The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-02-26
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1T.--Ip the Senate
=, dav Senator Trumball reported back
49, s.on' the judiciary Committee the House
mraScnaustruetiontbil, passed in the early part
r. Ilpcember last, declaring that majority
r. actual voters in the Southern states
y ObalI be sufficient to adopt the new consti
,as;ons. with recommendation TINT all Of
W. Tho enaeting shall be stricken out ant
,befolIowing inserted
pTbat hereafter any election as authoriz
od'bythe act passed March 2sa, 1867, en-
IT t;tled an act supplementary to an act to
,nroyi,le forthe More Efficient government
Sthe rebel States, passed March 2, 1867
md to Eeiiaate the restoration shall be
jsciled by a.majosty Of the votes actually
.ost and at the election in which the
e question Of the adoptionor rejection ofany
daoustilntion is submitted, any person duly
soaistered may vote in any part ofthe State
, HID he shall have been registered where
Se NAV reside at the time of such election
mon y presentation Of his certificate Of reg
;.tration under such regulations as the Dis
.,ict Commanders may prescribe. - ~
Judge Bingham introduced in the House
today q resolution reciting that as ma
;ority of the actual voters in Alabama had
syoted for the adoption of the new Consti-
,Stion, that the Legislature of that State
h, convened as as, possible by the
: Military Commander Of that District, and
that as soon as said Legislature shall adopt
the fourteenth amendment to the Consii-
tuition, and provide for impartial suffrage,
said State shall be entitled to representa-
tian in Congress, Referred to Recon
s.ruction Committee
In the Supreme Court, this morning,
thief Justice Chase delivered an opinion
in the McCardle case, on the motion Of
Senator Trumbull, to dismiss it for want OF
imiseiction. The opinion isygaite elabor-
ate and quotes at length legal authorities
hearing on the case. 1t states that there
n ample law to take hold Of the case, and
on this ground the Court declines to allow
The motion to dismiss. With regard to
,be question of jurisdiction, the opinion
states that the court is not now prepared
to decide, and 1t is therefore reserved for
consideration. and will be decided after az
,eumentis heard uponait, which will be on
the first Monday in March,
The Worlds Washington correspondent
had personal interview with Thad. Ste
yens Yesterday. Stevens said he consider
ed, the President liable to impeachment,
but he was not disappointed in the vote in
committee by which his resolutions for i'm
peachment were tabled, as his long expert
ence enabled him to know every coward in
Congress.
Tie Tribune's dispatch says when the
vote III committee had been declared
against. Mr.. Stevens resolutions for the
impeachment Of the President, Stevens
said:
Sir, the Republican party has been killed
to-day by the action OF this committee at
the instance of GeE. Grant and his friends.
/ have found for the last two or three
days that men who shouted the loudest and
threw their hats the highest for U. S.
Grant, have been using every .exertion to
demoralize Mr.. Bingham and the other
members Of this committee who were sup.
posed to favor impeachment. Gen. Grant
has been using bis influence everywhere to
defeat the scheme. and Andrew johnson
has to thank him that he remains uudis-
tarbed in the White House. I have been
III public life for forty years, and though ]
do not pretend to any gift OF prophecy, ]
have seldom been mistaken in my predic-
tions. .Itell you to-day this cowardly ac-
ton will cost us New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and probably three Or four more
Northern States.
CoIuMBUs, Ohio, Feb. 13.-4In The SEN
ate, Mr., ,Jewetts resolutions, passed in the
House, protesting against The e 'ngfesslon.
al reconstruction acts, came up for coDsid
Grafton. Mr.. Lawrence moved the follow
ing amendment, which was adopted:
ResoIred, That the bill just introduced
into the Senate Of the United States by
the Hon. John Sherman, one ofthe Sena
tors from this State declaring the pretend
ed constitution of the State of Ohio, rati
fed aher.it had beeu,rejected By a MAORI
ty of the voters of said Stateaunder the
provisions Of the law under which it was
submitted, is another proof of the want Of
good faith on the part of the friends of the
so-ealled congressional system of recon,
struction, and is an additional evidence Of
their intention to overthrow by force OF
fraud the constitution Of the United Stat 8,
and;estabIisItin itsy stead thAgprernment
Of an irresponsible congressional directory,
backed by the bayonets of a military chief
tain.
- Resotsed, That this General ASSEMBLY
protest against thus forcing on a sister
State a constitution made by disfranchis-
ing every one who refused to take, o test
oath IN favor Of negro suffrage, and that it
Twill never recognize as Legitimate any
: State government SO established by con
gressiolal usurpation and our Senators 10
Congress are directed and our Representa-
itiyes requested TO- vote against said bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. .l9.-The Secretary
Of the Interior asks ain appropriations for
the removal of certain disaffected Cherokee
Indians on Red River.
! The Judiciary Committee reported inIa.
yor OF the indefinite postponemeDt Of Sum
ner's and Brakes supplemental reconstruc,
ton bills. 49,
The judiciary Committee has amended
the House supplemental bi !, making a
majority of voters ratiiy constitutions. SID
A resolutions twas introduced restoring
soldiers clothing destroyed to prevention
tagen. zfy9 d
Wilson introduced o bill to restore Ala
obana TO the Union. After the usual
preamble, lit ia am an g#,g s J I
q Resolved, That the constitution of Ala
abama is hereby declared to be in conformi-
tywith the provisions of the TACT to pro-
vide for the more efficient government Of
lthelsbel States" passed March I'd, 1867
and whenever the Legislature, elected }un'
der said constitution, shall ratify the 18th
article Of the constitution of, the United
States, proposed by the Ihirtyninth Con
gress, the said State shall be admitted to
representation in Congress in accordance
with the laws of the United States.
A bill was introduced removing Gov,
Holdens disabilities