The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-23

causes OF emigration from that province TO tho United
States and proposes 70 prevent the sane
The city railroads Of st. Louis Mo- all lost money last
year except one, which cleared 81, 200 -
The New Reconstructed BiIl-Tho Question
Before tho Senntc.
The House of Representatives, by q solid
party vote on each side-one hundred and
twenty-three to rty-fve-has passed the new
Reconstruction bill, which makes General
Grant provisional dictator over the ten ex-
cluded Southern States. The authority with
which he is thus invested Is AZ absolute as that
of the Gear of oil the Russias. The bill In the
outset declares that "the so-called civil goverL-
ments in said States shall not be recognized as
valid or legal State governments either by the
executive on the judicial power or authority OF
the United States :" and thus, having cleared
away all civil and judicial distractions, Gen
eral Grant is made the supreme regulator,
manager and director of all the military, civil
and judicial authorities in the States concerned
in the execution of the Reconstruction laws of
Congress, to the end, strangely enough, s'that
the people OF said several States may speedily
reorganize civil governments therein republican
in form, and be restored to political power In
the Union"
This Ii the bill. But what is the political
power to which il proposes to exalt these
Statesf 1t is the political power of their black
race, just emerged from the barbarism of negro
slavery. In oil the reconstruction conventions
from Virginia to Louisiana the negro element
through the ingenious radical Congress
sional device of universal negro suffrage and
white acknowledgements, has carried the day.
Every one Of these outside States, therefore,
win be reconstructed on this negro supremacy
basis, and so reported for restoration to Con-
gress This is "the political power" to which
they are to be exalted-the governing power
of the black element Of their population over
the white element The old Southern slave
holding oligarchy Of three hundred thousand
white men, which SO long held the controlling
balance Of power in the government through
its control over the old democratic party, being
at last done away with, new oligsrchy, made
up of the poor ignorant negroes, only yesterday
the slaves Of the exploded white oligarchy, il
to be fixed upon the country as It's Southern
political balance of power. In this capacity
the radicals expect TO use these Southern
negroes and the votes of these Southern negro
reconstructed States to . good purpose in the
coming Presidential election against oil con-
tingencies in the way OF losses in the North.
This is the object OF this last Supplemental
Reconstruction bill.
What, then, is the prospecti viii this bill
pass the Senate? The hope is expressed In
some quarters that In the Senate II will stick
that the usurpations Of power here proposed
are too fragrant and sudacious to be imposed
upon the old republican sachems Of that body,
who have still lingering weakness OF respect
| for the landmarks of the constitution. All such
hopes, however, we fear, will prove delu-
sons. The question before the Senate,
| under cover of this bill, is the next
| Presidency. II is not constitutional
| question, nor q question OF justice or the
fitness of things, but o simple question OF
| party expediency. The republican party, as
Calhoun said OF the old democratic party, and
as we may say OF every party, political or reli-
| gious, lis held together by the cohesive power
Of the public plumber" Every republican in
the House Except one, Cary, OF Ohio, elected
as an independently voted for this bill. The
conservative wing of the party in the House is
| gone. 1t has been absorbed by the radical
| wing, and 50 we conclude 1t will soon appear
in the Senate. We think 1t may be safely as
snmcd that this bill, substantially a. IL stands,
will be passed by the Senate-that IL will be
vetoed by the President. AM that II will then
be passed over his veto by a two-thirdI vote in
each house. and that so, by act Of Congress,
we shall soon have provisional dictator set