The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-02

gress seems to consider the organized
tribunals and officers OF Justice in the
Southern States incompetent to deal
with crime in that section, and proposes
to intervene with Federal authority,
thus not only overriding State functions,
but by such Legislation as that contem-
plated in the enforcement bill. and in
the Ku Klux Act, increasing the tempta-
tions to crime by the facility with which
subordinate uhioiaie may perpetrate out
RACES in the pretended performance of
duty, with no responsibility to State
courts. and the prospect OF being leni-
emily dealt with by the Federal authori-
ties, if, indeed. any notice at all is taken
of their offences.
BEHIND. HAND.-A Washington letter
says: The Senate is 90 fur behind with
its business that nearly 500 bills on it's
calendar will ba lost, while nearly 100 in
the House must meet the same fute.
Among these are all tue measures relut-
ing to the internal revenue system, the
tax on cigars aud tobacco, the abolition
of the franking privilege. the land grant
railroads, except possibly the Southern
Pacific, which is pending in q conference; !;
the dozen steamship subsidy bills, the
income tax repeal, all the bills relating
to our foreign affairs, all the schemes for
the revival of American ship-building;
She naval line and staff bill, the bill to
abolish the grade of admiral, the bills
amending the national bankrupt law, the
project to ro-organize the Post Office
Department, to consolidate the Indian
tribes and create the new Territory of
Okalama, to provide for the admission
of Utah and New Mexico as States. for
an airline railway hence to New York,
to create national system of education,
together with many other bills of greater
or lesser import, but especially the bill
to establish new Federal civil system
over the South for the suppression Of
disorder, &C., which has been agreed on
by the Reconstruction Committee. The
Republicans are very much disappointed
at the failure of this bill, and would en-
aware OF the determination of the De-
mocrats to prevent its passage by every
means known to parliamentary law.
This bill, among other features, pro-
poses, it will bo remembered, to create
several hundred Federal commissioners
for tho South. This, with several others
noted, will. of course. be introduced
aney in the coming Congress. but the
increased Democratic strength has de-
stroyed there the two. third rule by which
the Republicans have been able in this
Congress to force through SO much lcgis-
Iation. e. -
CuBA.-Thc force of tho Cuban re-
bellon seems to have been weakened
since the browning of the new king of
Spain. The impression is said to pre-
will on the island that he will initiate
ceforms which will remove the most Sc
rious causes of complaint against Spa
nish oppression and excesscs There is
certainly room enough for reform. The
new king is said to be man Of sense
and generosity of sentiment. It will be
just and wise thing if he shall put an
end to the bad system of administration
which has prevailed in Cubn for many
years. Tho cruelties practiced during
the war by tho Spaniards have been re-
Voting to the moral sense of Christen-
dom. The Spaniards, it is true, tell us
to mind our own business, and treat orr
own people with justice aud eqnity. It
may ba true that what Spnniards do in
CnLa is none of our business, but it
must also be obvious that many there,
in view Of the expressions practiccd on
the Cuban population. and of tho i'm
poriaut fnct that the United States can
pnt IN end to mis-government there if it
choose, mny consider that it III our busi-
ness, and that thus the matter will get
'nto national politics, and the Govern
mcnt be ultimately compelled to inter
fere. Hence it will be polite in SPAN
to treat her own subjects in that spirit of
justice and moderation which she ex-
poets from her powerful neighbor on
this continent.
THE KU KLUx. - The Unionville
Times has no faith in the ability Of mere
soldiery to disband the Ku Klnx orgaui-
cation. 1t says:
In our opinion. the best way to
break them up would be to first break