The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-16
President Johnston's Strength in the
Senate.

One of our recent Washington de-
spatches informs us what republican
Senators are considered booked fol
opposition to the radical programme
OF Sumner, and consequently in favor
OF the Presidents policy, on the re-
assembling Of Congress. The Sena-
tors named are Doohttle, Morgan,
Harris, Cowan, Stewart, Trumbull,
Dixon, Henderson, Anthony and two
Lanes. Basing our calculation upon
the statement, the President will have
to begin with twenty-one votes out of
forty-nine-that is, these eleven
Senators named and the ten Demo-
Gratis, who will undoubtedly sustain
his reconstruction policy.
There are twenty-five States repre-
sented in the Senate, but there is one
vacancy from Iowa, leaving the total
number OF Senators forty-nine. There
are two Senators from the new State
of Colorado waiting to take their
seats, but as all the necessary pre-
hminaries have not been gone through
for the admission Of that State, these
Senators will not take any action in
the proceedings of Congress at pre-
sent. 1t is clear, then, from the
appearance Of things just now, that
the President can by the veto power,
If by no other means, defeat the
radical opposition. To overcome his
veto there must be thirty three votes,
or, in other words, he requires only
seventeen votes in the Senate to de-
feat the radicals. Now, according to
our calculation, based on the despatch
referred to, he will have twenty-one
votes-four more than he needs.
We think, however, the President
will have more strength than this.
Our classific .tion Of the Senate. from
the best information at command, is:
Total number of Senators, 40; De
mocrats, 10; radical republicans, -;
moderate republicans, 81.
Out of the twenty-seven moderate
republicans we think there will be
found more to sustain the administra-
ton than the Washington despatch
indicates. Many Of these men are on
the fence, ready to take any side their
interests point out. AS shrewd po-
liticians they will see the utter hope
lessness of opposition they must see
that the President will be able to
carry out his restoration programme
and negative the radical measures of
Sumner and his confreres. We should
not be surprised if the President
should have clear working majority
of the Senate in support of his restora-
ton policy.
We remember once seeing a medal
which was struck in honor of William
Pitt, which had for its emblem q rock
i'll the midst of the ocean, against
which the waves and storms beat in
cessantly without moving it, The
cool, steady and firm attitude of Mr.
johnson reminds US of this. Congress
opened with n storm, when the fierce
Jacobin eiCments ragged threateningly
against the rock in the White House.
He stood unmoved, however, and now
the storm has expended its strength,
the winds are subdued and the waters
are becoming calm. The prospect is
that the ultra radicals will be left out,
small faction, in the cold, powerless
to do more harm, and that an over
whelming new administration party
will be formed of all the conservative
elements of old parties
Nesc York Herald.
DIRECT TRADE WITH EUROPE. H.-The
steamship Somerset, Captain Rattle,
Of the Baltimore and Liverpool line,
left her wharf yesterday at 9 o'clock
A. NJ, precisely. Her cargo is very
valuable, and consists OF about 600
bales of cotton, 1000 bushels Of corn,
400 casks of naval stores, so tons of
bark, 100 ca ies of canned fruit, and a
large lot of miscellaneous freight.
These stores were brought from
Wilmington, N. c., by steamers to
Baltimore, to be shipped hence for
Liverpool. This is new and very
important trade, which has heretofore
gone to New York, and has been at
tracted to this city because of the
facilities for prompt and direct trans
portation to Europe The Somerset
takes out n large number of first
class passengers, among whom are
several ladies. .-BaNinaOre Commercial.
Mr.. d. G. Whitman, Deputy Com
missioner of Internal Revenue,
Washington, has instructed the AS
SCISSOR Of the First District Of Ten
nessee, that in assessing the tax of
two cents per pound on cotton, he
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