Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-12

Each Senator voted for the passage of
the Civil Rights Bill over the veto, was
presented to-day with a beautiful bouquet
of flowers, by a delegation Of colered wo-
men, who visited the Senate Chamber for
that purpose.
RUNoRs OF CHANGES.
They are very confident that Secretary
Stanton is to be removed during the pres
ent week, and hint that Senator Cowan
will have a good deal to say in naming
his successor. In this connection they
mention the name Of Ex-Goy. johnson, of
their State.
WHATS IN THE WIND?
There was quite a futtering between
the departments end the White Horse on
Saturday. Secretary Harlan had two
long interviews with the President, and
Secretary Stanton was also passing back
wards and forwards during the day.
A CHOLERA PANIC.
Considerable sensation was created yes
terday in that part of the city known as
Hookers Division, by the sudden death OF
a couple in a family of colored people
with all the symptoms of cholera. 1nves-
LEGATION disclosed the fact that the habita-
ton of the family was in an extremely
filthy condition, and that others Of its
members were likely to suffer from that
cause. The cooler temperature to-day
quieted the panic into which the neigh
borhood was thrown by this report of the
deaths.
H PRESIDENT AT GRANTS RECEPTION.
The Presidents attending Gen. Grants
Laval nm Eridav kaz oancaA M 1itfIa com
ment. His treatment, however, of all
whom he met there was very cordial,
and he first extended his hand to Thad-
deus Stevens, who chatted with him for
several minutes, and was by the President
introduced to Mrs. Gen. Grant. Senator
Sumner was not there, having gone out to
dine. This is the first time that a Presi-
dent has attended a levee of any of his
subordinates.
ATTACK on a CONGRESSMAN.
After the adjournment following the
vote on the passage of the Civil Rights
Bill, in the House, to-day, a man named
Sawyer, of Pittsburgh, appeared on the
floor, and walking up to Judge Kelley's
desk, been TO abuse the Judge for his
vote, putting his fist in the Judges face,
whereupon Mr.. Kelley made a lunge at
him, when a member sprang between
them, and the Capitol police arrested the
rowdy. He, with other Pittsburgh men,
are here for the purpose of getting aid in
a project to establish a johnson paper in
that city.
A SENATE IS WELL as A PRESIDENT.
Immediately after the veto of the
Freedmen's Bureau Bill, Washington was
crowded with applicants for office, who
came lately denolncing Congress and We
hemently indorsing the President. The
main part Of these gentlemen were ap-
pointed, but as yet not one has been con-
frmed. 1t may be well for office holders
throughout the land, and those who hope
to be, to learn that the direct road to such
positions leads through the Senate as well
as the White House. After the action of
the Senate on the last veto, it is simply
absurd for those who hastily denounce
Congress to expect confirmation at its
hands.
THE TRAITORS OF CONGRESS.
Garrett Davis haSwithheld his remarks,
made yesterday ~uponsthe last veto, for re
vision. 1t will be remembered that it was
thought e~xpedient by some of his political
faith, that his threats made during the de-
bate on the Freedmen's Bureau bill, that
the Southern members would come here
to unite with the minority, and be declared
in Congress by the President, should be
suppressed. Even his friends tried to stop
him yesterday. He declared that if the
bill was passed he would consider himself
an alien to the government, and devote
the rest of his life to pulling it down. He
has deemed it prudent TO revise this, as
his reasonable talk excited general re-
mark, even among those who generally pay
no attention whatever to his verbosities.
A good deal of indignation is expressed in
senatorial circles at the reasonable
| speeches of Davis and Salisbury in the
Senate yesterday, and which may possible
ity eliminate in their expulsion from that
body.
GENERAL GRANT ARRESTED FOR PAS
DRIVING.
Yesterday afternoon, as Lieutenant
General Grant was driving on North
Fourteenth street, two officers attempted
to stop him, as he was going rather faster
than the law allows. They, however, at
first failed, but one being mounted on a
fast horse, and after a race of about three
hundred yards, overlook the General and
informed him that it wa his duty to place
him under arrest. General Grant offered
to pay the officer the fine, but the latter,
not having power to receive fines on the
highway, informed him that he should re-
port himself at the station. The General
questioned the right Of the officer to ar
rest him, and immediately drove off at
full speed. The facts were yesterday re-
ported to Superintendent Richards for
such action as ne may seem fit to take.
l may here state that it is not an uncom-
mon occurrence for persons to ride and |
drive at tull speed on Fourteenth street. |
If l mistake not, President Lincoln |
was once placed under arrest by an officer
for driving across q pavement, and paid
his fine at the station; and Captain Fox, |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was
ence fined for fast driving.
SINGULAR INTERVIEW.
The late Vice President of the defunct
Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens
paid q visit tonight to Tilton, editor of
the New York Independent, and Medill, of
the Chicago Tribune, at the room of the
former. 1t is not difficult to surmise the
topic discussed by this trio. Stephens
commended, Of course, for the admission of
the late insurgent States on the basis of
the Presidents policy, arguing that as the
South has given up the State Rights doc
trine of secession, conceded the freedom
of the negroes, and Internationally aban-
doned the contest, that their Representa-
tives ought now be admitted to their seats
without delay or conditions. Mr.. Tilton,
on the other side, tookhigh moral grounds,
and insisted that the political equality of
the negro must be conceded and guaran-
teed as a condition precedent to recon-
struction, and Medill, viewing the ques-
ton from the lower grounds of Radical
supremacy, argued that the Black Repub-
licans of the South must be allowed to
vote as an Offset to the ex-rebel Democrats.
The universal suffrage and universal am
nesty scheme was proposed, and rejected
by Stephens, for divers and sundry reasons.
oHIo THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
It is a matter of congratulation that
Ohio, as represented among her Union
men at the capital, is a unit on the Civil
bill. This language is meant to in
clude the Cabinet and both branches of
Congress.
ASTECEDENTs OF AN ADMINISTRATION
ORGAN.
1t is a well known fact that every mem
Der of the editorial and reportorial staff of
the National Republican from the princi-