New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-26

views, gentlemen. l am but single mem
Der. But these are the views that l as q
member entertain. Gentlemen, the grounds
on which we go back is that we acguiesce in
the majority vote of the Senate.
Mr.. Stevens then took the floor, and
said-I want to say only one or two words.
l am one of those who have been expelled
for other reasons than absence, and say
think that the best policy is that those who
can get their positions be allowed to do So
aud let them work for us. l am not afraid
to trust them. l think they will do all they
can for us. think that they will not for
get us, and l do not think that they will de-
sert us.
Mr.. Lott tinterrupting) -That we will not,
you can rest assured.
Mr.. Stevens, cOntinuing-It requires no
pledge from you. |, for one, am willing to
leave my case in your hands.
Mr.. Wands was in favor Of returning. but
thought it was best to proceed in body,
and objected to Mr.. Lofts motion.
Mr.. Thompson arose, and with few re-
marks, in which be expressed his entire APP
prevail in the course about to be pursued,
he offered the following motion as a substi
tute to Mr.. Lofts:
IL move that the members Of this House
repair to the Stale House in a body and
take their seats"
Mr.. Lott objected to the substitute unless
it was modified; he did not propose to go
back and sneak into his seat. mo! let us
go like men, and hand in our names, and
show them that we feel that we are entitled
to our seats l say, let us go there like men
and take our seats, and not go as if we
thought we had been guilty of expulsion,
and had come to beg to be admitted again"
Mr.. Thompson thought that to 90 there in
body and take their seats was much more
manly and had less appearance of begging
than to do as Mr. Lott proposed; but" he
said, ~ want it understood that go there
not because l acquiesce in the majority
vote of the Senate; no, go there because
/ do not see any other move, and think
we can accomplish more by going over and
fighting it out on the floor of the House than
we can by remaining here; that is why GO"
Mr.. Lynch then took the floor. He said
81 do not know that it is exactly right for
me to speak on this subject, as l am one of
the members who are not going back, but l
have this to say, am not going back to
that House. because to go there would sub
ject me to insult. do not believe there is
any one here who regrets his course: do
mot, l am sure We have maintained that
we were the legal House, and that we had
the legal Speaker, and l think that any
House with a hundred members without
George w. Carter in the chair is not legal
House. do not recognize that body as a
leSal Dody. suppose Tue oeuate ulu recoS-
nize them yesterday, how was that recOg-
milton accomplished; you all know, gentle
men, it was by fraud and bribery. would
yield to the recognition of the Senate if l
did not know how it was obtained. But go,
gentlemen, go! knock under; confess that
you were wrong; go, and take back what
you have done; confess that the principle
that you have been upholding was all wrong.
l say 60"
Mr.. Lott thought that every member had
his own ideas about the propriety of going
back. ''Let us who can go back, he said,
land take our seats, and then let those
other members apply, and We will vote on
it,"
In regard to the proposition to 60 back in
body, he had but one objection to offer,
and that was, he thought that list of the
returning members should be handed to
Mr.. Brewster. This point was finally con-
coded.