New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-19
LIVELY PUSH FOR Split MILK.

/ uOt make LUSH LlmeS LII lie OChtc S1o1ouA J,
it will not be for the want Of fling big
suits in the Superior District Court. Mr..
Fellows, which is the name by which the
Attorney General for this purpose is
called, has already convulsed the report
ers Of one of the city papers four or five
times with the magnitude Of his demands.
and the gameness Of his charges against
those who some time since had charge of
the State finances. He has fled petitions
against the parties who collected little
bill against the State known as the We'll
claim, amounting TO S14O,OOO: the ex-
members Of the administration OF 1870.
who sold the State stock in the jackson
railroad, and divided the proceeds,
amounting TO fraction over Sal, 600,
and the lessees Of The New canal,
for sundry notes given for the lease
of that thoroughfare for schooners. In
cluded in the last named petition. we
observe there are included two notes
which appear to be barred by prescrip-
ton, one of these having fallen due on
the fourth Of March 1867. for thirty-six
thousand dollars and another on
the same day of the same month
in 1868, for thirty-seven thousand
dollars If the lessees, however, do not
choose to make that plea We shall not do
it for them, as we are decidedly on the
other side, and wish to see the State win,
as the present Auditor. Mr. Clinton, is
very much in need of money, and is
straining every nerve to make the small
| sums paid in by taxpayers land which, by
the way. come in without the assistance Of
the Attorney GeneraD 60 as far as pos
sible.
Weare not prepared just now 70 discuss
the merits or dement's Of any OF these
claims. our only intention being to call the
attention Of the public TO the fact that
our Attorney Genera! dd interim has pros
pected TO some purpose during the absence
Of his principal. People will see, by the
high ground taken, what they have lost
by not choosing Mr.. Fellows to the po-
sition be now occupies as substitute.
Had he been called in at an earlier day,
doubtless every dollar embraced in these
claims, together with the $4,000 ilie-
gally issued to the Times by Governor
Warmoth's administration as the consid-
GRAFTON Mr.. Weed was to receive for sup
porting the Fusion movement. nigh: have
been saved. Here are over seven hundred
thousand dollars which have, according
to Mr.. Fellows theory, either been wrong
fully paid on. Of the treasury OF with
held from it, and not one cent Of it has
been paid to or withheld by any member
OF the present administration OF to any
prominent member Of the Republican
party.
The We'll claim was originally based
upon contract entered into by Governor
II. W. Allen to furnish medicines and
supplies to the families of Confederate
soldiers in the Red river country at time
their protectors were absent, engaged in
other matters. For his kindness in this
respect, and other distinguished services
to the South, a few grateful citizens Of
New Orleans have erected q small monu-
ment to his memory in Washington
cemetery. Demand 70. settlement was
first made to the Legislature Of 1866, and
! bor
year but for the unavoidable delay occa-
stoned By the attempt to agree to certain
minor details. In plain English, the va
rious patriots who then bad the power in
their hands could not quite agree upon
the amount at which the claim should be
allowed, nor the proportions in which it
should be distributed. These delays and
the fluctuations in the currency had the
effect to swell the claim into one of con-
siderable importance. The transferees
Of We'll were. however, all members of
the party whose chief boast it is and has
been that they are opposed to Radicalism.
There were no Republicans. who are now
known 20 Us to be such, interested in this
business further than in such small
gratuities as our reforming friends may
have given OF promised to give to some Of
the weaker members Of the Legislature
for their votes
The sale Of the Jackson railroad stock
was measure adopted to save the corpor-
alton from bankruptcy. Both the city
and the State had seen their shares in
Opelousas swallowed up in the general
wreck Of the concern the year before. The
jackson road was known to lie shaky and
entirely too weak to make the needed i'm
provements. The State. therefore. sold
out its stock for wha. it could get and
used the money. The same State. in the
person of Mr.. Fellows. now comes for
ward and makes demand for the cake it |
ate three years and half ago. 1t looks
to US like a clear case Of split milk.
The lessees Of the New canal have
nothing to plead in bar of the suit against |
them that we know OF. except the pre-
scription Of two Of the notes sued upon,
and, what may possibly stand them in as
well, that they are not Radicals, never |
have been and never will be. If Mr.. Eel. |
lows can break down either or both of |
these defenses. which. however. we do |
not believe La will accomplish. be will
have it said to his credit that he recovered |
a very large sum. with interest. to the |
State.
The most important suit Of ali remains |