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

bill was passed over the veto by strict party
vote snd is now a law.
The Conference Committee ON the Tax bill
sanorted, and Che report was adopted.
Stevens, universal suffrage amendment.
Psnalty for Infringement applies only to Ala
bsma, Its defeat is regarded as, certain, as it
would give Alabama to the Democrats; but the
passage of tho bill as reported, which validates
the constitution and fnaugurates the State
officials recently voted for is apprehended.
Violent cross purposes exist, however, and this
afternoon the proceedings are spcculated upon
as every corner.
Impeachment spcculations ure rife, but the
actors in the play nre reticent of nothing rel
iably indicative or suggestive having trans
pired,
?, The Tax Conference Committee retains the
~hiskey clause punishing for sale below the
tax. This is a point on which the Senate
hitches.i ..,.s.,. il,.ltt t..H E
s. March 28.-In the Senate the President was
asked whether he established any new military
districts since. August, and under what name
The report of the Tax Conference Committee
was rejected. Nye said it would fill tho
penitentiaries with government officials Howe
said that would be good thing. Morrill, of
Maine, did not believe there was an honest
distiller in the Union. 1865
In the House Stevens amendment on
Universal Suffrage was rejected without a
division. Spaulding's substitute was adopted
by "a to 81. It declares the Montgomery
Constitution tho fundamental law of the Pro
visional Government. Officers recently elected
to qualify and enter on the discharge of their
duties May lst.
The Governor may convene the Legislature
elected under said constitution. The Lcgisla-
ture shall possess all powers conferred by the
Montgomery Constitution MS to tho qualfca-
tiops Of electors, with or without the amend-
naent. 49,. -
z Tho majority of electors qualified under the
act Of Congress of March %, 1867, have adop-
ted constitution, and the Legislature has
ratified the fourteenth article of the said con-
stitution. It may be presented to Congress
for approval.
The law to provide moro efficient government
in the rebel States, shall remain in force in
Alabama, except as modified by the act until
Alabama is admitted.
3 MARCH 29.--An impeachment rumour is
rife, and very general on the streets, that tho
Presidents counsel will NOV, to dismiss the
case, there being nothing ;:apeachable in the
charges or the replication, and that Chase will
sustain tho motion. High Radical authority
boots at this. It is confidently stated TINT
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, aud submit to their
decision.
Eyarts has been in New York seeking au-
thcrites, there being no arranged library here
and no timo for the search. Evarts will urrve
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 should be prolonged over two weeks
Butler's afiteeeh e prepared. He treats the
mater in regular prosecuting attorney style
After Buffers speech they WILL quoting one
VI Vic HuuaScIs, Pic III CHeiT WitneSScS.
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 tho con-
vcntion reassembled for the revision of the
constitution and the revised constitution sub
mtted to tho people under the new law. am
Of the opinion that revised constitution, more
liberal in its terms and confined to tho require
ments Of the Reconstruction laws, would in
Alabama, as have reason to expect it will in
Georgin and Florida, meet with the 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
but the Massachusetts party claim that the