THE FATE OF THE CARPET-BAGGER AND THE SCALAWAG (Cartoon by Ryland Randolph in the Independent Monitor. of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 1. 1868; reproduced from Lester and Wilson's "Ku Klux Klan" through the courtesy of the editor, Prof. W. L. Fleming, of the University of

not sustained, that the member is not guilty of violating his oath or Article II, they shall report to that effect to the order and the charges shall be dismissed.

Sec. 5. When the committee report that the charges are sustained, and the unanimous vote of the members is given thereof, the offending person shall be sentenced to death by the chief.

Sec. 6. The person, through the cyclops of the order of which he is a member, can make application for pardon to the Great Grand Cyclops of Nashville, Tennessee, in which case execution of the sentence can be stayed until pardoning power is heard from.

Article VII, Section 1. Any member who shall betray or divulge any of the matters of the order shall suffer death.

Article VIII, Section 1. The following shall be the rules of any order to any matter herein not provided for; shall be managed in strict accordance with the Ku-Klux rules.

Sec. 2. When the chief takes his position on the right, the scribe, with the members forming a half-circle around them, and at the sound of the signal instrument there shall be profound silence.

Sec. 3. Before proceeding to business, the scribe shall call the roll and note the absentees.

Sec. 4. Business shall be taken up in the following order:

1. Reading the minutes.

2. Excuse of members at preceding meeting.

3. Report of committee of candidates for membership. 4. Collection of dues.

5. Are any of the order sick or suffering?

6. Report of committees.

7. New business.

TREATY OF WASHINGTON, 1871

By this treaty, signed in Washington May 8, 1871, and proclaimed July 4th, the American claims for depredations by the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers were referred to a tribunal of arbitration which rendered a decision in favor of the United States on September 14, 1872. The text of the first eleven articles of the treaty, referring to the Alabama claims, is given here. The text is from pp. 479-483 of "Treaties and Conventions Concluded Between the United States and Other Powers Since July 4, 1776," issued by the State Department in 1899. (See page 70.)

ARTICLE I

Whereas differences have arisen between the Government of the United States and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, and still exist, growing out of the acts committed by the several vessels which have given rise to the claims generically known as the "Alabama Claims":

And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express, in a friendly spirit, the regret felt by her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels:

Now, in order to remove and adjust all complaints and claims on the part of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of such claims which are not admitted by Her Britannic Majesty's Government, the high contracting parties agree that all the said claims, growing out of acts committed by the aforesaid. vessels, and generically known as the "Alabama Claims," shall be referred to a tribunal of arbitration to be composed of five Arbitrators, to be appointed in the following manner, that is to say: One shall be named by the President of the United States; one shall be named by Her Britannic Majesty; His Majesty the King of Italy shall be requested to name one; the President of the Swiss Confederation shall be requested to name one; and His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil shall be requested

to name one.

In case of the death, absence, or incapacity to serve of any or either of the said Arbitrators, or, in the event of either of the said Arbitrators omitting or declining or ceasing to act as such, the President of the United States, or Her Britannic Majesty, or His Majesty the King of Italy, or the President of the Swiss Confederation, or His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, as the case may be, may forthwith name another person to act as Arbitrator originally named by such head of a State.

And in the event of the refusal or omission for two months after receipt of the request from either of the high contracting parties of His Majesty the King of Italy, or the President of the Swiss Confederation, or His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, to name an Arbitrator either to fill the original appointment or in the place of one who may have died, be absent, or incapacitated, or who may omit, decline, or from any cause cease to act as such Arbitrator, His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway shall be requested to name one or more persons, as the case may be, to act as such Arbitrator or Arbitrators.