New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-27
THE LEGISLATURE iEsTERnAI.
Senate

passed. tue ScHate Dy u uuduiuous NoCO, NO'
claring that the action Of the Senate in
withdrawing the funding bill from the
Finance Committee was not intended to re-
| fleet discredit upon tho chairman of the
/ same. or in any way to accuse him Of
neglect Of duty or opposition to the meas
| ures contained in said bill.
! The report Of the Committee on Con-
l tested Elections In the case of G. j. &.
! Puckette vs. Raford Blunt was. on motion
of Mr.. Stamps, taken up and read. The re.
port recommends the seating Of Mr.. Blunt
permanently, and that mileage and per
diem be allowed Mr.. Puckette. Mr.. Weber
moved the adoption of the report. Mr. But.
| ler opposed the motion. and offered a SUBJ
| stitute. postpOning the further considera'
ton Of the subject until one o'clock. MI.
Wharton moved TO lay the substitute upon
the table. Mr.. Butler thereupon withdrew
] it: and, on motion Of Mr.. Stamps. the report
was adopted.
Mr.. Burch called up Senate bill No. q I.
for the relief of James McVay and other
creditors Of the State University. The bill
being before the Senate, Mr. Burch stated
| It's object and advocated its passage. It
proposes to give McVay and three other
| persons connected with the institution
something over $4,000 for services performed
| by them.
! Mr.. Brewster was opposed to giving
money to the State University as long as its
! walls were ornamented with pictures of
| General Lee, Stonewall jackson and other
rebel cllieftains. While Mr.. Brewster was
speaking the special order of the day was
called for.
Mr.. Barber said the special order Of the
day was the contested election cases.
| A postponement OF the special order Of
| the day was asked for.
| Mr.. Barber was sorry to see disposition
to further postpone action upon the claims
of Messrs. Glaudin and Detiege, contest
ants for the seats that have been assigned
to Messrs. Booth and VOORHEES,, but never
| filed by them. Mr.. Barber went into an
extended history of these cases. He said
they had been dragging their slow length
along for over twelve months; that the con-
| testants in these cases had complied with
! the laws regulating and prescribing the
manner in which contestants shall proceed,
| and had been knocking at the doors of the
Senate ever since for a hearing, while
Mpssrs Booth and VOORHEES, have kept
away, regardless alike of the interests Of
| unrepresented constituencies and the claims
of Messrs. Glaudin and Detiege. Other
cases had been taken up and disposed of
| where parties had been permitted TO take
| seats in the absence Of returned mem.
bers'' who chose TO take their seats
| in what has been called the Me-.
| Emery Legislature: such cases had
| been taken up. said Mro Barber, after the
McEnery Legislature proved failure and
when the time for entering a contest for a
seat in the lawful Legislature had passed.
Yet such cases had been considered where
Democrats were contesting, while the cases
Of Glaudin and Detiege (Republicans) have
been permitted to sleep for over twelve
months. Mr.. Barber could not see the jus
tee or consistency of such conduct, and was
opposed to any further delay in the mat
ter. 1t seemed to him that some under-cur.
rent was at work to prevent the seating of
Messrs. Glaudin and Detiege, who were un:
doubtedly elected. according to the testi.
mony produced before the Committee on
Contested Elections. and embodied in their
report. If the Democrats who were re-
turned as members of the Senate, instead of
Messrs. Glaudin and Detiege, have failed to
take their seats. it is no fault of the gentle.
men who have stood ready from the first.
and gave the lawful notice that the seats of
Booth and VOORHEES, would be contested.
Mr. Barber thought the fault entirely with
Messrs. Booth and Voorhees, who had con.
Quoted themselves In manner to do injus.
tice not only to Messrs. Glaudin and De-
tiege. but to their constituents, who
have thus been deprived Of repre-.
sentation. He thought 1t should not be In
the power of Democratic trickery to do this'
and was utterly opposed to begging Demo-
Gratis to take seats in the Senate; and when
they failed to come forward and do their
duty he was in favor Of seating the gentle
men who presented themselves for seats
backed by evidence that they are entitled
to them. Gentlemen have been seated here
in just such instances; and their seats have
been confirmed after contest had been
made by the parties returned elected
and it was shown that they had not com.
piled with the law prescribing the course to
be taken in such cases.
Mr.. Thomas wanted to know whether
Messrs. VOORHEES, and Booth were not re-
turned as members of the Senate by both
returning boards.
Mr.. Barber admitted that they had been;
but that they had not put in an appearance.
while the contesting members had complied
with all the requirements of the law. and
stood ready to show that great frauds had
been practiced, and through them the Re-
publican candidates had been defeated.
They had made this showing to the satisfac.
ton of the Committee on Contested Elec.
tons, and that committee had made its
report; and that seport had been made the
special order of the day for to-day. Mr..
Barber said he did not see, under all the
how gentlemen could ask o
further postponement of conclusion to the |
claims of Messrs. Glaudin and petiege. |
There was no reason that he could see
unless, indeed. it was that of color. and he |
would regret to know that any such in
fuences were at work in the Senate, as it |
might be made to react on those Senators |
who could be thus influenced.
Mr.. Burch said that an examination of |
the report made in the cases alluded to by |