The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-12
News Items.

The fever is raging on the steamer James
town The city is full OF the pestilenco,
and fever is epidemic in the Isthnnus.
Cholera appeared on Grenada River. 1t
IS abatlng elsewhere.
LIMA, January 22-Tho American
steamer Joseph Clark is here with yellow
fever.
HAVANA, February 6.-Cholern, small
poX and yellow fever still prevails. Al St
Thomas 700 cholera deaths have occurred
in five weeks. The small pox is abatinr
Matanzas whites suffer most.
WAsHINGToN, February 1O-The New
Orleans Riot Committee will report to-
morrow, condomning Mayor Monroe an !.
consuming the President. They say the
loyal people are not protected, and will in
convention report bill appointing a Co
vernon and Council under whom the State
can rc-orSanize. Only loyalists. regardless
OF color, will be allowed to vote.
WASH1NGroN, February 1.-The report
OF Elliot and Shellsberger, who were ap-
pointed, on the 10th of December, to cx-
anime into the New Orleans riot has been
submitted. The examination commenced
IN New Orleans on the 22d of December.
closed there on the Sd of January. and was
resumed here on the 18th of January.
closing in February. There were 179 wit
nesses eXamlned-forty-seven of whom
were examined at the request of the New
Orleans authorities. The report saws:
HISTORY shows no II OF so destitute of ius-
tlhable cause, resulting in 4 massacre so
lnhuman and fiend-ike. The direct cause
OF the riot was the re-assemblinc of the
convention, pursuant to the call by Hon.
H. Ii. Howell acting President" The com
mittee gives the history OF the convention
and riot. Some policemen acted to save.
not destroy life. Several members includ.
ing Fisk, were saved by being arrested.
Gov. Hahn was protected while passing
from the hall to prison, though hereceivcd
many blows from other policemen before
falling into the hands that saved him.
Some other instances of kindness bv the
police are given. The police and mob. in
bloody emulation, continued butcher,nr
until nearly 200 wero killed and wounded.
len policemen were wounded-nine Sc
verely-and nine killed. 1t the convention
had been armed, or colored people had
been called IN advance, to protect the con-
ventlon, this would not have been the case
The riot was not an accident, but was the
determined purpose of the mayor to dis
perse the convention. The committee pro-
ceeds to discuss the question, quoting teIe-
grams from the President to Lieutenant
Governor voorhees,, which, they say,
assured Voorhees, of Presidential support
in tho proposed action.
The President is censured for overlook
ing the Governor, whom he knew to be
loyal, in addressing the Lieutenant-G Cover
nor and Attorney General, who were
known not to be in sympathy with the
Governor, and giving directions which, if
carried out, as the Lieutenant Governor
and Attorney General understood them.
would have placed the military with the
Mayor In arrestlnS members of the Con-
ventlon. The President knew the condi-
ton Of affairs in July; he knew that rebels.
thugs and disloyal men controlled Mon
roe's election; he knew such men chiefly
composed the police; he knew Mayor
Monroe, an unpardoned rebel, was sus-
pened by the military and that he had
subsequently pardoned him; he must have
known Voorhees, and Herron's rebel ante
cedents; he knew riot and bloodshed were
apprehended, and he knew that military
orders were in force; yet, without the
knowledge of the Secretary of War or of
the General commanding the army, gave
orders, by telegraph, intended to compel
soldiers to aid the rebels against L! en- who
were loyal during the war.
The committee discusses at length the
right of Congress to legislate so as to
place Louisiana within the control of loyal
men. The military must control until the
people OF Louisiana adopt constitution
assuring safety to the public, and receiving
the sanction of Congress. These results
follow a successful war. These results
would not have followed had it been an in
surrection instead Of a civil war. Until
loyal State OF Louisiana exists in full ac-
cord with the United States, and while the
objects OF the war are nnattained the
accomplishment of this requires tempo
rrarlly q provisional government. The
loyal people of Louisiana must form such
constitution in the meantime as their
safety requires. In the discharge of this
duty, the committee submit the Following
bill: o
BE it enacted, that the President nomi-
mates, and the Senate confirm, a Governor
OF LOUISIANA, who hold office for one year,
unless sooner removed by the President,
with the consent of the Senate, or unless
sooner relieved by a successor elected
under the provisions of this Act. The Go
vernon must be citizen of louisiana
must at all times have borne true faith and
allegiance to the United States, and shall
rake the oath Of July 2, 1862; IN addition,
mat he has done no act which would work
ui5quatlhcatlon under the provisions of
this Act.
I'd. The President shall nominate. and
tne senate confirm, a Provisional Council
OF hlne persons, qualified like the Govern
or ana taking tho Same oath, to continue
~ once, unless sooner removed by the
Ireslient, the Senate consenting, until
Legislature has been duly elected under
tne provisions of this bill; the Council.
with the Governor, to be invested with
leSlslatl g power. In no case shall snch
confirmed by the Senate. The Council re-
mains )crpetual session, with power to
ADJOURN not longer than thirty DAYS.
majority constitutes a quorum.
3d. 1T shall be the duty of the Governor
10 see TO the execution of Federal and
State laws, and shall nominate and. with
consent OF the Council, commission officers
now existing or hereafter created to hold
unless relieved by the Governor, tho Coun-
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