The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-04-22
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The
President to-day nominated the
Territorial Council of this Territory,
including three colored, one of which
is Fred. Douglas.
April 14.-SENATE-The Senate
passed the Kluklux bill with the
amendments proposed by the Judi
ciary Committee, with amendments
striking out the repeal of the test
oath for United States jurors, leav-
ing the law as at present and anoth-
er by Mr.. Sherman, as follows
That if any house, tenement, cabin,
shop, building, barn Or granary
shall be unlawfully or feloniously
demolished, pulled down, burned or
destroyed, wholly or in part, by any
persons ~riotously or unanimously
assembled together, OF if any per
son shall unlawfully, and with force
and violence, be whipped, scourged,
wounded or killed, by any persons
riotously and simultaneously assem-
bled together, and if such offence
was committed to deprive any per-
son Of any right conferred upon him
by the Constitution and laws of the
United States, or deter him from. or
punish him for exercising any such
right, or by reason of his race, color
or previous condition of servitude,
in every such case the inhabitants
of the county, city or parish in which
any OF the offences shall be commit
ted, shall be liable to pay full COM
pensation to the person or persons
damniied by such offense, if living,
or to their legal representative if
dead, and such compensation may
be recovered by such person, or his
representative, by a suit many court
of the United States Of competent
jurisdiction, in the district in which
the offence was committed, to be
in the name of the person injured,
or his legal representative, and
against said county, city or parish,
and execution may be issued on a
judgment rendered in such suit,
and may be levied upon any prop
erty, real or personal, of any person
in said county, city or parish ; and
the said county, city or parish which
may have satisfied said Judgment,
or the person out of whose property
the said judgement shall have been
satisfied, as the cas- may be, may
recover the full amount of saidjudg-
ment cost and interest, from any
person or persons engaged as princs-
pal or accessory in such riot, in an
action in any court Of competent
jurisdiction, and the persons out of
whose property such Judgment
shall have been satisfied, shall in
such case, have contribution as at
common law, and the Circuit Court
of the United States, for the proper
district, shall have jurisdiction Of
such action.
The bill passed, IS to 10, Mess.
Hill, Robertson, Shurz, Upton and
Trumbull voting nay.
April 15.-House.-The Commit
tee on Conference asked that the Ku-
klux bill be taken up. The Senate
amendment extending the right of
the President to suspend the writ of
habeas corpus to the end of the next
regular session of Congress, was re-
.jected, SO to Sc.
The amendment requiring the
iron-clad oath from Federal jurors
was rejected without a division.
The amendment, known as Sher-
mans amendment, t~elegraphed in
full last night, was rejected. Yeas,
As nays, 131. This is the amend
ment assessing damages upon locali-
ties where disturbances occur.
The other amendments, most of
them im%material, were concurred in,
and a committee of conference or
dered. Messrs. Shellabarger, Scho-
field and Kerr were appointed on
the part of the House.
WASHINGTON, April 17.-House.
The bill amending the revenue
law, taxing dealers Of leaf tobacco,
failed-4S to 20.
SENATE-The Senate refused to
recede from It's amendments to the
Ku-klux bill, by a vote of Z to 80. i
A Committee of Conference was
ordered, and Messrs. Edmunds, Sher-
man and Stevenson appointed on
the part of the Senate.
It is believed the Conference Com
mittee will modify Mr.. Sherman's
amendment and reject the iren-clad
for jurors, and that it will pass in
this shape.
The Republican Senators, after
an hours caucus, on motion of Mr..
Rice, of Arkansas, tabled the am
nesty proposition of MI. Robertson,
thus defeating the measure for this
session. Vote, 20 to 16.