The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-27
LOUISIANA IN CONGRESS
AFFAIRS ARE BECOMING SERIOUS
WARM DEBATE TO-DAY
WARMOTH WANTS ACTION! ACTION
NO CONCLUSION YET REACHED
Congressional.

SENATE. The calendar being the regu-
lar order, Mr.. Carpenter moved to lay the
calendar on the table for the purpose of
taking up the bill reported from the COM
mittee on privileges and elections providing
for new election in Louisiana. 1t is abso-
lutely necessary he said that this should be
acted upon in order to avert the bloodshed
shown by the morning papers to be immi-
nent in Louisiana. Messrs. Sherman and
Morton also urged immediate action upon
tle billand it was taken up.
Mr.. Hill offered substitute embodying
his views in favor of forming legislature
out of the legally elected members of both
the bodies now claiming to be the legisla-
ture of Louisiana, and authorizing the new
legislature so formed to count the returns
of the last election, and declare who are
the legally elected state officers.
Mr.. Carpenter addressed the senate in
support of the bill reported by the majori-
ty of the committee. The views of the
committee he said were fully set forth in
the majority report, and as the bill had
been submitted to persons representing all
sides of the controversy, he supposed that
if such bill were to be passed at all, this
one would be satisfactory in its details.
He had just been handed by Mr.. Mcmillan,
claiming to be elected senator from Loui-
siana, telegram addressed to himself
(McMillan) and Governor Warmoth, which
was read at the desk as follows:
NEW ORLEANS, February 25.
80 Wm. Il. McMillan and Governor H. War.
moth:
ut is not true that the country parishes
are rapidly acknowledging their allegiance
to the Kellogg government. The people in
the country, like the people in the city, will
never yield obedience to that government.
1t can never collect taxes and it can only
be maintained by force, and that force will
have to be United States troops, stationed
in every parish to enforce the authority of
his government. His government can only
be sustained by an actual conquest of e
people and not by the kind of force which
the people would submit to rather than have
military"
This dispatch was signed by large
number of citizens, who, according to
Mcmillan, are leading men in the country
parishes.
Mr.. Morton said it would be vast ma
tional misfortune, and a great misfortune
to Louisiana, that this bill should pass. A
small faction in that state having got up
the so-called McEnery government, with
out a shadow of title under the law.
was now endeavoring to stir resistance to
actual government-the Kellogg govern
ment-resstance to which must lead to
rife and bloodshed. McEnery, a So called
z vernon, without any authority whatever,
was now doing all be could to
destroy the efficiency of the de-
facto government, and doing this, as
he (Morton) was advised, at the instigaton
of persons now in Washington. TO make
good this charge, Mr.. Morton read the
several proclamations of McEnery, con-
Guiding with the one published this morn
ing.) But McEnery and his friends were
now getting into rather deep water. Upon
attempting to carry out this proclamation
they would be mere rioters. and on refusing
to dispense they would be liable to be shot.
kilograms had been received from Cover
nor Kellogg, showing what McEnery was
doing and under what influence he was
acting. In one telegram Kellogg says:
"Go yernor Warmoth telegraphs, urging
collision. don't think the opposition can
get strength enough. They are fast losing
the confidence of the community. Their
legislature yesterday had no quorum" In
another telegram, dated the Goth, kellogg
says: "Governor Warmoth has telegraphed
McEnery as follows-if you are govern
ment do something to show it now-ac.
tion."
Mr.. Trumbull-I am authorized by
Governor Warmoth to say both those dis
patches stating that such dispatches ever
came from him are utterly false.
Mr.. Morton--I have nothing to say upon
that question. / have read the dispatches
as they have been sent here.
Mr.. Carpenter then proceeded with an
elaborate speech, which was progressing
at the close of this report.
1.-THE proclamation of McEnery, referred
to above, is the subject of an item under
the head of "The Latest News" in this
paper.l
Louisiana Affairs.
WASHINGTON, February 27.-Louis.
lana affairs are becoming serious. No
danger seems to be apprehended here OF
there, and up to this hour no federal
action has been taken. 1t was understood
that the McEnery government should be
| allowed to organize so as to obtain status
| before the courts, and was not to bt
interfered with unless it attempted to SEIZE
the state government. 1t is thought here
that the Rubicoh has been crossed, and
startling news may be expected.