New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-20

GOVERNOR WELLS AND THE STAR.

"A OVyE1NOR " oafAf0 1ASAO HE 49,
The Star of Yesterday morning again comes e
the rescue Of Governor Wells, but with an IS
sumption Of imrarsiality strangely contrasting
with its FORMER declarations that it was established
evnressiv n support the administrations of Pres
4 dent johnson. Governor Wells and Mayor Ken
nedy. The administration of the President re
CURED no special champion in this city. TIL,
efforts Of the Star have very naturally BEEF
directed TO support of the twin administration
which events have left as an unhappy legacy t
the people of the State and Of the city. Its eor.
ID fulfIlment Of this duty have been incessant an
arduous. That they have not met with better SUE
cess only shows that the merits Of the cause wer
not by any means to be measured by the zeal Q
its defenders. s8a6tss 3s5s9 856s
Az an illustration Of the impartiality which
has juss assumed, our contemporary suggests a
admirable expedient by which the differences b
tween the Governor and the legislature might hav
tbeen avoided.s This plan consists merely in sth
implicit obedience Of the Legislature TO all tn
| desires of the Executive. Who can doubt the Ell
ificacy Of this method Of assuring perpetual hai
mony between the two branches Of the Stat
government Who does not at once perceive til
extraordinary combination of ingenuity and sim
plicity involved in this admirable SUGGESTION 81
the Governor wants to- have bill passed, what
asks our contemporary, is easier than for the leg
islature to pass it? If the Legislature wishes to
pass bill, what, again demands the Star, is easier
than 70 furnish the Governor with ~ COPY in adj
vance, to alter it, modify ii change it, do any
thing with it that may make it acceptable to the
Exeentive mind W. saetssgs apg swaf9sHs
81 Let these things be done, and, we are assured
there will never be any necessity for a veto.
Clearly not. Nobody ever supposed that there
could be any necessity for Governor to veto his
own measures aithonghthe Governor Of Louisiana
has signalized his by vetoing bill providing
for doing some thing legally, which he had himself
been doing without warrant of law. But let that
pass. We agree with the Star thatwhen the legis-
lature passes all the bills recommended by the
Governor, ana does not pass any without previously
Obtaining his consent, there will no longer be any
necessity for the use of the Executive negative.
they are not done we are to infer from the illus
trations Of our contempo rary, that the State will
Immediately be divided into two hostile parties
the Governor on one side and the people and the
legislature on the other side. The consequences
Of this strife will, We are told, be lamentabie
in the extreme. The State government will stand
on the verge Of dissolution; Louisiana will run
the imminent risk of being provincia1ized, and
turned over to tho mercies Of obdurate agents of
the, Freedmen's Bureau, of provost marshals and
collectors Of direct taxes and all this because the
legislature has been so indiscreet as to pass laws
demanded by the public voice and the public vel
fare, in spite Of the unreasonable and unreasoning
opposition Of the Governor.
Now when the Star tries to make the public be-
Heve that the relations Of this State with the Fed
eral government are in the slightest degree inaut
enced by the action Of the legislature on the
parish and city election bills its drafts on popular
credulity will very probably not be honored.
Everybody knows that the military authorities are
anxious for q change Of our municipal ofici ais
The attempt to perpetuate the present anomalous
condition Of affairs does not come from them.
ii Moreover, the President has very distinctly
stated that he had nd intention To IN onr
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states; yet the Star would persuade us that he
VIII suppress the state government Of Louisiana,
on account Of municipal election in New Orleans.
~ has solemnly declared that he knows Of no
po"ei anas sah ueseroy a State ana YET the etar
wishes to make us believe that he will usurp that
power, IL the peOpl6 OF New Orleans venture to