The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
TuuELoUIsIANA TROUBLES,

TEE LOUISIANA TROUBLES,
The mystery of how the friends of Mr.
Kellogg in Louisiana found out last Decem-
Der that seyenty-sevenrepublicans to thirty
two liberals were elected to the State house
of representatives and tweniyeight repub-
licans to eight fusionists in the Senate, is
vet unsolvcd. The official returns were
not in the hands of the canyassers who
made these returns. They counted well,
however, considering their disadvantages
The fusionists accuse them of adding 49,
625 to Kcllogg's legitimate vote, and taking
off IA, 40 from McEnery's vote. If this
was too liberal it must be remembered that
| they were acting rather i'll the dark, and it
| was best to have enough votes on the right
side. They were not to blame. They had
asked for the official returns, and had been
refused. The fusion board of canvassers
acted seltishly about the matter, retained "A
monopoly of the official returns, in which
they were upheld by Warmoth, then gov
ernor of the State, and proclaimed Nc
Emery elected by 1000 or 5000 majority
Two legislatures met in December. The
Kellogg legislature impeached Warmoth
and suspended him from office as governor.
This let in as acting governor p. b. S.
Pinchback, the Lieut. governor of the
State
Then the. deposed Governor Narmoth
commenced issuing proclamaK'hs' lie
warned all the people against recognizing
either the Kellogg Legislature or Governor
Pinchback. The latter flegraphed the
situation to President qant, who replied
by telegraph through Attorney General
Williams, substantially recognizing HIM as
Governor of Louisi4a'
On inauguratio,day two governors took
charge of Louislia affairs. Both Kellogg
and McEnery Sere inaugurated.
Two senp'ors appeared in Washington
and claimeithe same seat by clashing titles.
The senate committee of investigation ap-
pointed TO ascertain which candidate should
be admitted, took some ugly testimony con-
corning frauds, and recommended that
new election be held in May. Then reso-
luton was passed, declaring the Kellogg
government the de facto government till the
result of the May election was known.
This was on the night of February 2Sth.
There were only three more working days
the salary-sezure bill had not been passed;
there was not time to bother with the
threatened Louisiana civil war, and the SEN
ate adjourned without doing anything
about the May election. Consequently the
Kellogg government is still waiting for the
May election, and in the meantime will
continue to be the de facto government, re-
cognized in this limiting sort of way by the
senate, who had found too much fraud to
venture on admitting Mr. Ray, from the
Kellogg legislature, but violent and persist
ent claims on his behalf enough to excuse
them from taking in Mr.. Mcmillan from the
McEnery legislature
Those taxpayers of the State who sup-
ported McEnery resolved not to pay taxes to
the Kellogg government. They raised the
standard of war and marched against
police station in New Orleans, but encoun-
tered the forces Of the United States under
General Emory, and were repulsed with
loss of two or three killed and wounded.
But If they could not whip the government
of the United States they could the trouble
some colored people, and in Colfax, in
Grant Parish, sixty dead Africans bore
mute witness to fusion proves.
In st. Martnsyille, in the parish of st.
Martins, the fusionists were not so fortu-
nate, for there they met the United States
troops again, and in consequence thereof
the two or three hundred rebelliously
inclined under Colonel Alcibiade De Blanc,
have disbanded In truth there is no more
war to be expected in the South against the
power of the United States. 1t is found in
Louisiana, as II has been noticed in Alaba-
ma under the Ku Klux excitements, that
a corporal and two soldiers wearing United
States uniforms can arrest score of armed
and furious eX-confederate soldiers. They
will not resist even the show of United
States authority. This being the case it is
too bad to tolerate any wrong upon them
in the name of our common government
We hope Congress at its next session will
honestly exert itself vigorously to right
whatever is wrong in Louisiana, without
inquiring whether its action will affect fay.
orably or unfavorably republicans, dem |
ocrats or liberals.