The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-01-29
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Extracts from New York Papers.
EFroni the Tribune, Goth.

EFroim the Tribune, Goth
The report of the Congressional Com
mittee, appointed by the Adninistra-
ton majority for the purpose of inves-
tigating the condition of things in Lou
isiana, shows beyond the possibility of
an honest doubt that the men who were
driven from from their seats by Federal
bayonets were rightfully, legally, and
regularly elected to the Legislature, and
that their certificates of election had
been wrongfully withheld by the Re-
turning Board. And further than this,
thesame committee unanimously report
that the Returning Board had fraudu-
lently, in utter defiance Of law, SO
altered and manipulated their returns
that, instead Ola Conservative majority
of 20 legally elected, they had construc-
a Kellogg majority of 3. It does not
appear, however, that even this illegal
majority appeared and voted against
the Conservative organization of the
House on the 18th of January. All that
Kellogg had to act upon was the fact
that the Conservatives had organized
the House of Representatives, elected
their Speaker, admitted the members
whose cases had been referred to the
Legislature by the Returning Board,
and were proceeding to the business of
the session. The game of fraud had
failed, and the only way to recover
possession of the Legislature was by
force. The law and the equity of the
case arc exactly agreed. The use of
the army by kellogg was as illegal rs
it was outrageous.
The matter is Il hopeless one from
any point of view. The Republican
managers cannot condemn it without
condemning the President-and this
I,o pf fI,o
lessness to do. They cannot defend it
without destroying their party, and
this, perhaps, they cannot help doing.
From mother article in the Tribune
reviewing the Foster report, VIC clip
the following terse indictm cnt against
Congress
There, gentlemen of the United
States Senate and House of Sepresen-
| tatiVes, is 4 picture of your dOings,
drawn by three of the ablest of your
own associates. DO not imagine that
you can humbug the people by throw
| ing the blame of this shocking state of
affairs upon William Pitt Kellogg. He
is nothing but your creature. You al
! lowed the President to thrust him into
the place he abuses. You have refused
to turn him out when you have had the
power, though you have known for
more than two years what he is. You
sustained him in spite of the disclO-
sures of the Senate Committee in 1873 !;
and you mean to sustain him now, in
spite of the revelations of NIessrs. Eos
ter, Phelps, and Potter. 1t has been a
worse crime than negligence or scrvili-
ty on your part; for you have done all
this with your eyes wide open, that
you might use Kellogg to control the
vote of Louisiana for the Administra-
ton. Go on, if you choose, and COM
plete the outrage. Sanction all that the
President has done. Scat Pinchbacl<
and thank Sheridan. The people will
settle with kellogg and all the rest of
you by and by. Meanwhile the Re-
port of the Subcommittee passes into
history as the most terrible Indictment
ever brought against any political fac
ton by its own members, and there arc
many of you who will read in it the
dcath~warrant of the Republican party
! EI'ron, the Herald, 23rd.1
a new election is the only remedy
which has any chance Of adoption by
Congress, and even this has no chance
unless the Democratic members will
consent to it. The Republicans are
divided between it and n full recogni.
ton of the Kellogg government. Prac.
tically, then, there are only these three
courses-frst, to leave things as they
are; second, to intlorse the Kellogg
usurpation, and, third, to provide for {,
new election. There is no choice
between the first two, since they really
amount to the same thing; but the
difference between them and the third
is wide. If a new election is ordered il
will be for Il Governor and Senate as
we'll as the lower House of the Legsla-
ture, which would give the people
control of every branch of tho State
government, without further compli-
tons; whereas Il Congressional recog-
milton of the last election would merely
give a Conservative lower House and
expose the State to Il violent conflict
between the several branches of its
government. AS the Conservatives
unquestionably carried the State in
November they could more easily
carry it now since the recent stupen-
dous outrage. OF course the election
should be put under some other super
intendancc than that of General Grant
and the army, which is Il point worth
fighting for,not only by the Democrats,