20 JULY 1867, Page 2

The American House of Representatives, fearing that the President may

pervert the Reconstruction Act, has passed a Bill establishing military rule in the South during the interregnum, and declaring that the registrars shall decide on the admissibility of voters. The effect of this will be that a select body of voters in each State will appoint a Radical legislature and government, or failing such body, the State will remain under military rule until Mr. Johnson has ceased to be President. It seems a cumbrous way of doing 'a necessary work, but, like all these Bills, it has one advantage—it causes no break in the external continuity of State life.