Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-02-06
WALHALLA CAROLINA THURSDAY, 6 1870
The Visiting Statesmen.

The Visiting Statesmen.
United States Senators Teller, Mcdonald,
Randolph, Krkwood aud Cameron, Com.
posing tho ''Tellcr Committee" by invita-.
ton visited tho armory of the Charleston
Lisht Infantry Tuesday evening aud were
received by Capt. Courtcnay in u few patri.
otto remarks. In their responses the Sena.
tors gave expression to sentiments as follows:
Senator Teller: "Wo havo como out of
war aud find ourselves under ono flag. We
have common past aud common present,
AMI, VIC hope, common future Your in
forests arc identical with those of Mossa-
chuset's, and her glory is your glory. l
trust that hereafter, in the great future
that lies before us, we shall hear nothing
of sectional hntc or sectional strife, and I
think L speak the sentiments of the cum.
mittcc when | say that there is universal
and widespread desire on the part of the
people of this great country that all section
al feeling and prejudice shall be forever
forgotten"
Senator Mcdonald: "Whcn it was deter.
mined to build monument to tho memory of
the Father of his Country. George Washing
ton, whose name you bear, each State was re.
quested to send block of native stone with
an inscription thereon, that it might be
placed IN the monumcnt and stand forever.
When my State contributed her block of
stone it bore the following inscription:
'lndiana knows no North, no South, 10 East,
no West, nothing but tho Union"
Senator kirkwocd: 81 live in the State
OF Iowa, but it is trt small strip of land
IN this great Urion. 1t is, rs it we're, but
farm in ocr common country. In my
opinion it is the highest attribute of an
American citizen to subordinate State pride
to the good Of his common country"
WAsn1NGroN, January 27.-Tho fol-
lowin. is the full text of the proposition
reported from the Senate judiciary Com
n,i,tcc as substitute for the constitutional
amsnd"ent ON the same subject proposed
by the joint resolution which passed the
House On suspension Of tho rules on the
last day of the last session:
| ARTICLE XVI. No claim against the
United States shall ever hereafter be sus-
taincd or allowed by Congress or any de-
partmcnt officer or court of tho United
States, or money paid by the United States
or from their funds, whether as damages,
compensation or other sisc, for or on ac-
count OF any property, real, personal or
mixed, taken, used, injured or destroyed
by United States troops, or by or through
any officer, civil or military, or persons
acting or protesting to act under or by au-
| thority of the United States or of their
enemies, or taken, used, injured or destroyed
! from any other causes whatever during the
| cXistcnc, of tho late insurrccti0n or rebel.
lion against the Government Of the United
States, unless tho owner thereof, and 10 the
case of any corportion, lis governing author.
ity and management, was during all time of
| such insurrcction OIL rebellion loyal in fact
to tho Government Of the United States,
aud glvo neither aid nor encouragement to
the enemy.
No pension, bounty grant, pecuniary
Indemnity or pecuniary benefit shall ever
be paid or provided for by or under the
authority of Congress or any State, for or
on account OF any military or other service
or injury suffered in hostility to tho govern
mcnt of the United States.
No pardon or amnesty past or future
shall have any effect to take any person,
case or claim out Of the purycw of this
article.
1NpoRTANT DEclsIoN.-W learn from
the Columbia Register that Judge Mackcy
will, at an early day, file decision as to the
tender Of the bills of the Bank of the
State for taxes aud the enforcement of their
receipt by mandumas. since tho passage Of
the late act of the LEGISLATURE upou that
subject. lie will not hold that tho mant2a
mus prayed for in each case must be refused
on the ground that tho rclator now has on
adequate remedy at law, if the bills ten
dercd arc genuine issues Of the bank and
were not issued "in did of the rebellion"
or otherwise subject to valid legal objcc-
tion. He will further hold that the act of
the Legislature, passed at the recent session,
is valid and operative, for while it changes
the remedy and renders it more crcuitous,
yet, though passed after the execution Of
the contract, it is not repugnant to Section
10, Article 2 of tho Constitution of tho
United States as D claw mpairing tho obi
cation of contracts" inasmuch as it leaves
tho complainant substantial remedy.
The act of December 1878, in his opinion;
abolishes the remedy oy munaamus in
every case involving tho receipt of these
bills for taxes, and RENTS the party tender
ing tue bills to his action at law to compel
the County Troasurcrs to receive tho same
and refund tho current money paid in for
taxes peoding suit. The full text of tho
decision will be awoitcd with interest.
Pickens Sentinel: On Monday NIGHT.