The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-04
Telsgraphlo...Eore News.

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message was received from the Pops;it
blessing the bishops and urging them to
perAevere.
MADRID, April 8.--The Carlist General
Saball had an interview with General
Campos, at Olaf, under flag of truce. 1t
is believed Saball will give his adhesion
to Alfonso, and hold the same rank. '
Since the issue Of Gen. Cabrera's mani
festo to the Carlists, 244 officers have left
the service of Don Carlos, and entered
france. OF these, nine were Generals,
and many Others have surrendered to the
Alfonsoists.
LONDON, April 3.-Wilson MoLay &
Co., metal dealers, have suspended, owing
to American contracts for rails. Labili-
ties, $100,000.
The Posts advicos from the. Spanish
frontier represent prospects of peace in
given in their submission to Alfonso.
Te'egraphic...American News.
WASHINGTON, April I'm the collouuy
between the Attorney General and the
Justices, in Attorney General Williams
closing argument on the force bill, Mr.
Justice Bradley said: Suppose Congress
steal the property of another. Congress
has the undoubted right to punish steal
ing of the property of the Government
or Of property in the service of the Go
vernment, but beyond that the law would
be unconstitutional. Now, when law
is so framed that one part is constitu-
tional and another unconstitutional, and
the two nre so blended together rs to be
impossible to sever them, can Won hold
one part constitutional and the other
part unconstitutional? The Attorney-Ge-
neral replied that the laW could be en-
forced rs to those offences which, it is
admitted, are within the Legislative power
of Congress to provide for. AS to the
power assumed in the Enforcement Act,
to provide penalties for interference with
voters Mt Congressional elections, the
very existence of the Government de-
pends upon these elections. If Con-
gress has no power to protect the voters
then the White Leagues of Louisiana, a
minority Of the people, cnn stand around
the polls and prevent the majority from
voting. The learned counsel on the other
side had said that their fathers had never
attempted to exercise these powers. Did
the counsel forget the great civil reyolu-
ton through which we had passed? The
fathers had never exercised these powers
because there was no necessity to eXer-
else them. Just as it was necessary to
exercise certain powers during the re-
bellion, never before exercised, 80 now it
was necessary to exercise powers to main
tain the results wrought out of the rebel
lion. The fifteenth amendment confers
upon the colored people the right to vote,
and unless Congress has the power to
enforce that guarantee. it is of no value
MIR. Justice Clifton said in his State
(Maine) the colored man always had the
To Ga 0,,1I L.
General whether, if two indictments
were found of conspiracy, one to
prevent coiured man and the
other. white man from voting,
would the Circuit Courts of the United
States have Jurisdiction of both cases?
The Attorney General answered: They
would in the case of the black man; I
don't contend that they would in the case
of the white man. Mr. Justice Clifford
Then colorod men have more rights in
the United States courts than white
men? The Attorney General does
not follow, The Constitution does not
confer upon white people the right to
vote, but it does upon colored people;
hence the power Of Congress arises to
protect them in that right. He dis
claimed asserting TINT negroes have
greater rights than the whites, but these
amendments took them from condition
of slavery, guaranteed to them equal
rights with the white man, and under
took to protect them against all discrimi-
nation. He would now ask to modify
the answer he had made to the question
of Mr. Justice Clifford, md say that nm
indictment for depriving white mnn of
the right to vote Mt n Congressional elec-
ton could be maintained in the United
States Court, but he would not insist that
it could be maintained if the deprivation
of the right to vote was Mt State cleo
ton. Mr.. Justice Strong asked: If
conspiracy was formed to prevent man
from voting because he wns the son of
an Irishman, would the United States
Circuit Court have jurisdiction Of that?
1t would certainly be race discrimina-
ton. The Attorney General said he had
no doubt that Congress had the power to
provide for such case, but he did not
say that it would come under this Act.
Mr. Justice Strong-Suppose the State of
South Carolina, where the majority of
people are colored, should change its
Constitution, and say that no white man
should vote, would q remedy against
that lie in the United States Courts?
The Attorney General snid he had no
doubt that it would. His idea in the
main Of the amendments was, that any
and every right guaranteed by them may
be protected in the Courts of the Unitod
States
GALVESTON, April 3.-The Ne,os' special
from Corpus Christi, to-day, says: An
American woman with her husband, in
company with laredo, arrived here, to-