New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-06

and though there had been rumors that Gen.
Grant was weakening, Senator West ITO whom
Kellogg sent during this month q check Tor
81 ,OOO) wrote, al had very pleasant and iibe-
"ral conversation with the President; ne
Stands square up to u.s." For the use OF
Messrs Chandler and Morton in the case De-
fore the Senate, Kellogg had sent to Washing
ton the ex-State Register of Voters, Is. +.
Blanchard, who had confessed to the perpetra-
ton of gross frauds in the interest OF the fu-
sionists (and to whom, by singular coinci-
dence, KellOgg's check book showed four pay
ments of money, and the conspirators had their
choice of submitting this mans testimony 10
the Senate Committee, or trusting 10
decisions of the Louisiana Supreme Court,
which had been manufactured by wholesale
ever since KellOgg's installation. Williams
chad no doubt" writes Billings =" the exam
"ination of Blanchard might turn out badly,
$50 have prepared brief solely on the de-
" cision of the Supreme Court, so as to be
"ready to submit the case on that point alone
sat first if Morton finds the temper OF the
Committee will allow think If the matter
sis pushed to an immediate vote. on Just enough
sofa case, we shall win" AS for Mr.. ICarpen-
ter, "he is not with u.s." writes Kellogg's AS
sistant Attorney General, Though he is WILL
cling to be convinced" 1t was a few. days after
this that Kellogg sent Carpenter the third
check for $500. Senator Morton carried out the
plan agreed upon in concert with the Attorney
General, and made his argument entirely upon
legal grounds ignoring Blanchard and his
budget of frauds. But suddenly about the
middle of January a curious change occurred
in the position of affairs. The President, as
The TRIBUNE dispatches of that date revealed,
became earnest for new election. and the
Presidents friends changed their course. MI
Morton stopped action in the case OF Pinch
back. Gen. Butler became clamorous TOR the
impeachment of Durell. Butler says ne
had instructions from the White House
TO make the move" writes Congressman
Darrall. Our Washington correspondence re-
ported at that time that Gen. Grant had gone
so far as to prepare special message recon-
mending a new election. Why3 Was he at
last convinced of the knavery of his Louisiana
friends Was he satisfied that the people had
been wrongedi No; the disclosures OF the
investigation had not moved him; but ne
wanted his brother-n-laW Casey in the United
States Senate, and to get him there he was
ready to Overturn the entire government
which he himself had set up in Louisiana,
to dismiss the Legislature he had called
into existence and give the New-Or-
leans Custom-house the chance to man
ufacture new one! 1.-THE President is
"auietn writes Darrall, "but not letting down.
elf Pinchback is not seated judge we Will
shave a message, or at least to fight the
e lo ;rta tra
"have heard what has probably changed the
presidents mind. / have it from the very
"best authority that in case Of new election
"Casey would come to the Senate; and you
"can see if there is, as seems to me, move
"for the third term. The President would
"like to have him there. Then you know the
family influence. Bring any and all
Influence to bear on the President you can
"think of at once. Can't you get up solemn
protest from merchants and Others and get
"the Herwigs to urge Oh Casey to change
"Of tack 2"
Whether the influence which Kellogg was
able to WELD changed the Presidents purpose
we can only conjecture, but for some reason
the scheme was laid aside, and the message,
after being considered in cabinet, was sup
pressed. Whatever the cause, there came a
great calm in the Louisiana trouble. All
projects for change were quietly postponed.
The session rolled by; the committees kept
on considering and when the adjournment
came Durell had not been impeached, Pinch
back had been neither admitted nor rejected,
and Kellogg still ruled at New-Orleans-by
the aid of bayonets and check-books.
In all this disgraceful history-dsgraceful
to no one more than the President of the
United States, who seems to think it his
privilege to set up and overturn gov
ernments as may best suit the caprices
of his ambition-the one ray of light
is the belief of the conspiratOrs that the
majority of members of Congress of both
parties were too honest to take part in the
fraud, if they only knew what it meant
Grant, Williams, Kellogg, Morton, Butler,
Chandler, all appear from first to last in the
attitude of hoodwinking Congress. Is it too
much to hope that their successes in that line
are at an end, and that when Congress next
assemblies a searching inquiry will be made
into the scandal and a prompt redress found
for the cruelty outraged State of LOuisianaf