The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-09-18
THR DAVIDSON FOUNTAIN.

About twenty cases OF the Davidson
Fountain bronze work, from Munich,
have arrived A grand celebration OF the
unveiling Of the fountain Is to be provided.
TIE M'oEHAN MURDER TRIAL,
The argument In the Mcclellan murder
trial at Dayton, will close to-day,
THE INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION,
The attendance at the Industrial Expo
sition to-day and tonight has been 1000.
1t has been definitely settled that Presi-
deet Grant will visit tho Exposition next
Tuesday eve. .u
RRCEPTIoN For GRANT,
A civic reception, including parade OF
the Fire Department, Is to be accorded
President Grant on his arrival next Tues
day,
MOTIONS REPLY TO GRoRsBEoK.
Senator Morton delivered an address
at the Republican mass meeting tonight,
in which he referred to Groesbeck's late
speech at SteubenVille. He had high re-
spect for Mr.. Groesbeck, but wanted TO
say he could never be appreciated In the
Democratic party. Groesbeck gives 4
construction to the amendments that vir-
tuRlly destroys them, He says the 14th
and 18th amendments can only be viola
ted by State passing law abridging
civil rights or suffrage, and the only rem
edy is BY the Supreme Court These, tho
speaker claimed, were unloundedi and he
asked how could the Supreme Court pre-
vent tho State from coming money, which
by the Constitution, The new
amendments expressly provide for theiren-
forcement, by appropriate legislation by
Congress GrOesbeCk'sidGR thatthe Ku-
kluX bill was war was untrue in every line.
50 far from this bill contemplating no cost,
1t was a judicial proceeding from tho first
to the last, Tbs first section defines the
offence, and provides for the indictment,
and the second does the Same. In the
third section where the President Is Au.
lhorized to employ militia, and persons
arrested are to be delivered TO Il civil oiii-
Ger to be dealt with according TO law.
Every section of the law looks TO Judicial
proceeding, and the President IL author
lied to use his power only when the State
authorities fail and refuse, and the other
parties arrested, are to bo handed over to
the civil authorities for trial II Is Just
what the Governor OF New York did in
the recent riots The President would
have had this power II ho had been uam.
ed in this bill the merit of the law that it
extended all oyer the United States. The
singular complaint from Mr.. GrOesbeck,
hat this is general law, and says tho
Of the writ OF hdJGdS corpus is
for all time to come. The bill
tself allows d suspension only until the
ast day ofthe next session OF Congress.
Mr. NJ, declared the bill only obnoxious to
'obbers and murderers, or TO the Demo,
ratio politicians who try through tho XII
&lux clans tOcarry the Southern States
MGEuAN CONVICTED.
The jury in the case oil Thomas McGG.
ian, indicted for the murder Of Thomas
Iyers, In Hamilton, on trial at Dayton,
)hio, returned a verdict Of murder in the
econd degree, this morning, about o
o'clock.
THE PREslDENs's VISIT
President Grant arrives here next
tuesday at 540, on the Little Miami Rail.
Dad. Tho procession OF visiting police,
nd the Fire Department, with the regular
roops from Newport Barracks, and the
ONE military companies, pass in roview
I . o'clock.