The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-27
From, Washington.

York News says:
At the Cabinet meeting, yesterday,
the civil rights bill was under discus
sion, and the President is understood
to have expressed his intention to
veto. Only six of the Southern Sc
nators elect are now here. Among
them, Messrs. Parsons, Sharkey and
Call. But they oil say That not only
they, but also the people of the
South, are unanimously opposed to
the insulting and degrading proposal
contained in Stewards resolutions.
They are not disposed to have their
seats in Congress bought for them at
such price.
It may satisfy public curiosity to
learn the reason why Clement G. Clay
is kept in durance at Fortress Mon
roe. He is confined there on the
charge of advising and being acces-
sorry to the raiding plots concocted in
Canada during the war. A consider
able portion of his correspondence
on this subject is in the possession of
the Government, and some of it may
be published soon.
It is estimated by the Internal
Revenue Bureau that the proposed
change in the income clause of the
revenue law, exempting incomes
under one thousand dollars from tax
alton, will affect the revenue to the
amount of $27, 600, 900; the repeal of
the tax on crude petroleum, about
So, 600, 900; and the repeal of the tax
on articles in schedule A, such as
watches, carriages, &C., 81 500, 1000.
The Committee on Ways and
Means are disposed to adhere to the
loan bill in the form in which it was
recommitted to them. Many are
sanguine enough to believe that the
majority Of the House will yetaccept
it. Mr.. Hooper stated, when he in
troduced his bill as substitute for
the Committees bill, that it seemed
to embody the views of o large ma
jority of the House. Should his bill
pass, the Secretary must make the
best of it, though it does not meet
his views, nor give him the additional
power he requires. He can, under
that bill, fund the maturing obliga-
tions of the Government, and may,
perhaps, effect some reduction of the
currency. 1t was necessary for the
success of the Secretary's policy that
his recommendation for cessation of
interest on compound-interest notes
at maturity should be adopted. That
is refused. It was also necessary
that he should have the power to
make foreign loan, if desirable, in
order to sustain the price of Govern
ment bonds at home. That is also
refused.-Iotu, in Baltimore Sun.
In the House, Mr.. Latin, of New
York, Chairman of the Printing
Committee, stated that the Govern
ment uses one-thirteenth of all the
printing paper consumed in the
United States, and that the Govern
ment expenditure for printing wss
one-twelfth of the cost of all the
printing done in the Union-in fact,
that the United States is the greatest
printer in the world. In conclusion,
he stated that the printing now Or
dered by Congress was 80 great that
it would take one or two years to
execute it, or else the Government
printing establishment must be en-
larged.
The correspondents of the Richmond
Dispatch, says:
''The resolution of Senator Stewart
to provide for universal amnesty as
compensation for universal suffrage
excites much comment, and the
direct assertion has been made that
eminent gentlemen in the South, of
high official position, endorse these
views. The names of several, includ-
ing Messrs. Orr and Boyce, of South
Carolina; Reagan, of Texas, and
others, are published as favoring
Stewards measures, when, in fact, it
is positively known here that these
gentlemen deprecate any such dis
position of events. The President
also is opposed to the adoption of
any such policy, and there is no pro-
liability of the resolutions becoming
law unless the requisite two-thirds
vote to overrule an Executive Veto
which failed in the only instance
where it was wanted-can be OBJ
tained. The resolution, however,
has been put forward only as sort
of feeler as to what the South thinks
with regard to the matter"
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Charles
ton Neacs learns from passengers by
the rth-eastern Railroad that