New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-02
Voh.XXXlV.... NO. 10, 5S2.
= WASHINGTON.
MR. KELLoGG's RECOGNITION DECREED BY
THE HOUSE.

THE HOUSE
VOTING RESPECTING THE RESOLUTIONS OF Mh'
HoAR's coMMITTER-THE RESOLUTION ON lhb
ACTS OF THE RETURNING BOARD PASSED WITHOUT
MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE KELLOGG GOV
ERNMEET PASSED By PARTY VOTE.
IBy TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON. March 1.-The Louisiana question
was sprung upon the House this morning soon after
the openinc of the session, and settled amid the
greatest confusion. When q score of members were
oudy appealing to the Speaker for recognition, the
f,oo, was accorded to Mr. Geo. F. Hoar, who pre-
scented the resolutions which he reported from the
snecial Louisiana Committee a few days ago, and
moved that the rules be suspended and that they
he adopted The Democrats at once objected ana
aupealed to Mr. Hoar TO allow separate vote 10 De
taken on the resolution. The House was as unani-
mously in favor of the first of those resoIuons-the
one denouncing the action Of the late Returning
Board-as the Committee was but there was not
single Democrat who would vote to recognize MI
kellogg as Governor of Louisiana, either de Jdco OF
or i'm any other way. But Mr. Hoar refused 10 allo"
DIVISION supposing apparently, that the TWO reso-
lutons together would be stronger than the recog'
milton resolution alone, and his motion was
voted upon as lie made it. The Yeas ana
Nays being called, the result was that it failed
10 receive the requisite two-thirds and was
lost the vote standing 154 in the affirmative and %
IN the negative The division was wholly OF po-
Itical character except that Mr. Pierce OF Massa-
ebusetts voted No with the Democrats. AS soon as
the result was announced Mr. Hoar again got the
floor and moved to suspend the rules and brng the
resolutions before the House for separate vote on
each IL was fully explained that if two-thlrds OF
the House sustained this motion then majority
vote would carry each resolution. The vote was
very close and the last names were called IL was
A1,.r
impossible for any In the gallery to say whether
the motion would be carried by two-thirds OF not
number of Republicans registered their votes just
before the result was announced, and 1t was gen.
orally asserted that some of them came into Inc
House after the last name the roll was called,
and therefore had no right to vote The vote STOOD
172 in the affirmative and s. in the negative. An
examination of the roll after the result was an
nounced showed that Mr. Alexander II. Stephens
had voted in the affirmative with the Republicans,
and that Mr. Pierce of Massachusetts,, who voted III
the negative on the recognition Of Mr.. Kellogg, dld
not vote on this motion. Had Mr.. Stephens voted
with his party the result would have been changed
and the resolutions lost The first resolution de-
claring the illegaty of the action OF the Returning
Board was passed rra poce aud almost unanimously,
only three or four Democrats voting No, and they
probably did not understand the question.
The last vote was IN the recognition of Mr. KeI-
lOgg and 1t was carried, 100 Votlng III lho tiii l'
tive and 50 in the negative. The division on thls
vote was also almost upon party lines, the Demo
Gratis all voting in the negative and all of the Re-
publicans, except Messrs. Pierce, J. Amber Smith,
and Sener voting in the affirmative. A few Repubh-
cans dodgtd, As Mr.. Hoar moved to reconsider the
vote and lay it on the table so that the question
could not he revived. LIE said. 81 regret that our
friends on the other side of the House should have
voted in solid column against permitting PROPOSE
ton to give peace to Louisiana even TO be voted on"
Although the recognition Of Mr.. kellogg is bitter
pill for a great many persons TO swallow who know
that he was never elected it is the general feeling
both in Congress and out that settlement OF any
kind is better than the state of uncertainty and
confusion that has prevailed IN that State for the
past two years.