Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-01
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Report on Rsconstruction-Mr. Johnson'l
Views on it-Miscellaneous News

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Special to the St. Louis Republican,
WASHINGTON, April 29.--The Recon
struction Committee, pursuant TO ad-
journment, held very important meet
ing to-day at the Capitol, during which
they definitely agreed on plan % be
submitted to Congress and the country
for the restoration of the Southern States
TO the Union. The Committee was in
session four hours, and had an exciting
time Each separate proposition that
was made was voted on and declared
agreed to by majority vote The ques-
ton of requiring negro suffrage Of the
South within the next ten years was lost,
Thad. Stevens even opposing it. That
having been disposed OF, the issue of a
basis of representation next elected a
prolonged discussion. 1t was finally de-
termined that a constitutional amend
ment should be proposed, declaring that
all males above the age of Il, who were
not allowed to vote by the State, should
not be counted in the basis Of representa-
ton.
1t will be noticed that the practical
effort of this amendment will be to leave
the number Of Southern Representatives
Just about where it is now, inasmuch as
all Of the colored people Of the South,
except the males over twenty-one, will
be counted in the representative popula-
ton Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, then in
sisted that the present Civil Rights bill
was unconstitutional, and that an amend
ment TO the Constitution guaranteeing
civil rights 10 persons in all the States
would be agreed TO. The committee
adopted the proposition. 1t was then
resolved that all who participated in the
rebellion should be disfranchised from
voting for Federal officers, and that the
rebel debt should be repudiated. These
several propositions we're then embodied
in a constitutional amendment, which
will be duly reported to the House on
Monday. There was considerable salts
faction expressed in the committee that
they had come to O conclusion.
SECOND DISPATCH.
The report of the Reconstruction Com
miitee will be reported TO both houses OF
Congress tomorrow. 1t is intended TO
press it TO an early vote, though a rea-
sonable amount Of debate viii be allowed.
Should it be passed by the requisite two
third vote, a resolution will be presented
requesting the Governors 10 convene the
State Legislatures in extra session, for
the purpose Of ratifying the amendment
A Democratic member Of the Committee
Yesterday submitted the plan as agreed
on TO the President. Mr.. johnson thought
that it was practical abandonment of
the negro suffrage issue, white, on the
other hand, il virtually assumed the UNI
constitutionslity Of the Civil Rights bill
By proposing TO incorporate it in the
Constitution.
A calculation has just been concluded
at the Treasury Department, showing
that il would take ten years to settle the
accounts Of soldiers should Congress pass
a bill equalizing the bounties.
The Senate Finance Committee takes
up tomorrow the bill TO equalize the ma
tional currency among the several States.
The proposition to increase the national
banking capital is noticed with favor.
Orders have been received at the Treas
ury TO pay the bounty recently awarded
TO the officers and men of the United
States steamers Benton, Cairo, Carcnde-
let. ST Louis, Louisville, Monarch and
Queen Of the West, for the destruction
OF the rebel feet on the Mississippi on
the 9Th Of jane, 1862, and which resulted