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Show m:li:cti:i. 1111. 1. TO HI PI'HKSM DISOIt l)i:tlS 1 TI1K. SOU I'll. Tito select cuinuiitti'O ol'tlio IIouso, to which was rvlorrud tho recent nicn-stio nicn-stio of tho I'rcsidoiit on southern out-rnnes, out-rnnes, agreed upon a bill yesterday afternoon to mippresn disorders in tho south. It provides that any person who, under color of law, statute, ordinance, ordin-ance, regulation, custom, or usage ol' any State, shall Buoject, or cause to be subjected, any person within tlio jurisdiction juris-diction of tho United States to tho deprivation de-privation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured hy tlio first section of tho fourteenth artlclo of the amendments amend-ments to tho Constitution of the United Slates, shall, any such law, statuto, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of tho State to the contrary notwithstanding, bo liahlo to tho party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proceedings for redress; re-dress; such proceeding to be prosecuted prosecu-ted in the several district or circuit courts of tho United States, with, and suljeet to tho sauio rights of appeal, review upon error and other remedies provided in liko cases in such courts, under tho provisions of the act of April 9, 1SGS, and tho other remedial laws of the United States, which aro in their nature applicable iu such case. Tho second section provides that if two or more persons shall band, conspire, con-spire, or combine together to do aDy ant iu violation of the rights, privileges and immunities of any person to which ho is entitled under the Constitution Consti-tution and laws of the United States, which, if committed within a place under un-der the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, would under any law of the Uuited States there in force constitute the crime of either murder, manslaughter, mayhem, robbery, assault as-sault aud battery, perjury, subornation of perjury, criminal obstruction of legal process or resistance of oiheers in discharge dis-charge of official duty,arson,or larceny, and if one or more of the parties to said conspiracy or combination shall do any act to effect the object thoreof, all the parties to or engaged in said conspiracy con-spiracy or combination, whether principals prin-cipals or accessories, shall bo deemed guilty of a felony, aud upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding $10,000, or to imprisonment imprison-ment not exceeding ten years, or both, at the discretion of the court : Fro-tided, Fro-tided, That if any party or parties to such conspiracy shall, in furtherance of suvh common design, commit the crime of wilful murder, such party or parties so gudty shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer death : And provided also, That any offence punishable under this act, begun in one judicial district of the United States and completed in another, an-other, may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either district. The third section authorizes au-thorizes the President to employ the militia, land or nival forces of the United States to suppress insurrection, domestic violence, or unlawful combinations, combi-nations, or conspiracies in any State, if the constituted authorities of such State shall be unable to, or shall from any cause fail or refuse protection of the people in their rights or privileges. lhe fourth section authorizes the President Pres-ident to suspend' the writ of habeas corpus and to declare martial law in any State where unlawful combinatio'ns exist and be so powerful as to overthrow over-throw or set at defiance aDy constituted authorities of the State, or in any State where the constituted authorities shall connive at or be in complicity with such unlawful combinations : Provided, That the President shall first have made proclamation, as now provided by law, commanding such insurgents in-surgents to disperse: And provided also, That the provisions of this section sec-tion shall not be in ibrce after the 1st day of June, A. IX 1S72. The bill was reported in the House this morning by Mr. Shellabarger from the select committee, and he stated that the fullest debate would be allowed, as it was his purpose not to call the previous question before Monday next. Mr. Shellabarger, chairman of the committee, opened the debate. Washington Star, March 2S. |