Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-11
PLAYING OUT.
Pinchbeck's Pals Going Back On
him-The Back Of the Thing
Being Broken.
Six Senators Gone Over to the
FusiOnists-Their Reasons
for so Doing.
The Conspiracy of Kellogg, Lynch,
Hawkins, LOngstreet and
Heron Laid Bare.

NEW ORLEANS, January 10.-The
Fusion Legislature was fully organized
at two o'clock this afternoon. Senator
Mcmillan, accompanied by Senators
jerks, Noland, Swords, Todd, Worrell
and HunsakeT, who to-day withdrew
from Kellogg's Senate, took their seats
in the Fusion Senate, and issued the
following address:
NEW ORLEANS, January 10, 1873.
To our fellow-citizens, the people OF Lou
isiana:
We deem II our duty to resent the
anomalous condition of affairs, and to
place before our constituents and eoun-
try the reasons that actuate US in the
course and conduct we have determined
to pursue. We are for a Republican
form Of government. We have
acted with the national Republi
can party, but we cannot sane
tiou the course that has been pursued
in this State by the Customhouse por-
ton Of our party, and by the PiAchbeck
government, and believe that no right
thipk king person or class, no matter Of
what political shade or conviction, can
sustain them in the gross violation of
the rights Of the people and their reck-
less and intOlerant course. The Organi-
zatiOn of the Senate and House we con-
slider as revolutionary. Senators notori
ously elected have been displaced, and
those whom they defeated put in their
places. Members of the Legislature, re-
turned by both boards, have been ig-
nored, and their places filed by defeated
candidates. PrOscriptive legislation has
been rushed hurriediy through; procla-
nations been made inhibiting peaceful
assemblies of citizens, by an Executive
who holds his Office without the color
of right and law, and the popular
viii been so defied and outraged
that we feel We cannot longer act with
body, or support an Executive, who,
for party ends, would sink every vestige
of liberty in its final grave. The gues-
ton as to who constitute the legal Re
turning Board is subordinate to the
question as to what are the returns. The
returning officers may count in or count
out persons, with or without returns, but
the returns show for themselves. We
ascertain that Lynch, Hawkins, Long
street and Heron entered into q con-
spiracy to declare Mr.. Kellogg and his
ticket elected; and that they did so
without having official returns of the
election, and admit that their ac-
ton was based on data, and memo
randa, and affidavits entirely unknown
to the law; and when we see such viO-
lence 10 law peTpetrated by these pre-
tended returning officers; and when we
see that Longstreet is Immediately ap-
pointed To an office with six thousand
dollars salary per year; that Heron is
given the office of Recorder of Mortgages
for the parish of Orleans, which he de-
manded from McEnery as cOmpensa-
ton in advance for counting the returns
in his interest, which monstrous propo-
sition was refused; when we see that
Hawkins is forthwith appoint ted to the
judgeship of court with a salary of five
thousand dollars per annum; when we
see that a minor son of Lynch is ap-
pointed TO the Office of Inspector of Live
Stock, estimated TO be worth at least
twelve thousand dollars per annum, it is
manifest that the action of the Board
was the result of a corrupt bargain, and
that these appointments were given in
compensation for official prostitution, |
the Senate having been illegally organ /
ized by the revolution and violent usur- !
pations of p. b. s. Pinchbeck, who was |
not President of the Senate, nor q men, |
Der of 1t; and when he called up and 1
swOre in as Senators persons who were
defeated, against, and in |
contempt of protests of, large majority /
of the Senators holding over, and who 1
alone had the right to organize the SEN |
ate; and in the face of a rule established |
two years before for the organization of
the Senate, on motion of the |
said Pinchbeck himself then a /
Senator, and considering the public |
good and interests of our constituents,
we have withdrawn from the body with
which we have been acting, and viii
hereafter take our seats in the Senate
which we believe truly represents the
people of the State.
Signed-Samuel S. Todd, Sixth Sena-
.orial District; 81. L. Swords, Eighth
Senatorial District; L. B. jerks,
Twelfth Senatorial District; Thomas H.
holland, Fourteenth Senatorial District;
Robert Worrell, Sixteenth Senatorial
District; A. F. Hunsaker, Seventeenth
District.
The Picdy,tRs, on the situation and
he relief required, says it will be deter
mined that the assumption of United
States Judge Of jurisdiction over the
avs of Louisiana was unconstitutional,
md therefore void in all its conse-
luences; and that the use of the mill
ary of the United States to uphold
be unconstitutional action of the
Judge was also unconstitutional,
md therefore TO be retracted, and
he United States soldiery to be
from any control over the
'eople of Louisiana. The withdrawal
# six Senators to-day from Pinchbeck's
created a lively stir in politi-
al quarters. 1t is asserted by the Fu-
ionists tonight that other Senators
Till leave the Pinchbeckers tomorrow,
robably breaking a quorum.