The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-15
Our Washington Letter.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY NEW

THE LAST DAYS OF THE SESSION.
WASHINGTON, February 11.-But twenty-one days
remain to the Thirty-ninth Congress, and only
nineteen of those can be considered working days.
No wonder poor old STEVENS is maddened with
the non-success Of his reconstructiye schemes,
when it is realized that this whole session is moth
ing, if not reconstructive. Tariff, tax, and gene
raj appropriation bills have all gone by default to
make way for the abortiye efforts of the Radicals
to agree upon some method Of disposing Of the
South, and now, at this eleventh hour OF the
council, even their chief has to abandon his
crotchets and plead with the rank and file Of his
party to agree upon something anything-only
that it may be policy to place before the North
rs meet fruits of their long and embittered con-
troversy.
There was rumor last night that compromise
had been effected between STEVENS, BINGHAM and
BANKs, whereby they were to support general
consolidation Of all their schemes and crotchets,
and present the incomprehensible mix to the
sense of the House to-day. STEVENS was to lead
off with the stronger clauses Of his military bill
In this BANKs is to dovetail such sections Of his
Saturdays bill as referred to sending Commission
ers intosthe South to institute new State govern
ments through the operation Of popular eonven-
tions, and BINGHAM, acting as general direc-
tor of this legislative pot pouri, is to be
allowed to crafty his vanity by welding
the baton of his Judicial mind, over the whole
problem, whenever the galleries are full enough to
induce him to make such display of his his
trionic powers. It is not impossible nor inn
probable that such q compromise has been ar
ranged. That or any other Of the multitudinous
propositions offered during the weary and profit
less length of this Congress, might have been
agreed upon with equal harmony during tho early
weeks of the session. had the three rival aspirants
to the leadership been content to commune to-
gether, and waive their individual ambitions. But
they did not until this late day-too late, in my
Judgment, for anything to come Of it. Unless the
compromise takes form, is passed in each House
before the 23d inst, the Radical game must admit
decisive defeat. After the latter date, less than
ten days elapsing until the close of the session,
the President may, constitutonally, pocket oil
Bills which he finds no reason to sanction. 1t is
not at all likely, that even should the House sue
ceed in passing the new Bill within the next four
or five days, the Senate, not encountered with the
gag of the previous question:" will give it any
less than.a ek's discussion, at tho end Of which
The last day Of grace has expired, and "0ld
THAD.," divested of his robes md panoply of cfice
rs the high priest of Restoration and Retonstruc-
tion or whatever else pertains to the Radical creed
or ritual will pass out from under the shadow oi
the dome, stricken, disappointed man.
THE JUDICIARY I11PEAcHERs DEFEATING THEIR OWN
ENDS.
The Judiciary Committee had before them the
Witnesses this morning, in the interest of impeach
ment. Who they are no one knows save tha
mysterious committee and its agents, who boas
that they can, and do, circle the Continent round
in the Importation Of Witnesses and deposition.
having bearing upon this case and the assassina
ton completely of JEFFERSON DAVIS. It can be NJ
very satisfactory vaunt in the latter instance how
ever, as one of their most momentous witnesses
Mr.. SANFORD CANovER (alias hal:-a-dozcn equall
respectable cognomens) was this morning hande,
over to the tender nercies of jury, with an in
junction by the Court that scarcely result 9th
erwiso than his conviction for the subornation Q
perjury in the very case referred to, By the way