New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-04

mn. Ogden: simply wish to make an ex-
PLANTATION.
Mr.. Lewis: The explanation will answer
JUST as wen after the vote is taken.
The motion to reconsider was laid on the
table. ~ FL
Mr.. OHara: Mr.. President, I move that
I. b. 9. Pinehback be sworn in as Senator
from the Second District.
Adopted. t8sr
Mr.. Ogden: Mr.. President, rise to make
2 personal explanation. | will endeavor to
pc as concise as | can, under the circum-
stances. | desire to place myself, before
the constituency which l represent, in q
proper light. When the question was put
upon the adoption of the majority report
voted IN the negative. subsequently asked
permission OF the Senate to change my
vote, alleging as a reason that intended to
move reconsideration on some future day.
My vote a it stands now would indicate
that voted with the majority, and desire
that no such impression as that should GO
abroad. l desire that my vote now should
be regarded as | originally intended
amongst the few men in the Senate who
voted IN the negative. When say this, il
is with no disrespect to Mr.. Pfnchback,
who has secured the seat of my dis
tinguished friend. Mr.. Jewell; but feel,
ing that, as Senator Blackman has said,
IN time to come, when all partisan
feeling shall have sutsided and calm
reason resumes its sway, the action of the
Senate to-day will be stamped as the most
unheard of injustice that has ever been per
petrated upon any man. Mr.. Jewell has
been refused, upon simple technicality, q
hearing before this house. The gentleman
from the Second District seems to think it a
strange thing that we the minority. should
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we had-that of breaking quorum. / will
say.to the gentleman he sees, like Macbeth,
thousand murdered Banquos crowding
around him. His heart has not been as it
should have been upon the matter before
the house. 1t is true he has the same right
to his opinions as | have, but he has been
clearly, radically wrong and unjust, denying
the sitting member the poor privilege of
arguing his case. He has wronged a gentle
man who may have been somewhat bitter in
ms partlsanship, out who was certainly en-
titled to the right always given man
whose election is contested to plead his
case. That, sir is the reason | desire my
vote to go before my constituents as / origi-
nally intended. have no personal objec-
lions to Mr.. Pinehback, but the idea that
het who did not in our opinion receive the
necessary votes to elect him Senator,
should be voted in by the mere numerical
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repellant to us. hope, sir, this action on
the part of the Senate will reflect discredit
upon it IN all time to come. | thank the
Senate for the courtesy they have always
extended to me personally: but this is a
question of policy, and believe that
the best policy, even for the Re-
publican party, would have been to
give q fair and impartial hearing TO Mr..
Jewell as well as to Mr.. Plnchback, and to
have taken the evidence of Mr.. Lefevre,
which he has modified, and admitted was
incorrect as taken before the Committee,
before finally deciding the case. A Senator
complained, at the time when l had the
misfortune TO lie one of the parties inter.
ested, that We were constantly moving the
previous question; but 1 remember that in
several instances it was withdrawn cut of
courtesy, but on this occasion, sir, no such
courtesy has been extended. | tell you,
gentlemen, that this action will not only be
condemned, but believe that the very gen.
tlemen who have supported this unyielding
course will regret it. l now ask to have my
vote changed from aye to no.
BIr. Pinchback was then sworn in, after
which the Senate adjourned.