The Portland daily press., 1868-03-11
WASHINGTON.
coppERyEAD RUMoRs.

CoPPERBEAD RUhoRs'
| NEW York. March 1O.-The following are
| Washington specials, the nrs' o'ihs from
Several Radical Senators have expressed
| them selves lately to the effect that the inn
neacbment articles are not sufficient to con-
| Wet the President. Some twenty-five Sena-
| tors including Democrats, are said to he of
this opinion, and an effort is to be made 10 in
itiate some plan of Diminishing the case for
want OF cause for action. A project is on foot
to start paper in Washington to support the
President, with capital of 100000.
PERSONAL.
j. q. Fremont is in Washington.
Ihad' Stevens is exceedingly feeble.
oBsTINAcY OF THE PRESIDENT.
The President has determined on course
with regard to the War Department, which is
very likely to end in further embarr;issments,
If not i'll direct conflict, and to add TO the
certainty of his conviction by the Senate. In
pursuance of his determination not to recOg-
niZe Secretary Stanton in any way, he re-
quires all communications with himself to be
made direct, without passing through the
regular channel of the War Department On
Saturday he seat back a parcel of papers for
warded from Gen. Grants Headquarters
through the Department, which did not even
bear Mr.. StantouS name, but the usual in
d0rsement by order of the Secretary of War.
He then sent a request to have the papers for
warded direct He has established General
Thomas as Secretary of War cd interim at the
White House so far as to treat him in every
respect as Sec cary of War de Tdcto, though
no orders have yet appeared as being issued
by his authority. When they do new ques-
tons will arise.
LOGAN'S CHARGES UNF0UNDED
Prominent officials say that an investigation
will prove General Logan to be mistaken in
his charges against the Treasury Department.
ONE OF JoHNsoN's DEFENDERS.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-An individual is
in Washington, in the interest of the "John-
son defenders" who recently attempted to Sc.
cure the passage of bill by the New York
Legislature protecting the interests of houses
OF ill tame in New York city.
WADE WILL NOT RESIGN.
Mr.. Wade has no intention of resigning.
THE FLORIDA TROUBLES.
A delegation is in Washington from Florida
to get some aid to prevent the adoption of the
Constitution reported by the minority of the
late Convention, and which is recognized as
the Constitution to be voted upon. 1t enfran-
shises all rebels, and places the appointment
of all State and County officers, down to and
including Justices of the Peace, in the hands
OF the Governor, and so districts the State as
to entirely neutralize the loyal vote of the
State.
MR.. EvARrs ONE OF JoHNsoNs COUNSEL.
Mr.. Evarts arrived here this morning from
New York in obedience to a summons from
Secretary Seward, probably to join the Demo-
cratic counsel already retained by the Presi-
dent, men skilled in the art of making loyalty
odous aud treason homo. able. 1t can hardly
be possible, however, that these eminent iurists
Will counsel the President to adopt the advice
of Judge Woodward and issue demurrer by
proclamation against the jurisdiction of Con-
gress as an impeachins and convicting tribu-
nal, and with an appeal to the people to rise
in arms and make an end of impeachment and
impeachers.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
Montgomery Blair is to preside at Demo-
cratic meeting to be held tonight to rejoice
over the Democratic gains in New Hampshire
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ADMISSION
OF ALABAMA.
The Committee ON Reconstruction, to whom
was referred the application of the State of
Alabama, asking for her admission into the
Union as sovereign State reported this
morning as follows: That it is the intention
to pursue the spirit if not the letter of the law
of March %, 1867, supplementary to an act to
provide for the more efficient government of
the rebel States, passed March 2, 1867, and to |
facilitate restoration, and especially intend to |
enforce the spirit of that law when there seems |
to be any conflict in the facts in evidence be- |
tween the spirit and the letter. By the act, |
two things were evidently intended One was |
to admit Alabama as State if, after full reg |
istratiOn, with time for deliberation, majority |
OF her citizens should be in favor of almis- |
sion. The other was to prevent hasty and pre-
cpitate legislation before the people should |
have duly examined the subject. Hence the |
law provided that not only Alabama, but all the |
conquered territory should have all her legal |
voters registered by proper officers, and if |
majority of legal voters thus registered should /
cast their votes in favor OF a Constitution, |
convention should be ordered for the purpose |
of framing one; but if a majority of all the
vOses, by either their own yolition |
or casualty, should not be cast against Con-
stitntion, they should still he counted in the
negative-a most unusual provision in our CT
any other government
The committee then recite the circumstances
under which the election was held; the storm
and floods which prevented many from reach
counted as voting against the Constitution.
Many " ere prevented from voting by threats
of its enemies. All this is proven, say the
committee, by the sworn testimony OF the most |
respectable people of Alabama Indeed,
nearly two hundred laborers have voluntarily |
come forward singly and testified to their vio-
lent discharge since election, for having voted |
for the Constitution. A careful analysis of
the voters precluded from voting leads to the
belief that enough TO overbalance those count
ed against the Constitution were thus kept
away
Some time before the Alabama election the
Convention saw the injustice of the law, and
Congress to restore the majority
principle in the vote upon the adoption of the
Constitution. The House did not hesitate to
perceive its injustice, and passed an act and
sent it to the Senate, where it was allowed to
sleep until after the election when it was pass
ed. The principle, therefore, that majority
of votes cast should govern, has been restored
ana the committee can see no reason whv it
should not govern in the present case The
conclude by recommending the
passage of the act for the admission of Alaba-