The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-06-10
senate,s Amends

ment of that committee q amended and
passed by the Senate have been submitted to
our readers. AS In all probability the amend
ment in this shape will be concurred in by the
required two-thirds Of the House and submitted
to the State Legislatures for their ratification,
it may properly be here reproduced In view Of
the important object Of fixing It upon the pub
lie mind. The amendment as it has passed the
Senate-33 to la vote In its favor of exactly
three-fourths Of the whole vote cast-decrees
substantially
SECTION l. That all persons born or naturazed 10 the
United States and subject to their Jurisdiction citi
thereof and OF the State wherein they reside and
guaranteed the equal protection Of the laws Ths
is the Civil Rights bill over again.
SEC That all the people Of the several States shall
be counted for representation in Congress Excluding In
dams not taxed but that wherever the right OF suffrage
is denied abridged except for rebellion other crime
the enumeration for Congress shall be corespondingy
reduced lin othor words II You exclude the negro
from the ballot box you shall not count him In number
ing your people for Congressl
SECTION DEGREES that person shall be Senator
Representative in Congress- cector Of President and
Vice President hold any office, civil or military under
the United States, under any State who, having pre-
viousy taken oath as q member Of Congress- an
officer Of the United States a member Of any State
Legislature executive judicial officer Of any
State to support the constitution Of the United States
shall have engaged in instruction rebellion against
the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies
thereof; but Congress may, by vote Of two-thrds Of
each house. such disability This is the senaes
substitute for Thad stevens sine qua no-the dsfran-
chsement of all rebels till the 4th Of July 1s70]
SECTION alrms the binding obligations Of the national
debt pensions, bounties &C.. and prohibits the payment
recognition of all rebel debts by the United States or
any State, and Of claim for compensation for loss
of slaves, by emancipation or otherwise.
Such is the trunk Of the reconstruction plan
of the Committee of Fifteen, as modified by the
Senate 1t has two branches in the shape Of
two bills, which provide for the readmission
into Congress of any of the late rebel States,
with their ratification of said amendment, and
the shaping Of their local laws accordingly; and
that, having so met the terms of Congress, they
shall be credited for ten years with their share
of the national debt. As mere pendents to this
aforesaid amendment, we presume these bills
will be passed. Here, then, we have the
scheme OF reconstruction upon which Congress,
with the Presidents policy set up against the
President, will 20 before the people in the
coming fall elections. II is o scheme pretty
ingeniously contrived for popular support in
the North, although in its essential features it
is simply a reproduction and a repetition Of
the policy of the President.
Next, we have the report of the Committee
of Fifteen, detailing their reasons for these
aforesaid measures and the considerations
which urge their adoption. 1t is thus argued
that the rebel States forfeited all their rights
by the rebellion; that their reconstruction
doings under President Johnson's management
have been loose. slipshod, outrageous and
are utterly preposterous and contemplate;
that rampant disloyalty ard bitterness against
the United States and Union white men and
negroes still prevail in those States; that they
are not yet in the proper shape or frame Of
mind for restoration to Congress; that they are
only anxious to get in to seize the government
and that they must be kept out until we shall
have exacted from them ample safeguards and
securities for the future. Tennessee is an ex-
ceptIon; but as for the rest, they are under the
ban Of onathsma m0ranuthd.
The salient point, however. Of this report is
in It's charges and specifications of usurpation
on the part Of the President We cannot uu-
derstand, however, in what particular he Ii a.
played the usurpcr. The powers which he has
exercised he found guaranteed in the consti-
tuition and in the laws of Congress for the sup
preston OF the rebellion. But after denounc-
ing his measures the committee and the two
houses Of Congress adopt them. His work
becomes their plan. They only propose to 10
il over again and in another form. The only
real and positive disagreement between the
President and Congress upon this business Of
reconstruction has been upon the question of
negro suffrage. lie would not undertake to en-
force it upon the South, and so Congress under
took the job And what is the result? After
six months of investigations, deliberations, dis
cussions and abuse of the President, the radi-
Gals OF Congress-even Sumner himself-give
up the fight. They surrender their utimatum
Of negro suffrage and adopt the Presidents
suggestion ofrepresentaton in Congress, rogu-
lated by the restrictions upon suffrage leaving
the right to the States to regulate the fran
chise
The committee present CHASTITY picture of
Southern disloyalty and bitterness. We have
no doubt that those Southern fre-eaters, CORE
spending with the Wendell Phillips and Thad-
deus Stevens school Of the North, have done
much mischief and seriously embarrassed the
President. They have been . dead weight
upon him and have given his radical opponents
in this Congress the power which they hold Of
carrying their measures over his head. What
ever, therefore, may be the unwelcomc conse-
quences to the Southern States, those people
may charge them upon their senseless fire.
eaters, who have returned to their old folly Of
playing into the hands Of the Northern radical
faction.
The EUROPEAN NEws-From the news
which we published yesterday II seems that
the danger Of war In Europe Is by no means