Litchfield enquirer., 1867-02-28
Reoonstruction.

Houses are thus compactly summed mp by the N. Y. Tribune:
 I. The Rebel States will retain their present gov ernments, but merely as provisional governments, under which no person who, as the third <sectioR of the Constitutional Amendment enacts, having sstaken an oath as member of Congress-, or as an ''oficer of the United States, or as anember Of
 any State Legislature, or as executive Or Judicial "oicer of any State, to support the .Constitutlon bellion, is eligible to office. And also under such governments no discrimination in regard to color shall be made in the elective franchise.
 II: While these provisions! governments ex,st, the Rebel States arc to be divided into military dis tricts, governed by officers of the army with pow to organize military courts superior to State au thority.
 they are tired of this government, may, by vote of all their citizens, without respect to color, ex- cept those disqualified from holding office by the Constitutional Amendment, elect delegates to these Constitutions are established upon the basis of impartial suffrage, and are ratified by the peo- pie, and when the States thus organized have adopted the Constitutional Amendment, they shall be admitted to representation in Congress- when military rule will cease, and South Carolina and Texas will hold the same places in the Union as New York and Massachusetts, Nor is thero want of cause to hope that this result may soon be reached for these provisions of the bill which at once establish Impartial Suffrage make the Freed men equal participants in the work. 4gef a..s.e.r
 The President may pocket this bill and thus prevent it's becoming a laws but if res. tored, as is now expected, it can easily be passed over the veto. c.,.a i,ac v.j;,s.1..5 @
 As will be noticed from careful exami- nation of its provisions, it is a compromise between the Louisiana bin and those which have been proposed from time to time by Conservatives It establishes universal suffrage, saving only g disfranc chisement of rebels which will reach about one thirtieth of the Southern white voting population; and it affords immediate protection to Southern loyalista. The struggle { at it's passage was very sharp, and demonstrates beyond question that large proportion of the Republicans in the House and major ity in the Senate, are opposed to any ex- treme legislation upon this great question.
 This bill seems to meet more general ap proval than any reconstruction proposition that has yet been unders consideration in Congress, and we hope that the South may not provoke harsher measures fby unreason- able opposition. ,ri,.-. j-..g .I....l,E : ;..c,
 THE NEW HAVEN WoRKNaMKN's CoNvEN- moN.-A great effort was made by the De mocracy to obtain control of this conven- tion and procure an endorsement of their State ticket. In this they were unsuccess- full and after the police had cleared the hall of oficious outsiders the following we'll drawn and temperate resolutions were passed: <. r,...;. ....,<;li, a..i ttf.,-',.-.. WHEREAS, The welfare and general prosperity of
 ly dependent on the labor and skill of the pro
 ducing classes who form 'a large part of our pop
 ulation, and whose interests have heretofore
 been neglected, we, the representatives of the
 varied industry of the State, in Convention as-
 sembied, for the purpose of promoting the inter- ests of labor, do hereby Bet forth our purposes
 and designs in the following resolutions: .'s-.~
 Resotoed, That the comfort and happiness of
 increased by lessening their hours of toll, and we therefore ask that the existing law in reference to the time ofdaily labor be amended as to consti- tute eight hours legal dags soork, believing that it will not in any way be detrimental to the ue in- terests of any class ill the State. ., - ResOtced, That 1t is not our purpose to seek a conflict with capital but to maintain the honor and dignity of labor to elevate the laborer and secure to him fair share of the product of his toil, and we recommend the same energy and perseverance, in the of all honorable means, for the accom- plishment of our object, as were exhibited by so many of our number in the great contest which saved our nation from destruction. [. r ',ss.. e
 Resolued, That it is the duty of all who desire the moral, intellectual, and physical improvement of the producing class to do ak in their power to elect Senators in every district and Representatives. in town who will agree to support and carry out the purposes of tho Workingmen of the State, as set forth in the Resolutions of this Convention.
 Such seems to have been the confusion, however, created by the attempts to make party use of the meeting, that it finally broke up in something little short of a row. -a.-7
 D@- We select the following gems from l the report of the Democratic Convention in the 2d District: ,Tsai' .,-. Eeds la1l ...s
 "While Mr. McF'owler was speaking,
 Pond of Milford, broke in with-1 hope
 for Gods sake, Mir. Chairman, that Fowler
 won't keep us here afl night. ....'.. '' A dissatisfied delegate remarked:
 l ''All this for having a d-d fool for a
 Chairman. .;r..r '..''A' '- ... ,,' -. -,- A proposition to, nominate MT. Hotch-
 kiss by exclamation after the sixth ballot,
 was met as follows: ''-..: v. .-.'- eff you want your man nominated, do 1t by ballot, and get your votes, by Cd /" On the grand result the Palladium per- petrates the following: @' ]'1--',.. s'-.- D