The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-03-01
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SENATE
Thursday's Session.

Thursday's Session.
WAsHlNeToN, February %.
The debate on the Louisiana bill was
continued until late tour.
At2 10 A. NJ, Mr.. Sherman propos.
ed that after the morning hour o.day
the vote should be taken on the bill
and on all amendments pending, and q
debate on each amendment Of five min
u,es on both sides be allowed.
Mr.. Morton objected and moved to
adjourn which was lost.
The bill having been considered in
Committee OF the Whole was reported
to the Senate The question being on
concuriug in the amendmea! which had
been made, Mr.. Trumbull OF Illinois,
called attention to the fact that the
amendment had been adopted in Com
mittee OF the Whole by the vote OF Mr..
Carpenter, Of Wisconsin. 1t was a
very singular position for that Senator
to assume when be had this day on
this floor denounced the Kellogg gov
ernment as a usurpation. Now he had
voted to recognize that government.
Mr.. Carpenter, Of Wisconsin, said he
did not by his vote recognize any one.
Congress in ordering this new election
could designate any one as the govern
ment ad interim 1t could send a mill.
tary commander there; it had no poli'
tical significance however, In designa-
ting Kellogg.
Mr.. Trumbull said the whole testi-
mony showed an organized conspiracy
to carry the State OF Lou siana having
its headquarters in the New Orleans
custom house and in direct communi-
cation and support from Washington.
II nothing is TO be done with thing go
mons rous and hideou-, it wa useless
10 "as,e argument upon it. Farewell
Iree elections if euch usurpations as this
are 10 be sustained. Ia reference to
frauds at elections be said there was
State much nearer here than Louisiana
where in his opinion that fraud had
been iouriold what they were in that
state and he was mortified to say that
the President had pardoned election re-
peaters who had been convicted in the
Federal courts.
Mr.. Carpenter OF Wisconsin, said in
explanation OF his vote he had come to
that ohclusion of mind when he would
alwavs swap a recital Tor an act he
would prefer the bill as it came from
the committee but be could bring half
dozen Senators who would not vote for
the bill unless this recital. The whole
question was whether they would have
KrIlogg government in Louisiana for
four weeks or four years He looked
at the thing from practical point o.
view and to save the people from q
u ported governments for tour years
he had to make the compromise.
What he denied was fair and tree
election and he cared not f. whether
il went Democratic or Republican.
Mr.. Salisbury, of Delaware, eaid he
could never give his vote to recogni
ton OF the Kellogg Government He
believed il was a fraud, and q usurp-
ton and it was 90 characterized by a ma.
iority q the Committee on Privileges
and elections.
Mr.. Thurman, of Ohio, could not
vote for the bill, not only because he
did not believe Congress had any Con
strtutionsl power to pass it, out ne did
not believe the fact warranted its pas
sage. He said that the whole differ
ence had it's origin in the improper con-
duct Of the Administration, five days
after the unanimous report Of the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections. The
action Of Judge Durrell WAS an unwar-
rantable usurpstion. The President
sends iu message informing us that II
we do not take action he will continue
to recognize the Kellogg Governme Mt.
Well let him take the responsibility
and answer to the people for it. He
(Thurman) would not relieve him from
it by voting for an unconstitutional
bill.
The amendment retaining the Kel-
logg government in power, was then
copcurred in, as follows:
Ayes-Meesrs. Boreman, Carpenter,
Chandler, Clayton, Conklin. Corbett,
Cragin, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan
Frelinghuysen, Gilbert, Hamlin, Har-
low, Howe, Morton, Osborn, Ramsey
SAWYER, Sherman, West and Wilson
90.
Nays-Bayard, Casserly, Cooper,
Davis, Edmunds, Goldthwart, Hamil-
ton of Mary land, Hill, Johnson, Kelley,
Norwood, Ransom, Salisbury, Schurz,
Sprague, Stevenson, Stockstop, Thur
man and Trumbull-2O.
Mr.. Hamilton OF Md, said he was
perfectly satisfied from the beginning
as to how the thing would end. He
knew the radical party would never let
90 OF their grasp on the reconstructed
States; ye, how could the AmericanSe-
nate thus give It's sanction to the gov
ernment OF an usurper like this manKel-
log. a man who ought now be in the
hands of the law aud made to suffer
tor his crimes, he could not understand.
He comnunted then on the policy OF the
Republican party toward the States OF
the South and said that under that po.
licy South Carolina Florida Mississippi
and Louisiana were lost to the Anglo
saxon race.
| Mr. Casserly said he could not vote for
this bill. He had been willing 10 as
siss themsjority to pass some moderate
! measure which would bring relief 10 the
unhappy people OF Louisiana, but the
result showed how barren were any
such hopes.
Mr. Bsyard characterized the action
OF the President 10 upholding the Kel-
logg government as sustaining cham
and fraud without existence in law OF
| in tact-the creation OF the usurpatlon