The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-29

lists. The majority of the commission
favor replying categorioally and answer.
ing questions without any recommends
tion for or against annexation.
No Cabinet meeting to-day. The
members are visiting Mount Vernon
! with the High Com mmissinn.
In the Senate, Summers resolutions
were discussed to adjournment.
In the House, A. L. Smith presented
q memorial claiming seat from the
Fourth Mississippi District, and protest
ing against the entire Mississippi delega-
| tion. Referred to the Committee on
Elections. Shellabarger. from the spe-
ciul committee on the Presidents mes
sage. reported bill for the enforcement
of the fourteenth amendment The
argument cou,iunes until Monday. It
provides that any person who. under
color of the law, statute, ordinance,
regulation, custom or usage, of my
State, shall subject, or cause to be sub
jected, any person, within the jurisdic-
tion Of the United States, to the depri-
walton Of any rights, privilegeu or immn-
mites secured by the first section of the
fourteenth article Of the amendments 10
the Cons tuition Of the United States,
shall, any such law, statute, ordinance,
regulation, cnstcm or usage OF the 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 proceeding to be prose-
cnted in the several District or Circuit
Courts of the United States, with and
su jrct to the same rights of appeal or
review upon error, :nd other remedies
provided in like cases in such courts,
under the provisions of the Act of
April 8. 1865. and other remedial laws of
the United States which are, in their
nature, applicable in such cases.
The second section provides that if two
combine together to do any net in viola
ton of the rights, privileges and immu-
mites OF any person. to which he is
entitled under the Constitution and
laws of the Uuited States, which, if COM
mitted within place under the sole and
exclusive jurisdiction of the United
States. would, under any law of the
Uuited States there in force, constitute
the crime of either murder, mauslangh-
ter, mayhem, robbery, assault and bat
terry, perjury, subornntion of perjury,
criminal obstruction Of legal process, or
resistance OF officers in the discharge of
oiiciul duty, arson or larceny; aud if one
or more of the parties to the said con-
spiracy or combination shall do any act
to effect the object thereof, all The par
ties engaged in said conspiracy or COM
bipation. whether principals or accesso-
rios, shall be deemed guilty of felony,
aud, upon conviction thereof, shall be
Liable to penalty Of not exceeding
SIC, 900, or to imprisonment not exceed
ing ten years, or both. Mt the discretion
of the court: Prorideti, That if any
party or parties to such conspiracy shall,
in furtherance of such common design,
commit the crime of willful murder, such
party or parties SO guilty shall, upon
conviction thereof, suffer death: And
procided also, That any offence punish
able under this Act begun in one judicial
district of the United States and COM
pleted in another may be dealt with,
inquired of, tried, determined and pun
isLed in either district.
The third section auth orizes the Presi-
dent to employ the militia. land and naval
forces of the United States to suppress
lnsurrectl0n, domestic violence, or uu-
lawful combinations or conspiracies in
any State, ii the constituted authorities
of such State shall be unable to, or shall,
from any cause, fail or refuse the protec-
tion OF the people in their rights or pri-
vlleges.
The fourth section authorizes the Pre-
sident to suspend tho writ of habens cor
pas and to declare martial law in any
State where unlawful combinations exist,
and be so powerful as to overthrow or set
ut defiance the constituted authorities Of
the State, or in any State where the con-
stituted authorities shall connive at or
he in completely with the success of the
unlawful combinations: Provided, That
the President shall first have made pro-
clama,ion, as now provided by law, com
rnhuding such Insurgents to disperse:
ProrhleR, also. That the provisions of
This section shall not be in force after the
l>t day Of June, 1872.
Weather report-The low barometer
over Massachusetts, Monday evening,
has passed to the Northeast, beyond
onr Coast. The area of high pressure,
M"nday night, in Tennessee, now covers
OHIO and Lake Michigan. The pressure
appears to have decidedly fallen, with Ii
large Increase of temperature in the ex-
treme Northwest. The barometer is
stationary i'll the Rocky Mountains and
on the Pacifc coust. Clear weather.
with occasf sfonnl clondiness. has prevnil. d
to-day Eatt of the Rocky Mountains and
North off hha (1ulf St,foo n, tl,,, ;,,,,,,.