The weekly Louisianian., 1874-08-01

= IL ~ DO K,A1lNl Al H
id Washington aud hoy hard! III d
to accomplish anything. From the
very first hour that I knew of yonr
trouble ,Hthatctlea MY attteisaidn to
their alienation through national
legiaastionas1sIo llataa,information
j photographed; 4cerrespcnslsas with
people, 1spfekded 9vet, tho sdelegsat-
tions Of the south, and appeared
Ibafore the House Committee on APP,
appropriations, and I made an: .argsa-
ment utter which they generously
gave is five hundred thousand dol
HRS after once u appr9priiatingg ahun-
bred and hinetyethousaad. Let me
say in this conn ection that in the
Senate Committee I was most ably
ana efficiently: ias assisted BY the hon
orable gentleman who presides over
your deliberation tonight: He gave
ME great assistance when he came
to Washington.I'. i should like to
have such men to stand behind me
always. I thought that that appro-
priation was secure It passed the
house without a dissenting voice.
It came to the Senate, and with the
assistance Of Nj. Sandidge, and the
advocacy Of myself, it passed OUT
committee unanimously, and was
instructed to report it back for the
action OF the Senate. Could I con-
ceive in such a great work Of charity
that any one man would interpose-
his petty will to defeat its being car
rieJ out? Yet when T asked for the
consideration of the question, Mr..
Salisbury, OF Delaware rose in his
place and said Il object, and that
consigned the measure to the tomb
beyond the hope of resurrection If II
had not been. zffotr the exercise of
some parliamentary tactics after
wards. -. p:;..l.~s :.t.2 .~-y.:.. =
'Now,I want:to. show, You, as T
said, how easy it is to do nothing,
and use that case as, IN illustra-
ton. We tacked.it ON the General
Appropriation bill, and we,carriedi it
and today, The Mayor Of this city
notifies the .benidcent, charities Of
the North, that no longer does Lou
isiana require their assistance; that
the parent government had como
forward to their relief. :
Now, ] ask you'll such a measure
of charity, against which there was
but one dissenting voice in> the Sen
ate, could be defeated by that one
voice what chance would q measure
have had that was as liable to crit
ciism as this. The Senate Commit
tee on Transportation saw hat
clearly and distinctly Il. have actu-
ally got in these papers, all my
notes amending the bill e;nhtascula-
ting it Of its Objectionable features
to a great extent,) and when the
question was put to them "shall
that bill be reported back to the
Senate" it had but two votes in it's
favor. Now if I made q minority
report at all, it would have been
upon III amended bill, which would
have been contested by seven of the
nine of the Committee, and anyone Of
whom, when the bill .calne before the
Senate, could have arisen in lis seat,
objected, and defeated it. There are
times there when I believe if wo had
Il measure before the Senate, to pre-
vent your hon orable president from
being hanged, it could not he heard;
it could not get a chance to draw its
breath. Within seven Legislative days
of the close of the SESSION, was I to
come forward with n minority report
that was imrrncticable, and, which
would accomplish nothing, and jeo-
all? Iam,not in the habit of
making Legislative strokes for bun
Everyone I make I want it to
toll. Had I reported that bill back
amendments, and it had been
there in the Senate, You
would have been without the survey
that has been accorded to You by the
of the United States. You
would have had no chance to get it.
Congress would have adjourned, and
you would have had no prospect ex-
sept the renewal of this contest ut the