The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-22
News from washington.

MIR. Stevens bill to re-0rSanlZe tLe OouIh-
ern States will no doubt como up this week
for further consideration. A number of mem
beers of the House are expected TO speak
upon it. The bill is certain OF large
majority, if not two-thirds of the present
Congress.
The tenure of office bill was taken up in
the Senate on the 18th, and passed, yeas 30,
nays g. Mr.. Sumner spoke in severe terms
of the President, and Mr.. Reverdy johnson
replied. The summary of the bill in the
newspapers is not full or satisfactory. The
bill provides that certain officers shall be re-
moved by the President on certain condi-
TONS We will give the act, or the substance
of it as soon as we receive it in such form
as will render it clear to our readers.
1t is stated that Mr.. Ashley has submitted
his impeachment proposition to the South
ern Republican Association in Washington,
and that the Association voted II to 10 that
the President ought to be impeached
Bradley T. johnson, formerly of Maryland,
and Confederate General, has been admit
ted to practice in the Supreme Court under
the rule abolishing the test oath.
1t is said that the English mission will be
rendered to David Dudley Field.
Gen. F. D. Scwell has been ordered to
North Carolina to report in relation to the
apprenticing of colored children by the
Courts. Gov. Worth will appoint COM
missioner to act with sewell. The commits
sion will report simultaneously to Gen. How
ard and the North Carolina legislature
We take this occasion to say to the Presi-
dent and Gen. Howard, that when we get
on impartial suffrage, we shall have no fur
ther trouble in relation to the apprenticing
of colored children.
A gentleman of undoubted veracity, who
attended Gen. Grants reception ON New
Years, says the General declared that he had
hoped the Southern people would accept the
Constitutional Amendment, and thereby set
tie the question of their readmission.
Does Gen. Grant expect those gallant Con-
federates who fought him at a distance of
hundreds of miles, in snug civil offices, to
belgrade" themselves by accepting this
amendment? Docs Gen. Grant know that
these leaders, who thus refuse to degrade"
themselves, hold that they really triumphed
in their late struggle with the United States
Fact. They have thus far dictated terms
and they expect to do so to the end.
On Wednesday John NJ. Langston, colo
red man, of Oberlin, Ohio, on motion of Rep
resentative Garfield, was admitted to prac-
tice at the bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States. This is the second instance
of this kind, a colored man having been adj
mitted to practice in this Court about two
years ago.
special to the Tribune, from New Or
leans, says that forty policemen concerned in
the July riots have been arrested under the
Civil Rights bill, on freedmen oaths.
The President has sent to the House of
Representatives mass of papers, relative to
the July riots in New Orleans 1t includes
400 pages of testimony taken by the investi
eating Board. The Board report says that
it is by no means their opinion that hostility
to Northern Union men prevails, in the COM
munity, to the extent of endangering life and
property, procided they refrain from freedom
Of speech on certain subjects. The party that
elected Mayor Monoe. and through him con-
troll the municipal authorities, the Board
considers Thoroughly im5ued acuh a spirit Of
hp@aiT. The Board exculpates Gep<Baird.
4 Fhe n9r9 procession fEts 1tigsd ana I'M
tortdnate, but the Board fails to see. any ev9
idence Of armed organization. The besissea
party 'cas totally m,ormed They allude to
the brutal treatment of the wounded and
prisoners. But for martial law and other
military precautions unparalleled outrages
would have occurred.