Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-24
LOUISIANA.
MOncure and Four Conservative
Congressman Declared
Elected
The Returning Boards Crownins In
famy-ExuItasion Of the KeIlogzftes.

The Returning Boards Drowning In
famy-Exultasion Of the Keiiogxites.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23.-The sub
committee appointed by the Conservative
and Democratic party, to witness the can
wasting and compiling of the returns by the
Returning Board, to-day promulgated the
returns of the election held Nov. z, Ior
CongressmeIl, State Treasurer and men,
bers of the Legislature, certifying under
oath, that the statements and complain on
were compiled by them from sworn duplE
cate returns In their possession, and nave
been by them compared with duplicates IN
the possession Of said Board and cor
rected thereby, and correspond to the
compilation and canvass, poll by poll and
parish by Parish, made by said Boards; and
they therefore certify and declare the FOL
lowing named persons were duly and law
fully elected. Here follows q list Of the
names of those elected, showing the cleo
ton of four Conservatives and two Repub-
lican Congressmen; the election Of Mon
cure, Conservative, as State Treasurer by
ASH majority, and the election Of
II Conservatives and 81 Republicans to
the Legislature. Carroll parish is e1clu-
ded from the count of the Returning
Beard;
The Conservative members to-day with
drew from the Board because Of its arbitra-
~ ruling. Mr.. AToy also withdrew, and
will give reasons tomorrow for his with
drawal.
The Board canvassed the returns of Iberia
and Terebonne parishes. Poll one, in the
former, which gave 30S Conservative and
"a Republican votes, was thrown out,
counting In the Republican in place OF the
Democratic candidate. Terrebonne par
ish, polls Nos. three, eight, ten
and eleven, giving 526 Com
promise and $50 Republican votes
were thrown out, counting in ito straight
out Republicans in place of the Compro-
mise candidates, and defeating GOode for
the Senate.
The returns, as complied by the Board
to date, give the Conservatives forty-s.x
and the Republicans forty-seven members
of the House-one majority for the Re
publicans. The Conservatives are despond-
ent and the Republicans iubilant over the
results
4 Last warming.
The Conservative Sub Committee pre-
scented protest to the Returning Board, in
which, after renewing the arbitrary action
taken, they say:
The responsibility for such step, strik-
ing at the root Of our form of government,
as it does, is a grave one, and such usurpa-
ton has always reacted in a terrible man
nef wherever it has been adopted in Amer
lea, and this committee trusts that its
gravity has been. well weighed by your
body, as it alone must bear it, as this COM
mittee can share no part of the burden by
either continuing its connection with your
body and lending seeming acquiescence
by its continued presence.
Having exhausted by this final protest the
last means of resistance TO this revolutions
airy decision, as we regard il, this commit
tee now leaves the responsibility where it
belongs, and completes its duty by surren-
dering its trust to the constituency whom
it represents and placing before the people
of the State and Union, in its proper light;
the artion of the Board and this committee,
for them to pass on as a political court OF
last resort, to Judge the cause of Louisiana,
1ecide the question and decree the conse-
luences thereof