The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-05-03
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,

April 18th, 1871.
The debate in the House on Sat-
urday Oh the amendment giving to
the Board of Public works control
of the Park in this city elected quite
number of spicy remarks. Mr..
Beck struck the nail on the head
when he stated that he saw q rich
and powerful ring in this business"
The whole affair of the Territorial
government was a job from its first
inception and all that is wanted to
carry out the wishes of the ring now
is to elect their Radical delegate and
the charmed circle will be complete.
But Congress does not seem dispos-
ed to play altogether into the hands
of the big business job and struck
out the whole amendment relating to
the Park. The Senate amendments
to the Ku-Klux bill were taken up
and considered. The Senate amend
ments were all concurred in except
three. The House refused to per-
NIT the feature abolishing the test
oath for jurors to be stricken out, and
the power given to the President to
suspend the habeas corpus until the
end of the next regular session in
stead Of June LIST, 1872, was not con-
Cured in, and the amendment of the
small souled John Sherman, which
provides that the county or parish is
responsible for all damage done to
person or property by the Ku-Kluxes,
was also stricken out. There eau
Gus of Radicals held to agree upon
some kind of compromise as. to the
bill. If the House Radical members
stand firm the Senate Radicals will
agree to the bill as it came from the
House rather than risk the defeat of
the whole of the boldest electioneer-
ing measure ever engineered through
Congress.
Mr.. Hamilton, ex-member of Con-
gress from Florida, had brought a
number of very serious charges
against Senator Osborn, of that same
State to which he made affidavit. AS
soon as Mr.. Hamilton left this city,
Mr.. Osborn scomes boldly out and
denies the charges and throws con-
siderable quantity of dirt at Mr.. ex-
member of Congress, Hamilton.
Will these vile excresences, on the
body political never cease exposing
to the world how rotten, how cor
rupt and how thoroughly despicable
they are ?
Mr.. Robinson, of South Carolina,
tried to have the Senate consider his
amnesty bill, but the doer of all the
White House dirty work, the curly
blonde, Conkling, with brazenness
that could only spring from a frame
without a soul or heart, spoke about
this being sprung on the Senate,
when the facts are that Mr.. Robert
son has time and time again notified
the Senate of his intention, and the
falseafer also had the unblusing i'm
pudence to say that the Senate was
thin, when there was fully fifty Sena-
tors in their seats. Mr. Trumbull
remarked that it was the fullest Sem
ate that he had ever seen on Sat-
urday. Long, thin John Sherman,
who of late is playing the Grantcard
as likely to assist him to be returned
to the Senate, and who out. motion
ed Morton, the dark Indiana Sena.
tor, in his recent speech, came to the
rescue of his friend, Conkling, and
proposed that the amnesty bill be al.
lowed to be taken up, provided q
note was pressed until the darling
project of the Radical managers
hearts, the Ku-Klux bill, be passed
Conkling was sharp and agreed, but
/ not so with Mr.. Trumbull, who was
not to be caught by any such thir
chaff as Sherman spread before the
Senate. He knew that once the Ku
Klux bill was passed, goodbye am
nesty. Trumbull fought for actor
at once, but the anti-amnesty Sena
tors gained strength enough to carry
motion to go into executive session
and so the question rests. I have
no reason to believe that the Senate
will act favorably on this question, al
= I do not know why they should pass
one bill the Ku-Klux to deprive thu
white people of the South of theil
rights and at the same time DE-
aught to relieve them from their dis
abilities and make opponents TO-
their party. Others are sanguine
: but SO am not T.