The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-01

and will, it is eXpccted, report some general
measure to the House within few days, in
order, If possible, TO secure It's passage curing
amohntb 10 nothing because With this session,
on the 4th of March, this joint commlttee, Win
the present Congress, expires ana all uhnnlsnea
legislative measures in either House must with
the new Congress, in order to be hnished, be
taken up de a0UO. sold Thad" was of the opinion
that the reference of the bill would be its death,
but it means only the transfer OF the subject to
the new Congress.
the new Congress, elected upon the platform of
the pending amendment, will. know precisely
what to do IN this business of reconstruct1on,
and because, during the four weeks and half
remaining oil this Congress, the two Houses, to
saw nothing of the Tariff the Gold bill, or the
Bankrupt bill, will have enough in the way of
unfinished measures OF peremptory character
to occupy all their time. Assuming, therefore,
that nothing further will be done by this Con-
gress for the excluded States, the question
recuTs, "What will be the programme of the
new CongressW Doubtless the FIRST thing in
order in the Senate will be the trial of Presi-
dent johnson on an impeachment for certain
thigh crimes and misdemeanors" from the
House. This trial, we expect will be completed
with the conviction and removal of President
johnson by or before the FIRST of May.
With his arTagnment he VIII probably be
suspended, and, by new law passed for the
purpose, General Grant may be appointed to
supersede him during his suspension and after
his removal for the remnant OF his unexpired
term. Otherwise with the SUSPENSION or re-
moval of Mr.. johnson, the President of the
Senate, under the existing law, will take his
place. As, then, with the new Congress new
President of the Senate will be elected, the
choice will be made, in the absence of any new
law on the subject, as q temporary election to
the White House. In this view Senator tessen-
cen, Trumbull, or Wade will probably be the
man.
Meantime, while Congress is thus dlsposing
of the bling block now at the head OF the
Executive department, and providing substl-
tute in his place. the ratification of the pending
amendment will have been consummated by
three-fourths OF the States constituting now the
Government of the United States. Leaving out
Nebraska and Colorado, the whole number OF
States entitled to voice upon this amendment
is twenty-siX, of which nun Der twenty is three
fourths. Already the ratification has been made
by Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode
Island Vermont, New YORK, New Jersey, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota,
Oregon, Nevada, Tennessee, and West Virginia
seventeen States We want only three more,
and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa, and California can sIrely tur-
nish those three within the next thirty days.
The duty will then devolVe upon Congress OF
proclaiming the amendment part and parcel OF
the Federal Constitution, the supreme law of the
land binding alike upon the INSIDE and the
outside States and the Terri ories.
With this proclamation by law 1t will become
the duty of the President, under sucn an
enabling act as Congress may pass, on the basis
of this amendment, to proceed to the recon
struction of the Rebel States: and refusal in
this matter to execute the law will OF itself be
a sufficient cause for Impeachment. This is the
right way for Southern reconstructon-lt Is
building on a constitutional foundation that
Will stand, and it covers all the securities
needed for the future. The States and people
represented in the Government are the Govern; in
mont. tho eynIu1~I SNtsVOo duu pcOplN, lOlItitln
1las 1iIgnts III the Government by their Rebel
lion are subject to the will of Congress as to the
terms of their restoration,
President johnson, in recognizing them as
members lawfully restored by his own acts, and
| in defiance of Congress, clearly becomes sub
| iect for impeachment With his removal, a;
the Constitution provides, and with Genera
Grant in his place, the saving virtues Of the
amendment will be at once understood and &C
cepted by all the outside States. The preposte
rous old notions of the Constitution and STATE
rights, including the right to shoot niggers an(
Yankees, which they are now preaching an(
practising under the protection of Presiden
johnson, would soon be changed to Genera
Grants political application of Lees surrender
impeachment, the amendment, and Genera
Grant to execute it South, ought then to be
and we expect will be, the programme Of tn
| new Congress-