The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-25
THE BIVALVULAR ORGANS.

The two oysters on Camp street have
finally opened their shells and spurted out
something about the State House job. The
Times discOurses in the following innocent
style:
| The Stated House matter seems to be devel
Opng itself into huge job. liza State House
were wanted, and could be obtained for
Sl25,OOO, but small portion of which had to
he paid down, why not purchase it at once,
instead Of leasing it for nineteen years at
the rate of $4,000 per annum!
| We heard rnmOrs Of this transaction
weeks ago, and on sending a special commits
siOner to the State authorities for infOrma-
ton on the subject, the whole thing was
pronounced fiction. Why.this cOncealment
and insincerity!
The Picayune meekly remarks:
We learned from Attorney General Field
yesterday that it was his purpose at an
early day to inquire into the matter Of the
lease of the st. Louis Hotel building to the
State as a State-House. He does not seem
to be at all apprehensive that the treasury
will be plundered. Ne money has been paid
out as yet, nor can any he paid in the future
until the whole matter is examined into.
Our readers VIII remember that a few days
ago we asked why it was that the above
journals had SO singul; rly failed in their
duty as chroniclers of public events, to ven
tilate this stupendous fraud upon the peO
pie of their State. The facts of the case
were in their possession when the "put up
OBJ" was exposed and denounced by the
BULLETIN. Why have they been so Ieluc
tant in even abiding to this State House
leases l it because their time and atten
ton have been SO mOnOpolzed by learned
dissertations on "bivalvular asphixiation."
or genealogical surveys Of "balG heads" or
the proper classification Of their respective
editors in the animal kilgdom-assinine.
canine, or bOvine-that theycan find neither
time nor space to devote to the minor affairs
of State
The Times, however, makes sickly dis
play Of enterprise this morning, and sends
reporter to interview Kellogg. to ascertain
the real facts concerning "the alleged renting
of the St. Louis Hotel for State-House."
This fact is notorious one, and the COM
plicity o Kellogg has been directly charged
and not contradicted. 1t would seem, then,
that it was more the object of the Times to
give its patron Kellogg an opportunity "to
rise and explain" his connection with that
disreputable transaction. And we are borne
out in this surmise by the half Il column of
apology, explanation and extenuatng cir
cumstances contained in the published re-
port Of the Times interviewer.
In order, now, that this journal may have
another opportunity for displaying it's
public spirit and enterprise in publishing
news a week after the BULLETIN, and in
order that the full history of this State
House ring may be known, we would suS-
gest that Mr.. Jos. Oglesby, the President of
the Chamber of Commerce, be likewise in
terviewed and his status defined.
Let those nice members of the Legisla-
ture, Wands, Devices, Benham and Mat
thews, also have a chance to explain salts
factorily their connection with the affair.
In this way the Times may render some ser
vice to the community and in measure
for its dereliction of duty in
the past.
As for the Picoyune, it has no word of
of the STATED House lease, and
nothing inconsistent with its article of
April Is, which, if anything, was laudatory
of the scheme