The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-16

;,oton Post. Senator Bruce said "he
bad received hundreds of letters from
colored people all over the country
making inquiries about the Freedmen's
hank: that those people had put their
bard-earned money in that bank under
the fairest promises of security, but had
never been able to get any OF 1t back
They had applied to various sources,
but could not get any information as to
what had become of their money, or
what would be done with the remnant
of the deposits that had been saved
Finally, these colored people, who had
been swindled, had appealed to him as
the only representative of their race in
Congress. After considering the mat
ter for some time, he concluded TO ask
the Senate for special committee to
investigate the Freedmen's bank concern,
as that was about the only way to get
at the facts as to its management, its
failure and the subsequent handling of
the assets"
Now the question is, who perpetrated
this robbery of the ignorant and unsus-
pecting negroes? Not the Democrats, for
they had nothing to do with the creation
nor the management of the swindling con-
Germ known as the Freedman's Bank.
The pretended guardians of their wei
fare who came TO them in the garb of
friendship and imposed upon their con-
fidence-the Republican leaders; they
are the men whose villiany, the only
representative of the colored race i'll
Washington is seeking to unearth.
PRECISELY what the House of Repre-
sentatives did in passing the Army APP
propiation bill, was to repeal the eight
italicised words of the Sec POOP in the
United States statutes, as follows:
Section POOP No military or naval officer
or other person engaged in the civil, military
or naval service of the United States shall
order bring, keep or have under his authority
or control any troops armed at the
place where any general or special election is
held in any State unless it be necessary to re-
pei the armed enemies OF lne Onlleu states
or 10 keep the peace at the polls"
The bill as it passed the House and
is now pending in the Senate, strikes
out the italicised words. And to pre-
clude the possibility of interfering with
the constitutional functions Of the army
to repel invasion and to suppress insur-
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or of the Governor if the Legislature
cannot DE assembled, an amendment
was passed as follows
Nothing contained in the repeal shall be
held or deemed to abridge the effect OF sections
POOP and 5297, Revised Statutes in relation to
the duty and power of the President of the
United States under them to carry out
section f. article T. of the Constitution of the
United States, which authorizes the President
to send troops upon the application of the
Governor or Legislature of State"
~
Mr.. BAYARD introduced a bill to re-
peal sections $50 and 821 of the Revised
Statutes, concerning the jurors test
oath and the mode Of choosing jurors,
which he asked to have passed without
discussion. He said that his object was
purely to facilitate the interest of the
public business. Mr. Edmunds object
ed, saying that the statutes proposed to
be repealed still had mission to per-
form. He insisted that the bill be re-
ferred, which was done As these
sections were once repealed and were
preserved by having been put fraudu-
lently in the United States Statutes,
contrary to the intention of Congress, it
was believed that the proposition ofMr.
Bayard would have no opposition. The
motion of Mr. Edmunds indicates that it
is be fought to the bitter end.