Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-19
POLITICAL.


PROVIDENCE, March 1S.--At the Demo-
cratic State Convention to-day the follow
ing nominations were made: for Governor,
Chas. r. Cutter; fol. Lieutenant Governor,
Sam. ID. Walls; for Secretary of State, Will
liam j. Miller; for Attorney General George
n. Bliss; for General Treasurer, W. 2.
Congdon.
Inc ne ssosolutions den6unce the Congress
sional salary bill and Credit Mobilier, and
express sympathy with the people OF Lou
isiana under the rule of FEDERAL bayonets'
That s.Lift''-New Jury Law.
LANSING, MICH, March 18.-The Sem
ate has adopted d resolution condemning
the action Of Congress in increasing salar-
ries.
The House passed Senate bill relative to
changing jurors in criminal cases, which
provides that the previous formation in an
expression of partial opinion or impress
sion tn referetice to ghe guilt or innocence
OF prisoner, or present opinion or
preston in reference thereto, such opinion
or impression not being based on personal
knowledge of the facts of the case, shall
not be sufficient ground Of challenge for
cause to any person otherwise legally quail
fed to serve as juror upon trial as such &C
tioDj provided the person proposed as such
juror shall declare on oath that he verify
believes he can render an impartial verdict
according to the evidence submitted to the
jury on such trial; provided the court shall
be satisfied that the person SO proposed as
a Juror does not entertain such present
opinion as would influence bis verdict as
juror.
Little Jersey Going to Investigate
Herself.
TRENTON, N. j., March 1S.-In the
House to-day preamble and resolutions
were offered setting forth that whereas
wholesale rumors of corrupting influences
used among members of the House were
in circulation. to secure the adoption or de-
feat of certain measures, affecting the
honor Of the Legislature seriously; there
fore, resolved, that special committee be
appointed, with power TO send for persons
and papers and investigate into the truth of
said rumors, and report as early as practi-
cable. Adopted, by vote of SO to 3.
Susan b. and Her AbettOrs.
UTICA, n. Y, March 1S-The case of
the Rochester Inspectors of Election, in
dicted for receiving the votes of Susan B.
Anthony and thirteen other women, was
to-day postponed until the May term.
Corruption fn Louisiana.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-The recent
nomination by President Grant of his
brother-in-law, James F. Casey, to be Col
lector of Customs at New Orleans for four
more years has revived attention to the re-
port which was made by committee of the
Hnnca Of of thn
session of the Forty-second Congress upon
the abuses and corruptions of the public
service in Louisiana. The report is num-
ber1d 92, and was made on the 30th of
May, 1872. BY some hocus-pocUs the ac-
ton Of the committee under the order
of the House was delayed for a long
time, and the testimony in the case was al
so suppressed for several months. These
things do not Of course happen accidental
", 1t is stated that Mr.. Scoield, of Penn
sylyania, the chairman of the committee,
is responsible for this delay and suppression
of the truth; that, on finding how black the
case was proyen to b., be went to the Pres
ident and urged upon him to remove Ca
sew, saving that the Republican party could
not shoulder such man. How little i'm
portance Grant attaches to such represen-
tations may be gathered from his recent
act in transmitting Casey's name to the
Senate for this most important and lucra-
tive position. Three reports were made in
the case; one signed by Sco6eld and Nc
Creery, recommending no action, but
showing the existence of very gross usur-
patton and abuses by the Radical officials
in Louisiana. The report of Messrs.
Speer and Archer (Democrats) is a spicy
document. 1t disciOses most extraordi-
nary amount of corruption and rascality
by Casey, Packard, Ptnchback and other
Administration leaders in louisiana all of
which is abundantly fortified by the testi-
mony. Among other things, it appears
that Pinchback's election as president of
the Louisiana Senate was procured by q
bribe of fifteen thousand dollars to one
Lewis, who was cheated out of his money,
and that George 4. Bovee, who was the
Secretary of state set up lately by the Kel-
loge faction, offered Senator John r. Gal
luD s., 900 if he would change his vote up
on a question. The report says also Casey
is clearly proved to have been interested In
and the holder ola corruption fund of $lS,-
600, part of a $4,000 fund raised by him
self and others TO bride the Legislature 10
pass bill in which he was an incorporation.
herwig, his deputy, was at the time Sen
ator; and when the Governor vetoed the
bill, Casey unlocked his safe in the custom
house and Herwig took out of it and re-
turned $4,000. 1t seems that the SIS, 900
was for the Senators, and the balance of the
$4,000 for the lower house. This grave
charge is proved by the testimony of John
q. SennOtt, of the co.porators, wac paid
his S., 900, and 1t is not denied in the re-
port of Messrs. ScofeId, McCreery and
Broadman Smith, the Republican members
of the committee. 1t appears by other tes-
timony cited in the report that Pinchback
was paid for his vote on the jackson rail
road by note of one Kimball for $4,000,
Endorsed by s. w. Scott, and that Kimball
had a list Of the names of the men he had
made arrangements with. On his list,
Gov. Pinchback, the present Kellogg Uni
ted States Senator, was marked at valua-
ton of $1,000, just twice as much as he
would have fetched in the old days of in
voluntary servitude. These are only part
of the revelations co ntaiIed in this report
and accompanying testimony. 1t is IN
derstood that these matters are all to be
ventilated when Casey's nomination is
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