In the Ku Klux Act. need mot be told that* 1must consider the clvil rtghts bill as transgressing the limits with whidh t he Constittutlon hedges in the competency of :te Nnloual Government. and as encroaching upon the sphere 4f State authority. I will not tonight tire you with a restatement of principles which I have frequently discussed. Carl Schurz was one of the most brilliant minds that ever graced the U.S. Senate. Born in Germany on March 2. 1829. he migrated to the United States in 1852 as a refugee from the revolution of 1848. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Milwaukee. Wis.