The Portland daily press., 1868-06-19
WASHINGTON.
PARADE OF TROOPS.


WAsHINGTON June 1S.-The Chinese EN-
bassv. in company with Mai. Gen. Hancock
and other army officers and number OF prom
inent civilians were entertained at noon to-day
with parade at the Lincoln Barracks OF the
United States troops now stationed at Wash
ington and also with display of some of the
steam fire apparatus. Thousands of specta-
tors were in attendance.
THE MUNICIPAL WAR.
The Police Commissioners this afternoon
passed a resolution unanimously recognizing
Sayles j. Bown Mayor of Washington defac-
to, and, therefore, an eX-officio member of the
Board; The conservative members of the City
Council continue to hold meetings separate
from the Republican members.
THE ADMISSION OF COLORADO.
The friends of the Colorado bill find upon
examination that immediate adm ssion of that
State would jeopardize the ratification or the
14th article of the amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States, for the reason that
the Southern States soon to be admitted will be
exactly enough (2S) TO r4tity that amendment,
while the admission of Colorado would require
twenty nine States, and as the Legislature of
Colorado is yet to be elected, it would subst-
tute an uncertainty for certainty. The Sen
ate Committee ON Territories has therefore re-
ported an amendment to the Colorado bill pro-
viding that the State Legislature, before the
State is admitted to re reservation in Congress,
shall ratify the amendment. There seems less
opposition to the bill as thus amended than
heretofore. 1t is understood that the Congress
sional delegation elect propose to resign and
thus place the entire State question in the
hands of the people.
NEW BILL AGAINST sURRATT.
The grand jury of the Criminal Court has
found n true bill against John IL. SCIratt,
charging him, under the I'd section of the act
OF July 16, 1862, with giving aid and comfort
to the enemy.
INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND MIR
EEISENDEN
This morning Senator Fe ;senlen had an in
tervew of some time with Mr. johnson, it be-
ing the first time he has visited the President
since long before the impeachment trial.
LEAVE GRANTED GEN. HOOKER.
BY direction of the Secretary of War leave
OF absence on surgeons certificate of disability,
granted to Gen. Hooker, has been extended to
the LIST of September.
JUDGE CHAsE's PLATFORM.
New YORK, June 1S-A special telegram
from Washington says The following is said
to be an authoritative statement of the plat
form OF Chief Justice Chase and is said to
have been drawn up by Mr.. Chase himself
Universal suffrage is a recognized Democratic
principle, the publication of which is to be left
in the several States, under the Constitution
of the United States to the States themselves.
Universal amnesty and the complete removal
of the political disabilities caused by the late
rebellion is not only wise and just measure of
public policy, but is essentially necessary to be
beneficial to the administration of government
in the States recently engaged in civil war
with the United States, and to the full and sat
isfactory re-establishment of the practical re-
lations of those States with the other States OF
the American Union. No military government
in any State of the Union in time of peace is
compatible with the principles of civil liberty
established by the Constitution; nor can the
trial of private citizens by military commits
sions be tolerated by people jealous Of their
freedom and desiring to be free. Taxes should
be reduced as lar practicable, collected i'm
partially aud with strict economy, and so APP
upon labor; and while all national obligations
should be honestly and exactly fulfilled, no
special privileges should be allowed to any
classes or individual corporations.