The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-03
poLrT1cAL SUMMARY.

/ POLITICAL SUMMARY.
THE ARKANSAS BnL-THE SOUTHERN RECON-
sTRUcTED sTATEs-THE WooLIEY M'EsIlaA-
T1oN-ssMANAaER" BUTLER QUIETLY BET DOWN
by THE srEAKRR-NTEREsTNd PROCEEDINGS
OF THE HOUSE, sc.
The Washington correspondent ofthe Baitl'
more Sun writes under date ofsunday evening;
The Senate again occupied the entire o. day
Yesterday in the debate on the Arkansas o. pliL
The disc1ssion which has taken place on this
bill has,deyeloped the fact that there exists
great difference of opinion among the hadl cai
reconstructio ion doctors, and all the frank ad-
missions of MessrS. Wilson and Conness that
the votes Of those States will be necessary to
secure the election of Grant and Colfax have so
Far proved utterly futile in arresting the oppo-
sition made to the bill by many OF their asso-
Now that the impeachment project mas
met such an inglorious defeat, and 1t
seems that nothing can be gained by re-
naming here to watch the President, there
ia Strong disposition to get away as
soon as possible. The most anxious MEM
bers place the utmost limit OF the session
at the first Of July, but, as pertnently remark
ed Dy MI. NlSoAs az tao Aapo - SSe
disposed Of now, the necessary legislation can
not be finished for months to come. The Radl-
calls are satisfied that it is as much as their
salvation is worth to keep back the Southern
States any longer, and it is not at al! proba-
pie that the adjournment Will take place be-
fore these States are admitted. MIR; Drake
and the few other uneasy spirits understand
this perfectly we'll but they are on7s 50 welded
nil, nroa them even at the risk of endangering
everything. ,
the conditions OF admission OF Arkansas was
only lost yesterday by one vote, and would
have been carried had full Senate been pres
ent. There ia little doubt that some more
AMENDMENTS rre win vet be tackled to the bill,
which will necessftate it's going back to the
House, ,It was in the first instance rushed
through that body under the operation Of the
previous question, but there are number of
Radicals Of the House who now say that If it
Somes back they oppose its Then, after 1T
is finally passed the President VIII have ten
days in which to return It. Ihe omnibus eln
adopted sconstitut VII, fscoMse, provoke
quite aslenEthy discussion, 30 thstth chances
are that fhess States win not have Representa-
lives In Congress- before july it then.
Mr.. EdmInds is very anxious to EetD and
press TO ssgpeedy passage his high sounding
made thsefort tNo or three times g day since
he first offered it; but his brother Radicals, al
though, Of course, they viii sup port it when it
does come up, seem rather inclined to turn the
cold shoulder tupon it. The opportunity
which it will afford to ventilate some OF
the acts Of Mr.. Stanton, both recent and re-
mote, VIII not!be lost sight Of by the Conserve
ives. -., s.,...
No formal action has as yet been taken by
the Senate select committee to investigate im-i
The time Of the House Of Representatives
was taken up for two hours again yesterday in
q discussion OF which Charles ". Wooley was
the first cause. The subject Was called up by
Mr. Speaker Colfs1, who wanted the House to-
conshue its own resolution relative to the with
holding Of verbal and written communications
from the witness. There is in the House Of
Representatives respectable minority OF Be
pubNcans, such men, for instance. as Judge
Poland and Mr.. Woodbridge, Of Vermont, Mr..
Baker and ,Mr. .Ingersoll, OF Illinois, MIR.
Lawrence, Of Pennsylvania, MIR. Banks, Of Mas
sachusetts, and Mr.. Blair, Of Michigan, who
are very much disgusted with the extreme pro-
ceedings Of the managers, led by Mr.. Butler,
with the gentlemen named tho Speaker In.
clines t. agree, and hence. he gave liberal
construction to the order Of the House and
permitted Wooley,to receive sealed telegram
from New York. This telegram, advising
Woolley to s'stand firm, !" WAS sent by Woolley
to Manager Butler, with his compliments, and
the latter, conceiving himself insulted thereby,
took the Speaker to task for permitting the
ssrecusant witness" to have the telegram origi-
nally. This occurred in the Speakers room
lust before the House was called TO order on
Saturday. and as Mr.. Butler left the room he
upon the subject. The Speaker was sharp
enough, however, not TO let Butler have the
first say, and accordingly, as soon as the jour-
nal Was read, he stated what he had done, and
asked the House TO construe its own order TOR
his future guidance. MIR. Butler was annoyed
at being thus anticipated, but he nevertheless
offered resolution to the effect that no tele-
grams or letters should be allowed to 90 to
the witness until after they had been inspect
ed by the Speaker.
This brought upon Mr. Butler, and, through
him, upon the managers q quiet but at the
same time severe rebuke-the more severe
because il came from the man who was placed
by the Chicago Convention in the leadership OF
the party. Without giving Mr.. Butler time to
explain bis resolution, the Speaker said he did
sealed sea envelope. sven by the order Of the
House. Mr.BuHer, having apparently misun-
derstood the Speaker's remark, SAID, 81 sup.
posed the Speaker could do sosby the order Of
the House, but Mr.. Gofax; with some en-
phaHls,t repeated the words, mot even Dy tne
order Of the House.
Here WAS turn of affairs unlocked for, and
Butler actually changed color and looked
around, first at Mr.. Boutwell, and then at Mr..
to know what next to do. He had
become so accustomed to tearing open and
reading other peoples kilograms that he never
for moment supposed that any .one would
question the right. He was therefore much
annoyed, and tbe feeling Of annoyance was not
at all allayed when MIR. Fernando Wood re-
minded him that there were some things that
even the House Of Representatives could not
do. The fact is that the committee had been
acting in high-handed manner, and supposed
that the power Of the House would be sufh-
cient shield Of protection for them; but the
Speakers decisive announcement could not fail
to suggest to the minds of the managers the
query, "I the Speaker would not feel justified
in opening priyats paper, even by order OF
the House, by what authority have we taken
of and read private kilograms, the
House never having SO much as given us per-
mission 30 to do"
GENERAL soHoFIELD SUCCEEDS STANTON AS
SECRETARY OF wAR--GRANT AND THE RADI-
cALs-cH1EF JUSTICE CHASE HELD RESPONSE
BILE FOR DISASTER TO THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY-ADMssIoN OF TIE SOUTHERN STATES
TO REPRESENTATION DoUBTFUL-TE ''oAR-