The Van Buren press., 1874-02-03
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
special Dispatch T. the Repsblieasl
CONGRESS-.
WARRINGTON, Jan. 20.


The morning hour having expired,
Senator Ferry, Of Michigan, was called
to the Chair, and Senator Carpenter ad.
dressed the Senate on the Louisiana az
fairs.
Senator Carpenter then reviewed Leu.
isiana affairs at considerable length, ex.
coriating Kellogg, Pinehback and Durcll.
He said he would next proceed to con.
slider the interference Of the general gov.
ernment in this muddle. While the con.
test was going on. kellogg commenced
suit in the United States court, and Judge
Durell issued his restraining order. and
it was q most remarkable document On
the 9th or December there was another
judicial proceeding which had no parallel
in this country or England. At night,
this same Judge Durell issued an order
to seize the State House. The testimony
showed that he went to his lodgings
about 10 o'clock p. M. and feeling like
it, issued the order. Nobody had applied
for it. He was not sitting in chambers
nor holding court, but at his lodgings is-
sued on order to the United States
Marshal, to seize the State-House. !
was seized by = company Of troops put
therein, aud that the company held it for
more than six weeks, while the farce Of
organizing the Legislature was being en-
acted, and these two men, Pinchback and
RAY, were elected while the State house
was 50 held by troops. The act Of Goa
gress authorizing election cases to be
brought before Federal courts applied
only to instances where had been pre-
vented from voting, on account Of race,
c dior or previous condition Of servtude,
SO that Judge Durell did not have even
decent pretext for justification. A more
remarkable proceeding than that Of Du-
reirs could not be found anywhere such
orders were never issued in Russia or
Turkey BY this very act he organized
both sides, putting Republicans in and
Democrats out Of the Statc-house. He
(Carpenter) sent to the Clerks desk and
had read the orders Of that Judge, and
he wished it was in his power to have
them read in the hearing Of every citizen
of the United States
After the reading, Senator Edmunds
said it was evident that his friend Car
penter was becoming worn out, and he
therefore moved the Senate go into Ex
ecutive session it
Senator Carpenter agreed to the mo-
ton, and the Senate went into Executive
session. and soon after adjourned until
to morrow, when Senator Carpenter will
resume his speech.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.
OKLAHOMA.
Col. Boudinot's argument on the Ok
lahoma question before the House terri.
toral committee was 4 mastery affair.
Col. Boudinot, in the course Of his argu.
m"nt, took the Republican party at its
record and brought his argument down
to the understanding of the most devoted
l0yalist, when he sand there we're to-day
in the Choctaw Nation from five to six
hundred negroes, formerly the slaves OF
the Indians, who under the present laws
had no right tC own an acre of land, to
vote. hold office, or send their children
TO the public schools; that eight years,
nearly, had elapsed since these negroes
were set free by the Choctaw treaty Of
1866 Yet with the exception Of their
being held no longer in slavery their con.
dition was no better now than before the
war.