New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-06


craphed Casey to the President, "will
"save the Republican majority. and give
Louisiana Republican Legislature and
Estate Government sour members are
"poor and adversaries are rich. There is
danger that they will break our quorum. Ii
"requisinon Of Legislature flor trOopsl is
compiled with. all difficulty will be disspated,
"the party saped. and everything go on
smoothly" democratic members Of Legls-
"lature taking their seats. Important that
" you Immediately recognize Gov Pinchback's
Legislature in some manner" SO the next
day Attorney General Williams, who had mean
while been in telegraphic communication with
Marshal Packard, sent a dispatch to Pinchback.
&" Let it be understood that you are recog-
nized by the President as the lawful Execu-
I" tive of Louisiana, and that the body assem-
bled at Mechanics Institute is the lawful
| Legislature of the State" To committee
of citizens asking to be heard in behalf OF
the legitimate authority thus outraged, MIR.
Williams replied: Your visit with hundred
a. citizens will be unavailing so far as the
" President is concerned. His decision is made
" and will not be changed
The plotters in New-Orleans and the plot
tiers in Washington having thus performed
their respective parts, it resulted that Kel-
logg was thrust into the Governorship. and
there were two Legislatures and two persons
claiming admission to the United States Sen
ate. This threw the controversy into Congress,
and it became important for MIR. Kellogg to
make sure Of friends in that body without
a moments delay. One of the most i'm
pOrtant persons at the Capital, owing to
his official relations with the Administration
party, was William E. Chandler, Secretary of
the National Republican Executive Committee
Kellogg hired Mr. Chambers services, and
paid for them without any circumocution,
giving him at the start a retaining fee of
81 900, with the understanding that he should
have more when he had earned 1t.
Chandler exerted himself zealOusly among the
Republican Senators and Representatives.. Inc
Attorney General took care of the executive
branch of the Government. Chandler has
worked with us nObly," writes Kelloggs
lawyer, Mr.. Billings, land more effect
"ually than any one, except W'Mams'
Mr.. Kellogg did not trust however entirely to
the influence of Chandler. His opponents had
applied to the United States Supreme Court
for a writ of prohibition to check the out
rageous orders of Judge Durel. II was not
an alarming movement, for repeated decisions
of the court had settled the point that an
application of that sort could not be
granted Nevertheless, it afforded Kellogg
an opportunity to retain several persons
of influence. Caleb Cushing received $4,000,
one half of which he " found it desirable to
deliver to Mr.. Chandler" leaving certainly
generous fee for his own easy service.
Mr.. Carpenter. the most important man in
the Senate after Mr.. Morton (whOm Kellogg
had already was retained at the suspicious
and wholly dispropOrtiOnate price-he says OF
So, 900, though Congressman Sypher calls it
S4,5OO; and at the other end of the Capitol
Kellogg purchased the services of Mr. Benja-
min F. Butler. Perhaps we have no
right to be surprised that after these
investments Kellogg remained undisturbed
through the whole of the session. There were
several resolutions in the House of Repre-
sentatives for the investigation of Louisiana
affairs, but they never came to anything. MIR.
Butler staving off action on the plea that he
meant TO bring in o bill for a new election,
which he failed to do. The Judiciary Com
mittee took the case into consideration, but
Mr. Butler was the most influential member of
that Committee practically its chairman), and
it made no report. In the Senate, however,
there was more trouble-and this brings us to
the most remarkable chapter III the whole
story.
Kellogg had made one great blunder. He
was not good pay. Mr.. Chandler, for instance,
was highly dissatisfied with his compensation,
and wrote to the Governor in a strain OF
menace 81 have learned what you have done
for other counsel here during my absence,
"and am very much gratified that you were
I" able to respond to their demands. You
"must not now forget or neglect me, but
must make me remittance, and it ought to
"be as large as you send or have sent to
"anybody else" "Chandler wished me
"tO write to you about his fee,"
saws Billings. 81 would arrange the
matter with him at the earliest moment
possibler There was the same difficulty
with Mr.. Carpenter. Mr.. Carpenter received
half his demand on account. At first. when
the Louisiana case came into the Senate, he
stoutly defended the usurpatiOn, taking pre-
cisely the same stand as Senator Morton.
Then the matter was referred to o committee
of which he was q member. With his claim
against Kellogg still unsettled he made his
celebrated report monln aiIeI"uus, io0om-
mending O new election and the reestab-
lishment of the defunct Warmoth administra-
ton ad interim but as if unwilling to
push his client too far, he consented to an
amendment which virtually recognized 1.-THE
Kellogg Government. The bill was lost.
Even after ; this warning Mr.. Kellogg
did not pay. Three months afterward
Mr.. Carpenter went to New-Orleans and made
| a curious speech to the peOple-a speech which
Soroto, Morton declared he could not under