The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-15
G0NGRESSlOxAL.
Passage Of the kuklux Bill by the
senate with EdditiOnal Amend.

Passage Of the kuklux Bill by the
senate with additional Amend
YnentS.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Senate
passed the kukux bill with the amend
ments proposed by the Judiciary Com
mittce, with amendments striking out the
repeal test oath for United States jurors and
leaving the law aS ut present, and another
offered by Senator Sherman us follows
THAT if my house, tenement, cabin,
shop, building, or granary, shall be unlaw-
fully or feloniously demolished, pulled
down, or destroyed, wholly or in part, by
any persons rotously and tumultuously rs.
Sembled together ; or if any person shall
unlawfully and with force and violence be
whipped, Scourged, wounded, or killed by
any persons riotouSly and unanimously as
Scmbed together, and if such offence was
committed 10 deprive any person OF any
right conferred upon him by the Constltu-
ton and laws of the United States, or to
deter him from or punish him for exercising
any such right, or by reason of his race.
color, or previous condition Of seryitude,
in every such case the Inhabitants
OF the county, city, OF parish in which
any of the said offences shall be committed,
shall he liable to pay full compensation to
the person or persons damnhed by sucn
offence, if living, or to legal representatives
if dead; and such compensation may be
recovered by such person or his representa-
tive by Il suit in any court of the United
States. of competent jurisdiction, in the
district in which the offence was committed,
to be in the name Of the person injured OF
bis legal preventative, and against said
county, city, or parish, and execution may
be issued on a judgment rendered in suit,
and may be levied upon any property,
real or personal, OF any person III said
county, city, or parish, and the said county,
city, or parish which may have satisfied said
Judgment. or the person out OF whose
property said Judgment shall have been
satisfied, as the case may be, may recover
the full amount Of said judgment, costs,
and interest from any person or persons
engaged rs principal or accessory in such
riot in an action in any court of compe
tent Jurisdiction, and the person out Of
whose PROPERTY such judgment shall have
been satisfied Shall in such case have con-
tribution AZ at common law, and the Cir
cult Court Of the United States for the
proper district shall lave jurisdiction OF
such action.
The bill was passed by a vote of % ayes
to 10 nays.
Senators Hill, Robertson, Scburz, Tip
ton, and Trumbull voted in the negative.
In the House Il resolution was offered to
expunge the speech of Representative Gar
net from the Globe, and to reprimand hum
for quoting from the Vicksburg Herdtd TO
the effect that Senator Ames was shoulder
strap puppy and poltroon, and most COM
summate liar and fool.
The deficiency bill was taken up, and the
amendments giving $4,000 TO rebuild the
Orphan Asylum of the Sisters Of Our Lady
of Mercy, at Charleston, and also requiring
the national banks TO pay the expenses OIL
printing their notes, were adopted, with
out disposing OF the bill.
The House has adopted an amendment
to the deficiency appropriation bill, re-
pealing u portion Of that proylso of the
legislative appropriation bill of last year
which deprived the holders of Presidential
pardons OF all standing In the courts.
The action now taken by the House,
without dissenting vote, provides for
the fulfilling the promise of the am
nesty proclamation issued by President
Lincoln, of December, 1868, and APP
plies only to pardons granted under said
proclamation of President Lincoln, with a
view to induce persons to abandon the re-
bellion, and where they did actually ahan-
don it and thereafter kept their obligation
in good faith.
democratic Congressional Caucus.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-The Democratic
Senators and Representatives held a caucus
tonight, when Senator Bayard, chairman
of the committee to prepare All address to
the people, stated that, in view OF the
pending legislation Oh the kuklnX bill, the
committee was not ready to report, but
would report on Monday night ut an adj
iourned meeting of the caucus. The eau
Gus earnestly advises all Democratic men,
bers now absent to return to Washington
to vote upon the amendments.
Nominations by the President.
WASHINGTON, April l4.-The President
has nominated B. II. Cowan, of Ohio, as
sistant Secretary of the Interior; ID. q.
Manning collector of the fourth district OF
Texas.
The Weather.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-The propablll-
ery winds, will probably be experienced
on Saturday over the lakes, followed by
Slight disturbance Saturday night on the
upper lakes. Clear, or partially clear,
weather is probable for the southern states
and the Atlantic coast.~~
The following is u synopsis oil the state OF
the weather for the-past twenty'four hours !:
.'The weather has remained without ma
terial change on the Pacific coast. The ba-
rometer has fallen in Nebraska, and easterly
winds have prevailed on the upper Lakes,
with partially clouded weather. The cloudy
ii tr,aofhar cnrlth of the Ohio