New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-13
NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY, JUNE l3, 1873.

1O, 1919.
Fiscal Agent the $l60, 900 we owed him, and
to morrow we begin to pay our two months
back interest
lis there. then. 10 tax resisting in the
State - | asked.
No" he replied. "except where the
people are unable to pay. A great many of
our planters can not possibly raise the
money to pay their taxes, aud | have Or
dered the collectors, where they can get
good security, to give them more time"
will you now be able to paw the interest
on your bonds regularly o.
Having got behind" he said. .'it will
probably take us till the end of he year to
get square. l hope we shall by that tlme.'
'HOw great is your State debt?''
''About twentvtwo millions of bonds.'
Have you also floating debt 2 asked.
''fes, he replica, land a contingent debt
beyond that, if we would only issue the
bonds. The Legislature has voted them,
but we refuse to sign the bonds. They
bonds already out ought not to draw inter
est. There are those. for instance. given
to branch of the Mobile, New Orleans and
Texas railroad. After they had got all the
bonds they could out of the State tor their
main line they got a bill through granting
$500, 900 aid to the Nermilionyille branch
to Shreveport. The bill contained none
of the ordinary safeguards, but sim
ply provided that when the Cover
nor should be satisfied that the work
was actually begun ne should issue the
bonds. Well, the bonds were issued, and
it now turns out that the whole cost of the
work done was $37 50. Now, l don't be-
lieve that the State ought to pay the inter-
est on those bonds. We must retrench, re-
duce taxation and expose the corruption of
Narmoths administration. wish we had
a paper to do it with. The REPUBLICAN
was SO long connected with WarnAOth and
defended everything he did that VIE can't
now depend upon it to expose him. The
New Orleans Times is the only paper on
which we can depend for anything of this
kind
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION NOT MR..
KELLOGG's IDEA.
Turning from this branch of the subject,
1 next asked Mr.. Kellogg about the condi-
ton of affairs in the parishes. l had heard
that he had been unable to install his re-
representatives. in some of the Red river
parishes, and that he intended to send his
Metropolitans up there for that purpose.
He said: there are in the State about sixty
parishes: IN all but about dozen of them
there is perfect quiet and order, and have
ernment in office. In some of the parishes
near the Arkansas and Texas boundaries,
where Fusion candidates were chosen and
returned by our board, as well as the other,
they took commissions from McEnery. but
refused to take them from me. We were
obliged to have men in office holding com
missions from the legal State gov
ernment, and so. when those who
were elected refused to take NV COM
I haH tn aD,.niut ofharl In
cases took the defeated candidate, and in
some. other persons. Some Of these ap-
pointments have not been good ones-I
couldn't always tell what kind of an officer
a man would make when he lived 400 miles
away. At any rate, would prefer 20 have
the man who was elected in. Whenever,
therefore. those who have held McEnerv's
commissions have concluded to take mine
have got the officers who We're acting to re-
sign. or in some other way caused a va
cancy for them. Since the Presidents
proclamation. a number of these men have
come IN and signitied their willingness to
submit. They say that they carried the
matter far enough to show that they pro-
tested. Ii the Texas and Arkansas people
will stay at home and not stir our people
UP. there will be no more trouble
Referring to the President, proclamation,
l told Mr.. Kellogg that had seen no evil
State. and had not heard that any had oc-
cured for several weeks before the proc.
iamati0n was issued. tand asked him on
what ground lie made his reuuisition upon
the President. He said that 1t was not his
idea at all, but the people of tie North
thought that there was a civi! war down
here. The Associated Press dispatches from
here exaggerated every little occurrence;
great posters were stuck up about the
ctr .lI,ripn tho M.rtiu-yIIa a.+Ta axr
exciting the people with reports that the
citizens were being murdered. and the
reports sent North were of the same
character. His friends in Washington
urged him to call upon the President
for help: Mr.. Packard was in IA
vor of it. The use of United States
troops as posSe cOn,ita'us was slow and
awkward way. The law under which they
were used was sure to be abused: that had
been the history of it in North and South
Carolina. and everywhere else that it was
resorted to- In the desire to ge. the troops
men were likely to strain a point in max
ing the affidavit, and when the case came
to trial II generally turned out as at the
trial of DeBlanc the other day-that there
was no case. All these things. and the con-
stan: reports sent North of disorder, were
used to ujure the President, and SO he
finally consented to give the President an
optOA w pluCC tuC tlOOpS dl
his disposal. and stop all OF this hue and
cry.
TIE GovERNoR's wARLIKE PREPARATIONS.
But you seem to be making great prepa-
rations for war yourself" l observed.
well. We are going to be prepared" was
his reply. "In month we shall have the
best militia OF any Southern State. II you
are here on the Fourth OF July, you will see
cavalry company in the streets well
mounted, uniformed, and armed with sa-
hers, pistols, and carbines, sings and ALL
OF abont fifty men in the company, thirty
seven during the war had commissions
above the rank of captain We shall have
battery OF four Napoleon guns. another
OF two Gatling guns, and infantry armed
with Spencer, Winchester and Enfield rifles
beside Remingtons and others. We shall
also nave boat of our own, SO that we can
move our troops anywhere. Our militia
will be always in readiness. because
when not needed elsewhere they do
police duty in New Orleans. and are
paid by the city $50 month; when
they are detailed away. the State
pays them. We have been building stables
for our cavalry horses on the outskirts of
town, and, tomorrow, our cavalrymen will
90 on duty as mounted patrol. When we
get fully organized, we can clean out any
three parishes in the State. You must re-
member that we don't allow the colored
people to take any part in this. We don't
want to court such anOt her affair as the
Grant parish massacre: we don't want to
give our opponents the temptation TO shoot
a black man when they would not shoot q
white man: and if any conflict should occur,
| want you to remember that it won't be
between parties equally divided, but be.
tween the great bulk Of the white people
on the one side and few OF Us carpet
baggers on the other
Ii everything is 80 quiet" observed,
what use do you expect to have tor your
force
"Oh. when we get ready we shall send