The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-03-30
shellabarger's' Bill to Suppress the
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SHELLABARGER, OF ONO, tuesday. The
vote on it Is to be taken next Monday:
Be RenacteI, ETC., That'any person who,
under color OF any Law, statute, ordinance,
regulation, custom or Usage OF any State,
shall subject or cause to be subjected any
person within the Jurisdiction Of the Uni
ted States to the deprivation of any rights,
privileges or immunities secured by the
Constitution of the United States, shall,
any such law, statute, ordinance, regula.
ton, custom or usage Of q State to the
contrary Notwithstanding, be liable 10 the
party injured in action at law, suit in
equity or other proper proceeding for re.
dress, such proceeding to be prosecuted in
the several District or Circuit Courts Of
the United States, with and subject 10 tho
same rights Of appeal, review upon error
and other remedies provided in like cases
in such Courts under the provisions ofthe
act Of the 9th Of April, 1865, entitled an
act TO protect oil persons in the United
States in their civil rights, and TO furnish
means for their vindication," and other
remedial laws Ofthe United States, which
are in their nature applicable TO such
cases. .r. ..., I...
SEC. 2. That if two or moro persons
shall, within the limits Of any State, band,
consplre or combine together TO do any
oct in violation Of the rights, privileges or
immunities Of any person to which he is
entitled under the constitution and laws
of the United States, which, If committed
within place under the sale and cxclu-
sive Jurisdiction of the United States,
would, under any law of the United
States then in force, constitute the crime
either OF murder, manslaughter, mayhem,
robbery, assault and battery, perjury, sub.
ordination Of perjury, criminal obstruc.
ton Of legal process or resistance of off,
GERS in the discharge oftheir official duty,
arson or larceny; and if one or more par.
ties to said conspiracy or combination
shall do any act TO effect the object there
Of, all parties to or engaged in said con.
spiracy or combination, whether princi.
pals or accessories, shallbe deemed guilty
OF felony, and upon conviction thereof
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
ten thousand dollars fine, or imprisonment
not exceeding ten years, or both, at the
discretion OF the court: provided, that II
any party or parties to such cOnspiraCies
or combinations shall, In furtherance Of
such common design, commit the crime
of murder, such party or parties so guilty
shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer
death: and provided, also, that any Offense
punishable under this act, begun in one
judicial district OF the United States and
completed in another, may be dealt with,
inquired Of, tried, determined, and pun.
ished in either district.
SEC. 3. That in oil cases where insur-
rection, domestic violence, unlawful com.
binations or COnspiracies in any State
shall so far ObStruct or hinder the cXcCu.
ton OF the laws thereof as TO deprive any
portion or class Of people Of such State Of
any rights, privileges or immunitics
named in and secured by this act, and the
constituted authorities OfsuCh State shall
either DO unable to or shall from any
cause fail in or refuse protection to the
people in such rights, and shall iail or
neglect through tho proper authorities to
apply to the President Of the United
States for aid In behalf of such facts, shall
be deemed denial by such State Of the
equal protection OF the laws to which
they arc entitled under the fourteenth
article Of amendment to tho Constitution
Of tho United States, and In all such
cases It shall be lawful for the President
and 1t shall be his duty 10 take such
measures by the employment Of the
militia or land and naval forces Of the
United States or Of either, or by other
means as he may deem necessary, for the
suppression Of suchinsurreCtion, domestic
+ violence or combinations; and any person
who shall be arrested under this and pre-.
Ceding sections shall be delivered to the
marshal Of the proper district, TO he
dealt with according to the law,
SEC. 4. That whenever In any State or
part Of a State the unlawful combinations
named in the preceding sections OF this
act, shall he organized and armed, and 30
numerous and powerful as to be able by
violence to either overthrow or set at de.
finance the constitutional authority of
such State, or when the constituted au.
thorities arc in completely with, or shall
c0nnive at the unlawful purposes, such
powerful and armed combination, and
whenever BY reason Of all the causes
aforesaid the conviction Of such offenders
and preservation Of the public safety
shall become In such district impractical.
bic, in every such case such combinations
shall be deemed rebellion against the gov.
eminent of the United States, and during
the continuance oil such rebellion, and
within the district which shall be so nm.
der sway thereof, such limits to be pre-.
scribed by proclamation, itshall be lawful
for the President Of the United States,
when in his judgment the public
safety shall require it, to sus.
pend the privileges OF writ Of hGbeGS
corpus, and to declare and enforce, sub.
! jeCt to the rules and articles of war and
other laws Of the United States now in
force applicable in case OF rebellion, mar
tial law to the end, that such rebellion
may be overthrown: preceded, that the
President shall first have1made proclama.
ton as now provided by law, commanding
such insurgents to disperse; and prOrided
also, that the provisions Of this section
shall not be in force after the 1st day Of
June, Ammo Domini 1879.
Sec. 8. That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to supersede or repeal
any former act or law, except so far as the
the same may be repugnant thereto, and
any OtfenseS heretofore committed against
the tenor of any former act shall be prose-
cuted, and any proceeding already com.
menCed for the prosecution thereof shall
be continued and completed the same as II
this act had not been passed except so
far as the provisions OF this act mny 60 to
sustain and validate such proceedings.
Mr.. "Kmk" HoRNnRook, now soJourn.
ing in New York, has favored US with late
copies of BEN. WooD's little paper, the
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