The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-03-13
ARRAIGN1NG THE KELLOGGlTEs.


Kellogg legislature, when, as his course
shows, he ought to have had seat in
the McEnery legislature. Dave Young
is Il colored man--in fact and color, a |
biuch man. Were we to describe him, !
we should give him the distinction Of
having been one of those negro bows
we younger white boys played with
and looked up to-one Of the kind who
would trot us on his shoulders, or, on
holidays, drag us Off homo when he
saw we were misbchaying ourselves.
He is one ofthose darkies, who, having
intuitive knowledge of men, women
and children, i'll the days of slavery,
has acquired a decent Knowledge Of
government and the duties of q citizen,
in the days Of freedom.
Dave Young is the old time darkey
the white people all loved, who even
as a leader of his race-the king of his
parish-has not runaway with his
freedom, and seems to cherish a real.
sincere devotion to the welfare of his
State, and people, white as we'll as
colored. We are glad, after the weary
waste we have passed through, of col
ored champions, who, Pinchback has
declared, followed only demagogucs to
the ruin OF the State, that we can OK
tend to Dave Young, the black repre-
sentative of Concortlia, our hearty con-
gratulations upon so much of his course
in the Kellogg legislature as has passed
under our eyes, and to extend, with our
circulation, what he has said concerning
the course of the lower house OF that
asscmblage, in it's management of the
finances. Rising to 4 question of privi-
lege, general in its bearing, the negro
chairman OF the Contingent Expense
Committee of the Kellogg House, thus
called his white and black colleagues to
account:
Mr.. Noung-~i have been attacked
and by nearly every member. Not
openly on the floor, but everywhere
they could meet me. The responsibility
ty docs in Il certain way attach itself to
me, but the House has no right to re-
fuse me the privilege to vindicate my
self, and / am surprised at the unwill-
ingncss of the gentleman to accord it to
me. l have no objection to paying
whoever has been employed for what
ever work that has been done, but do
object to giving vouchers on resolutions
which members have caused to be
passed to little Jimmy or little johnny,
when they never saw the inside of the
State House, perhaps. Tho House
forces me to do this, to pay seventy odd
pages for less than 100 members. Why,
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of Massachusetts,, $50 members,
do not lave half as many. Fifteen
thousand dollars is all both houses pay
in that State for the services of all the
doorkeepcrs, messengers and pages,
and l, by the orders ofthis House, have
issued vouchers for moro than $4,000
for the Same purpose. Tho vouchers 1
have issued are largely in excess OF the
appropriation. To mcubcrs for 1871,
$37 ,OlS 40 for mileage, $7956; for mem
bers for 1872 and 1873, SOB 3325 for
employees, SIC, 40, and for contin gent
expenses, So, 676 81, Whicl, is SCOT 81
in excess of the appropriation OF $751;
900, and to-day l have signed vouchers
amounting to between ten and fourteen
thousand dollars more. Tho documents
in the committee room will prove this,
and show that not 4 dollar of this sum
would have been issued but for the
resolutions the House has passed. This
gentlemen who have been so eager for
their passage shall not, when the time
for an appeal to the people comes, at
tempt to point the finger of scorn ut
me or the Committee on Contingent
Expenses for wasting the public moneys.
1T has been said that 7 have preached
reform. SO l have, and so have many
Others but l have practiccd it, too,
and no act Of mine has caused any one
to receive pay for work he has not
done. The thirty-odd thousand dol
lars is on the record as the excess, and
! want tho vin,lication l am entitled
to, that l am not responsible for i, to
stand with it. I wash my hands of the
whole business, and challenge any man
to come hcfnr" tho people and say
did it.
We have watched carefully the pro
cacdinGa Of the kellogg legislature, and
the only voice raised against its folly
and extravaganza, from day to tav,
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