New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-07

ernOr-Amerlcan and Spanish Claim
Commissioners-Gover Orr Befor,
Ku-klux C0mmiftee-GOvernOr Cook,
on Wages of LabOr-Suspensi0n O
Labor on Public improvements =
Weather synopsis and Probabilities.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-The labor com
| mittee fixed upon 50 so per day. Many la
| bOrers refuse TO accept terms.
Infammatory speeches were made last
| night. The following is specimen speech
Marcellus West followed. He said they
| were all laboring men, and must have work
| to keep their families from starving, and
| if they were to be kept out of it by these
| contractors, they would have their blood
| and if this continued, he would say to them
to take contractors head off his shoulders
| whenever and wherever they should. meet
him. He told them to go to their districts
and form associations for labOring men; elect
delegates to convention; to draw up me-
MORALS and resolutions, and be ready TO
meet these contractOrs-the meanest and
most contemplate set of men ON Gods
earth.
To-day several demonstrations were made
by the colOred men, and at one point seven
were arrested by the police.
Mr.. Gleason
In view of the present difficulty with the
laborers, and to preserve the peace of the
city, we suggest that you suspend the work
on the Seventh street improvement until
such measures can be adopted as the occa-
sion demands. Yours, respectfully,
H. ID. COOKE,
JAMES A. MAGRUDER,
s. p. BROWN.
Governors Office, June 6, 1871.
Upon the reception of the above Mr..
Gleason who had white men working at
one dollar and half per day, stopped
work.
The American and Spanish claims COM
mission met to-day, and considered rules
for their procedure. When these are COM
pleted, the commission will adjourn two
months, to allow claimants to prepare
papers, and take testimony in accordance
with the rules.
About the first of August the Internal
Revenue Department will issue new stamps.
One kind is called sensitive stamps, be-
cause acid to remove cancellation DESTROYS
them; the other kind is printed in colors,
making photographing impossible.
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, testified
before the Ku-klux committee to-day. He
knew of no Ku-Klux in his part of the
State, but believes such an organization did
exist in some counties. Its object was to
intimidate voters in 1879. Governor Orr
leaves for the South tonight.
Governor Cooke has written letter Civ
ing his views to the Board of Public Works
concerning the recent strike, insisting that
one dollar and half is fair price under
existing circumstances for a days labor,
and asserting that the board will not be in
timidated by mobs He suggests the sus-
pension of all labor on public improve
ments tomorrow, and is anxious that the
interests of capital and labor both be taken
into proper consideration, so that while the
labOrers receive the worth of their services,
the taxes will not be made too 0nerous by
a too heavy outlay, nor purchase of labor.
Weather ReporHSynopsis for the past
twenty four hours-The weather has re-
manned sensibly unchanged since Monday
afternoon at the Pacific and Rocky Noun
tain stations. The barometer fell rapidly
last night in Illinois, but has recovered
afternoon from Lake Michigan to Lake
Ontario. The pressure is now somewhat
below the average from the Mississippi to
the Atlantic. The temperature has risen on
the lakes Erie and Ontario. 1t has fallen
from the Ohio to the Missouri. Southeast
winds have prevailed during the day on the
Atlantic coast. Fresh nOrthwesterly winds
from Kentucky to Wisconsin and westward.
Heavy rain storms have been reported from
Illinois to Lake Superior, and are now in
progress from Indiana to Lake Huron, with
threatening weather in Western Tennessee
and Lake Ontario.
Clear weather is probable for Wednesday
from Pennsylvania to Iowa and southward,
and rainy weather will be experienced from
Ohio to Lake Ontario and the extreme
Eastern States tonight, with partially
cloudy and clear weather on wednesday.
The threatening weather which is now pre-
yalent on the lakes is the remnants OF the
storm which was at Galveston June 4, and
at Key West, June l.