The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-05
ARBITRATION AVID so FORTH.


journed to Washington. Our people do nc
go there to vote except by proxy, Mr. Wheele
and Mr. Hoar representing the Safe at large
(. the other members of the Hoar Commute
W acting for our inhabitants, not by geographic
~ divisions but by classes. Messrs. Phelps
~ Foster Potter and Marshall stand for tn
honest intelligent class Frye Hoar ar
~ Wheeler st md for all the balance. The docu
ments, returns, ct cetera, have been forwarded
: post haste, 10 the gentleman who represent
70 Kellogg, Grant, Packard, Pinchback an
several other constituents too numerous Il
mention III this connection.
!. They have consented to arbtrate. Tie
i. facts have been submitted and the issues n
: stake have been put before them by those who
E had no right to open the case in that novel
illegal way. But the arbitrator5 are now
plenlpoteAtaries ia the matter. The people
voted for Representatives, and, IS they
thought, made up General Assembly. They
made a mistake. The Well Anderson X en-
ner Returning Board, counting out enemies
and counting in friends, made up, as they
thought, another General Assembly. They
made a mistake. Mr.. Wilt, his tifty-two
or more Conservative colleagues, and few
Republicans, elected by the people, and all
returned by the Wells Beard, with full quo
rum elected Speaker and thought they had
formed the lower House Of the General
Assembly. They, too, were mistaken.
| Then came in the commando in chief O: the
army and navy, represented by squad of
soldiers in caps and full uniform, bayonets
fixed, and put out Of doors five members, and
| SO basely assaulted aud insulted the fftytwo
or more Conservatives that they could not
with propriety remain. Then, as was in
tended, the others returned as elected and
supposed by ONE to have been elected made
up House, 'the House that Mike built.
Grant, De Trobriand Campbell, Sheridan,
and the "bold soldier boys " thought they had
at last made a sure enough Legislature. |
Another mistake
Gentlemen, named by Mr. Speaker Blaine, |
representing party and constituting com
mit.ee come in and say that the bayonet |
House is no House at all; that the Wells-An-
derson House was no House at all, and in |
short that nothing whatever can be made out
of this series of blunders
Dangling thus at the end of chain of blum
ders and absurdities, the anxious men OF the
Caucus who find no tribunal for their case
among their fellow citizens at home or their
friends appeal it to the arbitration of those
who are neither neighbors nor friends, and
who are assumed to be impartial because
they are strangers.
The Conservatives having made up their
minds that it must be done, and the arbitra-
tors having, after long persuasion, consented
to act. the practical question comes up-how
are you going to do it? .
The committee of aroitra.ors may take the /;
matter in hand with )ut delay. They may not
That depends on the wishes of the govern
nent, which means Gen. Grant The papers
IAN be run through in short meter. !,
they have them in duplicate tally lists,
certificates, reports of parish clerks, etc.
they have the figures, and they know
hat figures never lie" snhiect on
which the arbitrators ought to be well posted :,
tter hearing the testimony Of the Radical !
ivil and military witnesses at the Custom =
louise. In the course of a week, at the most,
II. Wheeler will be prepared to sly what =
rant wants him to think about the whole e.
uhiect.
TIE arbtrators viii declare that the action r
the Returning Board was mistake. They !.
ay suggest in mild aud quiet way, that it Of
for the best that the votes of the people in \,
lis particular case shall be allowed to be o.
united. They may make out list of men hi
40, in their opinion, were elected in Novem- 70
r to the House Of Representatives of the he
ate of Louisiana. What next? q
It Is represented that Kellogg may call an wi
ira and special session OF the General AS oo
mbly. He may or he may not he cannot al,
compelled to call it. But what will he o,e
Ii The Hahn House? The Witt House tb.
the House of lioar, Wheeler, Frye, Grant
Packard There is no precedent at all mr.
a Governor to call a session of men named act
his proclaim alton. Even where the SOW civ
ign pIorogues the session of a senate or eli,
he does no. assume to say who oni
I'll be or who are the successors. If al "
vernon can omit and add names at pleasure nm,
absurdity results. ,h;,,
t is evident that Kellogg will, by his pro- snr
nation, call the Antoine Senate and the o,o
I'm House he can call no other Govern s,;5
III nm body has not committed suicide by C,r
cunning It's first session. If it ever had -,
, 1t is alive now. Kellogg's proclamation e,ss
y call 1T into active service, but neither he !,
the aroltrators, nor the President, can 10
solve the Hahn House by any mere pro- no,-
nation Ii declared nulity. then all its &c ,
are null. void, and of no effect Bat if
NV 70" " te''i N'o'einoi can ton
2 away its status and character.
Wait until next January, and the Hahn "
z will again be the lower House of the ing
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