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* Les septate.» Mee a WASHINGTON COON Exciting and Prolonged Debate in the Senate. Mr. Sumner Removed from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Vigorons but Unayailing Efforts of His Friends to Save Him. Probable Bifect of the Movement on the Republican Party. Defeat of the Bill Repealing the Duties on Salt and Coal. WASHINGTON, March 10, 1871. Debate in the Senate on the Removal of Mr, Sumner from the Committee on Foreign Aftulrs, The great sensation in the Senate to-day was the webate upon the proposition to remodel the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations so as to remove Senator Bumner from the position he has held so long as chairman of that Committee, remove him from the committee altogether, and substitute Senator Came- Ton ag chairman in his stead, The debate lasted six consecutive hours, The Senate has not witnessed a similar scene for many years. The fricnds of Senator Sumner, though they were in the minority, made @ magnificent fight in his defence; and while they ‘Were at last overpowered by numbers it is conceded that they achieved a moral victory, on the ground of justice, which the masses of the republican party throughout the country will see and sanction in the end, The sum and substance of the whole matter asthe point whether the yisnes Of the President ‘Bhouid overrule al! other considerations, The sequel showed that the Senate sustained the President; but the best friends of the republican party assert that this victory for the administration is the worst de- feat that the party has yet sustained. ‘The scene in the Senate champer to-day Is Hkened toa grand saturnalia of the republicans prior to their complete demgralizatjon and seta in 1872. | The democrats, of course, are jubilant over the pros- ‘pects which the events of to-day present, It is sald that tho sentiment of the country will be on the side of Sumner and with those who, on the principles of independence, of right and of the best. interests of the country, stood up so strongly in his defence. It is almost universally conceded that the reason assigned for suggesting the change in the chairmanship of the Committee were not sufiicient. Some Senators, who voted with the majority on the principle ot sticking to party organization, publicly acknowledged this, and the result has been to make Sumner a martyr to Executive dictation, with, as it is claimed, the ‘established usage of the Senate and the sympa- ‘thies of the country on his side. In the absence of Vice President Colfax Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, was chosen President pro, tem. of the Senate. After the reading of the journal’ a motion of Senator Spencer, of Alabama, that when the Senate adjourn it adjourn to meet on Monday next, was lost by a tie vole—28 to 28. Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, then intro- duced, for the sanction of the-Senate, the list of its ‘standing commiittces, previously prepared in cau- us and published in this morning’s HeRaLD, This Mmaugurated the great debate which followed. The second committee on the lisi as read was the Com- Milltee of Foreign Relations, A thrill went through the Senate Chamber when the name of Cameron Was read as chairman of that committee in place of Sumner, When the reading of the list was finished Senator Schurz moved that the further considera- ‘ton of the subject be postponed until to-morrow. Sumner's name appearing as chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, the Massa- ehusetis Senator rose and requested that his name might be eliminated from that committee, This gave rise to some conversational remarks concern- ing the usages of the Senate, Sumner said that he id not think he claimed wo much, after twenty years’ service in the Senate, when he thought he had a right to expect that his associates would mot impose upon him a new class of duties when he expressly said they were unwelcome to him. Sumuer’s suggestion, assum- ing the form of an amendment, was adopted by the Senate, and be was accordingly excused from sery- ing on the new committee. The question next in order was Schurz's motion to postpone further con- ‘Wderation of the committees until to-morrow. It ‘was lost by a vote of 21 to £0, and the attention of jthe Senate was directed to the original motion of -Mr. Howe—namely, the adoption of the standing Aommittees as reported, Senstor Schurz, whose scat is just’in front of Samner’s, was up in an instant. The galleries were crowded, all eyes were turned upon ihe Missouri Senator. “It was expected that he would makea bold defence of bis friend and associate from Massa- chusetis, and the expectation was not disappointed, Tt was net oa the ground of personal friendship what he arose to protest against the contemplated change, but.on the principle of justice. He believed me spoke the unanimous sentiment of the Senate and f the country when he asserted that the duties de- Wolving on tne chairman of the Committee ou Foreign Relations of the Senate had been discharged by Mr. Sumner with great credit to himself and with great satisfaction to the country. Sumner was looked upon as the man above all others who, by his education, his training and his social relations, was most eminently fitted to fill the position he had so Jong and so.ably occupied. It ceuld not be on ac- count of his disqualifications that his dispiacement was suggested. There must be some other reasons; ana he requested, as but just to the Senate and the country, that those reasons should be stated. There was some sensation ia the Senate Chamber ‘when Schurz sat down, and Howe, of Wisconsin, arose to give the reasons. Howe admitted that there was.no question about Sumner’s ability and fitness; but, he said, it was known to those«who pro- posed thechange that the personal relations existing ‘Detween the Senator from Massachusetts and the President of the United States and the head of the State Department were such as precluded al! social intercourse between them. In short, he said the im- putation was that Sumner had refused to hold any personal intercourse with the Secretary of State, and that for some time past he had had uo personal intercourse with the President. At Howe's allusion to the Secretary of State Sumner shook his head and said, ‘Just the contrary.” Scnator Wilson, who was the next to get the oor, stood up firmly tn. defence of his colleague from Massachusetts. Ie contended that Sumner shouid ‘pot be thus disgraced on account of his social rela- ations with the President or any member of the Ca‘t- met. So long as they could hold the necessary om- ‘otal relations with cach other that was suficient. {Walson remonstrated, entreated and protested against the recommendation of the caucus, and his Opposition was mainiy on the ground that he be- Heved the great Interests of the country would not be promoted by taking the chairman of the Cammittee on Foreign Relations from the posi- tion he had held with signal ability and substituting Sgentleman who, however worthy, no man in the Senate or out of it presumed had any special ftness for the place, Wilson also opposed the change on abe ground of the damage it would do the republl- ean party. There were hundreds of thousands of sve most thoughtful, pure, trusted, brave and noble meu of the republican party whose hearts had been wang by the intelligence that the proposed indlg- nity was intended to ve accomplished. ‘There were hundred’ of thousands of men in the country who would see neither justice por wisdom in the act, and the republican party was not in a condition betore the country that it could afford to NEW YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. Yesult, For nimeelf, he washed his hands of it in | property at the South, every aspect. He appealed for postponement, Senator Morrill, of Vermont, contended for imme- diate action, Senator Schurz again obtained the floor and pro- ceeded to reply to the argument of Howe concerning the social relations of the President and the Secre- tary of State with the chairman of the Foreign Rela- Uons Committee as the reason for Sumner's dispiace- ment. He pointed out that tne three distinctive branches of the government—the executive, the judicial and the legisiative—were separate and inde- pendent, and held that the Senate should be free from Executive interference, He denied that Sumner had ever refused to hold relations of any kind with the President or the Secretary of State, and, on the contrary, showed how Sumner had been insulted. He characterized the question of soctal relations as but & filmay pretext, referring for illustrations to the administration of Andrew Jonnson, with whom Sumner was not on speaking terms, and chargea that the question of the annexation of St. Domingo was at the bottom of this whole business, Schurz related tue substance of an interview he himself nad had with the President, in which he endeavored to dissuade the President, in the interests of the party and the country, from pursulng the St, Domingo scheme any further, when it was evident that it would be finally de- feated. He said there were rumors abroad—and there was good ground to believe them—tHat in the change which was now proposed the Executive had taken a controlling part, which was rather stronger than in the pure days of the republic. He pro- tested against such Executive interference, and contended for the independence of senators and the dignity of the Senate, He would not speak of the consequences, but he sald, In conclusion, that it was time for we repub- lican party to consider wirether they were quite Fondy yet tg gacrifice their cause to the whims of one Indfvidual Taking this last remark as his text, Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, who replied to Schurz, en- deavored to turn the tables upon him by making it apply, not to the President, as Schurzintended, but to the Senator from Massachusetts. Edmunds con- tended that the change was made because ih was necessary to the transection of the public baslness, and protested against insinuations of Executive Meee ty Ce ied Corbett, &F Oregon, defended the course of the caucus, and Scott, of Pennsylvama, took Schurz to task for his remark that there Were rumors afloat and there was good ground to believe them, that in the change which was now proposed the Executive bad taken 4 controlling part, which was rather stronger than in the better days of the republic, as was entirely compatible with the office and the Mgult of the Senate, and Scott argued that any charge that the Senate was influenced by Executive diciatio “should be repelled Schurz, who is so ready in debate, responded eifec- tively to Scott, denouncing the course of the Execu- tive and defending Sumner. It was, he said, in closing, an interesting spectacle to see the Massa- chusetts Senator, in that seat in which he had been assaulted by a Southern rufMian, giving his blood for the liberation of the slaves, now going to be struck down by the men of his own party, Applause burst forth from the galleries as Schurz took his seat, Howe made a long speech In support of the action of the caucus, and he was followed by Stewart, of Nevada, 10 a similar strain. Wilson made another powerful appeal against the measure, upon the ground that the proposed action of the Senate in this matter would be fatal to the interests of the re- publican party and the country. He asserted that ninety-nine out of every hundred men who voted for General Grant ta 1868 would condemn the act. Nye spoke at length in his usual facetious style im support of the recommendation of the caucus. He was followed by Logan, who made some strong points on Sumner’s sid¢, © General Sherman, he said, had refused to recognize Secretary Stanton, but Gencral Sherman had not been removed from the head of the army. After pronouncing an eloguent eulogy upon Sumner Logan referred to Summer's speech on the Alabama claims, which expressed the universal sentiment of the people of this country, and said that now, at the very time when the Joint High Com. mission was here discuss those claims, the Senate of United States was about to depose him tho chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign tions, and it would be considered by the British Commissioners as evidence that the country did not intend to stand by him in the position he had taken on the question of the Ala- bama claims, The House of Representatives having adjourned, the prominent members poured into the Senate Chamber and listened with eager interest to the re- mainder of the debate. Senator Tipton, of Nebraska, created some amusement both by his eccentric style and his revelations of what had occurred in caucus, He asserted that Mowe had admitted there that, as a majority of the Committee on Foreign Relations was opposed to the annexation of St. Domingo, Scmner should be removed from the chairmanship of that committee so as to bring the committee more in harmony with the majority of the Senate. Trum- bull, of Ilinols, made @ brief, logical and stirring speech in support of Sumner, and the crowded au- dience in the galleries, regardless of the rules, gave loud expression to their feelings in applause when he said that he haa stood by Sumner when he was stricken down in his seat by the powers of slavery and he would stand by him now, when the blow came, not frem those who would perpe- tuate slavery and make.a slave of every man that favored freedom, but from those who had been brought.into power as much through the instruamen- tality ef the Senator from Massachusetts as any other individual in the land, Senator Sherman in advance explaincd his vote, and said that while he did not think the reasons as- signed for the change as valid, and while he con- sidered the change impolitic and unnecessary, he would vote for his removal on the principle of sup- porting the course determined on by the majority of the members of the caucus of his party. Senator Craig made @ similar explanation. Mor ten made a short but strong appeal to the.republi- cans to stand by the recommendation of the caucus, upon the principle of the absolute necessity of party discipline. Wilson briefly replied to Morton, con- tending that, while he was a party man and believed in the sublime mission of the republican party, there was something greater and higher than mere party discipline, and that was the divine principle of right. He pointed out the fact that the majority of the caucus was really a minority of the Senate. He repeated, that nine-tenths of the people who voted to place the present administration in power would disap- drove the course now determined to be pursued, Finally, after one of the most extraordinary-de- resolution, by which Sumner was removed from the chairmanship ef the Foreign Relations Committee, Was adopted by a vote of 33 to 9, The preceding vote on the motion of Senator Wil- son, to postpone action on the Caucus Committee's report, showed that the repubitcans, frends.and op- ponents of Sumner, intended to stand by the.action of the caucus, ‘The speech of Morton, on the Jmpor- tance of abiding by the decision of the caucus, had its efect, Wilson, Schurz and other friends of Sumner, took their hats and Jeft the Senate Chamber. They saw that i was all over, and that their friend would be deposed. A ‘ew minutes more and the report ef the com- mittee was adopted, The scene was ended, and the viclor3 went away as if they bad been defeated, The feeling on the floor uf the Senate was largely in favor of Sumner, Men who voted to sustain the committee’s report would have voted the next minute to reinstate Sumner had jt been possible to have done so. The deposition of Sumuer ts not regarded in the Irght of a vital injury to the republican party, asa party, so much as an injury to the President with the party, because, from the revelations made in this debate, he 1s regarded as a prime mover in the whole affain Republican Senators Caucusing Over South- ern Affuirs, A republican Senatorial caucus is called for to-morrow at noon, The Sumner matter being out of the way the only question to be considered is those who persisted in making tt would have to perform it. He believed it was a mistake, and asaumé the responsibility that would na} that of adjournment and the propriety of passing a Ku Kjax bill, Senator Morton will press his motion for thé appointment of A select committee of five todrgtt a pill for the betier protection af life ana bates that as ever taken place in the Senate, the | A majority of the repubuil- can Senators, in view of the facts set forth in the report of the spectal committee on Southern ou® rages submitted to the Senate to-day, are in favor of remaming here long enough to have a full ulscus- sion of the condition of the South. It may be safely assumed, therefore, that the republican Senatorial caucus which meets to-morrow will not favor an immediate adjournment, Tho Free Coal Bill Defeated—Sharp Tactics of the Protectionists. The tari! men in the Mouse have succeeded in loading the bill to repeal the duties on salt and coal so with amenpments that it 1s Mkely to fail They have put on tea, coffee and tobacco, and Kelley te- day offered as an amendment the Schenck tariff bill ofa year ago, The House was so wearied with the reading of this that they adjourned to-day in a fit of disgust. Mr. Hale, of Maine, who undertook to Manage the free salt and coal bill, is a young man and an inexperienced member. He expected the bill to go through with a rush, but he has blundered 80 much that it now seems as if there was no hope for it, Hale is no match for such a veteran as Kel- ley, who not only understands ali about the tariff’ but is thoroughly posted in parliamentary tactics, If Hale had left the management of the bill to Fer nando Wood it might have passed by this time, Oficial Letter from the German Emperer to President Grant. Baron Gerolt, Prussian Minister at Washington, visited the President this morning, and addressed Aim as follows:— Mr. PRESIDENT—I fee] most happy to be the bearer of a letier from my most gracious Sovereign to your Excellency, conveying the notification that at the ‘unanimous request of the Sovereigns of the German States and of the free cities of Germany to assume the ancient title of Emperor, after the German empire nae been re-established by the union of the Germain States under one con- stitution, August Sovereign has considered m it as a duty to the common Fatherland to accept thankfully this dignity conferred by the conildence of his German confederates upon his Majesty and his successors upon the throne of Prussta. In hay- ing the honor to present his Majesty's letter to your Hisegleney, it needs no new assurance from me that 0 Empe! be ang Yaliea Germany desire to main- tain as heretofore their Tenaly, Yelations with the government and people of the United Starés, Whose happiness and welfare they have always en- tertained the most sincere wishes. To this address the President replied:— Baron Gerout—The notification which you have gonvezee to me relates to an event of great histori- cal importance. The States of this Union, which severaliy bear a relation to the others similar to that wh ch Prussia bears to the other States f gerne MG have recently made such sacrifices ind efforts ti ward maintaining the integrity of their ¢ommon country for general purposes in peace and war that they cannot fail to sympathize in similar proceed. ings for a Uke object elsewnere. The new title Which has been accepted by your Sovereign may be regaried as the symbol and the tuifiment on its part by Germany of that nigh purpose. position which you express on behalf of the Ei peror of United Germany to maintain unimpaired and friendly reiations with the government and People of the United States is heartily reciprocated, Tho New Loan Bonds—Expediting the Work on the Five Per Cents. Extensive preparations are being made by Super- intendent McCartee, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, to expedite the work of printing the new bonds, models of which have already been submitted to Secretary Boutwell, As the five per cents were the first offered work on them has already pro- gressed favorably. The backs have all been printed and the printers now nave in hand the face plates of the one hundred, one thousand and five thousand dollar bonds, The five per cent ten year ponds will be in size seventeen and one-half inches by fourteen inches, with forty coupons, The central engraving 13 a large design of the Capitol—that on the bonds now issued is the Treasury Building—and the vignettes are a8 follows:—On the fifty dollar bond, Governor Wright, of New York; oné hundred dollar bond, Edwin M. Stanton; five hundred doliar bond, Thomas H. Benton; vne thousand dollar bond, Pre- sident Harrison; fve thousand dollar bond, Anson Burlingame, and the ten thousand dollar bond, Gov- ernor John A. Andrew, of Massachusetts, The four and a half per cent bonds will be in size twenty-two and one-half inches by fourteen inches, and will have sixty coupons. The vignettes are as follows:—On the fifty dollar bond, Wolcott, one of the firat Secre- taries of the Treasury; one hundred dollar pond, Thomas Jeiferson; five hundred dollar bond, DeWitt Clinton; one thousand dollar bond, James Madison; five thousand dollar bond, Jobn Quincy Adams, and ten thousand dollar bond, Gene- ral George H. Thomas. The four per cent bond, having thirty years to run, will be in sizé thirty-nine inches by fourteen inohés, with one hundred and twenty coupons. The vignettes selected are Wash- ington, John Adams, Jackson, Taylor, Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton, but they have not as yet been designated on the bonds, The fifty, one hundred, five hundred and one thousand dollar bonds only will have coupons. Secretary Boutwell is still san- guine of the success of the loan, and Is ass¥red that the subscriptions will be very large in the country for the five per cents. Health of Chief Justice Chase. Chief Justice Chase attended the Ntllson concert to-night, and remained throughout the entertain- ment. His health 1s improving, and he is constantly receiving the congratulations of his friends on his improved condition, FORTY-SECOND CONG2ESS, First Session. for SENATE. Wasatncrox, March 10, 1871, PRESIDENT PRO TEM. OF THE SENATE, Inthe absence of the Vice President,on motion of Mr, Sumner, (rep.) of Mass., Mr. Anthony was unanimousiy cho- sen President protem. of the Senate, and the Secretary was ordered to communicate the fact to the President of the United States.and the House of Representatives, STANDING COMMITTEES. ‘Mr. Hows (rep.) of Wis., asked unanimous consent, which was granted, to suspend the thirty-fifth rule, so that he might present. list of the standing committees of the Senate, ‘The names were read, when Mr. SUMNEWN, (rep.) of Mass. asked his name'to be struck from the Committee on Pri Negea and Elections, a ate. Sh ie di is request was opposed by Mr. Sherman, but the Senai on a vote, compiled with it x te Mr. ScHURZ, (rep.) of Mo. moved that further action on the question of agreeing to the report of the committce be ostponed. Pair WILSON, (tep.) of Mags.. seconded the motion, in tue hope that corrections may be made before definite action. Mr. ScuvRz then made a speech, He wanted further op- portunity to iproeure modiication, | The country knew by hia time thatthere are difficulties in the flean party wwnlel he wanted o reconcile and 19, calm the excitement growing out of the displacement of Mr. Sumner, He gave ‘at some length his reason for the motion. Mr, WIL80N said the great interest of the country would not be promoted by removing Mr, Sumner. He protested against striking or seeming to strike a blow at his friend of twenty years! standing, nnd who has discharged the duties as chaigman of the Committee on Foreign Relations with great aviilty, “However eficient Mr. Cameron may be in. other respects, Mr. Wilton presumed’ thet he (Mr. Cameron) had no special fitness for the place. Hundreds of thousands of thoughtful republicans have had thelr heart wrung by e displacement of Mr. Sumner. Mr. MORRILL, (rep.) of Vt., was fin favor of acting on the report of the committee now, ag all means of changing the Committee on Foreign Relations had been exhausted, Mr. SCHORZ was sorry to hear Mr. Morrill aay that. Tt was not true that Mr. Sumner had refused to entertain social relations with the Executive Department, So far from re- fusing !ntercourse with the Secretary of State Mr. Sumner had declared he was not only dispored to consu't with the Secretary, but would regard him as an old friend. If the President should say that a Senator was not tn accord with him on some particular measure, and, therefere, the Senator should, not be on @ certain commiitee, was that a reason Why Senators should go en their knees to hin? Mr. Schurz related a conversation he ad with the President, an which he volunteered the advice that as St. Domingo couli not paes, to drop it, and those who have opposed that mea- sure would rally round him with earnestness. The President did pot take his advice, but renewed his eiforts on bebalf of protecution of the St. Domingo scheme wa this acrimonious feeling against Mr. Sumner and those whaoppose St. Domingo, It was ineum- dent or Senators that they should tirst respect themselves, andi when an attempt. was made to interfere with their rights ther should stand on their dignity, Was it the duty of Sena- tore to disgrace Mr. Sumner because he was objected to by some of the members of the administration? Was it not time they should refuse ,to take notice of public dinners as being connected with pubitc aflairs? Should the Senators or republican party sacrifice themselves to the whims of oue ir. Epwoxps (rep.) of Vt., replied that he should be glad to have the last question answered, ‘The only fault is that the majority by law and expediency should have their own way. If the minority should have ther way, then all would be right for the Senator from Missouri, The majority of the Senate are not disgracing any Senator by removing him from @ committee. No one has.a right to perpetual service on a committee, The rules provide that there shoutd bea recast of the committees. It was fit’ for the majority te select’ egenta who best suited them for the transaction “of the public business, including cone fidential reletions with the! Executive. It was @ small matter to make so much noise about. He was reminded of the wursery atory, when the alarm wae given that the sky wad about to fall when only arose bad fallen frem a bush. He repudiated the jnsinuation that the President had inter- fered to influence the Senate in the compesition of com- mitt een. Mr. CoNDBETT, (rep.) of Oregon, said he would not bare advised the dis; 1Scemieat of Mr. Sumner, but asthe malorny had decided otherwise he thought it thelr duty ¢o sustain the committee. No good could arise by discussing this ques- “tt. Born, ¢ ir. BCOTT, Sehtre nat Pai hi . ‘ Mr Scorr anit. pio Know what, ue 2 Seen eae tl ere rumors tha \ Wipot the Uommities on Foreign Relations the Executive if th had Sronght iling power vowortby the beljer days of ihe reauvlig. | PSPenne ve f Mr. SOUR? asked whether the Senator had not heard the rumor, aang? replied, not until the Senator from Missouri had : F, Bed ¢ of his colleague (Mr. Cameron) but as the remark of churz applied to ail who had a part in the chang the Committce on Foreign Relations, he denied and repudi- ated the charzo or insinuation that Senators had been { fluenced by Executive dictation, He was free to 9a; the question were simply between Mr, Sumner and Mr. Cam- cron as to the chairmanship of Foreign Relations, he would vote for Mr. Sumner; bat the ease was otherwise when Mr. Sumuer was not on such terms with the President and Sec- Fetary of State as to warrant confidential communications, The the Senate should be in accord with the Execu- ent. KZ explained that he did not charge corrupt on the part of the President; but it was believed the ed bis personal means to bring about the Were they to gqve up thelr person ct men and crouch to the President? Was this {ustice and dignity und Independence tn office? In a for- ier caucus the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Patter- Son) waa sought to be ousted because he was not In accord with the President on the St. Domingo question ; but he was returned, and no attempt was made to remove him. ‘Then Why, reniove, sy. Sin because he was also opposed to St. Domingo? The » aasignod for displacing Mr. Sum- ner, namely: 00 the ground, that Mr. Sumner is not on. cood ersonal relations with the President and Seeretary of Stat ‘a8 @ mero flimsy pretext was stricken down and now it was proposed to strike hi bis friends. (Applause in the galleries, which the presiding offeer repressed.) ir. HOW, anid they were told that there should be a post- jonement of the pending question in order that ay come and that the people may be hear a bi heard of no despatches in condemnation of the’ action at the Senate having been received, Why was the harmon: bed? Let those by: whose ianramentalite whe been produced answer for themselyes, For ted upon his belief of what was right, irre pective of clamor, He thought expressions had been made here by Mr. Schurz which did not become the utierer nor please tho hearers, ‘The Senator from Massachusetts had Fefused to give the Secretary of State an answer to an oill lg} qyestio % CaNER remarked that the question asked must have been in the slightest whisper, (Laughter.) Mr. Howk continued—In reply to Mr. Schurz, he would not have any crawl, but stant up like men. Hs would be glad if all would stand upon the full stature of republicans, vninfluenced by the will of any man, The Senator from jaasachusctts had been chairman of the Committee on For- elxn Relations for many years, He had been elected to that position every two years; !but was that afreason why he ‘should be continued in that position? The Senator was not arraigned for misconducting the affairs of the committee in the past, but he was displaced for the reason that the per sonal relations of the Senator and the Secretary of Stat were such that they could not communtente on. confidentia affairs. He (Mr, Howe) for this reason, if for no other, thought My. Suruner could serve the country better 4n som: ouver place: Mf. Howo said he understood Mr, Sumner hay mentioned ihfa himself, Mr. SuMoeR replied that he knew nothing ot it. Mr. STEWART, (rep.) of Nev., said there was a simple, pinin, principle involved namely, whether Senators mlght vote for oficeys of thelr choice without haying thelr motives estioned. Senators had aright to say they. preferred Mr. amcron {0 any other Senator for chairinan of the Comumitteo on Foreign Relations. This was not the first time a man had been beaten for oilice and had his aspirations disappointed. Ho believed the business would be more sapatactorily per: formed by Mr. Cameron than by Mr. Sumner. REPORT ON BOUTHERN OUTRAGES. At thia point the subject was informally lald aside and Mr. Scorn, from the majority of the select committee on the sub- feet submitted a report fu relation to gifuirs in North Caro- lina, with the accompanying testimony. Mr. BAYARD, (dem.) of Del., on behalf of himself and Mr. Bjatr, the mi, ty of the committee, desired to present their views. He fH Lé gction of the majority in making thelr Feport bad inken the mlnority by “surprise. © They had not expected, in view of the extent of the (i- vestigation contemplated, that a report in. reference to North Carolina alone would be made. The minority, on a notice of only twenty-four hours, had prepared thelr view! in regard to ihe testimony taken, but most of it was Incom- plete and ez put. There wore witnesses 4p the pity whose testimony bad not yi been taken, dnd which was Important to be received to correct thé partisan representations that had been made, Mr. Scovs said the impression was that the witnesses examined were summoned by both the majority and the minority of the committee. With the report and the terti- mony betore it, it was for the Senate to say whether any fur- ther witnesses should be examined. ‘The reports of the majority and minority of the commit- tee, with fwceompanying testimony, were then ordered to. be printed, ‘THR FORMER SUBIJFOT RESUMED, Mr. WIL8ON said that Mr. Howe was a gentleman of high personal character and abliity, but he (Mr, Wilson) be: | Hevod that Mr. Howe had given no reason for the removal of Mr. Sumner that could convince the country. ‘The reason for the removal had not yet been piven; yet that was a reason for it which hardly ought to be avowed anywhere, The removal grew out of the St. Domingo questiob; but for that they should never have heard of Mr, Sumner’s removal. The people of the country will come to the conclusion that the trouble haa | for sts foundation the qnestion of the anaexation of t. Domingo. He wished this question had never risen. Ninety-nine out of a hundred of the men who elected this ‘administration in 1668 will disapprove of the act of the ma- jority of the Senate. The men in Massachusctts of all par- ies are indignant and feel outraged to soe an eminent Sen- ator of twenty-five years’ standing stricken down because there ts a dispute whether Mr. Sumner answered 4 question put to bim by the Secretary of Slate, Great God! was ever such a farce played before the world | He said to his friends they had better lay this mattef over. They had ail their forces to the front and none in the rear, They had as much as they could do to uphold their banner without givin to dissonsions, Mr, Wilson protested in the name o} Tab areat sepubMeah Rpg aeninal this proceeting, which ‘will come back to trouble thei. Mr. Nyu (rep.) of Nev., said that no man had a higher regard for Mr, Sumner than he had. But, sald he, suppose the Senate had cha the chairman of the Military, Fi- nance or Commerce Committees would the people have be- gome deranged? ‘The fact {s apparent, and {s commented on by every newspaper fo the land, thal Mr. Sumner is as far vided from the President and Secretary of State as the rich man was azarus. They could not remove the Presi- dent and Seeretary of State, but they could change the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations, which Mr, Nye proceeded to justify, Mr. LOGAN, (rep.) of Ill, said he did not expect that any thing be could say would change the result, as that was @ foregone conclusion. He merely destred to ‘give the reasons for what he bad done. He differed with the majority inthe change of the chairman of the committee, and he now dif- h that gentleman as to the reasons assigned for tt. change had been made merely be- the committees, fered wi He didnot betieve th canse the time had arrived for re-formi There ahauid be w good reanon for ui Ct ven the present fnstance he trough Gas notautlclent. str. Sitaner had not beon derelict In atl litical principle or energy. What was the reason ? EPrs auga he failed to anawer a private question or declined t» attend a dinner party, Must the chairmanshtp of a committee ba sbaniee every time the chairman nappeus to be personally distasteful | to the Executive orto a memter of his Cabinet. Thid was not in mvcordance with the idea of independence of the Iggisiative branch of the yovernment; that Henry Clay was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations when Jackson, to whom he did not speak, was President, and that Mr. Suniner, as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Re- lations when Andrew Johnson was President, made a speech mm favor of ratifying the treaty tho purchase of Alaska, which secured (the appropriation, | Mr. Logan | aiso said that when General Sherman entered this city with his magnificent cohorts he refused to recog- nize Secretary Stanton, with whom he was not on pleasant terms ; yet General Sherman was not deposed, but was after- wards promoted. The speech of the Senator from Massa. chusetts on the Alabama claims, from which the seal of secrecy was removed, was accepted by the who! country “a the text “upon which {hore claims were “to be aettled; and mow, when the High Commission 1s here, we were to back down from our posl: tion and say to those gentlemen, “We have deposed this gen- tent m the head of «he Comuittee on Foreign Keia- tions.” He (Logan) would ask if there was nothing. {n this, ‘Why was not the chairman of some other committeechanged? Why was it thatjonly one chairman, that of the Committee on Foreign Relations, was changed ? At twenty-five minutes past four P, M. Mr. TIPTON. (rep.) of Nev.. moved to adj i. ‘agreed to--yeas 28, na: Mr. TiPTON then ad: 8. ldreased the Senate, He sald he knew some time ayo the intention to array the President against the Senator led off against the St. Domingo indignit When the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Ferry) had made a motion to Co, the imprisonment of Davis Hatch tt was Lrg that he was attacking the administra- tion, and at that time it was naserted by the Senator from |New York ig Conkling) that the Senator from ir, Sumner) must be deposed. The Senator from Mis- Seeger ile sca Sag the Senator ‘dan w = inate intended to mutate ee Sema, nee mas to account who ‘ated "oer rere ald be had taken down 2 en in caucus the words 1 epic gy og ae te to the reason for (hia change. The words “That the majority of the Senate were in favor of the annexation of St. Domingo, and a majority of the Committee on Foreign tions were apposed to it, and that was the reason for making the change.” Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, interrupted Mr. Tipton, and asked if he did not feel some compunctions of conscience ia divulging the secrets of a party caucus, Mr. TIPTON sald he might have experienced some anch feeling had henot seen the whole proceedings 0: the caucus tn ihe morning papers, with the ayes and noes, and his friend's (Mr. Sherman's} name among them. Mr. Howe then repeated what he id say ia the caucus. It was substantially that there was one parliamentary reason why, in his judgment, the right to alter the Committee on Foreign Relations should be exercised, and that was that he understood @ majority of the Senate to bein {avor of the annexation of St. Domingo and a majority of the committee to be opposed to it. It was in accor- dance with ‘parlamentary usage to reconstitute. the committes in accordance with the sentiment of the body. But this was not in itself the reason for removing the head of the committee, becanse the adverse majority might very well be corrected by removing any other member of the committes; andif that had been the only difficulty with the Committee on Foreign Relations {t might be waived here- after, as it bad been done heretofore. Mr. TIPTON did not see that there was.any material differ- ence in this statement from what he had said. He did not acknowiedge that a majority of the Senate. was. in favor ot St, Domingo annexation, The vote stood 28 to 28, as stated in'the newspapers, and this he knew to be true, (Laughter.) Mr. EDMUNDE:rone to a question of order, and sald that although ft might be lawral for the Senator to betray private confidence, he submitted that it was cleanly out of order for | him to divulge the proceedings of the executive session. The Chair (Mr. POMEROY) sald the Senator was certainly cut of order in atuting tbe proceedings of the executive session. TIPTON then said, to be in parliamentary license, he wouid say that the Senator from Nebraska (meaning him- bad scen no rengon_to question the correctness of this statement in the papers. He concinded his remarks with the assertion that he protested against this movement In behalf of His constituents and of the republicans of the couatry. Lo washed bis hands of the whole transaction. Mr. TRUMUULY. said that sixteen years cgo he camo into the Senate. It was 2 perpetual body and’ its oficers were seldom changed. Not more than three or four different clerke had sat at that desk since the firet meeting of the Senate. In all the time he had been here until now a chairman of a committee had bever been changed by his political friends except at his own request. This wns the tirst time it had been doue, It was © removal, and nothing else contd be raade of {t. Has it come that the composition of the committeces are to be determined by & Senator with any one . He (Mr. Trumbull) had differed with from Marsachusetta at times, and to say sometimes bitterly, but he bad and always would inaist upon justice being done to that Se" He stood by the Senator when be was struck down by the ad: Yocates of slavery, and he stood by him to-day when the blow comes from those who have been put into power as much through the instrumentality of the Seuator from Massa- ots ak Aoy Other man living. (Applatigo in the galleries.) Mr. WILSON raid he was an independent man, and be was alto be bound bya party caucus when iis action was uot motion of Mr. Wilson to postpone the further conside: ration of the subject until to-mortow was then rejected, rollows. YRAS—Messre. Bayard, Buckingham, Pavltsof Konuncky Davin of West Viveinia: Kcliv, Suu ury, Schurz, Sprague, Stevenson, Stockton, Thurman, Tj ton, Vickera iison—16. ed Ames, Boreman, Brownlow, Caldwell, ing, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Feu: n), Fiouagan, Freiingbuyacn, Hamlin, lowe, Lewis, Morrill (of Vermont), ‘omeroy, Pool, Ramsey, Sawyer, ight 32, Casserly, Cooper, 2: ry 3 Mor- Boott, le Committee on 3 r a ae Mr, THURMAN—That is tho most sensible suggestion the | far as tim er o Senator has ever made, (Laughter,) ined. of! he toes Pa bay Mr. Bayan then withdrew is amendment, and Mr. | ti Will be found thee twent eee ne DAVIS, of Kentucky, stated that ne should not vote for the | f t ; nty-nine are members 0! adoption of the resolution, beeause the hy - be republican or radical party and twenty-one are mittee on Foreign Relat had been members of the democratic or conservative party. the St. Domingo matt , much aa he One witness, a minister, did not state what were is Senator from Maasachus ‘on iost points, the course of | party relations, and another scate ts that Senator in thie St. Domingo villain bad Leen most patriotic and entitled him to the thanks of the eoune Mr. THORMAN said be would vote agatust the resolution deca the blow aimed at the Senator trom Massachusetts: was struck by executive dictation. Mr. EDMUNDS desired it to be understood that the atate- mente which had been mado of the 8 proceedings we not to be accepted, He would, not as had others, violate his obligations by divulging what had been sail. Mr. DAVIS, of Ky., remarked that the position of the Sena tor from Vermont reminded him of the saying, “lonor among thieves." (Laughter.) The resolution adopting the committe sented was then carried; ayes, 83; nays, was the vote in detai report. as. pre- The following YEas—Ames, Anthony, Boreman, Brownlow, Caldwell, Uhandler, Cole, Conkilng, Corbelt, Edinunds, Fenton) Ferry of Mich, Fl agin FreTingnysen,” Harulio, Harlan, Hichoock, Howe, Lewis, Morrill ot orton; Nye, Osborn, Pomeroy, Poo), Kai Scutf, Sherman, Stewart, West and W k NAvs--Messre, Blair,’ Casserly, Cooper, Davis of Ken- tueky, Davis of West Virginia, Kelly, Stevenson, Thurman and Vickers - ALSENT OR Not Vorino.— Messrs, Bayard, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Coragin, Ferry ot Conn., Giibert, Ham: ilton, Hill, Kellogg, Logan, Pratt, Rice, Sauisbury, Schurz, Spencer, “Spraguo, Stockton, Sumner, Tipton, ‘trumbull, jison and Windom-—23, After a short executive session the Senate, at seven o'elock, adjourned until Monday, Robertson, Sawyer, 38 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WAsurNaton, March 10, 1871. BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS, Mr. StovanoN, (rep.) of Mich,, tntroduced a bill to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, thelr widows and orpban children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands, Referrea. Mr. HILL, (ep.) of N.J., introduced bilis to abolish the franking privilege and to repeal the meome tax, Referred. Mr. RANDALT, (dem) of Pa., pretented a joint resolution of the Pennayivania Legislature agaist further raliroad land grants, Keterred. Mr, Money, (rop.) of La,, introduced bills to prescribe an oath’ of oMfed; for the better organization ot the. Distr! Courts of the United States within the State ot Loutah for the removal of political disabilities, and for the re-eal Yshment of the Monroe Land Distriét of Loulsiana, Re- .) of Mo., introduced bills to ‘eyed, {he rewxrnxnura, ( ate the const authorize and reg of bridges across the | Misaissippl, Missourl and Obio rt nd to amend the act egulating ‘Whe catriage of passengeru by steamships. Ke- terres A NEW DEFICIMNOY DILL, Mr. Dawr: .) of Mass., futroduced a Defletency bill approp: ceeded to explain how it be- caine necess: rt to pay, adaittonal clerks in the Pension Otiice—was necessitated by the bill of Jast acssion granting pensions to the soldicrs of the war of 1812, The hext iten was for a deficiency of 15,000 fn tho contingent fund of the House. The necessity of that arose froin the lact Moat since the last appropriation of BIN fox that uss made about ten days ag fut 0} ‘ii 000 had been paid out Jouse to contest. aunts for seats, making the gross sum of $114,874 paid from {me to time during the last Congress to persons whos House had decided had no right to @ dollar of tt. of $6,000 for the Scheldt dues was the difference in the valne of gold and paper money on the amount stipulated i the treaty, Another item was for the salary of an ofiice created about two months ago and not provided for in tue geueval Appropriatjon bill.” ir. TA¥FR, (rep.) of Nev., offered an amendment adding an item of 25,00) fur the post oluee building im Omaha, Ne- braska, Adople > ‘The bill wai passod. DUTIES ON an DAL. Mr. BALE, (rep.) of Me., go into Committee of the Whole on the bill to repeal th ‘on galt, und moved that all debate thereon under the five minute’ rule cease in forty-ive minutes. The motion to limit diseussion to forty-five minutes was agreed to by a vote of {8 to #2. The motion to go into committee was then agreed to—yens 105, nays 74—and the House, at two o'clock, went Into Come mittee of the Whole, Mr. DAWes in the chair, and resumed tue consideration of’the bill to repeal the duties ou salt and coal, Mr. BLAI (rep.) of Mich., offered an amendment redue- ing the duty on salt to ten cents per hundred pounds in bulk anil to sixteen cents per hundred ponnus in sacks or baga, Bir. Cox, (dem,) of N. Y.. submitted some atatisties in re ference to the anthracite trade, He referred to the business of one coiliery in Lebigh county, Pa., which was organized | to 150%, which increased its stock to sixty thousand dollars in 1860, Which 1n 1801 paid fifteen per cent profit and reserved a large surplus; which in 1852 paid eighty-live per cent and re- served a large surplus; which then watered its stock eight and a third times, raising It to five hundred thousaad dollars, and paid 24 per cent on that increased capital, not one dol: i cash having been added to the capital,’ and had last year pald twelve per cent on that five hundved thousand dol- lars, reserving aimuch larger sum from ite earuings than {t had'divided. Mr. DULL, (rep.) of N. Y.. opposed the repeal of the duties on salt, “He said that lo represented a district which i interested in the manufacture of salt, though he Rimmel iad no personal interest init. Ie bad listened to the debate forthe purpose of discovering if possible any jood, valid reason for the attempt to strike down one of the ndustrial interests of the country by putting salt on the free Uist. Ifthe cost of salt had boen largely increased under the present rate of duty there might much toree EI"lhe proposition; “but ‘the ‘truth was that salt was to-day cheaper than it was in 1850, when the | duty on salt was merely nomial, or just nothing at all. He therefore objected to the singling out of that Interest and making it the snbject of legislation, A good deal had been said about the Onondaga monopoly, The fact was that for the 1 a that company had lost money, In 184, tt had lost more than ‘12,000, and {n 1870 more than $24,000, { galt were placed on the free list the Onondaga Salt Co pany, which gave employment to more than {teen thousand men, whose interests were iaentitqt with a large portion of the country, would have to stop its business. Mr. RANDALL offered an amendment to put tea and coffee on the free list. Ho hoped the tariif would be revised in a comprehensive manner, #0 as to reinte to all mattera in it, or else that some percentage of reduction should be agreed upon. He protested against the proposed manner of legislation, which picked out certain interests and legislated upon them to the injury of particular sectiona, without creating any corresponding benelit to the whole country. Mr. BURDETT, (rep.) of Mo., said he had steadily yoved ia favor of a recnetion on sait and lad no cisposition to change his vote; but he most earnestly deprecated the movement now made im that direction and the particalar methe Which it was made, ‘The voung thus far had made It mat fest, an! he might as well be plain and say at once, that tl adyueates of the so-called revenue reform were in’ tho mi jority in the House, and the movement made in this partion- lar manner was a ‘notice given to ali the industries in the whole land that the time had come when. not by a general overhauling of the tariff, not in fair and open battle on the subject, but by the nibbling process, by the bushwhacking process, any and all of the vast industries of the country were to be struc down, one by one, and public confidence dustroyed. “Agninst that purpose he ‘protested so far as coal was concerned. m addl under the resointh 8, # of the Mr, ENSON, (rep.) of Ohio, moved to amend by put- ting umber, timber and wood of all kinds on the free liat. Nr. ROOSRVELT, (dem) of N. ¥. ed In favor of tho | repeal of the duties on saitand coal. ‘ho tax which the people paid on such articies as tea and coffee all went {nto the Treasury; but when the government received a millon and ahaif of ‘dollars from the duties on salt and coal the Taonopolists and lish protectiontsts put in thelr own pockets twenty or thirty millions, Mr. LEACH, (rep.) of N. C., moved to amend the bill by re- ducing the internal taxon manufactured tobacco to twelve cents @ pound. Negatived. . MYERS, (rep.) of Pa., moved to make the internal tax on manufacture tobacco sixteen cents per pound, Agreed to-78 to 67. Mr. RANDALL'S amendment to repeal the duties on tea and coffee was agreed to by 80 to 59. This action on the part of the committee was favored nents of the vill for the purpo: amendments, and thus defeating it. Mr. BuT: (rep.) of Tenn., moved to reduce the tar on brandy distilled from apples and peaches to seventy-five centsa gallon. Agreed to. Mr. BUTLER. (rep.) of Mas@., moved to put potatoes on the free list. Agreed to. Mr. Kcznn, (dein) of Ind., moved to put bunting on the Agrees a STEVENSON moved to put barley and malt on the free it. i—B5 to 88. Mr. KELLEY offered as an amendment the whole of the tari law. Prthe reading of the cmendment would have occupied sev- ‘eral hours. After the clerk bad been for some posed gry was made that the committee rise, which was agreed REMOVAL OF DISABILITIES. fon parzen ey introduced @ bili for the remu a! of all legal and political After arguments in its fuvor by Messra. Beck and Farne worth, the House, at half-past four o'clock, adjourned till Monday. KU KLUX OUTRAGES supported by the oppo- of loading it down With Report of the Senate Committee on Southern Affairs, Secret Political Organizations in North Caro- lina—Objcets of the Ku Klux, WASHINGTON, March 10, i871. Senator Scott today made a report from the | Select Committee to investigate the alleged out- rages in the Southern States. After quoting the resolution under witch they were appomnted, and the documents referred to them, they say:— From the tenor of the documents referred to the committee, and the language ef the resolution under which it was appointed, it will be seen that the purpose of raising it was to ascertain by in- vestigation, First—Whether tie crimes of the character al- leged to have been committed by organized bands | were of a political characier, Second—Whether persons and property are s in the Southern States, The language of the resolution authorizing the ap- potntment of a commitiee embraces all the Southern States. North Carolina having been made the sup- ject of a special communication from the President, the committee at once entered upon an investiga- tion of the condition of affairs in that State, THE WITNESSES EXAMINED. In prosecuting thelr inquiries they desired to have re | before them the gery of ail shades of poli- Ucal opinion, so that not only in the report of the committee, Dut especialiv in the testimony of the witnesses, the public would lave the means of judg- ing as to (ho trne condition of things existing in the State, the causes which have led to it, and who are responsible for its existence or continuance. Ac- cordingly they sent for, and up to this Ume have ex- amined, State and federal judges, prosecuting ofil- cers, political editors, ministers of the Gospel, pri- vate citizens (boil white and colored), members of what is popularly kuown as the “Ku Klux Kian,’ Magistrates, constables, members of the bar, men who have been scourged and abused by bands 01 men in disguise; and, Indeed ali classes ot persons from whom it was reasonable t expect such testimony could be elicited as would form the basis of a reliaple judgment upd the subject of in- quiry. In sending for such witnesses we had, of necessity, to be guided by the local knowledge of those better acquainted with the State thanare the members of the committee, and as the inquiry in tho very terms of the reselttton necessartiy involved Hitt party fecling It was due to candor and justice that witnesses should be summoned who were designated by the minority of the committee aa Well as those suggested by the majcrity, and so Jak alk ugh baye peck summoned “anh aa | are i} { | he had formed Y-one ranked aa mservative party SIX MEMBERS OF THR KU KLUX Kray, four of whom were summoned because of tio belief from previous developments that they could and would reveal the existence and objects of the or- gunization, The other two were snminoned at the Instance of the minority of the committee to show thew il treatment while prisoners tn enstody of the ‘ate militia, and upon their examination ackuow- edged that they were members of the order, The first subject of Inquiry, then, is—Have tne crimes and outrages of the character complained of been committed by organized political bands of dis- loyal or evil disposed persons ia the State of North Carolina? We first direct attention to the evidence showin; the existence in that State of secretly organizer bodies of a political character, and as the existence pad operation of what is now terme: the Ku Klax lan ere excused—by those who . excuse them— on the ground of prior existence of other secret poltucal organizations, we refer to ali tuat have been mentioned aa having any bearing upon tho no party connection, In the twe metabers of the democrat.c or ¢ question Since the close of the rebellion, ie frst ih point of time {s the order known as tna “Heroes of Ajnerica,’? or the “Red Strings.’ About the timo the reconstruction acts proposed to confer political rights upon the colored citizens THE ION LEAGUE Was introduced into Nori Carolina; the exact time is hot given, but the weight of testimony would seem to fix it about the latter part of 1867. Wit- nesses were examined, who were members of that organization both in the Northern and Southern rates, ancl many others have given thelr opinions about its purposes 3 understood by general reports. There is no doubt thatit was a politcal organiza Uon In the interest of the republican party; that is Members were admitted im secret meetin; and that they were bound by an oath. It fs equally clear that its irposes were pub- jicly Vowed—that it hel public meetings and processions in which the members appeared and acknowledged their connection with it, The colored population generally became mem- bers of that organization; and, to show their esti- mate of It, the committee insert an extract from the testimony of Samuel Se colored man, and a member of the League, That no violence was either direoted or countenanced by this League is manifest throughout all the testimony. Instead of cumbering this report with extracts we will ouly refer to pages 31, 41,47, 99, 119, 132, 144, 147, 180, &c., on Which wil be found. testimony verifying this sta‘eniett. Itts alleged, and some instances are quoted as sustaining the charge, that we Members of the League seek to deter the colored voters from voting the deimocratic ticket, ‘That the sentiment of the League and its colored members 1g against that party 1s entirely clear from vestiinony, and the colored man votes it runs goupter to the dominant opinion of his race in the Stal With this preliminary reference to the “Heroes of America’ and to the Union League, we now com { the establishment of what ts termed the “Ka Klux Klan,” the reai name of which tn its several stages has been “The White Brothernood,” “The Constitu- Union Guards” and “The Invisible Em- the name “Ku Kiax Klan” having been Suggested by its members to deceive the pub- lio und to enable them to deny connection with it when asked upon the witness stand whether they were members of that organization, This order was instituted in North Caroliua some ume in 1898, certatnly before the Presidential campaign in thet year, and according to some alle- gations as early a3 1507, As an exposition of this organization, of the obligations tmpo: upon tts members, the penalty for revealing 1s secrets, irs modes of proceeding, its purposes, members, con- nections and extent, the committee insert here at length the testimony of one of its members, a man acknowledged by all who have spoken of him to have borne a good character as &@ lawyer aad a clil- “en. “hen follows the testimony of Judge Battle, Judge syyuum.) Settie and District Solicitor The committee coutinue:—iiaving thus spoken of the secret political societies the other branch of the question 1s to be auswered. What crimes and outrages have been committed by them? re is alleged against tite “iteroes of America” or ‘+ String’ orders, except TREASON AGAINST THR SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. Although the intrusion of meimbers of tie “Grand Army of the Republic’ into the White Brotherhood”? is guarded against, there Is no evidence to show that the organization of the “Grand Army ef the Republic” exists or has existed in the State of North Carolina, nor does any evidence appear that “it 1s & political organization, nor has any other complaint appeared against it than its alleged interfereace with the rights of the South or of the States, which may be inferred from the terms of the oath of the “White Brotherhood,” a band of oudiawsa organizing for plunder and with no politica pur- pose, consisting of a few mulattoes, in a settlement alled “Scuileton,” is shown to have existed im Robeson county. That individual members of the Jeagne have viviated the laws there is no doubt. ‘rhat they were arrested, tuentified, tried, couvicted and punished by the reguiar administration of the law In the couris ts testified to by men of all pare ties. Crimes are alleged to have been committed in pursuance of an organized movement among the colored people recently in Chatham county, and also fn Walker county, where barns aud perhaps other buildings were burned. In those cases the offenders have been urrested and are held for trial. W. 8. Bradshaw, &@ most unwilling wit- ness, and amember of the Ku Klux organization, who spoke of the offences of the negroes as a reason for the estabitshment of the Ku Kiux order, upon cross-examination, testified that there was no rea- son te justify the organization of that body, as the etvil law could always be executed tn his county at any time for the offences charged agutnst the Ka Klux; and we use that term to cover the three asso. ciations where the purposes and modes of operation are showneto have been the same and concealed under this name, they are numerous, ‘The inessage Of the President contains documents tending to shew the existence of this organization in Stokes county as carly as ihe fail of 1867, it being alleged that tobacco dealers and distillers who evaded the reveane laws were the first to introduce It there, and that the WHIPPING OF NEGROES and threats of violence to prominent men because of their political opinions soon alter commenced. Up to the 27th Uctober, 1470, twenty-one cases of whip- ping and shooting are reported as having occurred in Lincoln county. From the 1st Decener, 1868, to the 2zd December, 1870, a list of thirty-eight cases 1s furnished as having occurred in Alamance county, embracing two murders, one of mutilation, many of whipping, threats of violence, &c. ‘he same mes- sage also communicates the prelimimary examina tion before Judge Thomas, of the Third Judietal aise trict, at Newbern, in the cases of the Leuoir county prisoners, charged with conspiracy. he testimony taken on cross-examination shows the existence of the Ku Klux organization in Lenotr anu Greene counties in April, 1269; that the death of sherit Colgrove Was voted in one of thelr mec! he fissisted to arrest One Hines, @ member of that Qoores in apn, 3000; nat nes, With antares des Ly 5 n ber of the order, WhO Was confined in jail with him, Were rorctbly released the jail at Kinston by low membera. ee The committee continues:—With this testimua andthe terms of this oach before them, noreasonab can doubt that the purpose of this organizatic was political, and any attempt on the part of th. witnesses to give it the character of a league simply for the protection of persun aud property can be viewed only a3 an aduitional evidence of the extent to which tis demoralizing effect and intuence have been carried or of their iguorance of its real charace ter. It is to be noticed that, after enjoining secrecy, the first requisite to membership ts that the ‘ ‘neyl- tate”? 1s not & member of the “Red String” order or of the “Heroes of America.”? Bearing 10 mind that this order —"Heroes of America’’—was oppossd to the rebellion, that its members were charged with treason against the Confederacy, and that it had for its object “adherence to the constitation of the United States and the restoration of the Union,” it follows that the spirtt of the organization into which men are adinitted under tis oath Is that of the rebellion, and that it refuses Falomene to the who were true to the United States. The secoa requisite is, that applicants are net members ot the Union League. Taking the objects of tie league, asgiven im the testimony, it is clear tuat ue men. ber of It would be admitted into ¢) order, and that au obligation to be true to the constitution of the United States and to the constituriou of North Carolina, and to support and defend them, disquail- fled the man who had taken it for membership in the “White Brotherhood.’ The third requisite is, that the candidate is nota member of the “Grand Army of the Potomac,” so that the soldier of the Unton army cannot be admitted Into it. In the gut of this requirement it 1s not at al: singular that the revelation should be made that tue majority of ity members @ad becn SOLDIERS IN THE REBEL ARMY. The next assertion guarding against any other possible organization, similar to those nained, 1s that they, the “Heroes of America,” the “Union League’’and the “Grand Army of the Repablic,”? have the aim and intention to destroy the rights ‘he South or of the States or of the people, or to elevate the nogro to a political equality with te White Man. Asserting tis, the man initiated ix Sworn that he 1s opposed to all such principles. As If this were not enough the obligation is made express that uo member of these organizations, any holding radical views or opinions, shali be alowed to be initiated. ‘The furtaer ebitgation—to “oppose all radicals and negroes uj all of their political desigus,” some of the members of the Order stated that they did not remember, But whether it was a part of the ovligation or not the effect of the pre- ceding obligation leads to that result. It is not ne. cessary to pursue the argument further por to call from the evidence to suow that an orgiaization itself secret, which, by the terms of tis oath, exe cludes all members of other secret societies whose objects were to protect and preserve (he govern: meut of the United States 1s of @ politica! character. What is that political character? The testimony is uniform that none but members of the democratic or conservative ray the State @f North Carolina join it. 1 being the case the members and press of the political part which, scvording w the testimevy uot had 40,000 of its adherents enrolled in these camps, it would be, to say the least of it, were under great temptation to pailiate their ofences or to withhold denunciations When crimes were ch: against them. To show how this subject ig ylewed the tes. timony of several gentlemea of high standing in’ opposite political parties, in their own wi ig given. ha January, 1399, entrance to the one hn CONTINJED ON TENTA PAS2