Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-11
LATEST NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 10.
MR.. BOUTWELL,.
Secretary Boutwell, will visit the president at
Long Branch tomorrow, and return to Wash
ingtOn this week.
THE NEW COMMISSION.
The civil service commission to-day cOnsid-
cred various constitutional questions which it
was desirable to submit to the attorney general,
and for this purpose authorized a letter to be
addressed to the president, containing those
propositions, with request for their submission
to the attorney general for his opinion, at as
carly date as possible.
FINANCIAL.
The report that the new government loan has
been withdrawn from the market is credited
here in well informed quarters, from the fact
that it is believed that q proposition is about
being consummated looking to the absorption
of the whole five hundred millions of the five
twenty loan OF 1862.
Balances in the treasury at the close Of bust
ness to-day:
Currency. 34120 900
Solt Sg0s!009
Certlncates. X194OQO
THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Of the district has already commenced prelim-
mary work, under the four million-improve-
ment bill passed last Saturday by the legislature
and approved to-day by the governor. 1t has
appointed an advisory commission of eminent
engineers TO aid in preparing detailed plans of
proposed Improvements, and in prosecution of
the work. The advisory board consists of Gen
erals A. A. Humphreys, NJ. c. Meigs Babeock,
and the commissioners of public buildings, and
f. b. Olmstead of New York.
THE KUKLUX COMMITTEE.
Witnesses from Georgia We're examined by the
kuklux committee to-day. g. d. Forsyth, So
licitor for the Rome judicial circuit, testified
that he had convicted three worthless vaga-
bonds, who, in disguise, had robbed persons on
the highway. 1t was sometimes with difficulty
that he could convict such offenders, owing to
the public sentiment, and fear on the part of the
jury. He believed there was a kuklux Organiza-
ton, but could not tell their designs or purposes
further than what they had shown by their acts.
One convicted man confessed that he was
member of an association having signs and
passwords, and that he was under obligation to
obey orders.
p NJ. Shubley, postmaster at Rome, Ga,
native OF pennsylvania and resident of the south
for twenty-threc years, testified that he knew of
cases, in each of which he had been assured
that negro had been whipped by men in dis
guise, and that twenty or more, at the dead of
night about the same time, had entered Rome,
but retired without committing offences. He
also referred TO other cases, in which cOlOred
persons had informed him that negroes had
been whipped by so-called kukux. The demo-
Gratis there were so much opposed to the recon-
struction measures of congress that they threw
all possible obstacles in the way of the negroes
to the enjoyment of civil and political rights.
The object of the Union league, as organized
in 1867 in the state of Georgia, was to endear
the people to the government of the United
States, and as such it never committed any acts
of violence. 1t, however, ceased to exist after
the presidential election of 1868, or prior to the
organization of the kuklux khan, and therefore
the latter was not raised in antagonism to the
former Since the passage of the kuklux bill
and the proclamation of the president of the
United States, there has been comparative peace
in that part of Georgia known as the Cherokee
purchase. The witness said that in his opinion,
universal amnesty would greatly tend to better
the state of feeling. He was examined over three
hours.