The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-12

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dollars appropriated this winter for
refurnishing the White House has
been exhausted by the payment of
bills contracted during Mr.. Lincoln's
administration, and that another ap-
preparation must be made to render
the Executive mansion presentable.
Senator Doolittle has prepared an
elaborate speech IL support of the
Presidents policy, which he will soon
deliver in the Senate
Members of Congress are already
arriving freely, and the notes of ac-
tivity, of fresh bills, new amendments
to the Constitution, and new projects
for relieving the Treasury Of it's sur
plus, are already plainly visible. The
restoration question, however, will no
doubt be the first thing in order,
Tennessee occupying the foreground,
and being the first to pass the ordeal
Senator Doolittle will make an able
speech when the question comes up
III that body.
some OF the negro population of
the city are indignant because of the
fact that the President left them to
gaze on the wall nd furniture of his
reception room on New Years day,
instead Of Oh the Executive himself.
The negroes, it appears, were left
I until the last before being 'spre-
sented," but the President had be-
come too weary from the hand shaking
of the day to receive them, and retired
to his apartment. 1t is not 1T all
probable that the President intended
any slight to his colored friends,
though certain mischicvous people
are endeavoring to make it appear so.
l am told that parties at the South,
who have been in the employ of the
Treasury Department, but who have
received no pay for their services, on
the ground that they could not take
the ''test oath. intend to press their
claims upon the Government, and
will use the pay of the Provisional
Governors as precedent for the
validity of the amounts due them. 1t
IS true there was no warrant for the
payment of the Provisional Govern
ors, several Of whom were unable to
take the oath; but since Mr.. Stanton
has confessed that they have been
paid, Mr.. McCulloch will have to do
something to satisfy his own agents
as we'll
George L. Little, Esq, a Special
Agent OF the Treasury Department,
who has recently returned from an
extensive tour through the South,
reports that he finds as much money
in ;ae hands of Southern men now as
was ever before possessed by them.
Northern spectators are numerous
in most regions of the South, and
have been and are now purchasing
largely Of the Southern staples, as
well as OF landed property, thus
placing in the hands of the people
immense amounts of ready money.
Senator Trumbull, just previous to
the holidays, gave notice of his inten-
tinn to introduce bill. WHICH he has
since divided into two, and Will sub
nit them to the Senate tomorrow
One of them is to enlarge the powers
of the Eceedmen's Bureau, and the
other is to protect all persons in the
United States in their civil rights, and
furnish the means of their vindica-
ton. The first provides that in the
lnsurrectlonary districts, when, by
State law or custom, any of the civil
rights belonging to white persons are
denied to negroes or mulattoes, or
when they are subject to different
punishment than is prescribed for
whites, the officers and agents of the
Freedmen's Bureau shall, SO long as
such discrimination continues, have
jurisdiction of all cases which affect
ali such negroes or mulattoes.
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fine and imprisonment, through the
courts of the Fredmen's Bureau, all
persons who shall subject Il negro or
mulatto, In consequence or his race
or color, to any other or different
punishment than is prescribed for
white persons, or shall deny him any
civil rights which belong to the white
race. The Judicial power conveyed
by the Freedmen's Bureau, is to cease
whenever the States where it is exer-
clsed are fully restored III all their
Constitutional relations to the Union.
The other bill is of a permanent
character, to apply to all parts of the
United States 1t declares that the
inhabitants, of every race and color,
without regard to former slavery,
shall have the same right to make,
sue and enforce contracts to sue be
parties; give evidence; to inherit
purchase, deed, hold and convey real
and personal property; to enjoy full
and equal benefit of all laws and the
security of person and property; all
be subject to like punishment, pains
and penalties, any law, regulation or
| custom to the contrary notMithstand-