The New York herald., 1866-04-30
Report OF tho Reconstruction Commit l.
tce-A plan NJ I.ase.

Report OF tho Reconstruction Commit
tce-A Plan NJ Last.
1t is understood that the Joint Committee on
Reconstruction will report in both Houses of
Congress to-day the plan which they have at
length agreed upon for the rehabilitation of
the lately rebellious States. This plan, which
we published in full IN our issue of yesterday,
embraces, first, q constitutional amendment
which provides:-
SECTION /. That State shall make or enforce any law
abrdging the equal privileges immunites of citizens
OF the United sates denying any person equal pro-
lection under tho laws.
sec q That the whole population shall be counted for
representation Congress- excluding Indians not taxed
whenever any State shall deny any portion of
people the right OF suffrage except for participation
n the rebellion other crime tho popular basis of
representation shall be proportionately reduced.
SEC g. That until July T. 1870 all persons voluntarily
participating the late nsurrection, giving II aid and
comfort shall be excluded from the right to vote for
members Of Congress- and for electors for President and
Vice Presdent Of the United States.
SEC 4 Prohibits the payment recognition by tho
United States. any State of any debts incurred in the
rebellion and repudsies all claims for compensation
loss OF slave labor.
SEC. Gives Congress the power to enforce these
provisions.
This is the plan Of the Reconstruction Com
mttcc, after an incubation Of five months. But
this is not all; for it comes forth, like Minerva,
iull armed from the brain Of Jove, or, rather,
| like Chinese mandarin, with two tails in the
form of two bills. The first - 80 bill to provide
| for the restoration of the States lately in re-
bcllion to their full political rights" and
IL substantially ordains that whenever any
one of them shall have ratified this
he terms thereof, in its local laws
the members TO both Houses Of Congress from
such State, if duly elected and qualified, shall
be admitted; and the bill further provides that
in regard TO the proportion Of the federal taxes
devolving upon such State SO complying with
the terms aforesaid, the State, with satisfactory
assurance to the Secretary Of the Treasury,
shall be allowed credit Of ten years. This is
a generous concession, and materially softens
the more rigid conditions Of the Congressional
plan.
The second is bill OF ineligibilities to Office
under the government Of the United States,
excluding from any federal Office, first, the
President, Vice President and heads of depart
ments of the late so-callcd Confederate States;
second, those who in other countries acted as
agents Of said Confcdcracy; third, Cabinet
officers of the United States heretofore, officers
of the army and navy, naval or military grad
yates, judges Of the courts, and members oi
the Congress of the United States, guilty OF
aiding the rebellion, together with all persons
who have treated Union officers or soldiers or
sailors captured during the late war otherwise
than lawfully as prisoners OF war"
Such are the constitutional amendment and
the two bills embraced in the plan Of the Re
construction Committee which is to be sub
mitted 10 Congress to-day for the reconstruc-
ton and restoration Of the eleven excluded
Southern States. The main purpose Of this
| plan Is evidently the continued exclusion Of
those States till after the next Presidential
election, with the requisition of negro suffrage
or the exclusion Of the negroes from hc
enumeration Of the people for representa-
ton in Congress. The securities for the future
contemplated In reference to rebels and claim:
for lossc. of slaves by their emancipation are
make-weighls; for in the matter Of the rebe
debts President Johnson has already bound
the States concerned, and In regard tC
emancipated slaves nobody dreams o
having the two OF three thousand
millions of dollars which they would have
commanded In the market before the war, Of
any portion Of IL Thew were forfeited By th