The New York herald., 1868-07-12

pre,SiUU1g , omcers than Lieutenant Governor Dunn
anu n. d. Isabelle would be hard to find even ID
washington. The coarse enrontery OF their defanc6
o an tne requirements Of law, justice and fair deaf
siace sa VI courtesy Lieutenant Governor Dunn is
tai, powerfully built coal black negro, with side
whisker fashioned after the model Of Wendeii PhI
lips HIS ignorance OF all forms OF Senatorial dix
cusslon render 1t necessary that he should be per-
the Senate r. II. Isabelle, elected temnoraTv % % cSa,1
man OF the House OF Representatives has absoiutei3
no separate eide IDENTITY h Take the rst short mulat
clothes, endow him with cracked, unpleasant voice.
an utter inability yt,a 70 speak correct Engis
and you have temporary Speaker isabelle
vigers, the colored clerk Of the House. II
bearing and manifested this superiority notably thd
first day, when white democratic member took th1
a e 1e wa On a
Vigers Indignantly do you see there Is gentlemal
addressing your" II see de gemman" said Speakel
Isabelle, and went on talking TO the person nearest
him.
THE WHITE CONGRESS AND THE DARKY LEaIsLn
TURE.
The permanent organization OF the Legislature has
improved the personnel Of the Speaker and increased
the decorum in conducting business but the high
handed proceedings with which the House opened
IN peremptoriy excluding all the democratic mem
bers except two or three, have been followed up bY
even stronger measures, anything can pe stronger
than the proceeding by which A. l.. Lee, whlOM
cavalry general under Banks, now nominal editor q
Legislature in the place Of Knapp, a democrat, wtN
was elected by considerable majority over HIM
inc Committee ON Elections first declared, afte1
nearing only Lees own statement that Lee was
elected; then the House-the thing being decided
resolved ION The English principle of hanging fret
and trying aiterwards) to give Knapp hearing be.
fore finally closing their doors against him wherein
they caught Tartar, for Knapp poured in such
flood Of affdavits as abundantly proved that had
Lee been originally declared elected instead of Knapp
the frauds perpetraed would have justified any com.
petent authority in ousting Lee ana declaring KNAPP
elected This made no difference to the House. how!
ever. Lee, like the impeachment Of the President,
was political necessity. and Lee must be had al
hia ondc nintlU
with his friend and presumed partner, General
McMillen has controlled the entire Legislature
United States Senate, and may even yet succeed
in doing 80. He is man of abfity, Witt
probably make much better Senator than any Of It'd
other radical candidates named. In all this in the
assumption Of supreme and undivided power by ths
radical majority and in their peculiar mode Of deat
ing with contested seats, there is ludicrous yed
painful similarity to the proceedings of Congress- and
the six seven democratic districts nom whom
representation is withheld till they can prove thai
their members are prepared to vote the radical
ed Southern States. The example set In the capital
Of the country has spread into the State capitals and
will soon infect the humblest police board.
But the point in which the Legislature has most
p0intedy initiated Congress is in the bill cOnferrne
supreme autocratic powers upon Governor Warmoth,
who Is to be the generalin-chief Of the Louisiana
armament the Deus er mdchtnd, subject only to
radical dictatlon. You have had resume Of this
measure; but it is worth subjoining IN full AZ
rushed through the House and partly through th9
Senate the measure reads thus:-
act directing The Governor of the State 70 enforce tse
OF the United States and the Of article ninety Dlps
of the constitution Of Louisiana:
Representative OF the OF Louisiana Assem-
hereby authorized and rqrd inqu.re 0e alatonI
& aa pea "rs n0 10 or gg 70 roo Of amy @ gf % or o,ss s
% e ne Rreore %y ~ bed S or Of % sSg % ST BE-
SEQ. further enacted That If the Governor of the
the functions Of any office claiming the right exercise
ment election Aforesaid, dsauallhcd by provi.
q be ee
Of article ninetynl of the constitution of louisiana bd
b is,ueite hin ~ 9 Gopsror Of ae sat, he siad
SEC g. Be i further enacted That any person shall have
received commission and violation Of said constitutional
any person shall have, wi.hou, a, commission and
samed the duties % Of any oco BY Fge OF ans
appointment election aforesaid prior the passage o1
duty of'ae GosHor ad ie hre6g atosed and rcqmred@
vacant as II no such disqualified person had ever been a
SEC. L. Be il further enacted, That whenever vacancy
IN office is created by the operation OF this law and
duty Of the and he hereby authorized
appoint qualified citizen thereto who shall hold such
oce until his duly appointed elected and
qualified. 80
ha mot PC @ so ,S en any INV whom @
any compe.
tent court with any person who may be appointed to such
SIC further enacted That ell laws pars of laws
repealed.
sSEc BE IL further enacted That this sha take effect
from and after its passage.
previous enactment gives the Governor the CON-
troll OF the police, previously vested in the Mayor.
With these powers Governor Warmoth viii reign
supreme and irresponsible in the Kingdom Of Louisi,
ana. He can dspOssess, and Will he strongly urged
10 do so, every democratic candidate elected by the
popular voice 70 sces OF trust and profit at the last
election. Among the heads that are thus brought
under his headsNans are those OF the Mayor and
Corporation OF the city and their attendant officers;
the Judges OF the six or seven District Courts and
al n
worth at least a million year. Governor Warmoth
is scarcely twenty years Of age, ana IL known
mainly as a provost Judge during the Banks and
Butler reign of terror.
KISG sToRK PROSPECT
The RAIDS must look out he doesn't play Governor
Wells them. II will not be the first time that the
frogs have elected "A King Stork. His LanSlency, AZ
the local papers dub him, has already developed {
most stork-like length of neck and bill and denk
zen Of the Asopan swamp has whispered to me
that King Stor already declares his subjects win be
considerably astonished by his administration Of
anairs.
The Louisiana ~enatorship-How n Was De.