator Henry Will
son signed a petition for the release of
Clement G. Clay, we are informed BY him,
is not correct. He merely wrote a note
stating that he knew of no reason why
he should be confined while all others
were set at large. Had Senator Wilson
known of the evidence against him, fast
ening, beyond the possibility Of a doubt,
a participation in the various Canadian
plots, and the crowning infamy that
murdered the President, it is hardly pos
sible he should have lent the partial use
of his name to the notorious men who are
now so busily at work to secure his re-
lease. They profess to be sanguine of his
immediate discharge, but, pending the
Congressional investigation, it is hardly
possible that the President viii set him
free.
yALLANDIGHAM, STEPHENS & co.
c. L. Vallandigham held a levee in the
reception room of the House yesterday,
and most of the Democrats paid their
respects to him. S. S. Cox was on the
floor this afternoon. These two, with
Dan. Voorhees, and Alexander Stephens,
are now The recognized lobbyists of the
Presidents policy. Much indignation is
felt at the conduct of Alexander Stephens.
He seems to have constituted himself q
Judge Of all tho measures before Congress
and its various committees, freely point
ing out what the South will or will not
agree to, and acting generally as if this
Congress was in power by the toleratioE
of the South. After reading his evidence
given before the Reconstruction Com
one of the ablest Judges of Ohio
remarked, at 1 was Andrew johnson 1
would put him on trial for treason and
hang him upon his own evidence
JEFF. DAVIS n c. c CLAY.
The attempt Of the President TO get
possession of the papers duplicating Da-
Wis and Clay in the assassination plot be-
fore the judiciary Committee could obtain
them, and the immediate release of Clay,
the evidence against him in this
is deemed conclusive, as has been
examined by the President, is exciting
much comment here. The following para
graph appeared in the Presidents organ
this evening, 10 show why Davis and
Clay could not be released on the same
grounds as Stephens and Semmes:
1.-THE completely of Davis and Clay
with the horrid assassination is so clearly
demonstrated by evidence, that they could
not, by any means, be placed IN the cate
CORY with political prisoners. Positive
can be produced of Davis per-
Ional presence on occasions when the ar
for assassination were in pro-
The Judiciary Committee viii
eport upon this matter directly to the
House, and, therefore, the statement that
hey have asked the President to appoint
military commission is without founda-