The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-29
POLITICAL.

POLITICAL.
THE RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME OF CONGRESS
NOT YET COMPLETE.
The Washington correspondent Of the Balti-
more Sun says:
It was fondly supposed That the supplement
tary reconstruction bill now pending in the
Senate, and which is the fourth OF the series,
would be a fnalty. It has been discovered,
however, that the regal powers which are there.
in conferred upon General Grant can be swept
away by single breath Of the Executive. The
law which revived the grade Of general express
" provides that the officer appointed to fill that
position shall command the armies Of the United
States 'sunder the direction and during the
pleasure Of the President" By this law, Passed
less than two years ago, the President can at
any moment designate another general-in-chlef.
The military committees OF the two houses are
hard at work to devise some plan to meet this
new difficulty, and IN o few days we may, In
the language of Fernando Wood, expect another
monstrosity to be revealed to the gaze Of the
country. The truth is, the whole reconstruc-
tion policy Of Congress is very much like
leaky vessel, for every hole that is patched up
two new ones are discovered.
SENATOR DooLITTLEs SPEECH.
Washington correspondents speak of Senator
Doolittle's late speech on reconstruction as one
of the most remarkable events OF the session.
The vast crowd in the galleries, and the 81
lent attention OF Senators on the floor OF the
House, reminded old visitors at the capitol OF
the afternoon when Douglas, also the cham
pion OF tho great principles held in his time by
minority OF American citizens, commanded
and won the sympathies Of all men Of every
political faith who could crowd into the Senate
chamber and listen. So mimpeaehable were
many of the arguments employed by the Sena-
more decisive statements Of facts, that Radi-
cal Senators often moved uneasily in their
seats, and applause in the galleries could
hardly be suppressed. At times the speaker,
whose voice and frame and dignity Of
manner we're more fascinating than they had
ever before been, startled the whole Senate
into manifest admiration, and even when he
uttered his most singing accusations and sar-
casms against the party and the men who are
irving to initiate Samson by razing the pillars
of constitutional government, his bearing was
too manly and his accent too free from any
thing more personally offensive than the
honest Indignation OF patriot to cause sim
gle Senator to protest. The Radicals who one
year ago, when the star Of Radicalism was in
the ascendant, would have been confident
enough Of their power to quit the chamber and
or any other Conservative might say in it,
exhibited trepidation and demorilization
which they have not shown to such an extent
at any time during the past memorable fort
night.
THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS IN NEW ENGLAND
THE DEMOCRATS sANGUINE OF SUCCESS.
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Herald writes:
A hu narnnnrafio
clans from various parts of New Hampshire
and Connecticut give a large share OF encour-
agement to the Conservatives, and induce
them to feel sangulne Of victory in the ap-
preaching elections. It is invariably repre-
sented, in these accounts, that wide schism
is manifesting itseIf in the Republican ranks
by reason Of the Radical Congressional policy,
and that it needs only statesmanllke exposl-
ton of doctrines on the part OF tho Democrats
of dissenting Republicans, and give the coup
de grace TO no insignificant portion OF New
England fnnaticism. The Republican National
Committee, it is said, has been summoned to
convene here on Monday to consider ways and
means Of CARRYING New Hampshire. The Gen.
trail Republican Committee OF that State cry
aloud for funds, demanding $40, ,00O TO save
them from destruction; but the National Com,
mittee are said to be minus the needful, and
of teeth" in view OF the dreaded Democratic or
Conservative uprising.
THE LATE SPEECHES IN THE SENATE ON TIE
RECONSTRUCTION BILL.
The speeches in the Senate on the Recon
structon bill still furnish much food for CONVEX
sation, and equally much for censure or com,
mendation. Morton's receives no undue need
of praise from his party; but Doolittle's must
be accorded the merit of having been drected
with all the precision and efficacy OF bomb
shell right into the Radical camp. 1t was a
natural sequence that the speeches in reply
should have been made with all the elaborate
ness that eloquence and argument could
supply, for The damage done needed the
largest and most skilful repairing: 1t is con-
templated by the Democrats to print one nun
dred thousand copies OF MIR. Doohtties speecn
and use it as camplign document.
THE REINSTATEMENT OF SECRETARY STANTON
MERcENARY MOTIVES ATTRIBUTED TO CERTAIN
RADICALS.
It begins to leak out that the Radicals had
some other motive in reinstatlng secretary
Stanton besides that OF placing him IN the
Cabinet as thorn in the side OF Presldent
johnson. 1t appears that good many old
claims in the War Department, dating from
the period Of the rebellion, and rejected from
time to time as being of too outrageous q
character to be recognized, are being urged
upon him now for payment by some OF the men
who helped to reinstate him. His predecessor
dd ia,terin1 did not venture to assume their re-
sponsibiity, but the present incumbent, Judg-
ing from the way in which his reinstatement
has been effected, may be thought lmpened by
gratitude to Gquidate the claims, even tnough
they relate to impositions OF snoddy which
could only be tolerated during the war epoch'