The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14


Of the public peace. urgently request
that the military of both parties be at
once disbanded which is the first step to
wards peaceable settlement, Answer.
U. s. GRANT.
Baxter issues the following
PROCLAMATION.
Having heretofore declared it ne cessary
for the protection Of the legal state gov-
ernment to proclaim martial law in thel
county of Pulaski, as chief executive of
the state, 7 did 50 proclaim ON the 18TH
day of April last, and having after called
toe Legislature together to meet on this
day, 7 now revoke the proclamation Of
martial w, in so far az the meeting and
deiberation of the Legislature is concern
ed, and hereby notify all persons not to
interfere with the M bers OF the Legisla-
ture individually or with the general as
scmbly on its meeting or deliberations,
while the session may continue.
liz testimony whereof, have hereunto
act my private seal, (the seal of the state
not being accessible at IL o'clock A. NJ /. /,
this 18th day Of May, A. D, 1874.
Signed.
Jas. w. JOHNSON. ELISHA BAXTER.
Secretary of State. Gov. of Arkansas.
by A. H. GARLAND, Deputy Sec'y.
On the evening OF the 18th Brooks is>
sued call converting an extraordinary
session Of the Legislature on the GATH in
slant.
Attorney General to Baxter:
WASHINGTON, May Him. Elisha
Baxter:
am directed by the President 10 say
that be considers your proposition far
ohO ACo0OAuOtOt ohN navy W ASh tOk It's
immediate acceptance by Brooks.
GEO. Fl. WILLIAMS. Attorney General.
Attorney General to Brooks:
WASHINGTON, May Ito the Hon.
Joseph Brooks, Little Rock
The Hon. Elisha Baxter has telegraphed
the President that the General Assembly
must adjourn from day to day until a
} quorum is present, and that then he is in
favor of its adjourning until every one of
: your supposed adherents is present, with
the understanding that he will disband
his troops in proportion that you disband
yours; that yon will get away as far west
as he is east of the State House, and allow
it to he turned over to the Secretary of
= STATE, w l,o is rs legal custodian, and that
you will deposit the State aims in the
State Armory. The members of the
Legislature in Little Rock heartily APP
prove of this proposition and am direct
cd by the President 10 say that he con-
siders this fair and reasonable, and that
your interests require its immediate &C
ceptance.
Answer. GEORGE Ii. WILLIAMS.
Attorney General.
BROOKS responds In dispatch to Pres
ldent Grant too long to be given here,and
declines to enter into the arrangement
He refused to disband his troops, saws
Federal bay onets may put the Legislature
in the State House, but nothing else will,
snd when there he doubts if the President
can make them decide who is Governor
He thinks it time that the agony and
doubt of uncertainty was over, and thinks
it time, if the President has power under
the Constitution and laws of the United
States, to settle the question of who is
i Governor of Arkansas adverse to the
decision Of the courts Of the State, that he
should settle it, and settle it at once.
A dispatch from Little Rock May IS, say /:
a quorum of both houses OF the Legislature
Is now Ia session, fourteen members in the
Senate and forty-Av In the House, and pro-
ce eding with business. The Legislature IS
not in the State House Sklrmishing still
continues and several have been killed.
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