New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-16
AT 1T AGAIN,

! Alter DONG It's DeSt 10 creale q rlOt 1Ol
two weeks past, the Times yesterday de-
posed its Observation-Disclosures editor and
reinstated Mr.. Podsnap. With majestic
wave of his hand Mr.. P. dismisses all
excited partisans, and exclaims let me
| give you "a solution" You have COM
mitted ''serious errors and tollies' on both
! sides; but the selection, from such as me,
of three honest, dispassionate, clear
headed citizens, would bring about a set
Element in fifteen minutes"
If the Times chameleon properties were
not already matter Of public notorietv,
its readers might suppose this to be one of
its intermittent political changes Of front
but a scrutiny of the basis Oh which the
proposed solution" is founded shows that
it is still true to the faction that has
filled its proud stomach with the idea of
promotion to the executive chair To the
legal Legislature it virtually proposes a
surrender to reasonable faction; while
of the faction itself no demands of a sur
render of its extraordinary assumptions is
made, as We propose to show:
!. That the Metropolitan Police be with
drawn from the hall Of the Representatives.
and that they only be called on in case of a
mob or breach of the peace. when the regu-
lar police power of the House is inadequate.
The police have been placed in the Ne
chanics' Institute to guard the offices of
the Governor, Secretary Of State, Register
of Public Lands and other public officials,
with their valuable records and archives
from mob of rufflans which repeatedly
declared it's determination to leave not one
stone upon another of the entire building.
SO far as the Senate and House are con.
cerned, their resolutions requesting such
protection are sufficient answer.
,. That the House sitting at the Mechan
les Institute rescind its illegal action in the
expulsion of members after the secession Of
the Carter wing.
We are glad that the Times recognizes
the fact that it is the House which sits
at the Mechanics Institute, and being such
it must admit that it has right to Judge
of the qualifications of its own members.
And it would be difficult to conceive more
legal grounds for expulsion than the Csc
cession" referred to.
3. That the action of Carr in moving TO
unseat Carter, and declaring that motion
adopted, be declared null and of no effect,
The Times bubbles here, or displays IN
pardonable ignorance. Thomas Green
Davidson, in the chair put motion that
the Speakership be declared vacant, which
was carried by ffty-fve Yeas, three more
than a quorum, and subsequently Mr.
Brewster was elected to the vacancy over
several competitors. Mr.. Carr had nothing
to do with declaring this motion
adopted" and the action with which the
Times tries to confound it, never had
formal Endorsement from the House, al
though it was not without accepted pre-
cedent.
4. That the House be placed precisely
where 1t was on the morning OF the fourth,
and that both Carter and Brewster resign
the chalr to some conservative, dispassion
ate member, IN whose honesty and tirmness
both parties can confide.
Can the Times restore Walter Wheyland
to life? Can it restore to the foolish Dem
ocrats and treacherous Republicans an
iota Of public respect or confidence after
their revolutionary and riotous proceed