The sun., 1873-02-05
The Louisiana Controversy and the
senate Committee.

The investigation Of the Louisiana case
before the Senate committee Is verifying
all that TIE Sun has said for year past in
regard TO the utterly rotten condition of
politics in that State, and is demonstrating
that there Is not a more shameless set of
scamps outside Of the pcnitcntiary than
the venal crowd whereof KELLOGG. PACK
ARD, CASEY, and PINCHDACK are figure
heads.
The committee have only touched the
edges of the subject yet hut il Is already
proven that all through the carpct-bag
regime, and never more so than last fail,
the Republicans have practh ed aud
patronized fraudulent naturalization, false
registration, ballot-box stuffing, deceptive
counting and returning of votes, together
with bribery, forgery and perjury during
the elections, upon n scale and with an
effrontery which would have made Tam
many Hall hang its head in the palmiest
days of TWEED and CONNOLLY.
Some amusing ms well rs many amazing
things occasionally come out in the course
OF the examination. Gen. SYPHER, a car
pet-bagger from Pennsylvania, has repre-
sented the First District of Louisiana in
made up in part of New Orleans, and in
cludes the parish of Plaquemines, which
latter has been famous as the theatre of
election frauds ever since JOIN SLIDELL
carried Louisiana for Polk against CLAY
by means of false returns. Gov. WAR
MOTH first manufactured the inconsider-
able SYPHEH into a Congressman. In the
recent troubles SYPuER has gone back on
WARMoTH, and in the pending investiga-
tion WARNoTH has gone for SYPHER.
Both appear before the committee; and
WARMoTH, who evidently knows how ii is
himself proved that SYPHER had cut IL
great figure among the negroes in the
parish of Plaquemines, and especially at
the last contest and in the subsequent con-
troversies over the result, as the perpetra-
tor Of stupendous frauds on the ballot
boxes.
Now, all this would seem TO be pointedly
pertinent TO the inquiry before the Senate
| committee. But after WARMorH had
wrlmg long array of damuing facts from
witness who was formerly one of SY-
| PIERS tools, Gen. LOGAN, one of the COM
| mittee, moved 10 strike out the testimony
respecting SYPHER, for the reason that he
| was member of the House concerning
| whom a Senate committee had no right to
inquire For shame, Gen. LoGANl Your
committee are sitting to hear proofs in re-
| gard TO election frauds in Louisiana. Docs
| testimony otherwise relevant become ir-
| relevant because the scoundrel who COM
mitted the frauds happens to bc II member
OF the House OF Representatives Does it
not occur to you that many people may
suppose that the reason why you inter
posed this flimsy objection was because the
| POLAND committee of the House received
testimony in regard TO your connection
| with the Credit Mobilier scandals?
We advise both Senators and Represen-
tatiyes not to be so absurdly technical and
so transparcntly sensitive in regard to the
mere mode OF proving indisputable facts
relating to these discrediMble transactions,
for they may be assured that a committee
outside OF Congress, tho committee of the
whole people, are trying al these cases
and in due time will render u verdict from
which there win be no appeal,
| Mr., MORTON, Chairman Of the commit
! tee, seemed To be surprised when the fact