The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-05-02
TcoxrILED FROM THE oREoosIAs. j
DATES no APKIL eo.

HdSHihgt0H, april Io.--ln ne freSIuent HAS
pardoned John r. Monroe, mayor elect of
New ureans.
The presence of nearly all the Senators
ami Representatives who support the presi-
dent, at the White House last evening excites
remark.
There seems 20 bel pprehension about
the tax bill and is now stated as against
the reduction on certain articles. The
changes on rates of otpers will increase tne
aggregate product of Internal revenue nearly |
S60 ,uO0,000. 1t is estimated that the Cotton
4 taxalone will reach $3, 900 additional.
Ne,o York, April 2s.-rhe Hsratds spe 'ial !
dispatch says it's asserted on good authority
< that the Spanish Minister has proposed to
xceept the lnedi tou Of the United States in
Z the Splu sh ,iificulty with Chile,
Ch.cdyo. April l8-The New York shipping
list OF the Goth, says that business continues
impartiaiy dull, and there is a general de-
preston. Money is so very plenty rs to be
almost drug in the ma ket; inte es is low.
by goods are dull. The Providence
& printing clot market Is very dull, printers
generally rs we'll rs spetuato s declining to
buy Ut p esent quotations, and anticipa
further decided change. The stocks on hand
are eaccumulating, and will be rapidly declin
ing after the first of May. iet.s
Since the last report by the health officer,
there have been fifteen n,w cases of cholera
admitted to the hospital hip and five deaths,
leaving ninety-six cases still in the hospital.
The sloops of wac Saratoga and Portsmouth
have bee, sent to tie lower quarantine rs
hospital ships. Dispatches from Halifax say
the passengers by the Eagiand left there
are now well, ami that here has not been
any deaths among them during the week.
Ch cayo, April 29-rhe Reconstruction
4, Il 10, I,o -,
day, ut which all the members were present
aud agreed upon the following joint resolu-
ton, which will be reported to Congress to-
row AS an amendment to the Constitu-
tion ramely: hH
Z. SECTION L. No State shall make or enforce
any law whcn shall atridge the privileges
or imnunities ofthe United States nor shalt
any State daprive any person OF life, liberty
erproperty without due process of law ; nor
deny any rerson within its jur sdiction equal
protection of law. IN, sJg jfs3 is ssi
SEC. q. Representatives shall be appor-
stoned among tn, several States which may
: be in ludei within the Uuon according to
their respective numbers couating the wno Q
nnmber oGTeisons in each State, excluding
In ,iians no taxed but wherever the elective
franchise slia be denied to any por ion Of
its male citizens, not younger than twenty
one years Roi nBe, or III huy way Hprlugeu
except for participa ion in the rebellion OF
soiher crimes, the basis of representation O
such State shall be reduced in the proper
tion Ia which the number Of su b male citi
xens not entitled to the franchise shall beal
10 the;whole number of male citizens no
less than twenty-one years of age.
SEC. 3.sOna and up 10 the 4th of July, 1870
sll'persons who voluntarily adhered to th,
late insurrection giving aid and comfort
shall be excluded from the right to vote 70
members of Congress aud for electors 70
President and Vice President Of the Unitet
States. -
Ssc.4 Neither the United States nor an.
State will assume or pay any -bt or obliga
tion already incurred, nor which may here
sfter be iacurred, in aid of the insurrectio
Sgain. ! the United States, or claim compen
sation. fpE: the loss of involuntary sevitud