The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-25
ALL rs NOT YET LOST.
An Appeal to the Members of the Can

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move a reconsideration. This is sacred rule
All parlamentarians respect it. All honorabl
members OF deliberative bodies accept it a
gospel rule. 1t is to deiberative bodies anal
ogous to what the habeas corpus is to the com
mon law. If any one Of the majority ask
to reconsider the Caucus cannot reject tn,
motion. We believe that such reconsideration
viii be moved and had.
When this is done to-day, we hope the
members Of the caucus will take ample time
to consider the affair in all its bearings We
| hope they will not for moment forget that
they are representatives Of very honorable
men and citizens like themselves We be-
Seech them, in al seriousness, not to forget
their constituents We, whose votes elected
the thirty-four men who accepted, yesterday
the Wheeler proposal, most earnestly and
solemnly ask them to reconsider We beg OF
them to remember that they are not acting
for themselves. We respectfully request
that, when they go this morning to
they will remember who they are who
speak through their votes. Let them pause
for few minutes, put their hands over their
closed eyes, and count up the neighbors, the
friends, the kinsmen and the party associates
by whose favor they have been elected to the
Legislature of Louisiana. Remember, gen.
tlemen, that the favor Of your fellow citizens
only endowed you with authority to execute
their will, you being the interpreters. You
may act counter to their will, but in the day
of reckoning such action will be certain to
count against you.
But the thirty-four affirmative voters are
honorable gentlemen. We appeal to them,
on the score Of honor and ask them
if they are wholly satisfied with the Wheeler
proposal for which they voted Look it |
bquarely in the face. Weigh it we'll Read
it from beginning to end. Ponder upon it |
well. Melt out the truth and real meaning
from the proposals which your votes have |
accepted and indorsed and which you have
this one last chance to reconsider Perhaps |
some among you have forgotten the substance
Of the Wheeler proposition, wherefore we
again give them in full as follows:
The Original Articles of Compromise Submitted h,
Mr.. Wheeler. of The Congressional Investigating
Committee, ON Louisiana Affairs. and Adopted by
ths Conservatives in Caucus. by Vote of 80 in
Favor OF and - Against. Friday. February ).
1870:
Whereas, It is desirable to adjust the diff
'ultles growing out of the general election in
his State, in 1872, the action Of the Return
N Ipp1 arm nd III . |
esnlts of the general election, in the month
+ November last, and the organization of {
he House OF Representatives, on the 4th day !,
i January last, such ad justment being
eemed necessary to the re establishment Of I
eace and order in the State;
Now, therefore, the undersigned members T
the Conservative party, claiming TO have !
cen elected members Of the House of Rep
esentatves, and that their certificates Of y
lection have been illegally withheld by the p
Board, hereby severally agree =
, submit their claims to seats in the House
Representatives to the award and arbitra- q
rent Of George L. Hoar, VIM. A. Wheeler
I'm. p. Frye and Sam S. Marshall, members t.
the Congressional Committee, now in New Y
rleans, who are hereby authorized to ex-
nine and determine the same upon the Y
iultieS OF the several cases; and, when such a
ward shall be made, we hereby severally re
5ree to abide by the same;
And such OF us as may become members of
e House of Representatives, under this ar az
ngement hereby severally agree to sustain &C
our influence and votes the Joint resolu- IL
N hereinafter set forth
And the undersigned, claiming to have been a.
ected Senators from the Eighth and Tween u
Second Senatorial Districts hereby agree to
bmit their claims to the foregoing award ta
Il arhit ramnnt and IL, oil ,I;lo
G results of the same VI
And the undersigned holding certificates be
election from the Returning Board here wi
severally agree that upon the coming in mr.
the award OF the foregoing arbitrators they
u, when the same shall have been ratified Sel
the report of the Committee on Elections be
| qualltic atons of the body in session at tn,
) State-llouse claiming to be the House of ne
presentatives, attend the sitting of the
House for the purpose Of adopting said 81
ort II said report Shall be adopted, and the
mbers embraced in the foregoing report VIII
ii be seated then the undersigned several g.
'greo that Immediately upon the adoption -
laid report they will vote for the following y,
buttons up,
Whereas, doubts have existed, and still cor
It, as to the legal results of the election in a,
State in November 1872; and VIC
'hereas, it is alleged, and by large por- gra
of this State believed, that the result of
election of members of the House of Rep
and for Treasurer, in November
was illegally determined and promul-
ID 10y the Returning Board; and 4
hereas, these doubts, allegations and be- Kel
have tended greatly to disturb the public ,,be
d, and unsettle confidence, and ipiuri-
y to affect the material interests of the feel
e; and iect
hereas, it is deemed necessary to the well 70 h
of the State that an adjustment of the -.
going difficulties should be effected Neel
efore, ,be it hereby Was
'Solleo By The GeHerui assembly Of the State T.
LouiS kna, That said General Assembly did,
by declares its acquiescence in the exist I'M.
State Government established in 1872. Nc
WI as the kellogg Government, including 10 G.
senate, which is now and has been in ses- =
at the State House, and that it will not ~
TO question by impeachment the official Cans
of the Governor from time to time since new
establishment and that hencetorth it 1s13
accord to said Governor all necessary and i
innate support III maint aiming the laws, iios