New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-27
BRowNLow CAUGHT.

lature he thought that he would be able to go
through with the necessary forms at least
But it seems that in his eagerness to serve his
co-conspirators he has placed both them and
himself in very ludicrous position. The
preamble to theresolution admitting Ten
nessee, recites that the legislature Of that
State had ratified the constitutional amend
ment The Democratic members who voted
for the resolution and the President who signed
it only placed just estimate on Brownlow !
character when they denied the truth of his
assertion, and the facts show that their denial
is well founded. The Nashville Banner of the
ed, referring to this subject, says
All doubts as to Speaker Heiskell's course ia re-
gard to this matter may now be dismissed. He
has positively refused to sign the joint resolution
for its ratification on the ground thatt was pushed
through the House in the absence of quorum.
This is aperplexing difficulty for Browplow
it is true but if he We're as well versed as his
! Louisiana brethren in the short and easy
methods of getting rid of legal obstacles it
would not cause much delay The shining pre-
} cedent set by the Louisiana convention in de-
posing Judge Durel, BY vote ofless than a
quorum, from his position as president Of their
plcity, to commend itself to all radicals who
find themselves in similar perpIexing prediea-
ments. If recusant and recalcitrant presiding
officers refuse to call together defunct conven-
tons, on to certify to faIsehood, let them be
Immediately deposed to make room for more
periodically compliant successors 1t must
indeed be, Notifying to the inventors of
] aba o1,e
ventions, enriching epicene politicians, and
fabricating convenient facts, that their ex-
ample has thus far been lost on their brethran
of Tennessee. But it is not too great a stretch
of fancy to suppose that in the exercise Of
their highly developed faculty for minding
other peoples business they will Immediately
send deputation to Nashville to expound and
enforce their system. There is, too, something
! captivating in the Louisiana plan-something
which differs greatly from the brutality of the
Tennessee method. The contrast is like that
which distinguished the refined policy of
Rodin from the awkward and laundering fero-
city of Aigrigny. 1t is said to be an easy
thing to lead a horse to the water, but very
difficult thing to make him drink. Brownlow
found it easy enough to shut up two refractory
members Of his legislature in an ante-chamber
of the capitol but he could not make them
vote. led
The legislature still remained without a.
quorum and, although Brownlow declared
that quorum had acted, everybody else knew
that Brownlow told a falsehood How much
easier it would be to adopt the Louisiana plan
If a quorum be not present when the roll is
called, just let a resolution be passed declar-
ing that quorum shall consist of the mem
bers who vote If the presiding officer refuse
to recognize the validity of the proceedings |
it is very easy to turn him out and choose
another with more complaisance and less con
science. Thus the quorumless fraction of !
bogus legislature may acquire Legislative pow
ers, as well as the disheveled remnant of
defunct convention managed to assume SOW
ereign authority. @ ...s.-.s
Brownlow will have to adopt this course or
his pet project will ignobly fail. His prisoners
have escaped from his grasp and thus have
deprived him Of the pretenee Of their CON
structiye presence to make up his fraudulent
quorum. The event has thrown him into
Geographic fury which has manifested itself
in the following telegram:
NASHVILLE, Friday July 20, 1866.
10 the Hon w, b. Stokes
Judge Frazier, ia contempt for the House. re- |
leased Williams and Martin, the boilers, and sent
the sheriff, rebel captain, to arrest Heydt SER
geant-at-arms. In the night, the sheriff, with |
twenty-five accomphces, broke into the capitol |
forced window and door in the federal court
room and arrested Heydt. The House will act de-
HDerately' W g, BRowNLOW.
pondent of the New York Tribune says:
There are 50 members in session. The Constitu-
ton of the State provides that rs members shall |
constitute the House of Representatives until such
time as the population reaches 100000, when it
shall be increased. This makes so members
quorum.
The State convention, in January, 1866, agreed
to a schedule which increased the members in the
House O. making in all 81. The speaker rules that
a quorum Is So, which is denied by the governor
AUDI majority Of the MEMBERS as there are not
nov more than ~ members elected. Congress
PAS ruled that twothrds majority of members
eaecI snail constitute quorum; and although
therels now hitch in matters 10 Tennessee, there
IS no doubt Of the validtyof the adoption of the
constitutional amendment as the speakers obiec-
tons were met and SO members were present and
he will sign the bill which passed.
=, governor BIrGwnlo,w has telegraphed to Mr.
that the constitutional amendment has been recu
lary ratified by both branches of the Legislature
OF Tennessee, and that the official announcement
would be transmitted to Secretary Seward without
delay. ,E 81 Ina n aG@ =
But thsspealer knowing that only 81 mem
bers were present, has refused to sign the act,
and thus Brownlow is caught in direct false
hood, besides which he has induced his radical
friends in Congress to affirm an untruth in nm
1ficiaI declaration. 1t is not the first time
hat such people have been convicted of false
lood, but it is rare that they have been made
o furnish evidence so conclusive of their own
nfamy. The whole affair would be, amusing
it did not furnish a sad commentary on the
rofigaey and corruption of a very large and
party. G
------7--ss So
William B. Aston, of New York city, reports
is cash income for the past year at s1,454- !
-. Cornelius Vanderbilt reports his income
Y the same period at 1928, $50. >
Another twenty mile section of the Northern e.
aciic Railroad has been completed. making "