Year: 1868

CouyentlOn-RecOnstr Prospect.


The impeachment trial will probably occupy
the whole of this week. Manager Stevens will
deliver his argument against the accused day,
and though it seems to be understood that he
will occupy not more than an hour we pre-
sumo that Manager Williams, on the same
side, will occupy the remainder of the day and
the sitting of tomorrow. Next it is expected
that Manager Wilson will occupy day; that
Mr. Evarts for the defence, in closing up will
occupy day, and that Manager Bingham, for
the prosecution, will occupy another day,
which will bring the Senate to Saturday as the
day of judgment Assuming that the verdict
will Immediately follow, and that it will be the
removal of Andrew Johnson and the promo
ton of Mr.. Wade President pro tenn. of the
Senate, to the post of President of the United
States ad interim, the whole of next week
will, doubtless, be absorbed in the recOnstruc
ton Of the Cabinet and in conferences between
the Capitol and the White House touching the
new departure Of the administration and the
division of the spoils.


BY this time the needful preparations for
the Chicago Convention (20th of May) will be-
come the paramount business ofthe two houses,
and very little in the way Of practical mea
sures of relief for the country may be looked
Tor till after that Convention. There may be,
in the interval, however, some decisive pro-
ceedings touching the admission of Arkansas,
and, perhaps, of Alabama, Georgia, North
and South Carolina, as reconstructed under
the laws of Congpess The work of Arkansas
IL finished and the Senators elect are now in
Washington. Within two or three weeks
Georgia and North and South Carolina may be
hurried into line, inasmuch as until recognized
rs States duly reinstated by Congress they
cannot be recognized as entitled to represen-
tation in the Chicago Convention. There may,
business by sold Thad's" Reconstruction Com
mittee, on account of bitches and drawbacks,
be new line Of policy adopted, recommitting
the outside States to careful overhauling by
the President, in view Of their restoration at an
extra session of Congress-, in August or Sep
tembcr, in order to secure their assistance in
the November Presidential election.


In any event, considering the necessity Of
some decisive action upon this difficult and
. very delicate matter Of Southern restoration,
and considering the inevitable embarrassments
Of "Old Ben Wade in harmonizing the i'm
pending scramble for the spoils, the prospect of
any really wholesome legislation on our inter-
nal and external taxes, bonds, banks and the
currency is very cloudy. We think it may be
safely assumed that upon these important sub
jects nothing will be done this side the Presi-
Dental election beyond liberal issue of green
backs or national bank notes, or both, to quiet
the prevailing clamor for more currency in the
West and to spike the guns of Pendleton.
The radical policy will be to put Off the settle
ment of the money question, to avoid any def
mite position upon the subject, and to bridge over
our financial difficulties to q safe point beyond
the Presidential election; for then, in the event
of new radical Congress out-and-out with
which to open the administration Of General
Grant, the radical leaders doubtless fiatter
themselves that they will be able to manage
even financial revulsiOn.