Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-04-15
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
ConErn. Second Regular SsuIOu
SENATE.

SENATE.
F.FU MISCELLANEOUS.
clerks Of Nv ktsts pepsrimoni ssKias that
they BE- relieved from the tax upon their sala-
riei. Referred 10 the Finance Oommlttce.
w Field on the subject OF telekfaphis oommu.
nication between the uniied states and Asia
BY ocean cable, and as ~ gssnt % public
ferred 10 the Oommittee on Foreign Relations.
Mr.. sumner introduced a bill 10 Incorporate
nae psny '' Rsfssd 70 he oonnitse o. FoSsiSG
o. motion Of Mr.. Anthony, the COMMITTEES
S Sa OF cohsTSs,ns taeisrraS Inc
from the Capitol to the Government Priniiog
M. Terrv,s rssoiutIon provi5Inv An IA, t,..-
ties for the aequisIilon Of 1.-THE s1iite tsrriiorY
ola foreign power shall be considered 10 open
session was definitely postponed.
The resolution Ssrei lore introd weed By Mr..
Chandler proyidiuG that when the QeerEis
bill comoi mp for discussion there shall be
vote e rtss sS % %S tsEsn ap ana apoa al
vision, was DECLARED adopted 81 the Vice
Mr.. 0as,erly salled for the yeas and nays.
Mr.. Anthony thought 70 adopt this resolu.
tion would be setting very bad pteeedent.
Nj; oss..rly s.is ms would y z great s, On.
There was no precedent for such = resolution
as this Ia the history Of the Senate.
Mr.. ghsadlsr hoped the tesclutl9h would
able Georgia debate. Ithad been going on for
= month now, and may 20 on for two or three
Iaot tshSss Of ali me discussIon % recon
and again on MliSissippi, and now i 90 hash
~ pe ~ arc sick Of IL aad disEus,sd
with u. There nevet had been aetalou Of
Congress- when the business was 40 far be-
a oind ths1S long and tirssons speeehss non on
Georgia, he wanted uome action that would
stop II. II he had his way he would close the
doors snd not let senator Leave the shAmoer
After some further diseusslon, the Vice
President decided that the resolution was not
.aS SrG SS s sSps. sSshs MI we ~ S .Ss
rHE GEORGIA nttL.
Morton said that, after The remarks sol Of The III;
Senator from Michigan today, he should not
have ventured to say anythlnF were he not
ledge Of the Senate which would eonvince II
that no more important subject was now pend.
ing,beiore Oongreas than Georgia;
Mr.. n. thoh went 90 to afiue that the hne-
spun constitutional Arguments made here all
tended 70 the beneat OF the rebels and the Dem
oorAtie party OF tho South, and against the
covered that tkose Rspu6liesas Who cane
here urging th6 adoption OF the Bingham
Amsndment were acting 10 concert VITA the
about the good fesling exlatlng 10 the South
was due 70 the fact that pouio Republicans
who had gone down there had sacrificed their
principles for the sake OF ootainioE social
MI. N. replied to the argument Of Mr. Oar.
penter some days since, ehArgiug him (Mr. NJ
speech two years ago upon the Arkansas bill,
and claimed that he had not changed his We've
since ,hsa md TIA, b., NOW T a. sSn
Mr., NJ. further argued as to the powers OF
Congress over the States, but without Addue-
ss .ay ns~ m SsS se w, HH
that the election should take place 10 Qeorgia
In 1870, II had the power to say It should take
sS Ss plass IL $50 il 70 i've the Stale over 10
the rebel Ku.Klux-Klan democrAoyj to put Il
OF until isI2 IL TO give the State To the loyal
what he wanted was that Congress should
not interfere at all, but II u must interfere, In
God's name let the interferenee be for the
reply 10 Mr., Thufma 40, that the reeonstSuction
not 90, True Il had not been a perfect success,
but u had accomplished wonders. Why that
policy had not been thoroughly sueeessful was
because Of the Democrats party which had
done everything IN Its power TO throw obsta-
cess OF that policy. And most Of the murders
and outfagea thAtwer committed In the South
were clearly due 70 the Democratic party
He had the rssolutlons adopted BY some ak.
teen or seventeen OF the Democratic State
conventions, some OF which he would read,
gTess aud substantially advising the rebela to
resist. This policy Of the Noftherp Demo
erAts eulminhted Ia the resolutions Of the
Democrats Convention In New York In July,
1898, and the letter Of General Blair. All these
papers were ineendiary documents, looking
like Mexlean pIonnneiAmlsnto,, all inyltlnE
TO be incredulcus a. TO the existence OF the Ku
Klux In the South Just 30 the Democrats Of
the Nofth All duTinE the var denied the exiss-
The editor Of the InJlAnApOlia Seniinsi de-
nouneed as false over and over again hia Mt,
& osdsa 6,oIs1 asS S,s 2, rh sSS
this same editor, with others, was arrested he
turned states evidence and confessed that no
h had ss,sc1ssd to The Kaishs. q the ooidsa
eefned Ia plot 70 iibeIate y 900 rebel prison
ers Al IndlAaapolis. He (Mr. N } had now the
"a ali the southern statss, The dssiss Of which
was 10 break up the Republican party OF the
south, and they were aided and aoettsd By the
that every Dsnosrsi ia he South was Ka.
Klux, but every Ku'Klux was certainly =
The Kia Kiu1 had lie origin in Tsnnss.es,
and % bold has it become Ia rsnnsssse that
streets OF Nashville, They did not 60 uader
Of the Pale Faces. He had heard thai the
present Legislature Of Tennessee had Eiven
them the use OF their hall. A fair election
Of TenneSsesi OF the seventy. ave members Of
the late ponatitutionh ConyentIon, sixty
eight Of them had been rebels. This 10 the
and you force an sleetion in deorTia ihIi
fall you will have just the sane state Of Af-
fairs, The Union men Of Tennessee are prAe-
tleAlly diAffAnehlaed, and Governor Senter,
unable TO preserve order, d here IN Washing,
ton asking for military lntefferenoe. General
Forest stztes lhat there are 2, 900 Ku.kiux 10
his testimony before the Resonstruetion DON.
mittee, ~ fearful Of saying too much about
general Forest, because he IL a shooting man.
Kentucky, and thought that the course puT-
sued towards Union men 10 Kentucky was
one Of intoxicating persecution and pfoerip-
Committee shows that the humber OF murders
committed before the PfeuidentiAt election Of
iS S @sg q PSa S9Ts =. or '9 al
dsorglA with the HAme sheddiaE Of bioodI Ne
t had sSS saS 81 bss Ss Ss:
the war there had becp ever 1000 matesr. 10
that STATE. u Eesth OArollaa vhl'a hss
ststeG, the sans reign Of terror Il being crab
liIhed, and the Democracy OF North Carolina
has become RobespieTte democracy, In
msjoTity, thu same taeiies are to prevail, that
Unlon majority ia to DO overcome. Within
the last few weeks numbers Of atroolous mur-
Uefh unu nlCu OOmlnAtNNus
He had been called on this morning BY Mr..
Hays, Of Alabama, member Of the other
House, who lniofmed him that N his Mr..
H.'sl county Of Greene, there had been hfteen
murder. within the last two weeks, Aud he
(MT, HI had been warned not 10 Feturn 10
Alabama. Joint committee OF the Ala
bAmA Legislature had reported the fact OF the
exIstoneo Of the Ku-KluH Khan. In regard to
0eOrgia, the State with which We are now
dealing, General Meade vas satisfied as early
as 1895 Of the exlatence Of tho Ku.Klux. From
April ], 1893, to November OF tho sane year
there had been $50 murders OF the coiorod men
Of the state, and not one Of the murderer
had been brought to justice, Most Of these
murders were Committed after July, 1905, and
make another item to he set down TO the 40
count OF the Dsmoeratio Convention, Major
Rely, In his report, says no law prevails In
deOfGIa, And Alluded TO the admission OF 4
pfomInent citizen Of = county Ia that State
that were the most worthless VaGabond to be
Approhended for numbering Union man
no nan In the oountY could refuse TO 10 ball
for the vAgAbond, Mr.. N. read from the elee'
tlon returns In the spring and fall Of 1868,
showing that 10 counties whore In the upring
bullock had received hundreds OF votes,
Grant In tasIfall received one Or none
Now, something must be done. There must