The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Louisiana Affairs, Etc.
Especial to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]

Especial to the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
THE EVENT OF TO-DAY IN CONGRESS-.
, WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-Nlost emphaticall
the great speech of Mr. Carl Schurz was tn
event of the day. The galleries wer
filled in expectation of it long before the Sen
ate was called to order, and numbers wen
away unable to gain hearing. The speed
was delivered from manuscript, but wa
marked by the customary fire and eloquenc
of the speaker. The audience was delighted
and spell-bound as the orator went on to por
tray the wrongs to Louisiana and the DANCE
of this alarming Executive usurpation. Tht
speech was, however, temperate in tone, and
it is thought by Senators that it was especial
ly calculated to appeal to the judgment and
reason of the North.
ripe scholar and publicist in Congress
who heard it all through declared that it was
| simply an overwhelming demonstration of the
lawlessness of the Government in it's course
toward Louisiana, and was replete with
thought, philosophy and the purest eloquence,
presented in phraseology graceful and fault
less, yet full of vigor. Mr.. Morton attempted
q reply, but, though usually strong in debate,
he was to-day conspicuously weak. The whole
tone of the debate to-day was very unfavora-
BILE to the Republicans. Mr.. West, Of Louisi-
ana, who to-day attempted the style of inso-
lence usually practiced by Logan, Edmunds
and Conkhng, came to grief at the hands of
Judge Thurman, who administered to him O
very well deserved rebuke.
THE CABINET WILL PROBABLY STICK, RUT UN-
ku DER PROTEST.
The reports put out by prominent journals
to the effect that Messrs. Fish, Bristow and
Jewell are about to quit the Cabinet on his
Louisiana question, are not believed in
political circles to be correct; but on the
other hand, it is hardly matter of doubt
that they all disapprove Of the violent pro-
ceeding and bloodthirsty dispatches of Sheri-
dan. Nor is there any doubt whatever that
Vice Pre- ident Wilson, Speaker Blaine and
other leading Republicans entirely disapprove
Of the position in which the Administration
has placed the party, and repudiate it in toto.
,~nr"it@ MEN WHO KNOW. rft |
If the coming message OF the President |
had any prestige it would be most effsctually |
lissipated by the forthcoming report Of the |
comprised of Messrs. Phelps |
If New Jersey, Foster Of Ohio, and Potter OF |
New York, who were sent down to New Or
cans to examine this question. No three
members of the House stood higher than
hese, and it is said their report will be unani-
nous in its opposition to tie frauds and out
ages of the Kellogg usurpation. It is said
hat they will report that there was in the
ste election no intimidation of the colored
oters, but tina. the Conservatives carried the
tate in the last election. securing majority
at least twenty-one members in the House
t, Representatives, Of which they were frau
ulently deprived by the Returning Board,
nd that the Kellogg Government of Louisi-
IA amounts practically to confscation. This {
port could have been siGned to-day and
ade by a majority of the whole Committee |
Seven but for the absence of Mr.. Robin
N, Of Illinois, who has gone off from Con- {
:ess. and, it seems cannot be reached even q
= telegraph. ss4. -0Y
ONE or THE TRICKS q
the Presidents friends in Congress is to s
etend that he and Sheridan are in danger d
assassination. On this point it was well a
marked to-day that their only possible dan s
r was at the hands Of the fool killer, and g
at if the latter did his duty their lives '
)uld not be worth one moments purchase. | {
RADICAL DECENTRALIZATION. i
There Is reason to believe that the leading el
publican Administration Senators are very
1ch demoralized. While from their point r,
view they believe thot they are right, they N
II feel that the facts are against them, and ty
It they cannot satisfactorily to the country al
swer the arguments made by the Demo- OF
tic leaders and the Democratic press. At G
present time the question with them is OF
ether they shall let the whole case go by
} board, or temporiZe and wait for some W
n in the tide which shall float them off the de-
ks upon which they feel they have drifted.
PARTY FEELING RUNNING HIGH. So
The committee which was sent to Alabama l.,
investigate into the reported outrages in al
t State returned this evening. The Repub-
n members are very bitter.in their repre- Is
tation Of the condition of affairs there, M
will SO report to the House. In this TO
'le Southern question party feeling is run fo
g very high, and to save the party, as it is l.
ed, it is probable that under the whip of
caucus the most extreme measures will be he
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