Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-03-17
From Washington.

the speaker announced the committee on cleo.
tious,as follows: McCreery, Stevenson, Hale,
Poland, Tiukloburg, Thomas, Kccr, Potter
nud Arthur. The day was occupied Gllibus.
tering over salt and coal. Adjourned.
In the Senate, Newman was re elected chap.
lain. A number of old bills were reintro-
duccd, including one to Incorporate branches
to the Texas Pacific Railroad under the namc
Of tho North Carolina Extension Railway
Company.
The companies to be consolidated arc the
eastern and western division of tho Western
North Carolina Railroad, tho Wilmington,
Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad, and the
Union and Spartanburg Rarilroad Company,
of South Carolina. The purpose being to
establish continuous Railway communication
from Newborn, Wilmington and Charleston,
via Ashvlle, N. O., and Ducktown, Tenn,
or Dalton, Ca, to San Diego, California; also
rcviviDg the grant of land to the North Lou.
isiana and Texas Railroad, to connect Vicks.
burg with the Texas Pacific Railroad, incor.
porating the Shreveport and Red River I'm.
provement Company,and creating Shreveport
a port Of delivery.
Sumner introduced supplement to the
civil rights bill. He requested it should not
w AC1ChtCu w GiS JuuiCl6IJ CouullItCc, uhu
threatened to press the bill to an issue before
adjournment
In caucus of the Republican Senators
held this morning it was resolved, by vote
of 26 to 81, to substitute Cameron for Sum.
ner ns Chairman of the Senate committee on
foreign affairs.
WASHINGTON, March 1O.-Thc House
proceedings yesterday indicated majority Of
thirty revenue reformcrs.
Morton's Ku Klux bill proposes to transfer
the jurisdiction of cases of murder and other
violence to the United Suites courts, and to
try thom before juries, on which no person
who cannot take the test oath shall be allow.
ed to sit, and to provide sufficient number
of troops to sustain all the officers in the exc.
cution of the law.
In the Senate-Anthony was chosen
Speaker pro tenn.
Sumner declined to serve on the Commit.
tee on Elections and Privileges. The change
in the chairmanship of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, was discussed all day.
Uowo, in answer to question, said it was
because Sumner refused to have social inter
course with the President, or the Secretary
of State. The debate was entirely confined
to the Republicans, and was bitter and per.
sonnl. Finally, at six o'clock vote was
reached, and the caucus committees confirm.
ed by the Senate.
This finally places Cameron at the head
of Foreign Affairs.
Executive Session Housc-A bill rcrcal
ing the tariff on salt, was loaded with amend.
monts to kill it. Kelly finally moved us an
amendment, the previous question on the
whole Tariff bill and demanded its reading,
which will take two days. After reading
few minutes the majority consented to ad
journment to Monday.
A private letter from the President to
speaker Blaine was read in Republican,
caucus last night, in which the President
docs not venture to recommend any course
for the Republicans to pursue, but suggests
that some kind Of measure be adopted for
tho protection of Southern loyalists, without
going into further legislation.
Beck introduced the amnesty bill to. day
in tho House, and Farnsworth supported it
in an earnest speech.
The Senate confirmed the recently nomi-
natcd commissioners upon loyal claims.
The outrage committee reported in sum-
ming up that Ku Klux does exist and is
composed Of members Of the Democratic or
Conservative party That it has a political
purpose, and sought to carry its purposes by
murders, whippnys, intimidation and vic.
loucc against its opponents. That it binds
its members to carry out the DEGREES of crime,
and protects them against conviction.
The minority report is also quite long, and
concludes rs follows
The number of these outragcs, detestablc
and wicked as they are, is nevertheless gross
ly and widely exaggerated, and this no one
can doubt who will examine the testimony,
and who has had any knowledge of the ere
dn!ity ard iaaccuracy CT the statements char
nctcristic of our wei-meaning colorcd people
North Carolina is one Of the largest States,
territorially, in the Union, aud is divided into
81 counties, and contains nearly 100000
people. No acts of lawlcsSness have been
committed, except in one or the other of six
or perhaps eight of these counties, and yet it
is proposed to employ violent and stringent
measures of coercion and repression in
the remaining nine tenths of State against
which no breath of evidence or proof Of law.
lesssncss has ever been adduced, but which,
on tile contrary, exhibits condition of oui.
ct almost suggesting the scnsibilty of despair
What cause can be alleged what gratiica.
tion to tho American people can be urged for
this removed and wanton invasion of peace
full community? The statement that anar
oily there exists is absurdly untrue, and the
testimony now laid before the Senate over.
whelmingly establishes its untruth. If fag.
eressive laws arc to be enacted, let all the
disguise be cast of, and the true reason be
ayowed. It will not be less violent or wrong,
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