The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-14
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Vvashington Matters
81 lwAsalNeroN. December ig.

tfl WARRINGTON. December 10.
A meeting OF Southern Loyallsts was
held last evening; Thomas J. Durant,
President. teF tr Is Z.
| An address was adopted which ignores
the present Southern Government. and
proposes tliat the States be reduced to a
Territorial condition, out Of which new
States are 10 be created by Congress, the
latter body to provide Constitutions for
them. TrftlFl. So
The Republican Is informed that this pro-
gramme isto be urged upon Congress inn
mediately allt-. .-sa tl.-A -.' a..
IL has been assumed by the press that
Strratt is guilty as one OF the assassination
c0nspirators. This remains yet to be proved.
His flight under the circumstances proves
nothing. No man, however innocent.
would have dared to remain I'm this eOun-
try ut the time II suspected or accused of
completely. If lie is guilty. aud the fact is
brought ont, we can. aud probably will
learn from him the whole secret history of
the assassination. it
A bill 20 establish civil government I'm
North Carolina, and enable IL to resume its
former relations as one of the constitutional
states OF the American Republic, was in
troduced into the House to-day.
A bill for the appointment Of Internal
Revenue Assessors and Collectors through
out the United States was introduced and
referred to the Ways and Means Com
mittee. .ra .l. r .lr
n the deficiency bin there is an item of
S25O,0O0 called for, 30 be appropriated 10
the State Department. The inquiry was
nmde, what so large sum was needed for
Mr.. Stevens gave the Information. He said
The Government had suits now pending
in Europe-principally in England and
France--to recover certain property be-
longing to the late rebel Government. but
now claimed by other parties. A portion
of this appropriation was TO defrny the ex-
penses of counsel, aud to furnish security
for the decentralization of the costs in case
of hilure. The suits instituted cover an
amount of about twenty millions of dollars.
and II they were properly prosecuted it
was Thought large proportion of the sum
would be secured 4 part of the appro-
priation was needed TO pay the expenses of
the capture of Surratt. which were very
large. Surratt had been followed for about
year, and the expenses incurred might be
considered unnecessarily large; yet he re-
garded the money US well spent, for it
showed that there was not Il spot on the
earth where so great criminal could es-
cape from the avenging hand of Justice"
The bill was then read tho third time aud
passed. G Te NGE III
Ihe great event of the Senate to-day was
the passage of the District Suffrage Bill,
Ihe galleries were filled all day with an
audience of which about one-haif were ne
groes. Several speeches were made the
best one by Mr.. Foster of Connecticut, who
advocated the educational qualification.
The vote on the reading and writing
qualification stood, yeas, IL nays, 80. On
the passage of the bill, it was. yeas, 80;
nays, l3. If all the Senators had been pres
ent and voting, the vote would have been
yeas 36; nays, l6.
twill take thirty-five TO pass it over the
expected veto.
B AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION.
Senator Yates Of Illinois, introduced
bin to-day providing for the publication of
the ratification of constitutional amend
ments, which was referred to the Recon-
striction Committee.
Mr.. Yates holds that three fourths of the
States represented in Congress are MS COM
petent to amend the Constitution. and that
this view of the case necessarily follows the
assumption that two-thirds of their repre-
sentatiVeS IN each House of Congress are
competent to propose an amendment for
ratification.
IL is believed that the discussion of this
bill will develop the views of the Senators
upon the subject of aunulling the State
which have been set up in
the South by the Executive, and the es-
tablishment of territorial governments, |
wherein all the people, without respect to
color, Will have voice.