The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-08-15

carly and often to make 1t appear that quorum was
present. Jokes were retorted and stories told.
dozen Of members at one time had pitched bat
ties with paper wads, books, &c, which were flung
through the air in the hall. At daylight this morning
one member called on the reporters in the gallery to
come down and join in the fun.
A quorum was maintained in both houses until the
hour Of adjournment. Two-thirds of the members
have left tonight for their homes, and the remainder
will follow.
4 SCENE IN CoNGEEss.-Thc Washington CORE
spondeut Of the New York World thus describes the
scene in the house Of representatives, on the 9th
ut, when president Johnsons message on the Ten
nessee question was received:
Probably no message of the many sent by Andrew
johnson to congress caused more excitement than the
one received in the house this afternoon, in viii he
announced the paradox that although he signed, lie
did approve Of the joint resolution declaring Ten
nessee to be entitled to representation. The radicals
hoped for an absolute veto. They gathered around
the private secretary the moment he appeared in the
house with the message and scanned its contents III
an excited crowd long before it officially read.
The house was in uproar of confusion, which only
subsided when the aimportant document read,
When the clerk reached the passage commencing
earnestly desiring to remove every OF further
delay whether real imaginary, the part of con
grcss to the admission to seats OF loyal senators and
representatives, from the State of Tennessee have,
Notwithstanding the anomalous character of the pro-
ceedinGs, affixed my signature to the resolution
There was prolonged and earnest applause the floor
but the laugh came IN when, III the next sentence, the
president says Ny approval however is not to be
construed as acknowledgment Of the right of con
gress to pass laws preliminary to She admission Of
duly qualified representatives, from any of tile States
There was universal laugh at the palpable lit 50
manifest after the approving applause " Read it
over again." shouted dozens Of members. It was
read over again. and the significant obs and ans
were frequent. But the radical discipline played the
farce to the end, The credentials hastily refer
red to the committee elections Mr.. Dawes gath
cred up his faithful men, and they retired to their
room. In twenty minutes they were back IN the ball,
/ In twenty minutes they had examined, or pretended
to the credentials of eight gentlemen and declared
them legally entitled to seats in the house. Such
petition was never known before in that committee.
The committee told the house that the credentials
we're all right. Mr.. LeIlond, of Ohio thcreupOn
made an excellent hit. He very dryly said as the
preamble admitting Tennessee presupposed that State
out Of the Union, he did not see how the COMMITTEES
on elections could make out 10 the face Of that that
these members were duly elected nearly year ago.
or before the State, the words OF the resoluonJ
had resumed her proper practical relations to The
Union" Mr.. Dawes said the gentleman was luminous,
inasmuch as he had voted for the Tennessee resolu
ton; but Mr. LeBOnd had him the hip, for he had
not voted for the resolution. The election report was
adopted and amid the paudits on the floor nd in the
in. Ouc Of them took his seat on the democratic
side, and the other two among the radicals. The
house then took recess i'll the cXhubcrance of its
feeling but the hundred guns at sunset that went
eehoing the city meant simply this Tennessee
was admitted to representation in congress- and vet
Tennessee had rot adopted in her legislature the rad
zeal amendment of restoration.
TINS PRESIDENT AND THE NEW ORLEANS RADIcALs.-
The following dispatch from VIM. II. G. King, editoI
Of the New Orleans Times who was in Washington al
the time, to bis paper, will give the reader pretty
good idea of president Johnsons opinion of the latf
riot:
WASHINGTON, August /, 18G6.-The radicals ar#
making great outcry against the president charging
him with being the cause of the riots On the othes
hand developments will appear fully establishing
the fact that plans for melting the riot conocte+
in this city
It is reported that Mr.. Hahn went to New Orleans
prepared TO inaugurate measures which woald lead to
the commission Of violence.
Major-general Baird is loudly censured, and hfs
does not meet with the approval Of the admin
istration, With full knowledge of what was likelk
to transpre it is charged that after the mass meetinh
and procession Of negroes be took preventive steps
until too late, and then his every act unmistakabb
proved him in fall sympathy with the convention
people.
Ills failure to Immediately recognise the order sent
to attorney general Heron, has been met With a I'd
pcated and very decided demand.
Coy. Wells is denounced by every body-raGca.
and conservatives.
None 50 poor TODD him reverence"
Il is quite likely his functions will be suspended nth
til impeachment takes place. He can only save him
self by rcsigning. This is positive
Gov. Wells and Gen Baird are regarded as I'll,
authors, aiders, and abcttors of the rioters.
The president fully comprehends the situation aul
highly coored dispatches, matter from what source
are understood, aud regarded tlcir proper value
The officers and people of New Orleans must, II
every respect, deport themselves in such way that
the stain of recent occurrences may, much posi-
/ bic, be wiped out. The president demands this.