Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-04-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, April 26
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.

1t is known that Mrs. Jefferson Davis has, by
letter through General Dick Taylor, sought permits
sion to visit her husband, but in this she has not yet
succeeded the request having it is said, been denied
| by the President for prudent reasons A dispatch,
| however dated Montreal, April 26th, where Mrs.
Davis resides, says emphaticay that she has obtain
ed permission to visit her husband, and will leave
Immediately in the first train for Fortress Monroe.
THE PRESIDENCY OF THE SENATE.
Before the adjournment of the Senate new Presi-
dent pro tenn will be elected, when the choice will
probably fall either upon Senator Sherman or Senator
Pomeroy, being conceded to the West, the choice
of Senator Foster only being for the session, as is
the general custom.
SENATOR FROM CONNECTICUT.
Letters from Connecticut Indicate the election of
either General Terry or Ex-Governor Buckingham
as United States Senator.
Correspondence of the Baltimore sun.
THE RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE AT DEAD Lock
The INTERNAL REVENUE PRoJECT-THE AGGRE-
GATE REDUCTION OF TAxES-CHEAPESING MANU-
FACTUREs-THE COTTOS TAN, &c.
The Committee on Reconstruction have found I'M
expected obstacles to an agreement among them
selves upOn every constitutional amendment rela-
ting to representation and suffrage. Not even
majority of the whole number can agree. That is,
eight of the fifteen members cannot be brought TO
the same conclusion. The committee will. however,
report something next week, upon which each
House may wrangle and divide IL was proposed
at the last meeting of the committee that ltsh0uld be
dissolved. that is, that they should report to the
House that they were at dead lock, and beg TO be
discharged.
The internal revenue project as now reported,
appears to be favOrably received IL reduces tie
aggregate amount of internal revenue by some sixty
or seventy millions, or one-liith. IL eXempts many
articles Of ordinary consumption from taxation. 1t
will cheaper many necessary goods of domestic
manufacture by relieving raw material, in many in
stances, from taxes. The exemption of incomes be-
low thousand dollars from taxes is some reeft to
large number Of people. The increase of the tax on
raw cotton is of doubtful eXpediency, but it is con
tended by many that FOR years at least the tax
will chiefly fall on the foreign consumer Whiskey
and cotton it is said 10 pay the national debt
The former article had something to do with making
the debt, though il has been attributed mainly to
the influence the latter
ATTORNEY GENERAL GONE South
Attorney General James Speed left the city last
night for Louisville, Kentucky, and il is expected
that he will he absent fortnight. During his
absence the duties of the office devolves upon J.
Hubbey Ashton, Assistant Attorney General.
TRIAL OF DAVIS
Reports have been prevalent all day to the effect
that the President has again requested the Chief
Justice to proceed with the trial Of Davis in Virginia
but that Mr.. Chase has declined to do so without
the action of Congress restoring the Court being
first had.
FREEDMEN on THE JAMES.
The total number of freedmen on the James river
peninsula is estimated at sixty thousand. Probably
one-half of them are engaged in agriculture or the
mechanic arts.
rIPORTAHT ACTION or THE NEW YORK CONGREssIoN-
AL DELEGATION.
We learn that the Republican members of Con-
eress from the Ttate Of New York held a meeting
last night to consider the general subject of
stmction, and came to the conclusion that it was
quisite for Congress to speedily adopt some afrma
tive policy of a liberal character with which to 90
before the people. 1t was agreed that the question
of regulating suffrage must he ignored by Congress
and left to the people of the States to decide.
third point of policy decided upon the admission
of the State of Tennessee.
This action, by so important n body as the New
York delegation, is of great significance as ndica.
ting disposition to recede from extreme measures
and close mp the breach between Congress and the