The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-04-04
Washington News.


bill was passed over the veto by q strict party
vote, and Is now q law. I
The Conference Committee on the Tax bill
saportsd, and the report was adopted.
Stevens, universal suffrage amendment,
Psnalty for Infringement applies only to Ala
bapua. Its defeat Is regarded as certain, ms it
would give Alabama to the Democratic; but the
passage Of the bill as reported, which validates
ths constitution dndii inaugurates the State
officials recently voted for is apprehended
Violent cross purposes exist, however, aud this
afternoon the proceedings are spcculated upon
10 every corner
Impeachment spccuations nre rife, but the
actors in the play are reticcnt of nothing rel
iably indicative or suggestive having trans
pired.
The Tax Conference Committee retains the
whiskey clause punshing for sale below the
tax This is a point on which the Senate
March 28.-In the Senate the President was
asked whether he established any new military
districts since August, aud under what name
The report of the Tax Conference Committee
wan rejected. Nye said it would fill the
penitentiaries with government officials. Howe
said that would be a good thing. Morrill,, of
Maine, did not believe there was nm honest
distiller in the Union. :s
I'm the House Stevous' amendment on
Universal Suffrage was rejected without q
division. Spauldings substitute was adopted
by a to 81. It declares the Montgomery
Constitution the Fundamental law of the Pro
visional Government. Officers recently elected
to qualify and enter on the discharge of their
duties May 1st.
The Governor may convene the Legislature
elected under said constitution. The Lcgisln-
ture shall possess all powers conferred by the
Montgomery Constitution MS to tho quaifca-
tions of electors, with or without the amend-
ment.
/ Tho majority of electors qualified under the
acs Of Congress of March 90, 1867, have adop-
ted q constitution, and the Legislature has
ratified the fourteenth article Of the said con-
stitution. 1t may be presented to Congress
for approval.
The law 20 provide moro efficient government
in the rebel States, shall remain in force in
Alabama, except as modified by the act until
Alabama is admitted.
MARCH 29.-An impeachment rumour is
rife, and very general on the streets, that tho
Presidents counsel will movo to dismiss the
case,, there being nothing impeachable in the
charges or the replication, and that Chase will
sustain tho motion. High Radical authority
hoots at this. It is confidently stated that
Chase will take no extreme ground, though he
may claim the power of deciding the judicial
points as attaching to his position, but will put
the question to the Senate, and submit to their
decision.
Evarts has been in New York seeking au-
thorites, there boing no arranged library here
and no timo for the search Evarts will arrive
in the city in the morning. and in the mean
time the council having been separated, will go
into court without full consultation.
The Presidents counsel see no cause why
the trial .shoald be prolonged over two weeks
Butler's speech is prepared. He treats the
matter in regular prosecuting attorney style
After Buffers speech they will, quoting one
of the managers, "pilc in their witnesses"
Meade writes to Grant that under the law
requiring half of the registered voters to vote.
the constitution of Alabama was not ratified.
He says: II cannot but look upon the recent
result of the election, as an expression of an
opinion by the registered voters that they do
not desire to be restored under the constitution
submitted to them, and in view Of the recent
act Of Congress allowing the majority of votes
cast to ratify, would prefer seeing the con-
vcption reassembled for the revision of the
constitution and the revised constitution sub
mitted to tho people under the new law. I am
Of tho opinion that revised constitution, moro
liberal in its terms and confined to the require
ments Of the Reconstruction laws, would in
Alabama, us have reason to expect it will in
Georgin and Florida, meet with tho approval
of . majority of the registered voters"
Two delegations from Florida are before the
Reconstruction Committee. One is largely
represented by the Massachusetts, and the other
by the Wisconsin element. The Wisconsin party
have Meadcs' Endorsement and forty five signers
hut M ffo III, 81, A.