The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-02-18

CARPET BAG RULE ROBBERY IN
LOUISIANA.

LOUISIANA.
We gave last week an abstract fur
nished by telegraph of the report OF the
of Congressmen, Foster
Phelps, and Potter, upon Louisiana Al
fairs. 1t is a damning record otthe kel-
logg usurpation. The full report seems
to be worse on the Carpet Bag rascals
than what we gave as the following ex-
tract will show:
"The conviction amongthem has been
strengthened by the acts of the Kellogg
Legislature abolishing existing Courts
and Judges, and substituting others pre-
sided over by Judges appointed by Kel-
logg, having extraordinary and exclu-
sive jurisdiction over political questions;
by changes in the laws, centralizing in
the Governor every form of political con-
troll, including the supervision OF the
elections, by continuing the Returning
Board with absolute power of the returns
of elections; by the extraordinary pro-
visions enacted for the trial of titles and
claims to office; by the conversion of the
police force, maintained at the expense
of the city Of New Orleans, into an armed
body of State militia, subject to the COM
mand of the Governor; by the creation in
some places of monopolies in markets,
gas-making, water-works, and ferries
cleaning vaults, removing filth, and do
ing work as wharfngers; by the aboli-
ton of Courts with elective Judges and
the substitution of other Courts with
Judges appointed by Kellogg in violation
of the Constitution of the Sta )y en-
actments furnishing criminally all per-
sons who attempted to fill official po-
sitions unless returned by the Returning
Board; by unlimited appropriations Tor
the payment of militia expenses and Tor
the payment of legislative warrants
vouchers and checks issued during the
years 1870 to 1872; by laws declaring
that no person in arrears for taxes after
default published shall bring Tny suit IN
any Court of the State, or h allowed to
he a witness in his own behalf, measures
which, when coupled with the eXtraor-
dinary burdens ottaxations, have seemed
to rest in the language of Governor kel-
logg's counsel, degree fpower in the
Governor of State scarcely exercised by
any sovereign in the world, with this
conclusion, in general want OF con-
fidence in the integrity of the existing
State and local offcials-a want OF con-
fdence equally in their purposes and IN
their personnel, which is accompanied
by the paralyzation of business and de-
of values"
The taxation under Kellogg & Co.
exceeds all conception. In New Orleans
homes and stores can be had for taxes!
In Natchitochitoches the taxation is eight
per cent, upon the assessed valuation.
As to nepotism, the Committee says;
"In many parishes all the white Re-
oublicans and all the ofhce-holders be-
iong to a single family. There are hve
of the Greens in Office in Lincoln. mere
are seven of the Bouts in office in Match
toches."
The Kellogg usurpation claims to have
.educed taxation. The way they have
lone it is by the appointment of Board
o fund the State debt at sixty per cent.
# its face value; in other words, they
lave repudiated forty per cent OF the
lebt. The Funding Board has absolute
,ower in the premises, and while re-
,udiating the honest debt, it has recog-
lied six millions of dollars that was
fraudulent and held by the thieves.
mother point is dwelt upon by the Com
1ittee:
"This nominal reduction of the State
axes has been accompanied by a pro-
ision that the parish taxes shall not
xceed the State, but the parishes have,
Notwithstanding, created liabilities, judg-
nents being recovered on them. The
,ourts have directed taxes to be levied
or their payment, and thus the actual
axes have been carried far beyond the
rates. Rings have been
ormed in parishes, composed OF the
arish officers, their relatives and CO.
perating Democrats who would buy
nese obligations, put them in judgments
nd caused them to be enforced, to the
reat distress of the neighborhood dis
ress SO general that the sale of land tor
axes has become almost absolutely I'M
,ossible; but the reduction gauges the
nfulfllment Of personal or political
hedges"
There is much more Of similar pur-
,ort, but it is sufficient to say that this is
he kind of Government which Grant
lses the bayonets ofthe United States to
sustain.
HE THOUGHT 1T WAS DELLRIUM
TREMENS.
New Brnnswicker.l