The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-05-31

true facts of the matter, and they q,
not give you Il fair chance to be hcar(
) before the grand Jury, then l desir,
; you to present the fact of their refrsa
to the House of Representatives.
Mr.. Noorhies-sSuppOsc Judge Durcl
should be willing to send the witnesses
before the Grand Jury the very mo
'nent they pass the threshold Of Thu
grand jury room they are not within
the authority ofJudgc Durcll. lie ha
no right, under the law, to go into tn.
grand jury room, or Interfere il, thci1
Investigations. Therefore, so far :,s
Judge Durcll is concerned, he is, after
the organization Of the jury, neither il
Our way CT out OF 1t.
Senator C:trpentcr-rhc District At.
torney stands there, and he can be i'm.
peachcu. You arc living in civilized
society, and you have got to stand the
inconvcnicnccs which civilized society
has. lfa man takes your horse, you
cannot tomahawlI him FOR it; you will
| have to resort to the courts to got back
your horse. Your adversary may get
continuanccS of the c;,st', and may kcc,
you out of it i year, and then, when ii
comes TO trial, he may bride the jury
and beat you, and you will have to
submit to it unless you get now trial
or appeal to an appellate court.
| If you will draw upa letter to tho
District Attorney, stating what you
| know tho facts arc, and giving him the
names of the witnesses TO establish
these facts, and he refuses to do his
duty, you will succeed i'll vindicatins
yourself, irnot III impt.,chinS Mr.. Beck
with.
Mr.. NoorhicS-Thcrc is another cir
cunstancc to which it is necessary to
call your attcntion--that none but the
| witnesses for the prosecution are heard
before the Grand Jury.
Senator Carpcntcr-Hutyo you can make
Il charge against these people and so
before the Grand Jury yourself. In the
North, the people believe in courts of
justice being honest. If you can prove
the fact that you addressed such COM
munications, as l have suggested, and
that your witnesses were not sent for,
you will have ma(cu tremendous point
in your favor. You could not do any
thing quite so valuable to your inter
est as to make such an attempt and
have them deny you relief.
Gov. McIInery-Wc have already
sent some communications to thcm.
Mr.. Wildc-Somcw witnesses wcrcscnt
for and were not heard. One witness
W 49, iiSt'lt, .tti'i tiiSS .ttASi'ApNS" w 'i'"-
beat him, and after he went away they
offered him money to change his state
mcnt. Then some one attempted to
kill him.
Senator tarpcntcr-NO on say that the
General Government is against you;
your State Courts arc against You, and
the Grand jury is against you. Why,
for such an Intelligent set of men, you
arc the most helpless set l ever saw.
Mr.. James Iingman, Of the MclIncry
Senate, said: Senator Carpenter,
understood YOU say in your speech, the
other night, that the Louisiana question
was iUity put before your Senate conn
mitt"c, and that according to tho bal
otuiiI can v;ls,;ed returns, Mr.. McEnrry
was clearly elected, but that that cicc-
ton, you considered, Was vitiatcu by
fraud. Now, | wish to ask you, as II
lawyer and 4 poll licinn, if you consid
or that, when an election is held in Il
State, under the forms OF law, and by
the election returns a pTintO jtt"ic result
is shown that certain parties were duly
elected, has Congress Tic constitutional
right to intervene between the parties
to s,,cl. state election, an,l determine
upon the question Of frauds thus pre-
scntcu between contestants for state
Offices. :.
sScnaior Carpcntrr-Lrt us take the
State of " iscunSin. \ republican form
of government means II government
elected by the people. We have got
such Il government in Wisconsin to-day.
Now suppose the judges Of The Supreme
Court and of other courts and the State
officers should band together 10 stay in
office ~; long ns they live; and suppose
IN election comes Oft, and they know
and cvrryhc,iy knows that the votes
cast gave All overwhelming majority
against the men who arc in, and in
favor OF those who ARE out, and set
these inrn hold their offices year after
year for Twenty-Five Ncar%-if Congress
cannot interfere, then Congress has not
the power Ia guarantee Il republican,
form Of government 60 u State.
Mr.. sihcph"r,l, Il merchant OF New
Orleans, spoke briefly in reference to
the cOn,licrcial Interests OF New Or
leans, which he said were iauguishing
by reason Of the potitic@t troubles which
agiti,tcl the state. lie denied the as
Scrtinn that men ffoSu thc North met
with an unWclcOnc reception in Now
Orleans, and cited several instances Of
prominent merchants and bankers, ma