Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-04-07
Latest Measure of Reconstruction.

WAsHI~GToN, March 28-Thc Senate
sp!nt the whole day in the discussion of Sum.
ner's anti Grant resolutions.
In the House, Shclabarger, from the spc.
cial committee on on the Presidents Ku Kiux
message, reported bill for the enforcement
of the Fourteenth amendment. 1t provides
that any person who under color of law, stat
ute, regulation, custom or usage of any State,
shall subject or cause to be subjected any
person within the jurisdiction of the United
States to the deprivation of any rights, priv
ieges or immunitics secured by the first sec.
tion of the fourteenth article Of the amend
mcns to the Constitution Of the United
States, shall, any such law, statute, regulation,
ordinance, custom or usage of State to the
contrary Notwithstanding, be liable to the
party injured in an action OF law, suit in
equity, or other proceedings for redress, such
proceedings to be prosecuted in the several
district or circuit courts Of the United States,
with and subject TO the same right of appeal,
review upon error, and other remedies proyi.
dcd III like cases in such courts under pro-
visions of the Act of April 8, 1868, and 9th.
CT remedial laws of the United States which
arc. in their nature, applicable in such cases
The second section provides that if two or
more persons shall band, conspirc or combine
together to do any act in violation of the
rights, privileges and immuuities of any per
son to which he is entitled under the consti
tuition and laws Of the United States. which,
if committed in place under the sole and
exclusive jurisdiction Of the United States
would, under any law of the United States
there in force, constitute the crime of either
murder, manslaughter, mayhem, robbery, as.
sauit and battery, perjury, stbornation of
perjury, criminal obstruction of legal process,
or resistance of officers in tho discharge of
official duty, arson or larceny and if one or
more of the parties TO such conspiracy or
combination shall do any act to effect the OBJ
jcct thereof, all the parties TO or engaged in
said conspiracy or combination, whether prin-
cipas or accessories, shall be deemed guilty
of felony, punishable by fine of not exceed.
ing ten thousand dollars, or imprisonment
not to exceed ten years, or both, at the dis.
cretion of the court; provided, that if any
party or parties to such conspiracy shall in
furtherancc of such common design commit
the crime Of wilful murder, such party or par.
ties 80 guilty shall upon conviction thereof
suffer death and provided, also, that any Of
fence punishable under this act, begun in
one judicial district of the United States and
completed in another, may bo dealt with, in.
quired of, tried, determined and punished in
either district.
The third section authorizes tho President
to employ the militia, land and naval forces
OF the United States, to suppress insurrection,
domestic violence, or unlawful combinations
or conspracics, in any State, if the constitu.
ted authorities Of such State shall bo unable
to-; or shall from any cause fail or refuse pro.
tecsion Of tho people in their rights and
privileges.
The fourth section authorizes tho President
to suspend thc writ of AaJeas corpus, and to
declare martial law in any State whore un.
lawful combinations exist, and be so powerful
as to overthrow or set at defiance the const.
tutod authorities Of tho State, or in any State
whoro the constituted authorities shall eonnive
at. or be in completely with, such unlawful
provided, that tho Presidents
shall have first made proclamation, as now
provided by law, commanding such insurgents
to disperso and provided, also, that the pro.
visions Of this section shall not be in force
after the first day Of June, 1879.
The dominant party will allow until Mon.
day next for the discussion Of the measure.
The Dominican report is NOT yco madc. A
difference Of opinion exists. A majority of
thc commission favor reporting in manner
which gives categorical answers to questions
without any recommendation for or against
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