The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-26
WASHINGTON.
what the President thinks of Matters
i'm Louisiana

What tiie President thinks of Matters
i'm Louisiana.
WASHINGTON, January 25.--The fol-
lowing may be confidently accepted as re-
flecting the views of the President upon
the Louisiana and other kindred questions.
Numerous paragraphs, telegraphic and
otherwise, have recently appeared in the
newspapers, stating what the President
would or would not do in relation
to Louisiana and other public mat
tiers now attracting general attention,
and as if to serve the purpose Of those i'm
mediately interested in the determination
of the pending questions, the President is
sometimes represented as expressing views
which he certainly does not entertain and
which are contrary to the course he has
heretofore pursued. So far as reports pre-
vail of differences with political friends and
a disposition to act altogether independently
of them, it is known from those having
intimate relations with him, that they are
unfounded, nor is it probable that any
differences are likely to exist excepting such
as may be inseparable from the views
the President may himself take of his
constitutional duties and the official
| responsibility which attaches to his Office.
| Acting in accordance with the constitu-
tional requirement that the President
shall from time to time give the Congress
information of the state of the Union, he
is now engaged in the preparation
of message which he will submit to the
Cabinet before transmitting it to Congress.
This message will, according to the present
understanding, be confined to plain but
elaborate statement of the facts attending
the federal proceedings in Louisiana in sup
port of United States judicial decisions,
which he had no authority to disregard,
whatever may have been his own opinions
upon the political questions affected by
them. II IS positively known that the
President has not interfered in any way
with the Louisiana question relating to
seats either in the Senate or the
House of Representatives. To LOUISE
anians of both parties, who have
called upon him he has repeatedly said that
such questions properly belong to Con-
gress, the constitution making each house
the Judge of the election returns and quail
ifcation of its own members, and that the
consideration of such questions involve the
subject of the legality of the authority
under which certificates of elections issue /;
so the one question necessarily affects the
other, and both could at the same time be
determined.
This. in substance, is the reply he has
unreservedly given to those who have in
| Intercepted him on the subject
of a bill proposed to be passed
by Congress ordering new election in
Louisiana. He has discouraged such legis-
lation, and while thus opposing Congress
sional interference he has had no hesitation
in saying to visitors, as he repeated yester.
day, there was no doubt that the late cleo
ton in Louisiana was an organized fraud
from beginning to end, for the benefit Of
those now in possession of the government o
that state, and that there has never yet beer
fair count of the votes, the results hay
ing been reached by dishonest means toe
we'll known to be repeated. 1t is therefort
not probable that the President will, in hi
forthcoming special message, make any
recommendation for new election, his
opinion as recently privately expressed
being that Congress has no NOR
right to order new election IL
Louisiana than it has in any other state
because of local conflict, all the states nov
being equal in the Union and as much en-
titled to the same general protection from
illegal or unconstitutional interference By
any branch of the general government a
they are against invasion or domestic vic
lence; aud, besides, there are means t.
settle the Louisiana and all kindred case
without resort to Congressional action Or
dering new election.
Louisiana Affairs.
: WASHINGTON, January 26.-Neithe
! message nor bill in relation to Louisian
: affairs came up to-day. The messag
comes tomorrow, and the bill will probs
bly, follow. Both may be expected to
t morrow.
Congressional.
!. WASHINGTON, January 26--Senate.-
A resolution was introduced that the con
= mittee on contingent expenses be instructe
to inquire into the expediency of prohibi
I ing,the stationer at the Capitol from furnish
Y ing any articles of stationery to Senator
d except paper, pens, pencils, ink, envelope
G and mucilage. Agreed to.
Q House.-A large number of bills wei
o introduced and referred.