The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-05-16
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PUSH THE QUESTION.

On the sixteenth instant the Hon.
s. s. Cox, of New York, presented
the following resolution in the house:
That the president of the United
States be requested to inform the
house ut the earliest possible date
why the executive of the United
States interferes in the affairs of
Louisiana. giving all the facts, and
that he be further requested to give
the house all the information he has
relative to the conduct of Judge
Durell. one of the Judges Of the
United States court in Louisiana,
that the house may determine what
steps. if any, ought to be taken
in consequence Of his interference in
the political affairs Of said state.
This resolution produced an out
burst of indignation or the Grant
side. A number of republicans OBJ
jected to the pbraseology of this
resolution. saying that its object was
to assert that the executive has inter-
fered in Louisiana affairs. B1r. Cox,
who at the start left off a preambl
he had written, agreed to put in the
words ''if not in his opinion, incom-
patible, after the request for infor-
nation, but would not modify it any
further. The republicans voted the
resolution down, and Garfield at
once offered another requesting the
president to furnish such information
as he might have relative to the af-
fairs in Louisiana, and the action he
had taken in regard thereto. This
was adopted without opposition.
t Late in the day Boardman Smith,
republican member from New York
and member OF the New Orleans
special investigation committee of
last season, offered e resolution in
structing the judiciary committee to
inquire whether any legislation is
necessary to protect the people OF
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabar q
against the dangers threatening their
liberties and to guard against the
occurrence of civil war, and ais, to
secure to them a republican form OF
government. This resolution was
agreed to without opposition.
Coming, as it did, from a supporter
of the administration, it furnishes
one evidence, among many that in
telligent members of the dominant
party are beginning to look with ap-
prehension upon the action of the
federal court in breaking down the
state Government in Louisiana, as
full of menace TO the future peace
and liberties of the people of all the
states. A great number of leading
republicans, in both houses, say that
If any federal Judge in q northern
state should repeat Durell's proceed.
in3s. the people would take arms al
once and resist the enforcement oil
his decree. Except among The
southern republicans, it is hard to
find any one in congress who fully
justifes Durells actions, although
there are many who think that the
president cannot well do otherwise
than uphold his authority until his
decisions are overruled, or he is i'm.
peacked. Even some of the Louisi
ana members admit that Durell's de-
cisions are outrageous. and they only
justify them by offsetting them
against some of Warmoth's higt
handed proceedings in the past
The end justities the means, in THEN
opinion; and as the end is to keer
their party in power, they are no.
disposed to complain of any mean.
that will accomplish that result
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