The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-09

Administrators, the Citizens Commit
tee and the banks; the State funding
bill is as beneficial to the State as the
city bill is to the city; important mod
ifications were made in the election
law, providing for the appointment OF
Commissioners of Election and the Sc
lection of polling places by the Police
Jury, and that the votes be counted
upon the spot Immediately after the
closing of the poll the amended reg
istration law requires that the Super
visor shall have been resident OF the
parish for which he is appointed twelve
months prior to the election the Au-
ditor's fees, estimated at from fifteen
to twenty five thousand dollars per
annum will hereafter revert to the
State treasury the amendment offered
to the appropriation bill, providing
for the payment of over 5000, 900 OF
fraudulent vouchers issued by George
w. Carter for extra compensation and
mileage to members of the House dur
ing the session of 1871, though once
adopted, was reconsidered and laid
upon the table through the personal
efforts of the Governor; finally, the
general appropriation bill is smaller
in amount than any passed within the
last ten years. Such have been the
reforms that have caused State war
rants to advance in value from as low
as forty-eight to eighty cents on the
dollar, with still upward tendency,
and which will finally bring them to
par, besides increasing the value OF
State bonds at least twenty-five per
| cent. @s f
The conversation here turned upon
| the Governors intended visit North,
the object of which the Governor eA-
planned to be to attend a meeting of
the stockholders of the New Orleans,
Mobile Il Texas Railroad, in which
| the State holds stock to the amount
of two and q half million dollars. III
answer to an inquiry from the report
er, Governor Warmoth emphaticaIy
| denied the rumOr that he was going
to Washington to "make friends y with
President Grant, saying: Il do not
design going to Westinghouse al, but
if | do, l do not expect to see the
President, for | do not think he wants
to see me, and l know / do not want
to see him. He then said that he had
given up all intention of seeking to
make friends with President Grant
since the August Conventien-that is,
since he had become satisfied that the
outrages which were then committed
were perpetrated with the consent and
knowledge of the President. He fur
/ Their said that the President was in
full and active sympathy with the re-
cent revolutionary attempt to subvert
the State Government. After many
questions had been asked by the re-
porter in regard to charges of corrup-
ton and malfeasance in office made
against the Governor, to all of which
frank and generating replies and ex-
plantations were given, Grant again
became the subject of conversation,
when, in answer to query from his
interrogation, Governor Warmoth said:
| / intend to support the nominee of the Gin
! cinnati Convenslo if Grant ia nominated at
| Philadelphia. / am unqualifedly and deter
minedly opposed to General Grants re-elec-
tion as President of the United States. His
/ use of the Custom House, in which he holds
his conventions his keeping in office, in con
tempt of universally expressed condemns
| ton, his brother-in-law and his followers, W he
have all disgraeed republican government
! his use of the army and armed revenue cut
tiers to set the laws of the State at defiance
by taking without its jurisdiction and au
| thority fifteen members of the Senate, and
his connivance in an effort to overthrow re-
construction by destroying the State Govern
ment renders it impossible for any conseien
tous Republican to support him. certainly
will not. 4 ~
We shall refer to other portions OF
this interview hereafter, especially to
the explanation by Governor War
moth of the way he realized his small
fortune, which it has so often been
charged he made by corrupt means.
Judging from the last issue of the
Leader. the parrot valentino received