Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-23
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-The House
resolution for final adjournment to-mor.
row, Thursday, was laid on the table
ayes, 30; noes, %.
A bill was reported authorizing the con.
veyance of the United States branch mint
at Dahlonegs, Ga, to the North Georgia
Agricultural College.
A bill providing for the admission of
animals specially imported from Canada
for breeding purposes, free of duty, was
indefinitely postponed.
The Ku-Klux Business.
The resolution specifying certain legis-
lation as the exclusive business of the
present session was taken up, the question
being on the amendment to provide for
legislation on the South.
Mr.. Blair, in the course of his remarks,
attributed the apparent great anxiety
manifested on this floor about the tran
quillity of the South to the fact that at
the last election the Radicals had been
turned out of power in North Carolina
and Alabama, and they wanted some leg
islation to put them back again.
Mr.. Pool said because he had asked
for legislation to repress assassination and
murder, the Senator from Missouri
(Blair) had intlmated that the purpose was
to put down the Democratic party. If
the Democratic party could not exist ex
cept by such measures it ought to be put
down. He would see the Democratic
party and every other humbled, before
he would see them maintain themselves
by plumber and assassination.
MIR. Blair retorted, that the murderers
and assassins convicted in North Carroll
ma, by proofs before the Senate, were Re-
publicans.
Mr.. Pool-Becsuse Republicans punish
such men and Democrats do not.
Mr.. Blair-The only persons in Office
in North Carolina, judges, district attor-
neys and all the rest are Republicans,
and if there were any Democrats to pun
ish for committing crime it would be
done.
Excitement and calls of order from
the Republican side.
Pool-But the jurors are Democrats.
They are the men who punish.
Renewed calls to order from all parts
of the chant er.
Blair-Vociferatlng-The Republicans
have the selection of jurors. They have
it by the laws which they have made.
Calls of order; question.
Mr.. Blair, continuing: That is the fact,
and no man shall charge it home upon
me that these men are not punished be- |
cause they are Democrats, when it is
shown that the only men who break laws,
SO far as discovery has been made are |
MIR. Sherman's amendment, providing |
for legislation on the South at the present |
session was agreed to; ayes 81, nays Is. |
Messrs. Stewart, Hill, Robinson and |
Conkling not voting, on account of a
misunderstanding in regard to the intro
1uctiOn of the resolution.
A number of amendments were offered, |
including a prohibition to consider the
,epeal of the duty on coal, salt, tea, cof-
Tee, etc, and TO consider Summers equality
Dill. All rejected.
The resolution was then agreed to.
Yeas, SO; nays, IS.
The Senate then proceeded to consider |
Nlr. Sherman's resolution instructing the
Judiciary Committee to bring in a Ku-
Alux bill. The resolution was modified
% locate the Ku-Klux and reign of terror
n North Carolina, and to state belief
hat there is similar organization, with
imilar results, in many parts of the South.
Without action the Senate adjourned.