The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-03-30
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vote ON the Georgia ConstItu1Ion1.
Res0n..rus.lon. Isiunet.on case..

ReconstFuetIoR. IgJunetIOn Cases.
wAsH1NaToH, March 27.-The d. s..
Consul ut st. OTolx. West Indies, under
date of March 18th, says: The last
official report of the cholera at st.
cases to the 10th inst, to be 4Sl, and 29T
deaths. ts4 .tf fl.Es
WAsH1NeToN, March 2s.-The secre-
tary OF War sent to the House to-day a
communication from General Meade
relative to the recent vote In Georgia,
on the Constitution, showing that un.
der the law requiring one-half the reg.
istered voters to cast their vote, the
Constitution is not ratified. He does not
favor the immediate admission of the
State by Congress, but would prefer
seeing the Convention re-assembled for
a revision of the Constitution, to n be
submitted to the people under the new
law. s,g r.
WASHINGTON, March 2s.-The deci-
sion of the Supreme Court to postpone
the argument in the Georgia Injunc-
tlon case till the December term, dis
poses of all cases involving the dues-
l'tion of reconstruction, at present on
the docket, until that time. The Nc.
Ardle case had already been put over
by the Court to await the action Of Con-
gress on the bill relating TO Hdbeds
corpus, and as that bill passed over the
Presidents veto, proceedings cannot
go on unless after hearing the aren-
ment to show that the Court should
decide regardless of the law, 1t should
be held that the law could not prevent
decision. The Georgia Injunction
case, which Mr.. Black desired to argue
to. day, was the bill heretofore filed,
but amended for the third time. Its
title reads, Estate of Georgia against
Ulysses IS. Grant, George g. Meade,
Thomas 81. Ruger, and Chas. F. Rock.
we'll" The solicitors and counsel for
plaintiff are Black, J. NJ. Carlisle
and Montgomery Blair; counsel
for the respondents, Matt. a. Car
penter and Senator Trumbull. It
is a case of original Jurisdiction In the
being party. The complaints in the
bill are sworn to by Chas. J. Jenkins,
as Governor OF Georgia. The Court
decided to grant leave to file the bill
without argument, but to save time,
and to have the question involved come
tion to file, namely, Is Georgia State?
minority ofthe court desired to have
each step argued, but majority
thought best TO have the whole question
presented.
II the argument on leave TO file had
been allowed, it was the intention of
Mr.. Carpenter to argue at length that
Georgia was not State in the sense
that would allow her to como into the
Supreme Court as party in the case,
and of MIR. Trumbull to have denied
that Jenkins was Governor OF Georgia
in such sense as justified him In certi-
Tying such case as this to the Su-
preme Court. The permission to file
did not in any sense decide or affect
the question as to whether Georgia was
u State. The bill as filed treats Grant
and other respondents as citizens,
thus denying their authority un-
der, the reconstruction law. As
It stood before amended, 1t charg-
ed them with taking possession OF
certain lands, and also of public
buildings, all the property of Georgia.
As amended the section charges re.
spondents with taking possession of the
railroad from Atlanta 10 Chattanooga,
also the. property of Georgia. This
General Meade did, in obedience to
orders from General Grant to pay the
expenses OF. the Reconstruction Con-
vention, after the Georgia authorities
had refused. Notice of 9the amended
bill could only bs served regularly on
this term.
Mr.: Black came into court to. day and
asked that the argument might pro.
coed by giving Informal notice to the
other respondents. The Chief Justice
refused saving that service must be in
lIs DldGh Lu1l Hhlu
"Then that ends the case. for this
term" To this the Chief Justice made
no reply, a6d the order was made that
ii stand postponed. Mr.. Black and his
associates are immensely disgusted, as
they have nothing whatever to show
except defeat for the elaborate prepa-
rations and expense attending all their
attempts TO defeat reconstruction in the
Supreme Court. Thepresent Term will
end with the docket brought up to No
Vember, 1866. -las ais.lfl i1---r-1fd
WASHINGTON, March 29.-The Ma
tional FrCedmen's Saving and Trust
Company has just published It's annual
report, from which 1t appears its total
deposits since March 1865, when It was
chartered, have been S3,5s2, ,Ss7. There
remains on deposit, $685.. .299. The
money deposited represents part of
the savings Of freed colored people in
the last two years.
The new tax bill will not probably
be reported to the House until the fret
week in May ariH MS z sJE
The speech of Gen. Butler to-mor-
row, on behalf OF the impeachment
managers, will occupy three hours. He
will take up in order and comment on
each article, after which the managers
will present their witnesses and. fully
enter upon the trial.