Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-08
TelegrapIllc Summary.

1AS' hO tO"ho
to hear from are Doran, Columbia,
Union, Warren aud Harland. These
towns voting as last year JewelPs ma
jority will be l04.
Kellogg, Republican, is elected to
Congress in the Second District by 20
majority.-Tho Senate now stands Ii
Republican to S. Democrats The House
will be Republican by small majority
London, April 81 p M.-The
Paris Commune had issued a decree ar
raigning Thiers, Picard, Favre, Dufour,
Slmon aud pith5ow before the tribunal
of the people, and ordering their prop
erty to be seized.
Washington, April 3-In the Senate
Sherman resolution instructing the
Judiciary Committee to report bill to
abolish the Ku klux, being under con-
| sideration, Blair argued that the meas
ure was an assumption of the. power of
Congress to punish violation of
State law The House spent the en-
tire day and evening session in the dis
cusson of the bill.
San Francisco, April 4.-The Board
of Supervisors last evening adopted
resolution accepting Col Won Schmidt's
proposition TO introduce water from
Lake Tahoe, furnishing the city 4,0O0,-
600 gallons daily for40 years, in return
for 5,OOO,OO0 six per cent. bonds, de-
livered when they supply the city.
4 proposition to have commmittee
appointed to examine Blue Lake aud
report on a plan for bringing water to
the city, was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Washington, April 3.-Alluding to
the reconstruction acts Blair said that
whenever the Supreme Court had any
authority to pass upon any case CON
nected with them it iuvaribiy pronoun.
ced them unconstitutional, and passed
an act to prevent the Supreme Court
from passing upon its reconstruction
measures He said the Democratic
party, while it believed these acts to be
unconstitutional, did not, as had been
charged, unite to overthrow them by
force. The only means to whlrh Dem.
ocrats would resort We're constitutions!
means.
Scott, intcrrupting, quoted from the
Broadhead letter vi Blair tha. the Press
idcnt elect should dlspersc the carpet
baggers by iorce.
BIair said he was not the Democrat
lc party, aud the Democratic party was
| not Diair, and he repeated that tic
| Democratic party had never threatened
! 10 use violent mcans TO overthrow the
constitutional acts of Congress. lie
(BIalr) beIived that the President, hav
Ing taken an oath 10 support the Con>
stlution, should stand it whether against
Congress or against individuals; tor he
believed that Congrass, violating the
| Constitution, was no more than mob
He said that an army could be made
to undo the work of usurpation, but no
force would be necessary; if the army
was Withdrawn, the Infamous carpct>
bag government would tall of thenlsel-
yes He charged that the Republicans
of North Carolina during the preslden,
tail canvass of 1868 had, in an address,
advised negroes to burn the barns ot
people who deSplsed them on account
of their politics.
| Poole (interrupting) said the address
bore on such construction, and no seDsl,
bic man could take that view of it
Blair said it vas so regarded at the
time, and he reviewed at length the
condition of affairs In North and South
Carolina, alleging that corruption, fraud
and vlllainy relgned supreme. He quo>
ted from the Republican papers Of
South Carolina articles severly com
mentlng on the villainy of the Legsa-
ture, and also quoted the remarks of
| Gov. Scott, "that one of the greatest
curses affecting South Carolina was a
herd of INSCRIPTIONS adventures from
the North, coming there for plumber.
Sherman admitted that the Legislature
of South Carolina had behaved shame-
fully, but that unless the Senator pro-
posed some remedy, he had no right to
| bring the matter in here.
Blair said he had right to arraign
this body tor destroying local self gov
ernnent.
Sawyer said everyone voted in South
Carolina, and there were not over
! 1900 IN the State debarred from hold
ing office under the l4th amendment !:
but the position of the Democratic
party in South Carolina was such that
no considerable number would accept
protfer OF Office, being influenced by the
; position OF the Democratic party in the
North, and by the Broadhead letter of
the Senator to refuse Office.
Blair continued reviewing the CON-
: dition of other Southern States, crime
in which he said had been enormously
increased under Republican rule. Re-
ferring to the Yerger case which had
been brought into the discussion by
Sherman, Blair read from tho state
mcnt OF counsel to prove that the case
bad been kept out. Of the Supreme
Court for fear of the reconstruction
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