Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-27
Admit Nebraska

One thing the National Congress ought
to do before its adjournment on Saturday,
: and that is to admit The state of Nebraska
10 the Union. This young, prosperous
and growing state has recently framed
and adopted state constitution under
the forms of law, and has elected state
officers and senators and representatives,
in Congress. Nothing is needed TO make
her a state in the Union but the action of
Congress. The exigencies of the times no
less than Justice to Nebraska herself call
upon Congress to take the necessary ac-
tion and place her among the galaxy Of
states. This is especially necessary to
| check-mate the Presidents revolu-
tionary scheme, foreshadowed in his
own actions and in the threats of
his mouth-pieees in Congress, of calling
the Senate together in special session, and
summoning to take part therein the Sen
ators elect from the Southern States
Should this be done, and the President by
the exercise of force, compel the Senate to
receive the Southern delegation, the Pres
identisl party would have majority in
the Senate. The Senate now stands,
counting the Tennessee delegation: Union
80; Johnsonites IG, vacancy from New
Jersey 1. This count gives both the
Senators from West Virginia to the Un-
ionists against johnson. The twenty |
Senators from the unrepresented Southern
States are solidly Johnsonite, that is to
say, rebel. Thus if they were admitted, or
forced, into the Senate, the johnson party
would as matters at present stand, have a
majority of one. Should the Senate sue
eeed in excluding them, however, the pro-
gramme is for them to withdraw, followed
by the entire johnson party, and set up
separate Senate, which, being the most
numerous, would be recognized by the
President as the true Senate. All this
revolutionary scheme can be nippedin
the bud by the simple admission of Ne
braska, which would make the Unionists
in the Senate 81, and give them a clear
majority in any contingency.
the Late Senator Lane
Sometime since we published scrap
of Intelligence concerning the late Senator
Lane, clipped from an exchange, to the
effect that on the very day the vote was
taken in the Senate on the Civil Rights
Bill, Lane received dispatch from the
EDITORS of the Chicago Tribune, advising
him to vote for the bill, warning him that .
~ would make the mistake of his life if i
ne should vote against it, which he show
ID to friend, with the remark that the
Mistake had been made-he would give
900 if it were undone. The Tribune f
,orrects an error in the statement. The q
lispatch was sent five or six days before ]
he vote on the Civil Rights Bill was
aiken, and Lane voted against it deliber-
Itely. He had agreed with the President
o vote against it, and the President had Il
promised to appoint Judge Davies-bro- c
her to the well-known author of Davies
Algebra relative of Lanes to the a
,fice of New York Collector. 1t was a C
egular bargain and sale arrangement,
avs the Tribune. Lane voted to sustain :
he Civil Rights Bill, but his vote failing Ii
0 kill the bill, the President event back" d
N his promise and refused to appoint
Davies Collector of the port of New
York.