, 1866-05-11
LATER FROM THE EAST.
coMPILED FROM THE DAILY oREeONIAN.
Dat to May 4th.
Report of the Reconstruction Committee.

NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.
The Tribune says of the Congressional plan of
reconstruction: "0ur own preference for a
much shorter and simpler programme is well
known, hut we may accept the report agreed Uu
IN committee the Union party's plan"
The Herald says q The plan is ingeniously
contrived. 1t is considerably milder than any
thing that has hitherto emanaiet from the com
mittee. 1t may be said to be unnecessary in some
| things irsuperfuous in others, and unfair in its
| cOntIgned exclusion of Southern States, alter
they have fulfilled the conditions of the admin
| iStraton, which is charged with discretionary
power over the whole subject but we have o. ly
now to await the issue before Congress.
The Times says: 'The scheme would seem 90
oe sweeping enough to satisfy the most exactns
radical. 1t could hardly be much more sweep
| ING Indeed unless it provided for wholesale con
Location, and the exterminaton or banishm"n
ot the Southern people, rs plan of purihcaton
and reconstruction. 1t is worse than burles-
Iue it might be styled so were not the country
in the midst of II very serious dilemmt. Its prop
! er designation would be plan to pr0lOng Ind h.
initely the exclusion of the South, by imposing
Conditions to which the Southern people never
I will submit"
The r3r}d saws the purpose Of the plan won
not have been more apparent had it been label
from vctn. ut The next Presidential election"
| y Wi,.Ii gtpn SPECIAL dISpt.cn says: Tue .! IN
meets the entire sanction Of the majority in Goa
! gress and it is not expected nr anticipated thtt
any material amendment will be carried. The
! friends Of the President gave assurances last
night that if Congress will carry out the scheme
in coed faith, it will receive his full apprJva.
and cooperation. Neither of his Washington or
g1ns will 1t is stated, commit themselves the
! proposition.
"a. II ri'Fe special dispatch siys: The prop
osition is everywhere looked on Is very dimin-
u.ire suit t. &c the long Labor of the moan.
tain. Common rumor attributes its authorship
to CJnkiiu and Fo: n Y. BotI wings of tn purity
are ont Of humpr, bat boJh support the plan,
since it does not d .tiucty cOntrovcrttheir opin.
! ions and is perhaps the nearest their pc tuiIaT
views that can be obtained.
THE FEELING ~ CONGRESS-
There has b en- careful canglss to ascertain the
| ,ocItus OF Congressman rel ttive to the report %
| ne Reconstruction Committee and it may b
,tated that although there is some diSappUint
nent manifested, the republican members with
| r1rily any exception, are willing To accept th,
! Propositions of the Committee, which are sub
mltel as amendments to the Constitutions.
| Srr1"r Is d.-prscI to support th"m. though
h objects to tn terms Of tha act for the States.
/ u is under tod tn 1t Bin Gham, bel ewing the
| act as repealed will put 1t in the power of few
States to prevent thr res 'Oratiopp hers, urged
! upon the Committe. the f.llowing as a substi-
I tute Whenever any Stlte lately in insurrec-
zion shall adopt these amendments and conforms
it, constitution and laws thereto, 'it shall b.
/ tJted at once to Se1atIrs aIi Representative
in Congress, provided they shall be daily ecctc.
aud Iutl'f"d ami can take the oath.
1t my b. considered certain that in addition
| d tnr above, vHribds otier amend hent, will be
| offered in both H1ascs when the qucs'ion 50 ues
! Ip FIR discus sion. The report WIS intro lureI
! in Congress- to-day. l. i3iqtealel to press it to
1 al carry vote puTu Il r..t>ouIft!. itfutuut q
.rhrtc viii be allowed SEoUlj it pass hv III
'.Iuisitc t"o thirds vote, a resolution will b
! .',l r'G1rstiu. g 'v"-1ors 10 cnnvann ia
Sta c Lc -s'a'u-5s in extra session fer the pur-
pI,: OF rltjfying th amend II nt \ iemrcru
&c me uh"r of the Goa. .:Iitier yesterday subm :
t, tn p,a3 /, a sce Vi oiIg tht P siI:nt. ,hn-
o. thpuErt t was prt tic Il delial Of the
go suffrage ISSUE, while o. the other hand il
virtually assume the scolstituti1nalitv Of the
Civil Rights bill by Proposing to incorporate it
ii the Constitution.
CoYGREs sIoEAL PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON, April 3J.-Fcsscnlen Of Maine
in the Senate, anl'S evcIs Of Pennsylvania ia
the HJus'; Iepprtel tn joint resolution uni
bills from ther'c 'us;ru 'tipi comm ttrc. Stevens
in reply to a question, said tins report did not
sup .rcede tn ol. Concerning Tennessee IN tdp
some time since, Which he said could be called
~ any time. TAc report made to- ty was, bv a
twO-thirIs vote, made the special order in tn
.Ilast Tor Tuesday Wednesday aud TnurSd,y o.
rrXt week. Stevens said tIat u SIOrt written Re
port would soon be presented.
Stevens from the comalttee on appropriations,
reported a bill approTrlating Sl .j54 00J for the
Freedmen ; BIrcau for the year Commencing tle
Ist of tnulry $50, a. fpIl0wS 5 tlarieS Of A.
sistant ca minis ,ioncrs, Sl7 800 clerks So 800
stationery and printing $4,000; quarters and
fdel. 81 ) 800 ciothng for dr>lr. .buuon.Sl.7j0,
900 commiSSdrv S23j 80; m .dicu, $500, 900
trans pOrtatIou, 1913 900; scho d lperiuendeuts
- ,JJO SITES tor school houses aud asylumS
So 900 OOc; TEL gr phing, SIS 900. Stevens also
Offered a subs itute for the bill intro luccd BY m
Dec 10th, - pay the dam Iges done 20 lCy.,l men
by the rebel Government and rebel raid RS, and
TO en- n'orce the confSc tiOn of the enemy's prop
cry TIe pr ,p siion fOrlels 10 the United States
all the public lands belonging to the late REBEL
i1uS = atr~ directs The res.dent 10 cause the
seizure forthwith Of such property be.onging to
the belligereut euemy, as i deemed forfctedun-
e. he acVuf 18th July, 1862, 10 hold and appro
pirate the same 'as cnemy'S property, end pro
ceed to condemn tiOn of tn At already seizel TIe
bIll further provides that the President shall ap
point commissioners to a lust and condemn such
property which sh all tn len become vested in the
Ulite St ites. The Ian l. thus conf fiscated shall
be distributed am n the freedmen at the rate of
forty acres to each Al lult male person. The bal
ance of the cnutiscated property to be applied to
tire pension list, to the equalization of bJuntieS
and to the payment of damages to the loyal citi
zens. The bill further provides that in enforcing
coniscation the value of s 900 in real or per-
soral properly, sh al be lett with the delinquent.
Kirkendall of Illinois, offered resolution for
Tennessee to be restored to proper practical re-
la:ions with the Unioh Referred to Judiciary
committee.
The Senate passed bill authorizing the con-
strUction OF railroad bridges across the Mssssp
pi river at Hannibal, Mo-, Quincy, Ills, and Bur
lington, IosA.
The postoffice appropriation bill being taken
up ia the Senate, Trumbull. Of Illinois, moved
an amendment that person exercising the du-
ties of an office which by law is required to be
filed by the adviceland consent OF the Senate
shall before confirmation bv the Senate receive
any salary for his services, unless h. b. commits
stoned by the President to fill vacancy which
has during the recess of Congress and since the
last adjournment happened by the resignation or
expration of the term. Johuson, of Marya