Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-12
LOUISIANA.

How the VlQ Ihlng NOrAS Under TWO
Legislative BOdles-PrOgress Of the
Little Differences-AnOther
WarmOth BrOclRma-
tiOn.
NEW ORLEANS, December 1.-THE
Fusion Legislature is in session, with a
| quorum in both houses. General Hugh
J. Campbell is President Of the Senate.
]. c. MOncuTe was elected Speaker OF
| the House.
The Lynch-Hawkins Returning
| Board make a material change in the
parish election. They return Judges for
the following District Courts, which
were closed and not determined by the
! Governors Board: E. Nj. Ennier, of
the Third and B. L. Lynch, of the
Fourth. All Republican candidates for
Congress have bee9 returned.
/ The Kellogg Legislature passed bill
abolishing the Seventh and Eighth Dis
/ trict Courts, and creating a Supreme
/ Court, with exclusive jurisdiction in is
suing injunctions and mandamuses in
| all cases in which the State. county and
! Metropolitan Board shall be party. A
resolution was passed arraigning w. A.
ELlLlOIEs buAAC VI lAAE 4kAAAI ASloNAANN
Court, before the bar of the House for
contempt in issuing an injunction yes
terday against Pinchback.
BY order OF Acting Governor Pinch
back, Major General Campbell has been
relieved from active duty, and Major
General James LOngstreet, of the LOuisi-
ana militia, was assigned commandant
of the division. This movement was
doubtless made to relieve the United
States troops on duty at Mechanics In
stitute.
The fusion Legislature Joint commit
tee was appointed to notify the Cover
nor, who soon thereafter sent 10 the
joint session of the Senate and House
his message, after reading which, both
adjourned until noon tomorrow.
Governor WarmOth to-day issued the
following proclamation:
- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. d
NEW ORLEANS, December II, 1872.
WHEREAS, a revolutionary assem-
blage, pretending to be the General As
sembly of the State of Louisiona, COM
posed mainly of candidates who were
defeated at the election, but who have
been proclaimed elected by persons who'll
" unauthorized, which persons have
deliberately and wickedly falsified the
facts as to the election, and have pre-
tended to return said defeated candi-
dates without having in their possession
any of the legal returns or other docu-
mentary evidence, thus setting at def
ance the will of the majority of the peo-
ple: and whereas, said fraudulent and
pretended General Assembly has at
tempted to impose on the public by
passing pretended resolutions of i'm
peachment, in pursuance of which a
person, falsely assuming to be Lieuten-
t-GOvernor, by virtue of a term of of
fee as Senator. which expired, has, un-
der protection of certain unauthorized
persons, broken iRto the Executive OF
flee and declared himself Acting Gov
ernor of the State, and persists in such
claim, in spite of the Injunction issued
by a competent court, and where
as said revolutionary and fraudu-
lent organization has proceeded
to declare the result of the late election
by proclaiming the election Of the can
didates for Governor and other State Of
ficers who were really defeated by many
thousand votes; and whereas, the truly
elected members of the General Assem-
bly,, being excluded from the Capital
by an armed forced placed at the dis
posal of the conspirators against the
peace and dignity of the State, have
met and organized at the City Hall,
in the city of New Orleans, and are now
prepared to enter ON the discharge of
their Legislative duties; now, therefore,
I,H.C. Warmoth, Governor the State
of Louisiana, do issue this, my prOcIa-
nation, warning and cOntemning all
good citizens against in any
way recognizing the said fraudulent
pretending to be the Gene
raj Assembly of the State, and now in |
session at the building known as the
Institute, recently called the |
or the person who claims |
10 act as Governor by virtue of fTaudu- |
lent resolutions of Impeachment adopted |
by the said revolutionary assembly, and |
hereby command all State officers, col |
lectors, sheriffs and others to |
disregard the pretended official acts |
of the said revolutionary assemblage, |
and of the person who falsely and fraud |
claims to act as Governor of the |
State, to refuse to them all competence |
or recognition, but to recognize and deal |
only with the legal officers now in au- |
thority, until such time as their success
sors shall lIe regularly installed, in ac-
cordance with law, and agreeable to the |
legal returns of the recent election; and |
do hereby declare that such officers will |
be protected in the discharge of their |
duty by all the authority of which the
State government is possessed, and that |
all the force of the State will be used for
the purpose of defeating the maehina-
tions of the conspiTatoTs who have tenn
porarily occupied the State capitol, of
enforcing the laws of the State, of en-
forcing writs of the Judiciary and
the peace and dignity of
the State.
Giv-n under my hand and seal of the
State this eleventh day of December,
AID, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, and of the independence of the
United States the ninety-seventh
year.
[Signedl II. c. WARMOTH,
Governor Of Louisiana.
By the Governor,
J. a. WoODwARD, Acting Sec'y of State.
The military officers having been or
dered by the acting Governor, Pinch
back, through the Adjutant-G General,
Street, to report to General Longstreet,
express a determination to obey no or
ders but those emanating from Govern
or WarmOth, who they still regard as
Commander-in-Chief. The militia ars
on duty guarding their armory tonight.