New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-06

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genuine amendments to the bill.
Ihe printing bill was passed for the pur-
pose OF properly pron.ulgating the laws. 1t
was true that the price Of the work done is
hisn when paid in cash, but not when paid
IN warrants at from forty to siky cents on
tne dollar, as it has been done all through
the present administration. He named GER
tam members of the so-called reform coali-
uon' who had held printing contracts. Col
onel Carter, as Speaker Of the House, ex-
pended $50, from the fund for contingent
expenses for the publication of the House
journals in obscure papers with little or no
circulation.
The opposition Of Colonel Casey to him
self arose from refusal on his part to use
his influence to elect him to the United
States Senate, and from denial on the
Governors part of cooperation with him in
moneyed speculation. In regard to the
Gatling gun convention, he had arrived
with ninety-fve delegates, and as he
opened the door of the little courtroom, he
saw crowd within, and Colonel Carter
| addressing throng of his adherents, while
| the doors opening into the big courtroom,
where the convention was to be
held, were open. He saw at once
| through their plan. None but them
selves would be allowed admission
until twelve O'Clock. Precisely at that
moment the delegates who had been eau
cusing in the adjoining room, to which ad-
mission was debarred, would throw open
| the doors, and before the other members of
the party could well get in the room tenn
porary chairman would have been ap-
| pointed, besides committee on credentials,
| and everything would have gone their way.
| After the Republicans had submitted 70
every indignity; after they had condescend-
ed to owe their admission to convention
to tickets obtained through the money order
Office Of the pOstOfice; after they
had passed in among crowd Of
| two hundred deputy marshals, they de-
termined to hold convention in another
hall. THE vacancies in the packed con-
vention were filled, on motion of Colonel
Lowell. by proxy Documents were sub
mitted embracing these facts. and proving
every assertion made. The Customhouse
convention was composed almost entirely
J of federal officials.
In his reference to the administration of
the printing law by Lieutenant Governor
Dunn and Speaker Carter, who had given
out the contracts, being majority OF the
Printing Commissioners, the Governor
showed their partisan interest, Speaker
| Carter in convention having announced his
determination not to give a contract
to any editors but anti WarmOth men,
| and both commissioners having dis
missed editors who had, while they held
contracts, complimented the Governor, and
conferred the same privileges on other
papers, with the condition of being anti
| Warmoth. The identical terms of the Goa
| lition between the Dunn party and Demo-
Gratis of the General Assembly were sub
mitted, the proposition being in writing
and consisting substantially as follows:
In consideration that the Democratic
members would cOalesce with them in the
organization of the Legislature SO as to de-
feat Governor Warmoth and place the Dunn
party in control, they, the Dunn party
agreed to prevent further legislation look
ing to the mixing of schools or the en-
forcement of social equality, and to repeal
the registration, election. police and
militia laws. This coalition to continue
| until after the next Presidential electiOn
and in the meantime all the public offices
OF the State, including those to be elected
| in 1872. were to be distributed between the
| two contracting parties in the proportion
|
10000 white voters. AS to the Legis-
lature, fifteen members of the House
were to be unseated, and their places
| filed with ten contestants from the
Dunn party and five from the Democratic
party. In the Senate certain members
were to be unseated. and their places filled
with Dunn men and Democrats, with such
preponderance of the former as would
give the ascendency in the Senate.
These terms had been rejected by the
Democrats, and had been obtained from
| Colonel SmallwOOd, secretary, and Judge
| A. G. Brice, president of the Central Demo-
cratic Committee. In the first coalition, in
the House, the members had been backed up
by large corruption fund obtained from
| the incOrpOratOrs OF the levee bill, which
| afterward passed, the incOrpOratOrs sub
scribing. as the Governor was informed,
| ten thousand dollars each, to raise the
| money, and secure. thereby, the passage Of
the law. To show the spirit which con-
trolled the second coalition, the Governor
stated that Mr.. E. L. Jewell, "ferociOus
Democrat" and Judge William H. Cooley
had stated. "if they could not be rid of War
| moth in any other way he would be assas-
sinated" This was said in the rotunda of the
St. Charles Hotel. The Governor did not
class Colonel Carter as a Republican. but
| AS a Democrat tor Carter had told Judge
| Alexander Walker. one of the editors of
the Times, that he was not a Republicans;
never had been and never expected to be;
| that his design was to ''break up the Re-
publican party" and intended to put the
| government under the control of ''the vir-
tue and intelligence" of this State. This
statement had been repeated to himself at
Pass Christian. in the presence of General
| LOngstreet, General Sheridan and Others
and had been atterward reiterated in the
presence of j. l.. Gubernator. Besides
Carter had acknowledged that his election
from Cameron parish was due to his "con-
| tederate record
| In his call of an extraordinary session
the Governor had not followed the advice
OF portion of the members, the document
purpOrting to be such suggestion being
| call on the executive for protection. Those
members near the Capitol had been notified,
| though no attempt was made to conceal the
| call from other members of the House
Messrs. Yorke and Matthews, dining to-
gether at Nictor's, were notified, and 1t was
| the first time he had heard OF the Carter
men being in caucus at the Cosmopolitan
| Club, near by-they might have been. That
| these two gentlemen opposed to Governor
| Warmoth had been notified he was certain,
| General Sheridan being willing to testify
| to the fact. notwithstanding the statement
! subsequently drawn up that no notice had
been received.
The causes OF calling the Senate alone in
extra session were stated. He called it in
consequence of the death of Lieutenant
| Governor Dunn, which created a vacancy
which it was necessary to fill. Some per-
! sons, he said, had thought that the vacancy
| ought to be tiled by appointment, but he
| had thought otherwise, and therefore he
called the session. The Times had advo-
Gated the appointment of successor to
Lieutenant Governor Dunn at the time.
In his allusion to the election which took