The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-14
OUxR WASHINGTON
H.ETEvEfsEe.
An HzlaIDOR-GaHt R1preHsle Court
Decision = sReuaocraGic In
VesEiEatIos.~ Political
Gossip. etc.


Gossip. etc
WASHINGTON, d. G.
April 10Th, 1876.
The decision of the Supreme
Court, delivered last Month in the
cases from Louisiana and Kentucky, |
which came up to test the validity |
of the enforcement, should be les
son to the Republicans of the coun-
try. The 18th, 14th and 18th |
amendments TO the constitution |
were passed to secure the results of
the war. The last conferred suf-
frage on the enfranchised negroes
and authorised Congress to pass
suitable legislation for it's enforce
ment. In May, 1870, what is called |
the enforcement act, was passed.
Under its provisions, VIM. j. Cruik-
shank, VIM. ID. Irwin and John P.
Hsdnot of Grant Parish, Louisiana,
were indicted for preventing some
colored men from ''peacably as
The court has decided
that as the constitution of the Uni
ted States did not confer that right,
it beingin existence before the con-
st1tutiOn wac made, that only the
States can punish for a violation of
it. This tRrns oyer the colored peo-
pie of the South to the tender mer-
'cies of Southern mobs, and courts
controlled by those mobs, and de-
priyes them Of any redress in the
courts of the nation. The other
case was from Kentucky, where
two inspectors were indicted for
refusing to permit colored man to
vote. The court pronounced the
law for the appointing of these In
spectors unconstitutional. The eff.
feet of, the two decisions is to de-
priEe the enforcement act of any
power to protect the colored people,
and the Republicans of the South
in their neglect of franchise, or In
their lives and property. 1t was
intended. that the act should do
both and as it fails to do so, the 18th
amendment is rendered virtually
null. The Republicans of the coun-
! try-the men who saved the life of
the nation and who desire to save
the results of the war, ahould at
once see that enough Republicans
] are elected to the next Congress to
secure such legislation as will make
the 18th amendment effective, and
secure every man in the peaceful
enjoyment of all loyal rights.
The House still continues its wild
Icrusade against the efficiency of the
government. AS the provisions of
the executive, legislative and Judi
cial appropriation bill are more
clearly known, it is most conclusive
lily shown that should it pass III the
form presented by the committee,
it will cripple and embarass every
department of the government.
The Republican Senators have de-
: termined not to permit this and
have put the only bill before them,
: "the Consular and Diplomatic" in
such shape that the government will
not be disgraced at home and
abroad, by the pretended economy
: of the Democrats. On Wednesday
the ex -confederates took their salts.
faction out of the army officers who
led the armies that defeated them
! by reducing their pay. They par
l ticularly INDUCED their spite al
Sherman and Sheridan in this way,
largely reducing the pay of these
two officers.
The articles of impeachment
against Belknap as presented in the
, House on Thursday and the seven
managers to conduct the case, will
be elected O-day or tomorrow. Il
: was discovered by q close canvass
of the hotels last night, that every
Democratic lawyer in the House is
. a candidate for these positions, and
there will be q lively time in select.
ing them. All the little log-rollina
= tricks familiar to the average Dem
! ocrat, are now being resorted to-
l the search ty of material to work on
I (nearly ali being candidates),
> cramps the genius of some of these
!, men, as horse trading, by directing
l the thought entirely into one chan.
mel, cramps the ability of some first
: class liars.
[ The Republican convention in
: Vermont, Pennsylvania and Ohio
were held on Wednesday. The res
olutions adopted in each State had
the old ring of true Replblicanism
i about them and all demanded th6t
J, honest men should come to the
: front, that the results of the wal
! should not be thrown away by al
g lowing the ex-confederates to rul.
and that specie is the only basis fol
u money. The New York Tribune
u thinks that these conventions al
I favor Blaine, though the Vernon
!, delegates were instructed witt
3 Luke T. Poland at the head, and b,
Q is thought to favor Bristow. Tn,
Pennsylvania delegation is instruct
y ed for Hartfranft of that State, and
. John D. Cameron was put at tn
u head of the list of delegates. Ohio
3 instructed for Hayes and Benjamin.
y f. Wade and Ex-Governor Noye
~ were put among the delegates
< Wade is thought to favor Morton
The Mississippi resolution is still
being discussed in the Senate, an,
e. new interest was added Thursda
by the receipt of the news tina
NJ Governor Ames had resigned. Thi
\ action turns the State over entirel.
y to the White Leaguers and render
lb cNcE TIC uuGy Vi III
Is general government to see that tn
colored men of that State are pre-
Y. tected in their rights, aud that tn
- scenes of last year, when men. VIC
men and children were shot dow
no like dogs, shall not be again permit
ted. Governor Ames has croWne
a. an administration marked by imbt
ciIity, with cowardice of the wor.
kind. No man who has studied th
history and population of Missii
ne sippi, doubts that it has at lea
thirty thousand Republican major
ty, composed, too, of men who woul
h have stood by the Governor, had /
:; in a manly way determined to mali
tain peace and good order, and pr,
tect every citizen in his rights. Il
stead of doing this, at every on
u break of the White liners like