The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-01
Views OF the New York Press upom
the Proposed Plan of ReConsirue,ing
the Southern STATES. ..,--e.

NEW YORK, April 3O-The Tribnn,
says OF the plan for reconstruction
agreed upon by the Committee: The
eXnltatiOn Of pro rebels over the inabil
ity to agree of the joint committee o
IL has proved illusory The COMMITTEES
has agreed on a proposition which viii
to-day he reported TO both Honses, which
has received the votes, IL to 3, of all but
tbs copperhead members We may there
fore accept and censure the Union party
plan OF reconstruction. Our own pref
erence for q much shorter and simpler
programme is well known. Universal
amnesty and impartial. suffrage. such
are the conditions of the whole of them,
The Herald says the plan Is ingeniOnsly
csntrived II Is considerably milder
than anything heretofore emanating
from the committee, and nearer the
policy and the views of President John
son !t may be unnecessary in some
things. snperhuous in others. and nE1air
in its continued exclusion of the South
ern States after having on their part
fulfilled the conditions Of the admins
tration charged with Discretionary pow.
ers over the whole subject, but We have
only now TO await the issue before the
two Houses.
The Times says; The scheme would
seem sweeping enongh 10 satisfy the
most eXacting radical, n cohid hardly
he much more sweeping, Indeed, unless
it provided for wholesale compensation
aud determination in banishment of the
Southern people AS plan of pacifica
ton and reconstruction the whole thing
is worse than burlesque. 1t might be
styled farce. were the country not in
the midst Of a yecy serions drama Its
proper designation wonld be a plan to
prolong indefinitely the exclusion of the
South from Congress by imposing con
dtions to which the Southern people
never will submit.
The World says the purpose of the
scheme would not have been more appa
rent had it been labeled AN intallible
plan for preventing the South from
voting in the next Presidential election"
SO transparent is its, intent that it fails
entirely in respect to its secondary OBJ
ject Of putting the onus of exclusion Oh
the South itself IL is not an honest
proposition, and it is not offered with
auy expectation OF It's acceptance, but
with a deliberate design that it shall be
rejected
The Tribunes special says that after
tour months o. the most searching in
vestigation aud dispassionate discussion
among the members on the committee,
il il believed the plan will meet the
euiire sanction of all shades OF opinion
and sentiment Thus far, no man among
the Union members of either House has
expressed any dissent from the plan.
The friends Of the President gave as
sdranc3s tonight, that il Congress
carries out the scheme in good faith, it
will receive his approval and oo-opera-
ton Neither OF his organs haTe, IT Is
sisted will commit themselves upon the
announced
Ihad Stevens aVoWs his readiness To
acquiesce in the measure.
The Lieutenant General expresses his
and no measure of Congress
has challenged such universal assent in
in all quarters. Ii is not anticipated
that any material amendments will be
carried, and the States will be invoked
to convene their Legislatures 80 a. to Sc
cure its adoption by loyal States, thus
stimulating concurrent action by the
States lately n rebellion