The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-29
F0RTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
WAsHINGToN, January %.
SENATE.
EelIOgg's Government 10 be RecOg.
uizel.

EelIogg's Government 10 be RecOg'
nized.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections, have decided that Kellogg
administration should be recognized as
the legal government of Louisiana. The
vote stood, ayes, Morton, Logan, Antho'
ny, and Mitchell; noes, Alcorn, Hamil-
ton and Salisbury; absent, Carpenter
and Wadleigh,
Mr.. Alcorn stated in Committee that
if this resolution was adopted. he should
vote in the Senate to admit Pinchback.
The following bills were passed Sen
ate bill providing for the appointment OF
commissioner to ascertain the right OF
subjects of Great Britain to lands in the
territory which was the subject OF
award of the Emperor of Germany under
the treaties of 1886 and 1877, between
the United States and Great Britain
Senate bill amendatory Of and supple
mentary to the act of March lst, 1872
entitled "An Act to set apart certain
tract of land lying near the headwaters
of the Yellowstone river as public
park"
After the presentation Of large mum.
Der of petitions against the resolution
of the duty on tea and coffee, and for the
repeal of the act of % relieving certain
foreign products of ten per cent duty, the
business on the calendar was proceeded
with.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the Louisiana discussion was resumed.
Mr.. Conkling took the floor The gal
leries were densely crowded, and many
persons having the privilege of the floor
occupied seats there
Mr.. Conkling began by saying that
the drama which entertained the Senate
must have It's run, and that the time had
now come when silence only serves to
prolong the wrange The Presidential
contest for 1876, has been opened in the
Senate The way in which my amend
ment was received by the Senator from
Ohio, Mr.. Thurman) told us Instantly
that we were to be charged all along tho
line. Every administration supporter
was ready to vote for the resolution il
made courteous. The course of the Pres
idcnt was prejudged. The opposition
had almost the entire newspaper pres
of the land with them. After itthai be
come notorious that our action would be
anticipated if we longer delayed, the
resolution was passed. The plain
manly message came, and now lies
upon our table. Then discussion
should have ended but it did not. The
Senator from Missouri came forward will
his resolution and SO the machine tol
grinding out political capital runs on
Senator Thurman occupied the attcn-
tlon of the Senate for four hours yester.
day, and others are doubtless waiting tC
take his place tomorrow. He Is the rec
ognized leader of the Democratic party
but he did not tell us what to do with
the great Louisiana question. ltwas the
Senator from Ohio (Thurman,) to whom
the nation looked more than any other
man to originate the policy of his party
The honorable Senator (rhurman,) when
commenting upon the Southern outrages
said in effect, if such was the condition
OF society in the South it wa.
that the party which had
been in power through the war, and
since the war should give way and LEI
another party come in. There was tn,
clue which unraveled this web that haC
been the gospel of the Democrats since
the beginning, to make reconstruction II
failure, to make it a miscarriage, To kecI
up an agitation, disturb, ferment anc
rcvolutionize, and the time will com,
when the country, wcarIcd out with tho
commotion, will accept anything for :
change. The sole policy of the Demo
Gratis seems to be to oppose measure
which originates with the Republicans
The Honorable Senator from Ohio il hi,
argument went back to the election d
1872, and made that period bach
ground for events of three weeks
ago. Who made the election in 1872 d
fraud? II was Yarmouth, the leader
of the opposition in Louisiana, the cham
pion of the Democracy who was to carry
the State for Greeley and thus make him
President. The election of 1872 WAS al
organized fraud. The testimony before
the Senate Committee showed that War
moths control of the election machinery
there was equal to 10000 votes. In every
form in which this question had been
tried, the decision had been against Me-
Emery. The courts, both houses of Con
gress and the President had decided
against McEnery. No responsibility
for the doings in New Orleans on the 4th
of January touches the President of the
United States. The first information he
received in regard to them was simuItnne
Gus with the information given to all cit
izens at large. The newspapers of the
following day were his first intormants
If there were those in Washington who
knew that revolution was to be at
tempted on the 4th of January the
President was not one of then
Mr.. Conkling next referred to the
reasons which induced the President Il
send General Sheridan to New Orleans
and said: Before this letter of the Prcs
dents directing General Sheridan to g
South, he had been compelled to listen
to tales of suffering, to which no mar
could be deaf; they did not concern The
election, but concerned the lives, homes
and property of those who had never
been false to their countryS flag, anc
under that flag they were hunted, as /
they were wild beasts; these entreatle
summoned the Chief Magistrate to HI
feet; one of these entreaties had reached
him three days before; it came from ont
who had been resident Of Shreyepor
tor twenty years; Judicial officer. no
appointed by the President, but by th'
Court. He stated that troops were sta
toned in Louisiana, and their presence
there was lawful, because slender rem
| nant of our army must D.
stationed somewhere; it must be sta
toned in some State, and no matte
where found its rights to be, there was un
| questioned and It's withdraw from New