The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-01
SENATE.

gress should order new election the Mc'
Emery government was utterly and mon
strously fraudulent, as the Senator from
Wisconsin, Mr.. Carpenter, had admitted
and TO recognize II would be to set up
gross usurpaLion. The proper and only
sale thing for Congress to do was TO rec
ognize the Kellogg government or 10
adopt o pollcyof mastery inactivity. Tho
threats of McEnery people were made
merely for the purpose Of affecting tho
action Of Congress and il McEnGry should
attempt to give them effect Kellogg alone,
or II necessary, with aid OF the President,
would take care OF him.
Mr. Schurz said that there had been
rumors OF late that the Senator from In.
diana (Morton) had turned over q new
leaf and would henceiOrth be more liber-
al in bis treatment Of the south, but TO.
night, he had shown that there was no
change in his spirit, or In his manner d. Of
supporting bis views. There was really
something imposing in the audacliy ofhis
statements, as for instance, that the Nc.
Emery government vas supported only
by small faction In Louisiana, q state
ment for which he was unable to offer q
particle OF proof and which was contra
dicted by all the facts in the case. The
Senator from Indiana was shocked OF the
idea oI putting the government Of War.
moth again in power in Louisiana, but it
would be remembered that few years
ago the same Senator had argued again
and again 10 favor Of eXtendiDgothe term
OF Governor Bullock and his Legislature
in Georgia for two years upon the
ground that il that were not
done society would be disturbed. It
would not do Tor the great friend Of the
villain Bullock to be SO alarmed or so
scrupulous about reinstating Warmoth in
the Governorship OF Louisiana.
Mr. SchuTz then argued at length that
the Kellogg government was utterly un-
republican and fraudulent The report of
the Committee on Privileges and Elec.
tions stated that in Louisiana there were
two so called governments-on mere
dcfdeio government, and the other in q
greater degree the dSure government,
This being so, and the dJdct0 government
having been set up solely by Federal
usurpation, tho duty Of Congress was
plainly to undo that usurpation and make
the idSure government the dedcto gov
ernment' also. The Presidents last mes.
sage showed that he had discovered his
mistake and wished Congress 10 help him
out ofsthe difficulty, and it was the duty
Of Congtess to make 1t easy for
the President to, retrace his false
steps in this matter. II our free gov.
ernment was TO be maintained, these
usurpations must 6e stopped. II the peo.
pie Of the south were expected to obey
the laws We must ourselves respect the
laws.
MIR. Cole moved to lay it on the table
for the purpose Of taking up the sundry
civil approproprialion bill Lost, yeas
10 nays "a.
BIr. Sherman offered an amendment
providing that until new election can
be held the Kellogg Government shall be
recognized instead Of the Government Of
Wafmoth, which was legally in power
before the last eleCtlon,i j..
Mr.. Morton opposed ordering new
election. Even with this amendment he
would not under any circumstance assent
10 the principle Of the bill reported by the
majority of the committee.
Mr.. Edmunds said that the people Of
Louisiana having had Nn election in form
and according 10 the laws Of the State,
must have, primd .Jaeie, elected somebody.
The question then was who was elected,
and It appeared from the report ot the
committee that on the face Of the returns
McEuery was primd tdcie elected. There.
fore, Congress, II 1t had been appealed to
at first, would have been Obliged to recog.
nize that government as prtmG Jdcte the
government OF the State, and 1t was so
Obliged still, Its right and duty in the mat
ter being In no way affected BY the action
of the President. The Presidents action
was necessary aud right under the cir
cumstances, but the duty Of deciding
finally rested, not with the President, but
with Congress, and the duty Of Congress
was to make haste to undo the usurpa-
lion committed by Q United States Judge
and leave the people OF Louisiana to reg
ulate their government under the laws OF
Louisiana
MIR. Sherman did not care much wheth.
or Congress should recognize McEnery or
Kellogg until the new election, but pre-
ferred kellogg because the President had
recognized him. The Warmoth govern.
mcnt he regarded as out oL the question.
NIr. Flanagan, who was on the floor,
gave way to Mr.. Morton, who made Q
motion TO adjourn. ,
The Chairman Or. Ferry, Of Mich, }
was sound asleep and had 70 be awakened
by the Clerk to put the motion. Themo'
ton 10 adjourn was lost
Mr.. Flanagan resumed, and the ques'
tion was then taken on the substitute Oh
| fered by Mr.. Hill, when II was lost-yeas
10, NAYS 25. The alternatives we're Dem
ocralic Senators.
Messrs. Hill, Trumbull, and Howe then
reviewed in different turns tho amend
ment that until new election the Kel-
loCp government shall be considered the
do jacIo government. 1t was then agreed
to-yeas 90, nays 49,
Mr.. West then moved an amendment
which he said was for the purpose OF con-
forming tho lines Of the election precincts
10 ihC iiucs fixed by State laws.
Mr. Carpenter opposed tAe amendment!
and said It would put the whole control
Of The election IN tho hands ol Kellogg,
What was wanted was iair election, SC
that was effected It did not matter hg
whether it resulted Democratic or Re
publican.
| At Ave a. NJ. the final vote had moi
been reached, debate going on. The vote
being AZ length reached, tho amendment
was reiecled--Ayes II, noes 81. The
bill having been considered In the Com
mittee Of the Whole, itwas reported tc
the Senate. The question being on con,
curing In the amendment which had
been made, Mr.. Trumbull called atten
4 tiOn To tho fact that the amendment hsC
been adopted In the Committee OF tht
Whole bv the vote Of Mr.. Carpenter.