Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-06
The "Ku.Klux " Bill.


The following is the full text of the bill
reported in the United States House of
Representatives from the Committee on
the Presidents Message, on the 2Sth of
March:
House of Representatives Of the United States of
America, tn Congress assembled, That any person
nance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State,
shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any person
within thejurisdiction Of the United States to de
secured by the Constitution Of the United States,
shall, any such law, statute ordinance regulation,
custom, or usage Of the State to the contrary not
withstanding, be liable to the party injured in an
action at law and in equity, or other proper pro-
ceeding for redress such proceedings to be prose-
the United States, with, and subject to, the same
rights OF appeal, review upon error, and other
remedies provided in like cases in such courts
1885, entitled act to protect all persons in the
United States In their civil rights and to furnish
s ISl ~ men % nea Which are in their
nature applicable to such cases.
SEC. 8. That If two or more persons shall within
the limits of any State band and conspire or COM
bine together to do any act in violation OF the
rights, privileges, or mmunities of any person to
United States which, If committed in any place un
der the sole and exclusive jurisdiction OF the United
States, would, under any law of the United States
then In force constitute the crime either of murder
manslaugbter, mayhem. robbery, assault and bat
terry, perjury, subornation of perjury, criminal OBJ
in the discharge Of their Official duty, arson or
larceny; and, If one or more parties to such con-
spiracy or combination shall do any act to effect
acy or combination, whether principals accesso-
ries, they shall be deemed guilty of felony, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceed
ing $4,000, or Imprisoned not exceeding teRyears,
or both, at the discretion of the COURT Pr0Uided,
That If any party or parties to such conspiracy or
combination shall, in furtherance of such common
deeigp. commit the crime of murder. such Dartv or
Of, suffer death: Prorided, also That any offense
district of the United States and completed in
another may be dealt with, inquired Of tried, de-
termined, and punished in either district.
Sec. g. That in all cases where insurrection, do
mestic violence, unlawful combinations or con-
spraces, In any State shall SO far obstruct or him
der the execution of the laws thereof as to deprive
any portion class of people in such State of any
rights. privileges, or immunities named in and Sc
of such State shall either be unable to, shall,
from any cause, fail in or refuse protection to the
people in such rights, and shall fail or neglect
through the proper authorities, to apply to the
President of the United States for aid, such facts
shall be deemed denial, by such State, OF the
equal protection OF the laws to whlcn n tney are en
to the Constitution of the United States and In all
such it shall be lawful for the President and
it shall be his duty to take such me asures by the
employment Of the militia, or the land and naval
forces of the United States either or such other
means, as he may deem necessary for the suppress
combinations; and any person who shall be arrest
ed under the provisions of this and the preceding
sections, shall be delivered to the marshal of the
proper district to be dealt with according to law
SEQ. 4. That whenever in any State or part Of a
State, the unlawful combinations named In the
preceding section of this act shall be organized
and armed, and shall be SO numerous and power
u to be able by violence to overthrow or set at
defiance the constitutional authority of such State,
or when the constituted authorities are in COM
| plicity with, or shall connive at, the unlawful
purposes of such powerful and armed combine,
| tons, and whenever, by reason of either or all
causes aforesaid, the conviction of such offenders
and the preservation of the public safety shall be-
come in such district impracticable, In every such
case such combinations shall be deemed rebellion
during the continuance of such rebellion, and
within the district which shall be under sway
thereof such limits to be prescribed by proclama-
ton, it shall be lawful for the President of the
Uunited States, when in his judgment the public
safety shall require it, to Suspend the privi-
and to declare and enforce, subject to the rules
and articles Of war, and other laws of the United
States now in force applicable in the case of re-
bellon, martial law to the end that such rebellion
may be Overthrown: ProDided, That the President
| shall first have made proclamation, as provided
Prouided also, That the provisions of this section
shall not be in force after the first day of June, A.
D., 1872.
SEC. 5. That nothing herein contained shall be
construed to supersede or repeal any former act
| or law, except SO far as the same may be repug-
against the tenor of any former act shall be prose
cuted, and any proceeding already commenced for
| the prosecution thereof shall be continued and
| completed, the same as if this act had not been
passed, except SO far as the provisions Of this act
may go to sustain and validate such proceed