The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-24

the alleged summons of the Recon-
struction Committee to appear before
them, as / learn from q letter from
him that he was quietly at his home
on the 18th instant, ten days after the
reported summons was said to have
been issued. Blythe way, the two or
three columns from Georgian"
that appeared in the New York 7ri-
bune some time since, in which Davis,
Stephens and others were introduced
the ''folly'' of the former and the
foresight" OF the latter, and "why
the peace mission failed" forming
the prominent points of the letter.
Mr.. Stephens characterizes as "a
fancy sketch throughout; there were
some facts--some truths in It, but
these were so distorted, anu so mixed
up with errors, that the whole may
be set down as the work of imagina-
ton" ''The t,'uM of history" adds
MIR. Stephens, ''is hard to get.''
Cor. PhiiadelpAia Leouer.
Senator Nye, Chairman of the Sc
nate Committee on Enrolled Bills,
placed before the .esident, on last
Friday night, the civil rights bill. It
is deemed tolerably certain that it
will be signed. Those Republicans
who claim to be his especial friends
all say he will sign it, and the recon-
stlucted who are now here denounce
1t as worse than the Freedmen's Bu-
r. bill
Leading Democrats and Repub-
llcans, including some pretty radical
ones on both sides, are of the opinion
that the President will return this
hiIi with his objections. The chances
OF a veto, however, are not so certain
on this bill as they were on the Bu-
reau biu.-Ne,c York Tribune.
Some members who voted for the
bill say that it must be modified so as
to restrict the power of the President
and Secretary. Finally, the bill was
recommitted, and may be considered
dead
If so, Comptroller Clarke has beaten
Secretary McCulloch, and we are not
sure but rghtfully, however impu-
dent his letter was.
According to Il recent decision of
the Treasury Department., the sepa-
ration of coupon from two years
five per cent. Treasury note, renders
such note no longer a legal tender
until interest begins on the next sue
ceeding coupon that is attached to
the note. This separation is consid-
cred such Il mutilation of .ne note as
will make it redeemable by the Go
vernment only at its par value, with
ont interest.
Your readers may rest assured that
the President will veto the ''civil
rights BILL" and that, too, before
many days. 1 was not able to say
this positively in my last despatch,
but [ am able to do so now. Your
readers will remember that this bill
originally formed part Of the Freed
mems Bureau bill, as prepared bv
Senator Trumbull, and was only sepa-
rated from 1t and formed into sepa-
rate bill, because otherwise the Freed
mems Bureau bill would have been
too long.
This civil rights bill contains the
same principles, and is designed to
effect the same ends that the Freed
mems Bureau bill had in view. The
President regards it as not only un-
constitutional, but entirely unneces-
sary, because all the rights of the
people of the United States are al
ready abundantly secured by the
Constitution, and if the negroes have
any wrongs to complain of, the State
laws and the State Courts afford them
abundant redress
Special despatch " Y. News.
The radicals are noticeably morose
and scowiing to-day, and the general
inference is that the unexpected
somerset of Senator Stewart, two
days ago, is already bearing more
unpalatable fruit than any Of them
expected His resolutions are under
stood to embody the views of his
fatheE-in-law, H. S. Foote,. and Gov.
Sharkey, of Mississippi, and are such
as no radical, with the slightest re-
gard for consistency, dare oppose.
Vote for them they must. Their
fears now are that when such men as
Gov. Sharkey favor them, the ma
jori,y Of the Southern people may
also be induced to do so, as the
speedlest means of ending their trou-
bles and gaining admission for their
delegations. 1t is also feared by
many that negro suffrage in the
South would turn the political ashes
on the lips of its Northern advocates,
and that it would, in fact, only serve
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