AMERICA.

Southland Times, Issue 660, 22 April 1867, Page 3

AMERICA.

[By -Telegraph.] New Yoke, Feb. 25. : Gold/ ISBi ~ sterling ; exchange • on London, 108 f. The Kansas Legislature has adopted . an amendment striking out the words "white" and "male" from the state i constitution. The Missouri Legislature [has refused to submit an amendment, disfranchising the rebels, to the people for ratification. - % The news, of : the -Fenian rising i a Ireland causes little excitement iv Canada. The House of Representatives has passed a bill making the removal of Cabinet officers subject to the approval of the Senate, and refused to vote the Tariff Bill(?). _ y"~ I President Johnson, members of the Cabinet and several Governors of the Southern States, have held long consultations to adopt a. plan for reconstruction, which is as 'follows i— The right to secede is to. -be- renounced ; Congress : to possess no right to expel a state from the Union; the national debt ever to be held sacred; the rebel debt to be repudiated'; all males of legal age, native or naturalised, except untaxed Indians, to vote for state elections, if able to read or write, or if they hold taxable property of* the value of 250 dollars. The Senate has passed a bill "making military government in the Southern. States provisional' until the establishment of s.ta.te government with negro suffrage ; the rebels to be disfranchised until the adoption of the constitutional amendment.- • Mr Geo. Peabody has made a donation, of two million dollars for the education of the youth of the. Southern States. The President's message was telegraphed from Washiugton to California, and printed on the same day in the San Francisco papers. The Judiciary Committee of ths House of Representatives has decided not to report in favor of the impeachment of President Johnson. The claims for compensation with Eugland in the Alabama case will be arranged by arbitration.