PROGRESS OF THE RADICAL DESTRUCTIONISTS.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 236, 2 April 1866, Page 3

PROGRESS OF THE RADICAL DESTRUCTIONISTS.

Washington, 18th January, Mr. Wade made an elaborate speech in reply to Mr. Doolittle, in the Senate. He would keep the States South out of the" Union until they gave suffrage to the negro, by legislation or constitutional amendment, on the same principle that the President compelled them to adopt Constitutional amendment and repudiate the rebel debt. He would compel them to do justice to the negro. The House resumed the consideration of the bill extending suffrage in the District of Columbia. After considerable discussion, the House voted on the bill as originally introduced by Mr, Kelly, and reported back by Mr. Wilson, of lowa, without amendment. It provides that all laws and parts of laws prescribing the (Qualifications of electors for any office in the District of Columbia, shall be and the spe are hereby stricken out ; that from and after the passage of this Act, no person shall be disqualified from voting at an election held in such District on account of color; all Acts of Congress and the laws of the State of Maryland in force in said District and in Washington and in Georgetown, inconsistently with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed and annulled. The bill passed — ayes, 116 ; noes, 53. When the result was announced, applause followed from the floor and galleries. The following Eepresehtatives, ranked as Union men, voted against the bill : — Kay and Kendall, of Illinois ; Hill, Stillwell, and Earquhar, of Indiana ; Smith, McKee, and Sandall, of Kentucky ; Noel, Vanhorn, Benjamin, and Anderson of Missouri ; and Hubbard and Latham, of West Virginia.