The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-20
,rVUE LOUISIANA TROUBLES.

The mystery of how the friends of Mr..
Der, that seventy republicans to thirty
two liberals were elected to the State house
of representatives, and twenty-eight repub-
licans to eight fusionists in the Senate. is
not in the hands of the canvassers who
made these returns. They counted well,
however, considering their disadvantages.
The fusionists accuse them of adding 49,
625 to Kelloggs legitimate vote, and taking
off IA, 140 from McEncry's vote. If this
was too liberal it must be remembered that
they were acting rather in the dark, and il
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 canvasscrs
acted selfishly 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 us acting governor p. b. S.
Pinchback, the Lieut.. governor of the
State
Then the deposed Governor Walmoth
commenced issuing proclamations. He
warned all the people against recognizing
either the Kellogg legislature or Governor
Pinchback. The latter telegraphcd the
situation to President Grant, who replied
by telegraph through Attorney General
Williams, substantially recognizing him as
Governor of Louisiana. ..t
On Inauguration day two governors took
charge of Louisiana affairs Both Kellogg
and McEnery were inauguratcd.
Two senators appeared in Washington
and claimed the 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 a
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 28th
There were only three more working days ;
the salary seizure 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 Nv. 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 n
police station in New Orleans, but encoun-
tered the forces of the United States under
General Emory, and were repulsed with a
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. Martinsville, 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 il 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 a score of armed
and furious ex-confederate soldiers. They
will not resist even the show of United
States authority. This being the case it il
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