The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
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The Faithful in Council.
THIRD DAY.


a number of gentlemen, totally unconscious
of the fact, wandered in and around the Sen
ate Chamber lost and confused, until Motif
ed by the obliging Sergeant-at-Arms that
the rally was to take place in the Hall of the
House of Representatives, and then there
was general move in that direction.
President Edward Williams was not on
time, but the members were easy and uncon-
cerned, placing, as they did, implicit faith
On the old clock which has recorded twenty
minutes Of eleven ever since the adjournment
of Kellogg's House.
At 1890 President Edward Williams came
forward smiling, and the members were duly
apprised of his arrival by the sound of his
mallet.
There was no chaplain on hand, and as
none of the gentlemen of the Convention
were given to that thing, there was no pray
ing, as on the previous day, by way of in
PRODUCTION.
Mr.. Collins called for the report of the
Committee on Credentials, in a speech of
fifteen minutes. q
To oblige Mr.. Collins. and because it was
feared he was going to speak again, the re-
port was read.
feared he was going to make a speech, the
minority report was also read.
The Convention was utterly deceived in
Mr.. Collins, for, notwithstanding the conde-
scensiOn IF the Convention, he made a
speech.
He spoke for half an hour, but his remarks
can be summed up in few words. He
wanted the whole hog or none" for the
faction of the Fourth Ward headed by
nd ha %aI
tiou to permit James Lewis to make a
speech
The gentlemen seemed to think that Col
lns's speech was sufficient for the present,
but Pinchback expressed himself as being
of the opinion that it was their duty to bear
the infection, and the gentlemen became
resigned, and Lewis took the platform and
spoke
He laid before the Convention the fact
that Pinchback's crowd had been very tricky
and his very Innocent. He was very elo
quent on this subject His crowd, in their
implicit confidence in human nature, had
not found out the vile deeds of the other
crowd until it was too late to appeal to any
body or anything but the Convention.
He then made personal explanation
The Department improvements had never
been used for political purposes, never would
be used, and lie thanked God (very fervent-
any intention of using it, the Republican
party was becoming greatly enlightened Ga
cause for gratitude certainly and the party
lash had no longer the potent power it had
of yOre He made the candid admission
that he had neglected his duty as an Ad-
mnistratOr and a member of the Relief
Committee, to attend to politics, but ex-
cused himself by asserting that it was for
the good of the party.
To-, g..
OF course the political welfare of our people |
was of much more interest than their bodily |
welfare, and if they suffered for that which !
would tend to the latter, it was considered |
all right if Jas. Lewis was attending to the |
former.
Mr.. Pinchback took the floor This was
an infection for which the Convention was
prepared as a necessary consequence of the |
one preceding it, and the gentlemen took it |
as a matter of course.
Pinchback started out by telling what he |
originally intended to do in the way of a re-
ply, but finally came to the conclusion he
would not do. The information was very
edifying.] He was very humble in his ex-
preston OF regrets for his part in the affair
Of the preceding day. He attributed the
whole affair to the warmth of the climate
and his own hastiness and impetuosity
thereby occasioned. He asserted positively
and offered to prove that the Department of
improvements had been used to carry out
the views of certain men. He did not saw
that Col Lewis had used his influence him
self, but he had subOrdinates, and they, he
knew, had threatened to call into requisi-
ton the official AK unless certain things
were DONE He was not posted regarding
the pay rolls.
He spoke of Pinchbacks charity t, the
poor as making him favOrite with them.
SO great had been his charity that he was
himself in want
He spoke as eloquently of the tricks of
JAS Lewis's crowd as Jas. Lewis had spoken
of the tricks of his. He did not claim the
same innocence on the part Of his faction, ,
though, and thought it rather good thing
that this was so.
Justice Evans made long speech, and all
he said was that he thought both delega- I
lions should be seated on no other grounds s
save on the precedent established in the i,
ease Of his'~ard (the Third) on the previ- ,
ous day. 4
Both delegations, to save further speech
making, were seated.
Business went on very smoothly until the
Ward was reached Mr.. Finne- q
gan and Mr.. Isaac Bush were the contes- l
ants. Bush wanted to make speech h
he Convention did not want him to do it,
}ut Henry Clay, of the Third Ward, took '
he floor, and with the eloquence of his b
treat namesake, urged that Mr.. Bush be al t
owed to uncork himself The Convention
Mr. Clay and made Mr.. Bush
lappy by gracously allowing the latter n
Gentleman to proceed
Mr.. Bush accordingly proceeded. He ar :.
ued that he ought to have seat on account q
inherent right to it, from the fact that his
Tard had always elected him on previous a
ccasions, and if it had not been a rainy
light on which the election took place, so
hat nobody but "demagogues" could at :
end the meeting, his friends would have ~
cen on hand and he would have been de- lie
Jared the choice Of the ward. Il
The Convention taking the circumstances a,
ITO consideration, magnanimously agreed -
} allow Mr.. Bush to have half vo.e =
The report was then adopted down to the N
Ward. Harmony, without "
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