New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-27
THE MONOPOL1STs REFUSE TO BE COM
PORTED.

THE MONOPOLlST6 BIZ U00 ~ Dr. oo'1
/ PORTED.
The legislative refugees who entered
the special session, and received their pay
for some months of refusal to perform
legislative service, are as much dlssatls'
fed as ever. They are now "heeled fol
another combat and are more pugnaclous
than ever. The irreconcilable Democracy
are especially enraged, according to their
organ. because at session Of ten days
which they protested against as too unlaw-
full to pay the per diem of Democratic
member, the Legislature has not done
everything which it might have done had
the refugees been in their places attend
ing to the interests of their constituents.
But the record will show that the refugees
have no right to complain that too little or
too much has been done by the Legisla-
ture. We contend that the compromise
was not based on special legislation
at all. The compromise was intended to
adjust the legal constitution of the State
government alone. Read the Wheeler
compromise, and it contemplates no
act of legislation beyond the organization
of the State government nothing more.
Is the reader surprised? Then look at
the Wheeler propositions. They were
intended to adjust the difficulties grow
ing out of the general election of 1872,
the action of the Returning Board, and
the organization of the House Of Repre-
sentatives on the fourth of January,
1875. Such adjustment was deemed
necessary to the re-establishment of peace
and order in this State. This was all.
When the proposition was submitted
the Legislature was in session, and no
specific legislation was suggested or re-
quired. The special session was no term
of the adjustment, and was assented to by
the Governor as matter Of accommoda-
ton.
Why, then, should those who
have never recognized the compromise
further than to sign the pay roll under its
authority, complain that this or that act
was not passed? They opposed the COM
promise on the ground that it was COM
now demand another special session
pact alike dishonorable and illegal. They
If but for one day, for the express pur-
pose of passing those measures OF relief
which are demanded by our people OF the
city and country
While it is evident that there has been
no breach of faith on the Republican side,
we have some curiosity to know what bills
are those in which ''our people are so
much interested! The Bulletin intimates
that one most important measure was the
passage Of
The bills for funding the city debt and
enabling the city to make such disposition
of her property and such arrangements
with her creditors as would have greatly
lessened the burden of taxation and have
enabled the people to recuperate from the
long and exhaustive struggle they have so
CALAMITY maintained for years past against
bad government and hard times.
Now, these funny Democrats, who take
the side of the bondholders, their brokers
and attorneys against the people, should
allow the representatives of the people to
speak for the people. These closely shorn
people may not be our people, but as the
kindly woman said of the stray child,
they are somebody's people. They are
American people, and We do not choose to
zee them sold and bound out, after the an
cient French and Spanish fashion, to the
speculative grandees, who would tax them |
for thirty Years to come in their bread,
meat, water and light. And this was the |
effect, according to our reading, of the |
bills which the Bulletin so much regrets |
70 have seen defeated.
The spasmodic efforts of the fire-eaters'
ring to get to the head of the column
once more can never succeed. The Con-
;ervatives are more afraid of them than
he Republicans. The people are begin
ling to find out that the term ''our peo-
de- means pretty much cur serfs- tours
O send us to Congress, "ours' to give us
,fficial control of the State and the treas
Try of the State, and ''our people" to give
heir masters monopolies of canals,
laughterhouses, waterworks, gaslights
nd all those aristocratic privileges which
nable those who neither toll nor spin to
Govern the people as we'll under the name
# Democracy as under the shadow of a
rown.
The ring of tire-eaters refuse to be COM
orted because of the failure of measures
,hich would have strengthened the hands
f wealth with the spoils Of labor. 1t
as no part of the adjustment to give
hem these monopolies, and they need
ever cry nor swear profanely about it.