The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-01-20
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[Special to the Ouachita Telegraph
New ORLEANS, Jan. 15.-All the all
sent Senators will return tomorrow.
The obnoxious bills election, regis
tration, constabulary, and printing!
were repealed in the following way:
The Senate has, for several days,
quorum. Senator Anderson, Democrat,
arrived in the city, with the previously
secured pledge of Warmoth that heI
was not to he mOlested. He had no in
tention of attending the session which
met as usual to-day without a quorum.
About an hour afterwards Warmoth
dispatched a messenger for Mr.. 'Ander-
son to come to his private ONCE.
Mr.. Anderson went, and after some
preliminary conversation, during
which most of the senators had enter
ed the room, the Governor asked Mr..
Anderson what his party demanded,
and was told the unqualified repeal
of all the obnoxious laws. This the
Governor pledged himself to accom-
plish.
Senator Anderson said that would
not be sufficient. He did not want
professions, but business; that if a bill
for the repeal of all these laws, post
poning action on the police and mill
tia bills for obvious reasons, was draft
ted then aud there he would go in the
Senate and make q quorum, and enable
all legislation to be performed necessa-
ry for their repeal. He required that
no other business should be transacted
without his approval. r
| After some little discussion and de-
lay, the offer was accepted by the Gov
ernor, the repeal bill sulnmarily draft
ed and hence the legislation which fol-
lowed in the Senate.
Some difficulty was experienced in
rushing the bill through the House,
but by three O'Clock the repeal bill had
passed, was signed by the Governor
and only wanted proper publication to
become law.
LEGIsLATURE-S<au
This announcement caused the War
mothites' stock, which went up yes
tertlay like a rocket to come down with
Iequal velocity.
Observation-Disclosures and disorderly.
Gen. F. J. Heron, formerly United
States Marshal, afterwards a State
Tax Collector and now Warmoth's
Secretary Of State and one of his adj
1visers, who recently emerged from
Bankrupt Court, leaving creditors mi
nus about half = million, including
claims Of United States for one hun.
dred thousand, continues his career
Last week he gave the State Treasurer
a check for eight thousand in settle.
ment of his account as tax collector
which was not honored when presented
Bank officer reported no funds. Thi.
little irregularity is still unadjuste<l.
DEPARTMENT JUSTICE,
!. WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1872.
His Excellency, HI. G. Warmoth, Gov.
ernor of Louisiana, New Orleans:
iG,.-The President has referred t.
me your dispatch of this date repre-
senting that tho legislature of the State
has asked to have the military force o
the United States placed at your dis
posal, to preserve the public peace, &c
There is a contest as to the legality
of the election Of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and also as to the existence O
the lower branch of the legislature
dispatches having been received here
from two persons, each claiming to b.
Speaker thereof, and the Presiden
docs not feel that he would be justified
in deciding those questions at this tim,
and under existing circumstances, an<
is unwilling to interfere in State mat
ters with the military power of thu
government, except in clear case o
legal right and overriding necessity.
Very respectfully,
GEO. II. WILLIAMS,
Attorney General.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 1G.-The absen
Senators have addressed u communi
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