Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

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WASHINGTON, April 14-The Senate
passed the kuklux bill with the amend.
ments proposed by. the Judiciary Commit
tee, and with the amendments striking out
the repeal Of the test oath for United States
jurors, leaving the law as it is at present
and another by Sherman, as follows:
That if any house,stenement, cabin, shop,
building, barn or graifery shall be unlaw-
fully or feloniously demolished, pulled
down, burned or destroyed, wholly or in
part, by any persons riotously and tumul-
tuously assembled together: or if any per-
SON shall unlawfully and with force and
killed, by any persons riotously and tu-
multuously assembled together: and ID
such offence was committed to deprive
any person of any right conferred
upon him by the Constitution and
laws of the Uuited 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
said ofenses shall be committed, shall be
liable to pay full compensation to the per-
son or persons damaged by such offense, if
living, or to1egal representatives if dead,
and such compensation may be recovered
by such person or his Representatives by a
suit in any court of the United States, of
competetent jurisdiction in the district in
which the offense was committed, to be in
the name of the person Injured or his legal
REPRESENTATIVES, and against said county,
city, or parish, an execution may be issued
on a Judgment rendered in such
suit and may be levied upon any proper
ty, real or personal, effects of any person
in said county, city ol' parish, and the said
nps r<-I, Il
satisfied said Judgment or the person out
of whose property said judgement shall
have been satisfied, as the case may be-,
may recover the full amount of said iudg-
ment, costs and interests. from any person
or persons engaged-a principal or acces-
sorry in such riot in an action in any
court of competent jurisdiction, and the
person out ofwhose property such judg-
meDt shall have been satisfied shall in such
case have contribution as at commonslaw, !,
and the Circuit Court of the United States
for the proper district shall have jurisdic-
tion of such action. e,i;l.rl - TgeeTssss s
8 The bill was passed by vote of 45 to 49,
Hill, Robertson, Schurz, Upton and Trum-
bull llyoting nay. Ss.I E.4sG II .Bf1
rrgsr Eass LIS q a HOUSE = Esse - zs1 t1st
2 A resolution was offered to expunge the
speech from the Globe and sreprimand
Representative Garrett foriquoting i'm his
speech that portion which he had leave to
print from the Vicksburg Herald, to the
effect that Senator, Ames was a s'shoulder-
strap puppy, .poltroon, and most consum-
mate liar and fool. y
Without disposi1lg Of the matter, the
Deficiency Bib was taken up.
bn An amendment was adopted, giving
$50, 600 to rebuild the Orphan Asylum of
the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, at
Charleston, s. G..
Also an amendment was adopted requir-
ing the National Banks to pay the expenses
of printing their notes.
Without disposing of the bill, the House
Adjourned. tIHA HMM fiA#
The PRICE OF STAMPS. Dan Lacy was
a postmaster, and q person asked the price
of postage stamps. "tThree cents,n says
Dan, blandly. But could you not let me
have them cheaper if took four or five of
them ~ asks the customer. ssWe cannot
now, i" replied the accommodating Dan !;
1--WE could have done so until lately, but
now the Government punches holes
around each stamp for the convenience of
the people, which SC, increases the cost that
we cannot afford to make any discount"
The satisfied customer -cheerfplly paid
three cents apiece.
CoMpIAINT foF KESrucKY . ColoREp
MEN. N.--There wac presented in the Senate