The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-04-26

House, we're those fbr the appoint.
ment of an attorney to represent i
before the Southern claims commission
for the reissue Of National Bank notes
and for a pablo park here. The mp
preparation Of $40 900 asked for t
repair the Catholic Orphan Asylum
at Gharlestown, s.. G. which was inju
red by the Union army in 1856, wa
cut down to s12, 900. This small
amount, which is due the Sisters D
Mercy by every rule of right, Honesty
justice. humanity and gratFttde, wa
opposed by the smooth, sleek, drawl
ing Yankee, Ednunds, whose marrow
mind, intense bigotry, puritanicaI
training, i~nfinitesinal soul and soul
temper prompts Aim to oppose every
thing that Is not in the interest o
New England, the Negro and the Rad
ical party. He could not defeat tn,
bill and he 'snarled and snapped a
everybody after the fashion of petted
poodle.
The consideration of the amnesty
bill, for which it is claimed there is
majority in the Senate, vas again de-
feated by that insufferable ass-the
conceity coxcomb, Conkling by flibus
tering and dilatory motions, 50 that
ends that proposed boon to the South
for this session. -
The second conference report on the
Ku-klux bill was submitted to the
Senate yesterday evening. Mr.. Ed.
munds stated that it was the same as
the first report with the exception Of
a substitute for the Sherman amend
ment. 1t now being provided that
the perpetrators of outrages are liable
for damages, or those intended outra-
ges or who were cognizant Of them and
who do not assist in preventing them.
This was Sherman's pet piece Of legis-
lation and which was to bring him
great honor and commentator from
boss Ulysses, and to have it thus cast
aside at the dieta Of the Houserwas
too bad, and John said the substitute
was a miserable s~ubterfuge, and by
the time he got steam up and was in
sailing order he padded around the
Senate Chamber to the great detriment
of everybody and everything. Some
of the more timid Senators who had
never seer thclean, lank, Ohiean bend
himself up into such remarkable fig
and positions thought he was Ell
Their very drunk or insane. John grew
belicose and among other wild asser-
said that, he would not only
take the property of the people South
but he would light anew the flames
civil war. That is just exactly what
this ku-klux bill is intended to do,
and John Sherman was 30 sore over
The loss of his amendment that he lost
control of himself and blurted out the
ruth. Mr. Edmunds tried to come
put strong in the Drake-Morton vein
but although-h his hate of the South
vas expressed in the strongest terms,
ne failed in giving to his hatred that
rasping harshness of voice
which characterized Drake, or the
black scowl of the bitter Morton,
whose voice, nervous with concentrated
passion, seems a cry for blood. Ed
nunds, was the Yankee pedagogue
lasaling out a sharp scold. In the
style he is not a Success
The Ku-klux bill passed and now on
y awaits the favorable action of the
which 10 doubt it will receive.
let no man single out Ben
as a more extreme Radical
han any other, and fail to e any diff
erencc. The bill which he first pro-
posed was not as vile as this one.
When Ben Butler, can make a bill
moro wicked, villainous or outrageous
han this, or can utter words and SEN
iments, and more hatred to the South
han John Sherman, E1munds, Nor
on, Conkling and Others, I will then
1--WE Butler, the palm, but he is not
to it yet. Butler, must look
bis laurels.
The discussion on the Ku-klux bill
the House before the second cosfer-
ence was quite animated. Mr.. Will
ard and Judge Poland, of Vermont.
Blair, of Michigan, Bsrchard, OF Ill,
Farnsworth and other Rad
icals opposed the report, especially the
amendment, but as it goes
back with the smallest kind of a change
in that amendment they will swallow
the whole bill with an avidity which
will show that they are not far behind
their co-consIirators of the Senate.
Ben Butler, has two columns of vile
abuse Of Senator Davis and Farms
worth, of the House, which he is very
DESTROYS OF getting off, but on Tues
day Mr.. Beck, of KY, objected to his
personal explanation until he had With
drawn his base charge against that
State. Benny was in great distress
as he wants to have the last word in