The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-07-12

the currency has requested them by
telegraph to forward their reports
Immediately. 1t may, therefore, be
necessary to close the official books
and make the report of the condition
of the National Banks without en-
bracing therein the reports of those
delinquents above alluded to.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
The Civil Service Commission has
taken no positive action, of any kind,
as yet, but is employed in the investi-
cations of the practical workings of
the various departments of the Gov
eminent. From the known views of
members of the Commission, it may
be safely predicted that the tenure of
office of Government employees will
not be arbitrarily fixed. Since the
appointments are made on the respon
sibility of each officer, it would be
thrown from its chief into the hands
of the clerks, who couldn't be made
accountable except in extraordinary
instances. The principal question
which demands the attention of. the
Commission, though it may not have
arisen in this precise form, is: How
snail the power or motive to remove
one person for no reason but in order
to create a place for another be taken?"
with this problem solved it is general
ly believed the tenure of Office will
be regulated by the demand OF efficient
service. !
What shall be done with the thirty
thousand postmasters is one of the
practical questions now under examiT
nation.
PROPERTY LOST DURING THE WAR
Second Comptroller Brodhead de-
cides that the repeal by the act of
July IL. 1870, of the indefinite appro-
priation in the act Of March 8, 1863,
to pay for horses, mules, &c, lost or
destroyed during the war, in the mill
tary service, does not prevent action
at the. Treasury upon this class OF
claims. There are no legal objections
to entertaining those claims. The
Auditor can report the "a as usual
to the Comptroller, and if approved
the sum allowed stands as an adjudi-
Gated claim, to be paid when Congress
makes the necessary appropriation.
THE KU-KLUX COMMITTEE. Z:
The Ku.Klux Committee still stay
here, patiently working away in the
hot weather, without any prospect OF
a termination of its labor. Yesterday,
several leading citizens of Alabama
and Mississippi arrived in this city to
aDnoar nc witnesses
the Committee to day examined
Judge Peltis and Colonel Pugh, of
Alabama Their testimony was cor
roborative of the evidence previously
given by Governor Lindsey and other
conservative witnesses, that no such
organization as Ku-KluX exists in AL
ALBANIA, and hat good order and re-
spect for law that prevails in that
Colonel Pugh, at the outbreak
of the war, was a member of Congress
from Alabama, and was afterwards a
member of the Confederate Congress
the same State. j. nj. Justice,
of Rutherford county, North Carolina,
a prominent native Republican mem
Der of the Legislature of that State,
was examined at great length, prior
to the examination of Peltis and Pugh,
and gives very direct testimony in re-
lation to the sufferings of his section;
He testified that some Ave weeks ago,
party of forty or fifty armed aud
disguised men came to his house, took
him out of bed and in the presence Of
his family beat him fearfully with
clubs and pistols. They then carried
him into the woods, threatening his
lie, and made him promise not to
Washington to testify before the
concerning the various
outrages which had been previously
in that vicinity. They
left him, and he managed to get
home where he was confined to bed
for three weeks. from the effects of in
ternal injuries caused by the beating.
Mr. Justice swore that he believed
this and similar outrages were part of
a regular system of political intimida-
ion, and were not merely neighbor-
hood quarrels. He had believed firm
y in the existence of Ku-KIux Khan
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