Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-27
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Report 0f COmImIttee ON the .NIom-
ne olnes DIlia Riots. III


Report 0f COmInIttee ON the EIom-
,Is.S IT@ 9'g.I gSdT pIlis Riots. ,r,.l n
WAsHfNaToN, July 2o-Thea report OF
the select committee to investigate all mat
| ters connected with the Memphis riots and
maAsacfe, was made to the House last night.
1t Is signed by Representatives Wash
bufne, of Illinois, and Bf0omall, Of Penn
sylvania, the other member, Mr.. Shanklin,
of Kentucky, dissenting. They say the
outbreak of the disturbance resulted from
| a collision between the policemen and dis
charged cOlored soldiers, which was seized
upon as pretext for an orghnizedjand
bloody massacre OF the colored people of
Memphis, regardless of age, sex or condi-
tion, inspired by the teachings Of the press
and led on by the sworn officers OF the law,
comprising the civil government, and 9TH
ers. The evidence taken shows the killing
Of men, women aud children, uharmed and
defenseless, pleading for their lives and
crying for mercy; the wounding, beat
ing and nialtreating OF q still greater num-
beE burning, plliaging and 7TObbing, con-
suming of dead bodies in tile flames, the
burning Of dwellings, the attempts to burn
up whole families in their houses, and the
brutal and revolving ravishing OF defense
less women. The report represents the
| rumber Of colored people killed at 46,
whites q wounded rs, rapes on coiored
women S, maltreated 10, robberies 100,
houses and cabins burned 81, churches o,
school houses ~; value Of property de-
stroyed $130,0S1. T apaTa sl'sa- "a
The committee say the feeling in Mem
phis, and indeed through that entire sec
tioh Of the country, shows there is little
loyalty to The Government and flag. The
state Of things In Memphis Is very much
now as it was before the breaking out of
the rebellion. The committee state that in
their Judgment there would be no safety to
loyal men, either white or black, should
the troops be Withdrawn and nc, military
protection afforded. The committee fbe-
lieves it to be the duty of the Government
to arrest, try and punish the Offenders by
military authority, and also to levy q tax
upon the citizens of Memphis sufficient to
cover the losses Of all property destroyed
NeutraII1y-RepOrt Of House Com
mIItee on Foreign Affairs.
General Banks, from the committee on
Foreign Affairs, has prepared a report on
the subject Of neutrality, the presentation
Of which has been postponed until to-day
1t searches through the historyot Ameri-
can neutrality laws, from 1874 to 1881, e.
| signed to protect the then infant republic,
L uOWn W JIlG NtCtllJ vi uCuJTdll-
| ty by England and the United States IN the
affairs OF the rebels and the Fenians. The
report regards the laws of 1878, which form
the ground of our present neutral obliga-
tions, as founded on an unsound philoso-
ply, and imposed upon the country by con-
siderations affecting the interests of other
nations instead Of our own, and holds that
the highest, interests of civilization demand
| that the liberties and rights Of neutrals
should be extended, and the prestige and
powers of States at war diminished. The
law of 1878, it will be remembered, enacts
thatall concerned in fitting out any YES
sci with intent that such vessel shall be
used In war against people with whom we
are at peace, shall be fined not more than
$4,000 and imprisoned not more than
three years. Another part of the act re-
| quires, that owners or ~cOnsignees ol
armed vessels shall enter into heavy
bonds to keep the peace, that collectors
shall -detainr vessels on the -merest rsuspi-
cion, and makes the United States Tesponsi.
BILE for the acts of foreign subjects who are
beyond thejuTisdietion of the United States
The report proposes the modification ,O
these provisions, whose effect is to perpetl.
ate the subjugatiou of States Without nava
force, at the will of dominant maritime
natioBse The. attempts of Spain elA the
Southern republics. aud more recently the
bombafdHent Of Valparaiso, are cases in
which disregard Of strict neutral obliga-
tions would have benefited! the world. II
is not proposed that modification of ouI
statutes shall absolve Great Britain from
our recent claims upon her. The United
States have carried, out in good faith their
too stringent neutrality laws. Great Brit.
ain has lotrespected her own less exacting
obligations, -. 80
The report concludes with an allusion tc
the recent neutrality in The case of the Fe-
mans, and does not disguise the strong
sympathy of'Americans with,all suffering
nationslities. 1t declares, in behalf of Con-
gress and the American people, that Eng.
land owes reparation to Ireland, ~