The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-01
washington News and Rumor..

washington news and RWnors.
There lie an evident want of 5cordi-
diality noticeable to-day among the
radical Senators in their intercourse
with the conservative gentlemen who
aided in sustaining the Presidents
veto yesterday. Outside of the Wade
and Stevens clique in Congress are
their party pensioners in the depart
ments, who can be heard on the street
and In the lobbies glibly accounting
for the radical defeat by a mysterious
assumption Of fraudulent collusion
between the Executive and his sup
porters.- Senator Morgan, regarded
as the chief among the Marplots of
the radical policy, is vaguely; charged
with snccumbihg to the bribe of the
New York Co1lectorship; DooGttle is
to have mountain of patronage set
tied upon him for the term of the
present administration; Cowan to
stop nothing short of any place in
| the Cabinet to which he mny elect,
and the residue are to- be piled with
miscellaneous assortment Of official
distinctions sufficient to keep them
active in soul and faithful to their
allegiance. With all these sinister
suggestions the great crowd of cele-
brities and Congressional lookers-on
that now fill Washington brin1ming
full appear to be only very much
amused, and not at all to be cheated
of their joke at the expense of the
radicals. ti
One of, the incidents conf ected
with the Senatorial vote upon the
Freedmeu's Bureau bill yesterday,
now going the rounds with infinite
zest, is the interest exhibited by
Senator Reverdv Johnson in respond
ing to a telegram apprising him that
the critical vote of yesterday was i'm
minent. The honorable gentleman
was sojourning in Baltimore at the
time of his notification, but i'm
mediately put himself en- route for the
capital on q locomotive and tender,
which performed the distance of forty
miles in forty-one minutes. Not one
of the the radical phaIanx could
have guessed when Mr.. johnson
entered the Senate chamber, yester-.
day, with about thirty minutes to
spare, that he had taken so exhilerat-
ing ride for the express purpose of
contributing his very important mite
towards defeat. -.54
An attempt was made by the Demo
cracy in the House to-day. to recon
slder the vote by which Thad. Ste
vens' resolution was passed at late
hour yesterday afternoon. The nyes
and nays showed more Republican
strength in favor of Andrew johnson
than the vote did yesterday. Then
there were forty votes against the
resolution, including the full Demo-
cratic strength of the House; to-day
there were thirty votes for re-
consideration, without the ayes of six
or eight Dem ocrats, who We're absent.
The New York Ne,cs, OF the 22d,
says:
There need be no fears that the !
Freedmen's Bureau Bill will be passed
by the Senate in any other shape. 1t
is now known that five of the thirty
Senators who voted against sustain
ing the veto yesterday would have
voted with the Democrats, if their
votes had been necessary to sustain
the veto. The principles embodied
in the bill are killed, and they can
never be revived and moulded into
laws by the present Congress.
The radicals like this veto so well
that they are preparing for another.
The negro suffrage bill, passed by the
House some time ago, was reported
in the Senate to-day without amend
ment, and the radicals intend to urge |
its immediate passage The radicals
may pass as many bills of this kind
as they please, but the President will
veto them as fast as they are laid |
before him.
At the instigation of the radicals,
the flags on the negro school-houses
have been draped in Grape to-day, as
a symbol of mourning over the de-
feat of the Freedmen's s Bureau Bill.
There seems to be no doubt that
there will be a speedy re- organization
of the Cabinet, in consequence of |
the Presidents veto. Mr.. Seward,
two gentlemen from Southern States,
and either Reverdy johnson or Sc
nator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, will
have seats in the new Cabinet.
There are rumors that both the
Senate and House Committees are
engaged upon new Freedmen's
Bureau bill, which it Is hoped the
President will approve. Mr.. Elliott,
of the House Committee, it is known,
is preparing such a measure, which
he expects to be able to introduce on
the 23d. But of what avail would be
a new bill in the face Of MI. John
sons declaration that no such mea-
sure is called for at the present time: