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Show rorfjiie Hit Hit liluv ! Washington, -I. A delegation of protninont South Carolinians' headed hy Ifoii. W. IX l'ortcr, tieiioral .1. 11 Kershaw anil J. M. Sims, bad an interview in-terview with the Attorney-General this morning, and uri;ed that further prosecution ol Ku Klux ol lenders in the South he discontinued, as that organization or-ganization was broken up, and cessation cessa-tion of tho prosecution would have a conciliatory etleet upon till classes in t hiit section. They also urged llial those convicted and now serving terms of sentence be pardoned. The Attorney-General in reply, said instructions had already been issued (o stop prosecutions prose-cutions against Ku Klux ulienders. except in very aggravated cases, and sonic of those convicted had already boon pardoned. U was the pulicy til the J 'resident to pardon tlient all, keeping the most nggrasated cases, however, until the last. |