The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-30
WASHINGTON.
Dranrufic DenunciatiOn of DureIl
i'm the Senate.
WHY The MESSAGE WAS SUPPRESSED.
The Question Of Financial
Good Faith.
MONETARY MILLENNIUM.

MAIWAhU'S MUNeIAkI MILLENNIUM
WASHINGTON Jan. g. 1874.
The Impeachment or Judge DuTeD I'm
tho Senate-Carpenter's Vivid Expo
sure OF tho Htdcousness of the LOUISE
ana MaITorm . tions-An Intensely Dra-
matte Scene.
The Senate reminded one this morning Of High
Court OF Impeachment when the case OF Pinch
back and its relationship to the mOnstrous Louisi-
ana government came up, having been already set
down for a hearing to-day. The door and galleries
were filed when Senator Carpenter opened this
case, looking to new election, confirmation
OF the opinion that the Kellogg government
was q counterfeit and the unseating
OF Pinchback. This cause cele0re has for
it's contestants the most determined and reckless
OF men, and as discussing counsel. prepared to
tear 1t to pieces two OF the formidable minds
in legal and political point OF view consisting OF
Carpenter and Morton. The former like skilled
swOrdsman, advanced to the attack, using q legal
rapier at the point and fortified by pile of law
books at hand AS interested observers on the,
field OF challenge there were Ex-Governor War
moth, Senator McMillen, Ptnchback with has c0un-,
sell Billings and Carter, while in the distance were
Barrett, who Is said to be hired, interruptions
Bohemian in the pay OF Durell. Mr.. Eyarts, old
Ben Wade and General Sherman were also atten-
tive listeners to the blstering attacks on Morton
and the exposition made OF the shocking election
frauds practised by Kellogg, Durell and Packard.
Carpenter made plain case to the Senate IN dis
secting the testimony as taken before the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections, being occasion
ally prompted by Thurman and Edmunds.
Morton was attacked with keen severity. and
Carpenter, turning to the evidence, said he con-
tempiated the attitude OF the United States with
mingled emotions OF regret and shame Review
ing the opinions Of eight Senators OF the commit
tee and the 794 pages OF testimony taken at the in
vestigation he cOntended that there was no Legis-
ature in Louisiana, and that the case Of Pinchback
as prtrsA .t1cte one, so strongly urged by Morton
at first was overturned. He spoke OF the ingenuity
Of the Indiana Senator in whitening sar-
casm, and said that Pinchback's credentials
did not show an election by body authorized to
elect. 1t did not matter at which end you COM
menced to investigate the case. lie desired once
and for all to wash his hands Of it and to show It's
hideousness in all its nakedness. The Louisiana
plotters were determiped to have q government.
even II 1t were to be had only by fraud. If War
moth could not abolish the Board with the Legsla-
ture In his pocket and having full control Of it, nc
thought he should be immortal. He sketched the
rascality OF Heron, Hawkins and Pinchback with
amusing yet condemnatory iuness, and then
passed on TO Durell's unheard of order to take
possession of the State House and the holding OF it
for six weeks with United States troops, and said
he wished he could have 1t read to every American
citizen throughout the country. For Iulness of
fact as selected in the testimony and drectness OF
the evidence adduced, Senator Carpenter has not
been exceled IN this arrangement which he has
made OF an outrageous violation Of the spirit of
republican government, and as the actors are
Toor
to Durell and from Bouvet to Pinchback. with
warmoth and his minions in the setting, one sees
in them the unscrupllo assassins and reckless
adventurers who thought as lightly of destroying
the integrity of commonwealth as they did of
tossing OF the whiskey which controlled them in
their f0olhardy conspiracy and midnight orgies.
During the scalping process OF Carpenters argu-
ment est leans back and smiles with satisfaction
Pinchback, seated with Mcmillan, his competitor,
eyes Morton with the glazing eagerness and stead
fast look OF q tiger, while IN contrast to
this the great American lawyer (Evar:s) calmly
strokes his chin as he attentivey notes the points.
Carter does not leave his seat, but with his hand
to his deaf ear is riveted by the unsparing words
OF Carpenter. McEnery, on yonder side OF the hall,
squirms convulsively and shoves up his eyebrows
with the regularity OF press feeder. Norton, the
assignee In bankruptcy and the debaucned "right
PooSOS
only should stand. warmoth, gloved and caned,
sits gloomuy and forcbodng in Boutwelrs seat,
and CAIN the colored member OF Congress, who
so numerically scored Robbins In the House, has
come to listen to the criminal prosecution, while
Barrett, who Is said to be the pay Of Dure skuks
close by, and Ben Wade calmly views the scene;
while Sherman, who marched down to the sea,
sits by his brother and looks Mortified at the
whole AFFAIR.
As far as Carpenter went to-day, not having vet
finished. the shocking turptude OF the men and the
events connected with the Louisiana election were
unsparingly exposed The Senate proceeded to
the consideration of executive business, alter
nearly three hours OF listening with the under
standing that Carpenter will finish tomorrow
The interest in the case grows meanwhile.
Cause or the Suppression Of the Louisi-
ann MESA ge-The Presidents Fear Of
impeachment.
The real cause of the suppression of the Presi.
dents Message on the Louisiana mon strosiry was
revealed to-day by very ordinary circumstance.
1t appears that the President, determined to carry
into effect his desire to unload, proposed to put
upon Congress the responsibility OF setting the
Louisiana matter right When, however, 1t was
made to appear that his Message might entrap
him and be used against the republican party as
good grounds for his impeachment, he sud.
denly became converted, and realized that he
had been guided by lawyers who were not
and statesmen who were not lawyers
Now, what Senator Carpenter proposes is to re-
lieve the President Of the odium OF impeachment
lame, and he will claim, in the conclusion OF his
speech tomorrow, that the Louisiana case never
presented facts giving the President jurisdiction
under constitutional law, 30 far as poltti.
cal issue or the legal status Of the
State OF Louisiana were concerned. It Is well
known that at one time the President stated that
he never designed to recognize the Kellogg gov
eminent, and Mr. Carpenter will maintain that
wherein the President has been unauthorized or
In his action, the loose and extra
VACANT advice and superserviceable intermeddling
Of Attorney General Williams has been the occasion
and the excuse OF all questionable Executive action