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The Senate Amendments to the Ko» Kiux Bill.Under date of April 14, the World's Washington correspondent telegraphs as follows:The Senate has done its worst on the Ku-Klux bill. It not only passed it this evening with all the important amendments submitted by the Judiciary Committee, bat adopted two others presented by Messrs. Horton and Sherman, and thereby made the measure more radical and stringent and odious in every feature than when it was evolved from the House Committee.1. The President is given the power to sus-dend the writ of habeas corpus throngh the Presidential election.2. Every one who proves an outrage on his person or property is given the right of reclamation through judicial process on property in the county where he resides.3. The iron-clad oath is restored for jurors in Federal courts, so that nearly every white man in the South is excluded fsom the jury box,This will enable the Busteeds and Underwoods to pack the juries with negroes who cannot read and write. The House, it will be remembered, mereiy fixed this feature so that the judge could set aside a juror who sympathized with the Ku-klux, and exact an ordinaay oath to the contrary.The extraordinary and radical changes made D y»e Senate were suggested by Attorney General AKo«,anj with the President’s approval.This edition ^eu ^ tb0 0f these amendments at the hanm, ^ the Conference Committee, the appointment and ^^Dosition of which was announced yesterday; but when*-er it does or not, we have none the less reason to be grateful to Mr. Amos Akerman.That venomous little serpent of hate and hypocrisy, who has, perhaps, won more wealth of well deserved infamy from the people of Georgia than any man of his mental calibre ever succeeded in doing before, is still as blind and ferocious as ever. What a debt of gratitude will we owe him by the time he, with Grant, is driven from Washington in 1873! How specially honored must the people of Cartersville feel at the prospect of having him one of themselves when he returns, voluntarily, to wfce np his residence among those whom he de6ms «ud declares such monsters as to deserve the fata ivi* bill, as amended, will subject them to! We offer Cartersville our congratulations. Happy— thrice happy, village!
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Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal and Messenger
Macon, Georgia, US
Tue, Apr 25, 1871
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