The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-30
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
.,, .ressionaI Proceeding.

| WASHINGTON, apTil 20.
u,rsr The House met to-day Tor dc
80 70 on the Presidents annual message
"rvI Mr scofield, Of Pennsylvania, ad
drsssed the House on the subject of re
CON Instruction. The premises which b.
assumed were that the disloyal popula
tion of the South could not exceed fiv,
million: that this population was so dis
tributed that if the late rebel State
we're admitted with conditions, the,
would be able to elect twenty-six Sena
tors and eighty-four Representatives
thus permitting one-seventh ofthe whole
population of the United States TO con
troll more than one-third of its legisla
tive power, and that this control woul(
be used for the destruction of the gov
ernment, He urged that the seeded
States came back to the Union only by
coercion; that it was forced bridal
that the original cause of secession, ha
tired of the North and its anti-slayery
maiorities, was made stronger now thar
in 1861. They did not even profess
themselves to be in favor OF the Union
though untruthful men from the Nort1
preyaricated for them. If they could
thew would restore the Confederacy al
once. They would use their influence TO
prnvnie war with Great Britain or
France, hoping thereby to secure their
own INDEPENDENCE. For this state OF
things three remedies have been pro.
nnsad, First, to disfranchise the leading
rebels; second, to neutralize their votes
bv enfranchising the'blacks; and, thlrd,
to make the population, minus Tie aus
fraAchised class, the basis OF representa-
tion. He advocated the third proposi
ton, claiming that it was the republican
plan Of reconstruction
Dir. Higly was the aeXt speaker. he
ierring to the appointment OF a ioint
committee on Reconstruction, and 10 IT'S
action in reporting some constitutional
and large mass at testl
mouy. he said he proposed now TO
lirect his attention to report made by
that committee on the 9th OF March last,
A Joint resolution for the admission Of
the State of Tennessee, ana he must not
he considered captions 1t he differed
with fifteen Of the wisest men IN Con
sras, in regard to some matters nitro
duced in that resolution. fittings were
70 be observed in the Joint resolution re
ported by that committee one was thai
they endorsed the new constitution ot
Tennessee as Tspubllcon In form, and an
other was the declaration that the only
means by which the State would be
allowed Tspresentives in Congress was
to be through the law ot the United
States The constitution oi the state OF
Tennessee prescribed who should be ea,
titled to the elective franchise, ana 1t
would be found that the word white
was used in almost every section Inc
elective franchise was limited 10 the
white loyal citizens of the state, those
who had been engaged III rebellion
being disfranchised.
Mr. Harding discussed tho question Of
reconstruction from an opposite point OF
view. He said there had been rebel-
ion in the country, one at the North
and one at the South, although differing
v ;dely on some points, theH had been,
vet in reality leagued together They
have been waring to overthrow Tile C0h-
sfitution and dissolve the Unt0n' The
rebellion has at length ended The peo-
ole have abandoned and repudiated Sc
5ession They have returned to their
allegiance ana yielded obedience to the
and laws. The Northern
rehellion was still rampant and defiant,
and there was no hope for restoration OF
The Union until that rebellion was also
INJECTED or at lsast reduced to con
,roiahle minority, The country had gone
thronqh tour years of terrible war 10
keen eleven States from going ont ot the
Union. and now it had gone through
ronr months and was threatened with
fonr years of congressional and political
,or tn keen these eleven States ont
and prevent the restoration 81 the
Irnion. There could be no such thln& as
yeconstructing the Union unless 1t had
been broken up and dissolved The ba.
sis of the central idea. therefore, Of
tbe Northern revolutionary movement
colled " reconstruction, was dlsunion
II .asted upon the assumption that the
ITnion had been dirsolyed, and had no
ether foundation OF support. The war
woped by the Southern insurgents 10
t,ke the States out of the Union was
failure the war on the part oi the gov
ernment was a success 10 say, mere
fore that seeded States were ont ol the
Union was to say that the war OF the
government was failure, and that OF
fbe Southern rebels Il success The I'M
nortant discovery of this fact had been
made b1 the wisdom OF NOrtherneI~ and
was wholly unknown in the South
Mr. Tinok addressed the House on the
.ou.stion of reconstruction. lie INSISTED
that Congress could express no power
NOT delegated under the constitution eX
cant such as were necessary to carry ont
ezrress grants He said the danger 70
tbs country today came from different
directions. 1t lay in strong and vel! or
ganized attempts to destroy rights OF
the States and to establish On their RUNS
= poverful centralized system a part
Of thisattempted revolution was denial
IN eleven States OF the Union the
right of representation lie regarded the
civil rights acts rs unwarranted 6Y Gus
tom. and as al invasion Of the just
rights of States If there was anything
which the people would never surrender
without q struggle. and worthy the
defenders of free government, it was
the cherished light Of each State to reg.
ulate and control its own domestic al
fairs. unchallepged and uncontrolled hE
anv power except the constitution OF
the United States He warned the
American people thar, although the re
beliion had been suppressed. danger
still remained IL
Mr.. Banks then addressed the House
in behalf of New England capitalists
who had been. somewhat severely re
tiected upon the other day by Mr. Went
worth in the debate on the Northern