New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-25
BY TELEGR A PHI
WASHINGTON.
The New York Ileraid's Expose Of {
White League Proxramme.


White League Programme.
WASHINGTON, November 24-The New
York Herald OF Sunday. in column article
oD Louisiana, says that the threats of the
White League at Shreveport and New Or.
leans. as to the Returning Board, portend
mischief, and that as to the Legislature,
the White League rifles will gainsay the
title OF many Of those returned by the
board. 1t is said the fear of federal inter.
ference will not deter the League frcm
making its effort, any more than did, two
years ago, the executive recognition OF the
de factO government dissuade that League
from its bold experiment of September last;
| and yet the President has been assured
that large element of the Louisiana De.
mocracy discGuntenancc the Leas
The taxpayers are beginning to vince
under the frequent parOxysms that depre.
clate property. dishearten enterprise aud
| repei immigration.
The better class Of Republicans ad.
init that some OF the local officials are
\ not exemplary. but insist. as they were
| mainly appointed before Kellogg took the
executive chair, he ia not culpable. Con.
firmed by the State Senate, they can not be
removed by him. and he has thus had to
endure the Odium OF subOrdinates he never
| selected. They are to a large extent men
formerly identified with Warmoth. and
conclude their official terms in January
next.
The programme is to seat first the Nc.
Emery Senators who hold over from 1872,
and then the eight just elected. and with
| this quorum to have "a Senate to try Kellogg
| and Antoine, the Lieutenant Governor, on
| articles of impeachment. and to constitute
u House to prefer articles. The League
proc!sims its resolve to seat as many as
| may be necessary of its partisans. whatever
the finding of the Returning Board.
| Mck.narv IN ia said is an yiOua IN have the
two houses, composed as indicated, meet in
Joint session, canvass the old Warmoth re.
turns OF 1877, now supposed to be in covert
in Baltimore bank vault, and declare
him Governor; but McEnery is musty as
favorite. Penn, his Lieutenant Governor,
Der, and if McEnery would die or abdi-
cate q more vehement and concentrated
effort would at once engage the League.
AS it il, Penn finds McEnery stumbling
block, and the League that will not forgive
the latter for opposing their September row,
are dividing into Cage and Witt clans.
The latter is by far the largest. Cage hopes
by the impeachment of Antoine to be elected
by the State Senate as its president, and
upon the ensuing impeachment Of Kellogg
to become acting Governor. Wiltz is con
| spring to be elected Speaker of the House,
and thereupOn to have the House impeach
Kellogg simultaneously with Antoine,
whereby lie may constitutionally scat him
self in the executive chair.
Neither competitor cares SO much to have
impeachment carried to finale. since the
mere preierrng of articles operates as a
suspension OF official functions. Wilt con.
ceiyes, it is said. that the venture should
not be made until about the close Of the
session, in March, which would be too late
for the present Congress to Interfere. and
he would then act AS Governor until the
I nn1 u. L. nt, h,
ing Democratic in the lower house, would
| not order new election.
Tha primary effort will be to fix the per
sonal composition of the Leg gislatarc, but as
Witt starts in the race from the branch
that determines whom to impeach first, the
chances are largely in his favor rather than
Cage.
turning Board. shall proclaim who are the
legislators.
All this has been laid before the Presi
dent 10 guide him in his remarks on the
Louisiana question. Kellogg has declared
there is no need of his dispatching demands
for troops when the League. by such daily
bulletins as have been recently published
hetrays the exigency for him. He points te
the retirement Of LOngstreet from the Re
turning Board. to the end OF making a
vacancy for Democrat. az a token OF the
Republican desire for harmony, and to the
refusal of both Sandidge and Arroyo to act
after having been elected by tho board as
members, as denoting that the opposition
will not be satisfied with aught but whole
sale return Of anti-Repubiican ans TO the Leg
islature, by whom revolution moro legal
in form than was that of last September
but for the same end, may be precipitated
Arrival Of Congressman Darrall in WASH
iugtOn.
Congressman Darrall, Of Louisiana. j:
here. He represents himself. Morey and
Nash, colored, elected, and comedies the
other districts TO the Democrats. He thinks
the Legislature will have nine Conservative
majority. five Of whom are Anderson men
and wil! probably ac. with the Republicans