The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-30
From Warrington,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The meeting
of the Senate Finance Committee in the
forenoon resumed the consideration OF
the gold bill from the House. After a
bill rejected. Mr.. Van Dykes state
ment to the committee appears to have
been very satisfactory.
The Washington City councils, after
a long delay, have agreed to pay the
trustees of colored schools over nine
thousand dollars, being the amount due
by law for that purpose.
The Committee on Reconstruction
will enter Immediately upon the pre-
paration of proper bill reorganizing
the States, in view of the rejection OF
the Constitutional Amendment.
The correspondence between Seward
and Motley was sent to the Senate to-
day. Seward wrote, November 2lst,
that he had Information that Motley
had said he despised American democ-
racy and loudly proclaimed that an
English gentleman was nearest human
professionalism the President had de-
serted his pledges and principles, in
was helplessly degraded. Motley's de-
NAL or confirmation was required.
He replied at some length, which was
never concealed, that his political ideas
were in favor of recognizing the South
by tine Constitutional Amendment, and
that the charges made are false and
contemplate. He concludes by re-
signing his mission to Vienna.
The President to-day returned to the
Senate, with his objections, the bill for
the admission of Nebraska. He refers
to the fundamental condition prece-
dent, that suffrage shall be allowed
without distinction of race or color.
This condition is not mentioned in the
original enabling act, was not contem
plated at the time of its passage, was
not sought by the people themselves,
has not been applied to the inhabitants
of any State asking admission, is in di-
rect conflict with the constitution
adopted by the people. and declared in
the preamble to be Republican in its
form of government, for in that instru-
ment the exercise of the elective fran
chise and the right to hold Office, are
expressly limited to the State, while the
United States Congress undertakes to
to change the constitution which it is
declared in the preamble has re-
ceived the sanction of the people,
and which by this bill is accepted,
ratified and confirmed by the Congress
of the United States. The President
sections of the bill exhibit yet further
incongruity. If, he says, Congress is
satisfied that Nebraska, at the present
time, possesses sufficient population to
entitle her to full representation in
the councils of the nation, and her peo-
pie desire a State government, good
faith would seem TO demand that she
should be admitted without further re-
quirements than those expressed in the
enabling act, with all of which, it is
asserted in the preamble, her inhabi-
tants have complied.
The President, in compliance with a
resolution of the House, transmitted to.
day a voluminous document on the
subject of the New Orleans riots in July
last. 1t includes 400 foolscap pages Of
testimony taken before the military
board, which convened at the instance
of Gen. Baird, and consisting of Gener.
ais Mower, Quincy, Gregg and Badly,
together with their report, in which
they condemn the conduct of Mayor
Monroe, and say that but for the decla,
ration of martial law by Gen. Baird and
the presence of troops, fire and blood.
shed would have ragged through the
night in all the negro quarters in the
city, and the lives and property of the
Unionists and northern men would
have been at the mercy of the mob.