The Ku-klux Committee

Th; Kii-Klux Committee of Congress completed thoirplan i'or funher iuvestigations yesterday, by appointing a subcommittce to vi.-it Alabama, Mississippi anti Teimesscc ; anothcr to visit North nnd South Carolina, Georgia nnd Florida, nd a third to remain in Washington. Ktn.itov Blair moved to appoint a committee to investígate tho last Congressional election in Arkansas, Governor Davis's usurpation in Texas, and the acts of the TTnited States offibers in their attoinpt to control the politics of Louisiana. The Republicana opposed this proposition, an(T it was dtfeafced by a party vote. WTien the Ku-Rlux Committee closod lts work and published its report in the gutnmer, all reasonable men hoped it would not havo causo to renew it i:ivêstigations. Wo do not seo that the committee has offered any aew excuse tbr Keeping np the agitation. The respéetaWe noen of all parties aoknowledge thai tbc Ku-Kkix organization exista, and that it has committod dreadful outrageg. The only dififerenqe of opinión is with regard to thé remedy. The evidence already taken by the committee and the accounts received trom Cürrespoudento ought to be suffioient. To continue the ihvestigation seems simply a ivasto of time and möney for tho purpose of keepinp; op an nnneooEsary excitement. Do the memben of'th committee propose tt continue this agitation for politiCaleflbot? We know tluvt, a.s thu time approaobes for the meeting of Congress. the politioians itud the monopolists, fearful that certain reforma which tlie people domand may require tlicir first attention, aro anxious to iuvent BOme new excuses to postpono them. Messrs. Maynard, Sohoficld, Buckley and ,, this oommittee have espeoially distinguished tlit;niselvos in opposing revepue reform, and they are well known for their dcrotion to party managers where any change of the civil servicu seems te confliot with thcinterests of the officeholdors. If invegtigationa are called for anyv Texas offers a good field ; Governor Da-ris has oortainly purgmvj a course whiah would not bare been tolerated in a poHtioal opponent of tho adminiatratíon, nnd the bot Bepublioans in the State denouncc him. Arkansas has also been (sgraced by the rulo of the Clayton faction.and the charges of eleetiou frauda in C-at State ought to be faithfully investir gated. But the testimony from these Btates is not likely to be sueh as is wantOd, and therefore they are avoided by fhe paf tisnns whoso interesta are uot on the side of p.iaee. This ócheme, however, will probably fail. When Congress meets its first act ihould be to discontinue this farce of a