The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-31

: ing OF the negroes. In the ADMINISTERING ue-
psriment Of this Bureau there are employed, as
Tsiibordinateto the Commissioner, one major
general seyen :brigadiers, nine colDnels, seven
lieutenant olonels, tWenty-nine majors, one
hundred and fifty-seven captains, one hundred
and fifty-eight heutenants, and seven hundred
ennd seventeen clerks, messengers and other
employees, atsalaries corresp ponding with those
Of the various civil departments Of the govern
ment.
abs Reconstr,ction COMMITTEE in January last,
PASSED the House. This bill gave the General
I i5f the army and depar rtment commanders abso-
t5nte power over all provisional governments
until the States to which it Was applicable were
admitted to representation in Congress. This
bill did not pass the Senate. =,
! The next Of this class was the Alabama Dill,
passed with epecial reference 70 the election IN
State by which ne cSasts%nGn was nat @s
Withstanding % majority Of the registered
sSoters had not voted for the. constitution, as
sreo1ired by the Reconstruction acts. This bill
I'D NOT pass, bat substitute, offered by Judge
: SG1aldinE; of Ohio, authorizing the Legislature
5oi Alabama 10 resub nit the constitution TO the
Tssyetoed by the President and became Q law,
the objections of the Executive to the contrary
s. Next in the reconst struction series is the act,
general in it's application to the reconstructed
States; providing that ANY election authorized
by the act OF March 23 1867, shall be decided
by a majority Of votes cast, and authorizing
any person duly registered to vote in the dis
rrict In which hemay offer his vote. This act
An act for, the admission of Arkansas has
passed and BECAME law oyer the PRESIDENTS
Veto.
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia. Alabama
"A general act waa passed removing disabih-
stes. 1t modifes the oath for the benefit OF
spersons who participated in the rebellion.
-, An act introduced on the 10th OF July, pro-
.syiding for an election inVirginia, Was lost. 1t
enfranchised twenty: five thousand white voters,
Z and from the fact that they would in all prob
ability vote the Democratic 1cket, lts rate was
1 s. The last OF this class is the bill reported
sbr Mr.. Bingham, from the Reconstruction
4 Committee, passed by the House on Friday.
I Il viii be 'srnothered IN the Senate: by speech
es ON Monday, IL an effort is made to pass it.
bill was passed removing dsaDlnes l5st ron ron
i Georgia. General Young is an old Democrat
3 and q brigadier rebel general OF cavalry. BE
was admitted. Generals Grant, Meade, Scho-
s sfehl- Emery and Howard recommended. the
relnoyaf ns disabi bifiee, and Judge Bingham
took a lively interest IN managing the bill
a roueh both HouBes.i
: TSe 1 final passage Of General Banks bill
making appropr1ation for the purchase Of
] AIasks conSummates Secretary Stewards land
rnrohaee -. : 49,
Ths Military BIN for furnishing arms to the
Southern States has failed. The reference to
the Military Committee carried it over.
with special reference to the public scrutiny.
In nmany instances the amounts for the expeps.
ee Of the civil departments have been placed
far above the actual necessities, and the dis
missal Of o considerable portion Of the clerical
forces in the departments is inevitable. When
Congress meets again there will be heavy de-
hciency to supply. The dismissal OF hundreds
of clefks, required By the inadequacy Of the
money appropriated, and the scanty pay Of
those remaining in employ, creates vast deal
Of discomfort among numerous class Of
people who have furnished the Radical sinews
Of Congress by moneyed contributions, names
to petitions, and sympathy to an indefinite
amount.
Among the other important measures adopt
ed by Congress was one for the protection of
natrralized citizens abroad which, after much
dicussion and considerable amendment, became
law. The struggle on this measure was
peculiar and interesting. Both political par
lies bid high for the Irish vote, which, il cast
anIid in-the coming Presidential election, will
he sure to turn the Scales one way or the other.
II was vas amusing, therefore, to study tie de-
vice resorsed to by Democrats and hepubli-
cans to tone down the bill as it originally came
from thepen Of General Banks, s. OF t9e House
Foreign Affairs Copmittee, without mourning
the hostility of the terrible Fenians, nearly
every man Of whom is voter who understands
the Snack Of going it early and very often.
Some OF the sections we're considered extreme
ly dangerous and mischlef-provoking IN Ten
dency, especially that one providing for
retaliatory measures. But how to oppose
these sections without alternating the Fenlan
vote was puzzling problem. With the Dem
ocrats it was simple enough, because they have
always been intensely anti-3ritish. But the
poor Republicans were ina fix, and to make
matters worse, doughty CONFESS, of California,
from the very camp Of Radicalsm, drove ahead
the Fenian measure With all the zeal of all Irish
foe.,,,t,l;nar, on ger. TO r1rnnitatE the nnnnlar