The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-10
VOLUME NUMBER AZ. !
From Washington.

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WASHINGTON, April 30.-Nr Fessen-
den reported in the Senate and Stevens
in the House Bills, and the proposed Con.
stitutional Amendment from the Recon
struction Committee. The House made
them the Special Order for Tuesday week.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The House
passed the bill making approp opriations for
the use of the Freedmen's Bureau--b
tween sl1 100000 and $4,000, 600 .wia
be required.
Beutell;- of Massachusetts,, and Bing-
ham, of Ohio, gave notice that @at the.
proper time,a they would offer amends
mentt to the report of the Joint Com
mittee on Reconstruct on.
WASHINGTON May 2. Mr. Dixon Offer
ed an amendment to the reconstruction
proposition of the committee. It declares
that when any of the lately rebellious
States shall present itself, not only its at
titude for loyalty, but represented by
men capable of submitting to the consti-,
tutional test, it shall be admitted to the
right of representation. - - s::s-,ssl
The House defeated the bill for re-or--
ganizing the army, and will next consid-
er the one which has passed the Senate
for that purpose. -. - -
An order has been issued from the War
Department, by direction of the Presi-
dent, declaring that military commissions
and courts martial are not authorized; !;
therefore, they will not assume jurisdic-
tion in the trial of persons other than
those belonging to the army and ma
Wy Of the United States, camp followers,
contractors and others as are indicated
in the articles of war and Acts of Con-
gress. =,
WASHINGTON, May LIT is understood
that at Cabinet meeting to-day the
members present, upon the invitation Of
the President, expressed their opinions re-
specting the recent report of the Recon
struction Committee.
Secretaries Seward, Wells, Stanton and
McCulloch are reported to have been em-
phatic in opposition to the plan proposed
by the Committee, and to be>in favor of
the Presidents policy OF restoration.
Harlan was rather reticent. Denison
was in favor of the Presidents policy,
but undecided rs to the proper time for
the admission of the Southern represen-
tatives.
The President declared himself EN-.
phaticalIy against the plan Of the Com
mittes, and opposed all conditions prece-
don't to the admission of the loyal repre-
sentatives, in the shape of constitutional
amendments, or the passage of laws on.
that subject; and remarked. in general
terms, that if the organic law is tosbe
changed at all, it should be done at q
time when all the States and all the peo-
pie can participate in the alteration.
The correspondent Of the Baltimore
Sun writes:
The new project of econstruction from
the committee of fifteen is the subject of
much remark. 1t was desirable to mary
to know what the President thought :sf
it. That is we'll ascertained and known.
The President and at least some of his
friends arc more opposed toit than they
were to the first plan Of the committee.
The Democrats in and out of Congress
are all hostile to it, because it excludes
their party from power for the next sew
en- years, at leasts Some of them s;Iy
that it willnot go through both houses
of Congress by the requisite two-thirds
vote. But that is to be seen before long.
The Republican party in Congress is a
unit upon it, and they command both
houses.
The next questionis whether the joint
resolution proposing the amendment will
beratifed by three-fourths,o of the States.
There will be opposition to it from those
Northern States which will lose some
representation by it; but, as the Legis-
latures are Republican, it may receive
the assent of all of them-rnaking twen-
ty-fve, exclusive of Colorado. Tennessee
may accept it, making twenty-six; but
if Colorado be admitted, it will require
the ratification of thirty States.
The Republicans express surprise that.
any opposition should be made .tostlie
scheme, except by the Sumner radicals,
for it takes the negro suffrage question,
as they say, out of politics.
The District negro suffrage bill is to be
modified so as to qualify the right, mas
much as the plan of forcing universal
suffrage upon States and communities has
been abandoned even by many Of the
extreme radicals. ,ssrsss g.
PERFECTLY RIGHT. -an editor in Iowa
has been fined $500 for hugging a girl IN
ehurch.-Erchange: -.ss,
Rather expensive for a single token of
n,'sss-work. Watertopn Democrat.
We see nothing wrong in that case that
it should be distributed through the press.
I-Erchange - yssss..A
Neither do we, considering that prin-
ters are used to handling! such forms in
chapels.-Bufalo Courier. s. ..e5s.S,
That kind of press.work in church
would be all rightsif friar ORR monk