Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-01

Yesterday Report
FOREIGN ADVIcEs.
The New York Press on the New
Policy.
The Henderson Court Martial
From New York.



{ NEW YoRK, April 30.-The Tribune says
T the exultation of rebels over the in.
ability to agreo of the Joint Com
, mittee OILS has proved i~llusory. The Com
mittee has agreed on a proposition, which
will to-day be reported TO both Houses, and
which has received the votes of y to 8 or
all but the Cc~pperhead members. We may
accept and consider the Union party's plan
of Reconstruction. Our own preference for
a much shorter and simple programme Is
well known. Universal amnesty, impartial
suffrage, such are its condition and the whole
Of them.
The Herald says the plan is ingeniously
contriYed. 1t is considerably milder than
anything heretofore emanating from the
Committee, and nearer the policy and the
views Of President Johnson. 1t may be IN
necessary in some things, and superhuous
in others, but We have only now TO await
the issue before the two Houses.
The Times says it would seem sweeping
enough to satisfy the most exciting radical.
It could hardly be much more sweeping, in
deed, unlessi it provided for Wholesale coufis-
cation and determination, or Punishment.
Is a plan of paciGcation and reconstruction,
the whole thing is more than a buTlesque.
It might be styled a farce, were the country
not in the midst of a very serious drama.
Its proper designation would be q plan to
p~roiong indefinitely the exclusion of the
South from Congress, by imposing conditions
which the Southern people never will
submit to.
The World says; The purpose of the
scheme would not have been more apparent
had it been labelled by the committee Gan
Infallible Plan for Preventing the South
Voting in the next Presidential Election"
So transparent is it that it fails entirely in
its secondary object Of putting the onus of
exclusion on the South itself. 1t is not
offered with any expectation Of its accept
anee, but with a deliberate design that it
shall be rejected.
The Tribune's special says: After four
months of the most searching investigation
and discussion among the members 1t is
believed the plan will meet the entire
sanction of all shades. Thus far no man
among the Union members of either House
has expressed any dissent from this plan.
The friends of the President give assurances
tonight that if Congress carries out the
scheme in good faith, It will receive his
approval and cooperation. Neither of his
organs here, it is stated, will commit them
selves on the proposition till tomorrow.
Thad. Stevens has signi6ed his readiness
to acquiesee il the matter. The Lieutenant
General expresses his approval, aud no
measure of Congress has challenged such
universal attention.
The Worlds special saws a member of the
Reconstruction Committee called on the
President yesterday, and presented him
with a copy of the plan which they had
adopted, and asked him what he thought
of it. He said he would let them know
after he had carefully examined it. He
said he thought there was considerable back
ing down from their counter propositions.
The Times special says, as il is known
that Senator johnson and Representatives
Order and Rogers only, voted in the mega
tive. The alternatives must be Senators
Fessenden, Grimes. Harris, Howard and
Williams, and Representatives Stevens,
Washburne. of Illinois. Morrill,, Bingham,
Conkling, Boutwell, and Blaine. Many Union
members assert their belief that the entire
proposition can be carried through both
Houses by q two-third vote.
The Herald's special says that 1t is every
where looked on as a very diminutive ami
NAL to repay the long labor Of the noun
tain. Common rumor attributes its pro-
duction to Roscoe Conkling, Representative
from the Oneida District Of New York, in
conjunction with the massive intellect Of
the Chevslier Forney. Both wings Of the
party are out of humor ct the result of the
extensive researches and elaborate investi-
CATION Of this wonderful inquisitiOn. Each
Of the antagonists claims that nothing is ac-
eomplished by the scheme suggested, but as
il does not distinctly cOntrovert their opin-
ions, and is the nearest to their peculiar
ideas, that can be obtained they subscribe il.