Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-01-14
Mr.. Logan read from one Of these passes Is fol.

or concessions from Kellogg or Packard, and that
the returning board should understand that unless
it made returns as the votes were given on the day
| of the election they should forfeit their lives
There should be concert of action throughout
the State, and such action should be prompt and
emphatic.
! Resuming his argument he said, the Senator
| from Georgia (Gordon) was in the habit of bring
ing in Georgia at all times when intimidation was
spoken of, to show that that State was peaceful.
| He Uogan) would speak on that point before he
concluded. That Senator (Gordon) yesterday
asked where the judicial officers Of Louisiana
were why they did not arrest and punish the per-
petrators Of crime in Red River parish. He Lo-
gam would tell him where they were; the attorney
| was murdered by the same banditt which murder
| ed the men at COushatta
Mr. Gordon asked where was the United States
Attorney Where was the enforcement act ?
Where was the army of the United States
Mr.. Logan said: Great heavens did the Senator
| want the army? He thought he had been railing
againt the use Of the army. Oaughter.) The
| Senator had demanded the republica party and
government.
| Mr. Gordon said he detied the Senator to find
an utterance Of his against the government of the
[ nited States any one in authority, except the
miserable men in his State.
Mr.. Logan said the Senator had denounced the
] administration and it had been spoken of in this
1 debate as the government lie then reviewed the
! circumstances which took place in New Orleans
on the 4th inst and said that the acts of the Wilt
ieRlslatuTe were tDe aCtS OF feVOlutlOnaTy DOOy
Kellogg took no action whatever until the legisa
ture had been taken possession of by mob. As
Governor Of the State it his duty to do so, to
1 do all in his power to preserve peace and order.
| 1t was Kellogg himself who took the responsible
ty of calling upon the troops. President Grant
had nothing to do with.t; General Sheridan had
nothing to do with it, and the Senate had nothing
to do with it; therefore the denunciations heaped
/ upon President Grant by the democrats for using
| the army went for naught; for he knew no more
! q hon tha do ba in
public print. The democrats could not wait to
| hear all the facts about Louisiana; they wanted
to have clamor raised before the country for pc.
itlcal purposes, and for nothieg else. The demo-
cratic party had endorsed the usurpation ten times
| as strong as it is complained of in New Orleans.
lie (Logan) believed that this raid made in the
Senate in the New York press and by the New
York meeting, showed there was some kind Of an
understanding that this revolution was to be made
in Louisiana for the purpose of overturning the
legislature of that State. He did not say the
derstandng was among the democrats of the Sem
ate, but it was somewhere.
4 He defended tie action of Kellogg in calling
upon the military aid, said that had the democrats
| been in power and the republicans had tried to
| overthrow them as the democrats tried to over
l throw the republican government in New Orleans,
| the democrats would have acted just as Kellogg
did. The democratic party had frequently en-
dorsed the use of the military. Gen. Jackson
| when in this same city of New Orleans, arrested
/ and imprisoned Judge Hall for issuing writ of
habeus corpus, a few years afterwards the demo-
Gratis elected him President of the United States.
| In 1884 there was runaway slave in Boston, and
Franklin Pierce democratic President authorized
| the use of troops from the Navy Yard and Fort
| Independence to arrest the fugitive slave. When
| the republican party used the army to enforce
the law, the same democrats howed as if o set of
pirates were about to fire their houses In 1856 in
| Kansas in the town of Topeka, free State, the
! leg slature met. Franklin Pierce, democratic
President, issued his proclamation commanding
| that body to dispense, and Jefferson Davis Secre-
! tary of War issued an order placing the United
States army in the hands and under comm and Of
the government of that State
Mr.. Logran then read an order Of General Geo.
b. Mcclellan to General Banks, who he said
a conservative independent member Of the next
House, directing the arrest of the Maryland legs
lature; said order being dated Sept. II, 1861,
though Maryland had not been declared in seces-
! SION when that order was issued. The democrats
| run Mcclellan for President the first time they
| got chance. They had denounced Sheridan in
| this debate we would remind them that history
! sometimes repeated itself. One man was made
President for making New Orleans behave itself,
| and there might be second President from the
| same cause. There were plenty of men in the
southern States who were ready 20 rise up, seize
and destroy the government, as was the case once
beofre.
The Vice-President submitted message from
| the President communicating reports in regard to
the cholera epidemic in 1873. Laid on the table
and ordered to be printed.
Adjourned a 20 o'clock.
| House
| Several bills were introduced. A bill ing
right of way for toll road in Cottonwood Com
| mon was rejected.
| The Presidents message was received Debate
| ensued as to what committee message from the
Secretary of the Treasury, relative to changes in
| the rates of duties, should be referred during
which Scofeld said the present stringency in en-
forcing the laws of the Treasy caused co plants,
and one legal firm in New York induced mer-
chants to appeal from the decisions of the Collec-
tor in order if they succeeded the merchants could
divide the money refunded. The amount now de-
| pending on Treasury divisions was three or four
| millions dollars He also stated that one of the
parties who had majority of those appeals in
New y DIRK related TO officer in the Treasu-
| ~ department, whose duty it to decide on
| them.
| Mr.. Chittcnden, of New York. said no depart
ments of the government needed so much nves-
| tigation as the New York Custom House, and
claimed that the confusion there was a disgrace,
| and the tariff had but intensified the trouble.
Mr.. Butler thought many New York merchants
| were no better than Editors; but the complaints
| ought to be enquired into. The revision OF the
tariff laws had sought to hamper honest merchants
while the latter should have every facility afforded
them. 1t is great hardship to merchants to have
several millions Of dollars locked up on the Treas
urv appeals.
Mr.. Dawes said it was almost as much the fault
OF merchants as OF any one, as they had always
| failed to furnish information to their wants
when requested so to do, by the ways and means
committee.
Mr.. Wood Of New York claimed that the mer-
chants of New York were oppressed by the laws
and by the manner they adm nstered, and
they had right to complain when new duty was
imposed without the authority of Congress.
| Mr.. Cox of New York read statement show
ing the increase in certain duties since the revision
of the statutes.
Mr.. Poland of Vermont said the statement was
| not true
Mr.. Kelley Of Pennsylvania says the statement
| was founded on the decision of the district courts
which had been overuled by the Supreme Court,
and the revision of the laws had been mad in har-
mony with the final decision.
| Mr.. Cox Protested that men or set of men
had authority to revise the laws change the tar
| III in any particulars.
! Mr.. Kelly-The committee did not change it.
| MIR. CoN-We will see how the gentlemen on
the other side can raise the tariff by ndirection.
Mr.. Taylor of Pennsylvania, argued that the
matter be referred to the committee on revision
81. .ts als taeir revision of the treasury laws
had opened up great many leaks in the treasury
and he had learned that there was not much oil
the House except the commit ee ways and
| means.