Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-04-19

providing for the resumption of specie
payments, which he would present when
the committees were organized. He quot
ed large number of articles which Con-
gress should put on the free list, but above
all restore the American flag on the ocean,
by abolishing all duties on articles enter
ing into the manufacture Of ships. and
ship stores
Several amendments were voted on but
no final action was reached.
Senator sherman introduced resolution
instructing the Finance Committee during
recess to examine into the existing system
OF taXations, with view to propose such
amendments to the bill of the House re-
pealing certain taxes, now pending i'm the
Senate, as will simplify and reduce both
internal taxes and duties on imported
goods, now in force, and in such manner
that the aggregate of each of such taxes
shall not exceed the sums required to exc
cute laws relating to the public debt and
the current expenditures of the Govern
ment, administered with the strictest
economy, so that such taxes may be dis
tributed as to impose the least possible
burden upon the people. 1t went over
until tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Senate
passed the kukluX bill with the amend
ments proposed by the Judiciary Commit
tee, and with the amendments striking out
the repeal of the test oath for United States
jurors, leaving the law as il is at present
and another by Sherman, as follows
That if any house, tenement, cabin, shop,
building, barn or grainery, shall be unlaw-
fully or feloniously demolished, pulled
down, burned or DESTROYED, wholly or i'm
part by any persons riotously and tumul-
tuously assembled together: or if any per-
son shall unlawfully and with force and
violence be whipped, scourged, wounded or
Killed, by any persons riotously and tu-
multuously assembled together: and if
such offence was committed TO deprive
any person of any right conferred
upon him by the Constitution and
laws of the Uuited States, or deter him
from, or punish him for, exercising any
such right, or by reason of his race, color
or previous condition of servitude in
every such case, the inhabitants of the
county, city or parish in which any of the
said Otienses shall be committed, shall be
liable to pay full compensation to the per-
son or persons damaged by such offense, if
living, or to legal representatives if dead.
and such compensation may be recovered
by such person or his representatives by a
suit in any court of the United States, of
competetent jurisdiction in the district in
which the offense was committed, to be in
the name Of the person injured or his legal
representatives. and against said county,
city, or parish, an execution may be issued
on judgment rendered in such
suit, and may be levied upon any proper
ty, real or personal, effects of any person
in said county, city or parish, and the said
county, city or parish which may have
satisfied said judgment or the person out
of whose property said Judgement shall
have been satisfied, a. the case may be,
may recover the full amount of said judg-
ment, costs and interests, from any person
or persons engaged as principal or Access
sorry in such riot i'm an action in any
court of competent Jurisdiction, and the
person out of whose property such judg-
ment shall have been satisfied shall in such
case have contribution as at common law,
and the Circuit Court of the United States
for the proper district shall have jurisdic-
ton of such action.
The bill was passed by a vote of rs to 10.
Hill, Robertson, Schurz, Upton and Trum-
bull voting nay.