The Grange advance., 1874-10-28
LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.

Arrests for Violatiso of the Enforce.
naent Act-.-KelloEg's Attempt 70
DiSfranchise -Four thousand
Whites Of New Orleans.-.OPiniOn
Of the states Attorney General,
and Protest Of the Conservative
Comnlittee...Consu Of the
White League Conpromtse In st.
Nary's Parish.
We condense the following from tel
egrams of Saturday sent from Louisi-
ana to the Associated Press.
MILITARY ARRESTS.
Six Of the principal business men of
Shreveport have been arrested by the
U. S. Marshal, on complaint Of Gen.
Lewis Merrill, U. S. A., charging them
with violation Of the enforcement acts
of lS70-'7l, in conspiring to discharge
from their employ all persons who sup
port the Radical party. it is said Gen
Merrill has caused warrants to be issued
against ninety other business men Of
Shreveport on the same charge, who
will be arrested Monday. Two arrests
were also made at Breaux Bridge and a
number at St. Martinsyille, on similar
charges.
DISFRANCHISING WHITES.
Attorney General Field has replied to
the StateiKegistrar Of voters, with refer.
enc to the status Of persons of foreign
birth naturalized in the second district
conrt, that in his opinion. that court,
having only probate jurisdiction, is not
court exercising common law iuris-
diction. and is, therefore, incompetent
! to grant naturalization to aliens.
THE coxM1rTEE's PROTEST.
The executive committee Of the Dem.
ocratic and Conservative State Central
Committee, upon the announcement Of
the above opinion Of the Attorney Gen.
eral issued the following protest:
WHEREAS, Several thousand of our
foreign born citizens we're naturalized
by the Second District Court upon the
advice of the best legal talent in the
State, said advice being fixed upon pre-
vious decisions upon said question, and
acquiesccd in for many years; and
WHEREAS, Said naturalized citizens
have been registered without opposi-
ton being made to their right to regis
ter, and have become qualified electors
under the constitution and laws of the
United States, and of the State;
WHEREAS, 1t is contemplated by the
Republican leaders, Kellogg, Packard,
Beckwith and others, to deprive our
foreign.born citizens Of their right to
vote, by advising the assistant supervi-
sor to arbitrarily strike out from the
list of registered voters the names of
said foreign. citizens, thereby in.
vesting said supervisor with the extra
ordinary power of wrestling from said
citizens the right of citizenship, secured
by judgment of court of competent
jurisdiction, and recognized in their
fullest extent by said supervisors by
their official act of registering said citi.
zens; and
WHEREAS, This conspiracy between
the Governor and federal officials is
intended to secure by fraud the same
results in the parish of Orleans which
they are attempting to secure in the
country parishes by intimidating white
voters through the prostitution of the
federal judiciary and the degradation
of the Z. S. army to local political pur-
poses, belt
Resolved, That we denounce In un-
measured terms this movement to de-
prive said foreign born citizens of the
rig is Of citizenship and the persistent
interference Of federal officials in the
! affairs Of our State, intended to invite
conflict and disorder, and we denounce
the weakness and disposition Of the
executive in submitting to the dictatiou
Of federal officials.
Resolved, That we earnestly call upon
every registered citizen thus natural
lied to present himself at the polls and
cast his vote.
Resolred, That if this outrage be
consummated we hold up to popular
e1ecration the individual author Of this
foul conspiracy against worthy class
of our citizens.
| SENSIBLE COMPROMISE.
At Franklin, La, large and enthusi-
astic mass meeting of the white and
colored people of the parish of St. Mary
was held in accordance with the reso.
lutions adopted by the White League
nominating convention on Saturday
last. A compromise similar to that re-
Gently made in the parish Of Terreboune