The Van Buren press., 1867-04-05
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, March %.

Confederate Congress, has arrived az
Washington. He is one of the Senator's
elect from Arkansas As it is certain
any application he may make for admis-
sion to the Senate will be rejected, it is
understood he intends carrying the mat
ter before the Supreme Court.
The Presidents veto message of the
Supplementary Reconstruction bill was
read in the House immediately y after 1t
was received. The President objected
generally to the provisions of the bill,
and especially those relating 10 the regis
tering of the number Of persons being
permitted to vote, whose names are not
recorded He SAYS as the prellminaries
to holding conventions are under mar
tial law and conducted by commanding
officers, and as. there is no appeal from
the registry, those in control OF it may so
act as to prevent the election of such
delegates as may faithfully represent the
wishes and sentiments ofa State in a con
vention to be called 20 frame new con
stitution. No consideration could induce
him to give his approval to such an cleo
ton law. He speaks OF the Reconstruc-
ton bill, and the supplementary one es-
tablished under martial law, military
coercion, and as working political dis
franchisement He then refers to the
remarks of Daniel Webster against mill
tary governments, founded on force and
mock elections, and takes occasion to re
iterate his views heretofore expressed in
relation to the restoration OF the Union,
expressing hope that eventually oil the
States will be admitted to the enjoyment
of their rights under the Constitution.
.l.Ha RICHMOND, Va, March 80.
1t will be authoritatively announced to-
morrow that Gen. Robt. Z. Lee is in
favor of the people voting for cOnven-
vention, and every man not actually dis
franchised should not only take the nee
essary steps to prepareshimself, but to
prepare all his friends, white and colored,
to vote He thinks the co operation Of
all people, officials and citizens, should be
prompt, and their chief object should be
to get as quickly and quietly as possible
back into the Union with such rights as
are left He thinks the oath is such as
every citizen not disfranchsed ought to
be able to take as simple matter oftruth
and duty as citizens OF the country.
Mr. Wilson presented concurrent
resolution was ordered printed; the pre-
amble recites Jefferson Davis as he stands
charged with the heinous crime of con
spiracy to murder the late Abraham
Lincoln, and is also indicted for high
treason, and has persistently declared his
innocence, and demanded q public trial,
therefore
Resolyed, That the longer confinement
of said jeff Davis without a trial or ar
raingnment of the specification for trial,
is not in accordance with the demands of
justice and spirit of the laws and require
ments Of the Constitution, and in com
mon justice, sound public policy and the
| National honor within, recommending
said jeff Davis be brought to a speedy
and public trial, or he be released from
confinement on bail, or on his own recog-
| niZance. t-.s
.ar WASHINGTON, March 26
The House opened to-day with an in
spring scene, in the renewal of the But
Ter and Bingham controversy The gal
leries were full, and the House granted
unanimous consent for both Of them to
proceed. The debate was more bitter
and personal than on Thursday last, and
! even provoked severe comment on the
speaker from Bingham, when called to
order at the opening of his remark.
The dramatic effect Of affairs was some
what heightened by printed pamphlet,
placed on the desk of each member by
Butler, wherein it was shown on parallel
colums what were the remarks delivered
| by Mr.. Bingham last week, and the ad-
denda which he made to the official re-
port in the Globe.
Mr.. Butler attempted to show by this
that Mr. Bingham had made an addition
al attack upon him by writing out and
adding to the short hand notes some
remarks which were never delivered
Passing from this he proceeded to defend
his { (Butler's) statement that Mrs. Surratt
was unjustly convicted, and charged that
Mr.. Bingham had suppressed material
evidence on the conspiracy trial, and in
timating that persons in high places since
the trial had destroyed some of this evi-
dence by cutting out eighteen pages of
the diary found on Booth at the time of
his DEATH
Mr. bingham replied with great spirit,
and feelingly declaring that his remarks
last week were so badly reported that he
rewrote them, but that he had not changed
their tenor in any respect. He denied
ever having seen the Booth diary, and
claimed that if he had every rule Of evi-
dence known to common law for a thou
sand years would have ruled out any
memoranda made after the commission
Of the act, and compared Butler's legal
ability in making sach claim rs com
mensuratc with his military capacity
He added that no man but one who had
lived in q bottle and was fed with spoon
would claim that such a ruling for eyi