The union Democrat., 1871-04-22

WASHINGTON. d. C.. Anrii &. Isl

South and appointed 7 Senatnrs to act with
the House Committee. Mr.. Hill. of Georgia,
Radical. denied that the condition of things
existed in his State that was charged and he
hored this Committee would go into Georeia
and be convinced.
1t is now pretty clearly decided that th;.
Session of Congress will come to close hv
The Goth of this month The President will
however convene the Senate for executive
business about the lst of Nav, as it is though,
that :he report of the joint High Commission
tor tie settlement of claims between Great
Britain ard the Uaited States will be ready
to be submitted Sy that time.
Ben. Buffers son-in-law, Ames. the hogu.
Senator from Mississippi. is walking in the
footsteps of the sold man." bat fear not
with the same success. A few DAYS ago he
drew terrible picture of the Ku-Kluxers in
his State. much to the delight of his daddy.
in-law and Morton. ct al but the Legislature
of his adopted State calls the youthful "Tom
Pepper" to account and resolves that he lihels
the peonle of that State, and they repel said
libel. Libel is a very good and polite word
and in this case quite parliamentary. but
would not the plain Saxon word 'slie" and
liar be much palmer and easier under
stood Ames had better come hack to the
truth and stick to the precepts taught him ct
Sunday Schdbl, as he does not look like one
who could rival Ben Butler in that modern
legislative accomplishment. He should re-
member that there is only one Ben Butler,
and he can'thope to steal any of his laurels in
that line.
Ben Butler is out in a new dodge. He rnr-
poses introducing a very liberal amnesty bill,
with but few exemptions. on Monday next.
lie no doubt. will pass it through the House,
but Ben might as we'll expect to he carried
up to Heaven in the midst of speech, bv an
angel, ms to have any such bill pass the Sen
ate, and Benny well knows it, and there is
where the dodge comes in. Benny this is
the thinest thing done lately; try again Ber-
ny.
Cerrit Smith is in town. having been sent
for hy distracted Radicals here who see their
party going to pieces before their ewes, and
no apparent help for it. Smith hopes bv see
ing the cantankerous rival chiefs to bring
about peace, but which will knuckle down to
the other? neither, and neither will give an
inch and until the end of the chapter the
Houses of Grant and Sumner will rival the
Montaeues and Caruets.
The Ku Klux bill which passed the House
on Thursday, hv strict party vote. is almost
as bad as Ben Buffers bill, because the Sec
tion which gives the President power to use
national forces 10 arrest offenders and hand
then over to the United States Marshals. will
he so construed as 70 mean the militia of a
State and thus if possible, precipitate colls-
ion between the people in the States and ar-
complish what vas originally intended-a
condition of affairs such as will give pretext
to overawe the people of the South in the
next Presidential election. That is the pro-
gramme; it now remains to be seen whether
it can be carried out. After all the velpinc
and froth of those Radicals who were opposed
to such legislation, find that they not only
voted solid for the bill on its final passage but
changed their votes on the amendment strik-
ing out the giving of power to the Presiden.
to suspend the habeds corpus. and thus by a
majority Of three, this most fragrant violation
of the peoples rights under the Constitution
was retained in the bill. Those Democrats
who relied on what they were pleased to term
moderate Radicals" in shearing this mon
strous bill of its most Objectionable features
are not betting much on moderate Radi-
calls" These spasmodic fits of virtue are on
" assumed to throw dust in tae eyes of their
constituents. notice they always vote right
The bill was sent to the Senate and referred to
the Judiciary Committee; it will be consider
e1 and passed after an Intellectual resistance
by the Democratic Senator'S.
Grant is constantly in hot water and al
ways comes out with little of the bark peel
ed off. If it is not a gold ring swindle and a
damaged reputation, or Carl Schurz and a
Missouri defeat, or Sumner and San Domn-
60 smash up, it is fighting Senator Fenton, OF
New York, in the interest of the New York
Custom House ring, whom Senator Conklng
represents in Washington. The last hlunder
which Grant made was to appoint II. Latin,
as Naval Officer, and W. A. Darling, Ap-
praiser of Merchandise, in place of Moses
Grinnell and General Palmer respectively.
The debate in Executive Session on the con-
frmations was warm. 1t was shown that
Grinnell had raised $780, 900 for the Grant
campaign, and that both he and General
Palmer were true blue Radicals who were be-
ing sacrificed in order to please the deport-
ment man of the White House coterie-Sena-
tor Conkling. 1t looked as if Grant was
about tc get slap in the face when Conkling
moved to adjourn. On the heels of this, the
Republican General Committee of New York
met. aud General Cochrane denounced Grant
and lauded Sumner. Resolutions were pass
ed severely rejecting on Grant and endorsinc