Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-28
The Senate Debates on Louisiana AL
Day.
Morrill's Report on Credit Mobili II
Senator PattersOn's Expulsion Re
commended.
MObilier Tactics in the House
Ames and Brooks Escape with Censure
Protracted Struggle to Censure Other
Members.
Pennsylvania Kelley First Assailed.
Horace Maynard PIucks Him as a
Brand from the Burning.
Efforts to Recommit Defeated.
Pennsylvania Kelley First Assailed.
Horace Maynard Plucks Him as a
Brand from the Burning.
Efforts to Recommit Defeated.
The Committee and the whole Subject
Dismissed.

The Committee and the whole SubjeC
Dismissed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Mr. Loga
presented credentials of r. ]. OglesbJ
Senator elect from Illinois.
MIR. Carpenter moved to take up bill re
ported from Committee on Privileges an
Elections, providing for new election il
Louisiana. 1t was absolutely necessary
he said, that this should be acted upon il
order to avert the blood-shed shown by tn
morning papers 70 be imminent il Louis
lana. @
Messrs. Sherman and Morton also urget
Immediate action upon the bill, and it wa
taken up. r-s
Mr.. Hill offered substitute embodyiDe
his views in favor of forming Legislature
out of the legally elected members Of boil
bodies now claiming to be the Legislature
of Louisiana, and authorizing this new LIE
gislature, SO formed, to count the returns
of the last election and declare who are the
legally elected State officers.
Mr.: Carpenter addressed the Senate
briefly in support of the bill reported by
the majority of the committee. The views
of the committee he said were fully set
forth in the majority report, and as this bill
had been submitted to persons representing
all sides of the controversy, be supposed
that If such bill were to be passed at al,
this one would be satisfactory in its details.
He had Just been handed by mr.. Mcmillan,
claiming to be the Senator elect from Lou
isiana, telegram addressed to himself
(McMillan) and Gov. Warmoth, which was
read at the desk as follows:
Neto Orleans, FEB. 25, 1S73.-Wm. L.
Mcmillan and Gov. II. G, Warmoth-It is
not true that the country parishes are RAP
idly acknowledging allegianceto the Kel-
logg government. The people in the coun-
try, like the people 10 the city, will never
yield obedience to that government. 1t
can never collect the taxes, and il. can only
be maintained by force. That force will
have to be United States troops stationed
in every parish TO enforce the authority of
this government. This government can
only be sustained by
Actual Conquest
of the people and that by the kind of force
which the people would submit to rather
than have militia;
This dispatch was signed by a large
number of citizens, who, according to Nc
MILAN, are leading men in country parishes.
Mr.. Morton said it would be a vast ma
tionaI misfortune and great misfortune to
Louisiana that this bill should pass. A
small faction in that State having set up the
so-called McEnery government; without a
shadow of title under the Law, was now
endeavoriRg to stir up resistance to the &C.
tual government (the kellogg government).
Resistance must lead to strife and blood
shed. MeEne.y, a so-called Governor,
without any authority whatever, was now
doing all he could to destroy the efficiency
of the defacto government, and doing this,
as (Morton} was advised, at the instigation
of persons now in Washington. To make
good this charge, Mr.. Morton read the sew
eral proclamations of McEnery, concluding
with the one published this morning. But
McEnery and bis friends now were getting
into rather deep water. Upon attempting
to carry out this last proclamation they
would be mere rioters, and on refusing
to disperse, would be liable 10 be shot.
kilograms had been received from Gov.
Kellogg showing Whist McEneTy was doing
and under what influence be was acting.
In one telegram Kellogg says: "Gov. War
moth telegrsphs, urging collision. |
don't think the opposition can get strength
enough. They are fast losing the conf
dence of the community. Their legislature
yesterday had no quorum" In another
telegram dated the 10Th Kellogg says:
'GoV. Warmoth has bslegraphed McEnery
as follows: If you are a government, do
something to show it now. Action &C
ion action /! Up"
Trumbull-I am authorised by Gov.
Varmoth to say that both these dispatches,
stating that such dispatches ever come
rom him are
Utterly False.
Mr.. Morton-I have nothing TO say upon
hat question. l have read the dispatches
q they have been sent here, but there is one
act that we cannot overlook, that since the
eports were made from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections attempts have been
made to create disturbance and resistance
o the laws, and to bring on civil war in
louisiana, and that yesterday this attempt
vas made not only by that pretended Legis-
ature, but by that pretend ed Governor. It |
) now desperate attempt on the part of
mall faction to seize upon the State gov
rnment of Louisiana.
Mr.. Thurman-May [ ask the Senator |
Morton) whether 1 am right in supposing |
nat the election returns that were made |
how that McEnery had majority.
Mr.. Morton-The returns have never |
cen canvassed by any officer or any OFF,
ial person. Two persons came before the |
Ommlttee and said that they had gone
trough them, persons who had no more
ght to go through them than two of those
ages would have, and that the returns
lected McEnery by some five Thousand
otes.
Mr.. Thurman If that be the fact, that
hose returns show majority for McEnery,
hat does the Senator mean by calling his
Importers small faction2
Mr.. Morton-I call bis supporters now
no are trying to force him into power a
nall faction. The great body of those
no voted for him are not now supporting
i'm, but are standing and looking on. |
slieve an overwhelming majority of the
9ople in Louisiana are to-day desiring that
lie Kellogg govSnment should be sustain
Including many who voted for the oppo-
ton ticket.
Mr.. Schurz said that as Mr.. Morton
emed so positive that those who opposed
ie kellogg government were only small
ction, he would ask him to give the Sem
e some definite information on the sub
ct--to state for instance whether the peo-
e of Louisiana or large majority ofthem
ere now paying taxes to the Kellogg gov
nment
Mr.. Morton-The evidence that a large
ajority ofthat people generally are acq1i-
cling in the Kellogg government is in the
ct that they are actually submitting; that
ere is actual peace all over the State, and
at up to this time no resistance has been
fered to that government in any part of
e State.
MIR. SchuTz-It is only passive submits
On that would be no indication of SUD-
ut, and think active submission would
great deal farther to stand by the
ellogg Government, and in no way could
show better than by the payment of
xes. 1t is for that reason that / put the
lestion whether the people of Louisispa9
e paying taxes to the Kellogg Govern
ent, at the same time reminding him
at -
Packard
stifed before the Committee that if the
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