The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-04
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News Items.


House omnibus admission bill, adds
Florida and excludes Alabama. The
fundamental condition is chat there
shall never be an abridgement of
suffrage on account of race or color !;
nAd, lin Georgia's case, in addition to
the Qualification Of the first and third
subdivisions of section seventeen of
the fifth article of the Constitution,
except the proviso to the first subdivi-
sion, the Legislature may be convened
within thirty days after the passage
of the act by the Governor elect. It
is prerequisite that State Legisla-
lures adopt the fourteenth amend
ment, which fact it is the duty of the
President to proclaim. within ten
days after the official notification of
its adoption.
A white man was killed last night
by o negro, who made his escape
afterwards.
The negroes'were very disorderlv
last night. A youth. named Hand
ley, was terribly cut with q razor and
left for dead. Several houses were
stoned. The people are much exas-
perated. Further demonstrations are
threatened tonight, and serious con-
sequences were apprehended until
the people were assured that both
military and police would prevent
armed and unauthorized professions.
In the Senate, bill was intro
duced, relieving disabilities from
certain Georgians. A telegraph COM
pany, from San Francisco to China,
asking certain privileges, and bill
organizing Wyoming Territory,
passed.
Hendricks moved to take up the
bill making eight hours days work
III Government shops.
Trumbull urged the immediate
consideration of the omnibus admis-
sion bill. Without considering
eirher, the Senate adjourned.
In the House, the Ohio cont ested
election case was resumed-oustin
Morgan and seating Delano. Delano
was sworn in.
A resolution complimentary to ex-
President Buchanan, and appointing
o committee of seven to attend his
funeral, was tabled. Several mem
bers objecting to the declaration that
deceased's motives were patriotic.
The resolution was finally passed
80 to 16.
A delegation from the Printers
Union called on the President to-:
day, who, among other things, said !:
"And [ consider it nobler ,listinc-
ton to wear upon my garments the
tlnge of the shop and the dust of tho
field, than all the insignia that may
attach from victories won on the
fields numbered with crushed and
bleeding humanity. The aristocracy
of labor is true Democracy, and to
that aristocracy [ belong"
A telegram in this mornings Her,
ala, processing to originate with per-
sons enjoying intimate relations with
Chnse, represents him as admitting
that the radical party and himself
differ widely, and that, rs the parties
are now organized, he is with the
Democratic party.
New ORLEANS, June 3.-The anx-
1ously looked for order of General
Buchanan, on elections, was promnl-
gated to-day. It announces the
State, parish, and judicial officers,
but makes no mention of municipal
elections. The order states that the
civil government hereby provided for
IS provisional in character until after
the fourteenth article shall have be-
come part of the Constitution of the
United States. Officers elected enter
upon their duties on the first Monday
IN November, in accordance with arti-
Gle 558, of the new Constitution.
RICHMOND, June 3.-The United
States court met this morning, Chief
Justice Chase and Judge Underwood
presiding. The Chief Justice called
tho case of Mr.. Davis, when MI
Anderson, of Mississippi, one of the
counsel for the defence, read an
agreement for the postponement of
the trial till October, signed by
Evarts and O'Conner. The Chief
Justice then asked if counsel were
ready for trial, independent of this
stipulation. Governor Welles, for
prosecution, replied. TINT, in view of
the absence of the District Attorney,
whose wife is i'll dying condition,
the absence of the prisoner was
caused. BY this stipulation, and
absence of Mr.. Evarts, who stood in
tho position of more directly repro
senting the Attorney General, the
case could not we'll be gone on with.
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