The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21

We can not add anything to the remarks o
the New York Tribune OF the 18th, upon tn
report Of the Congressional Committee. w
submit il without comments:
THE NEW ORLEANS REPORT
When Messrs. Foster, Phelps and Potter
were appointed a subcommittee to visit New
Orleans and report upon the true state O.
aff.irs in Louisiana, the whole country was
satisfied. 1t would have been hard to select
three members Of the House of Representa-.
tives who commanded more of the respe Il
and confidence of all parties. They are gen
tlemen Of marked ability, of unim peachable
nprghtness, and OF recognized standing in
the political organizations to which they be-
long.
There was no danger that before such O
committee either side would fail of an OPP
portunity to present its whole case. The sub
committee worked hard, took vast amount
OF testimony, listened to counsel-one for the
Conservative and three for the Kellogg side
and held aloof from all social entertainments
which might be supposed to warp their judy
ment. They inquired carefully into the
nature of the White League, the management
OF the recent election, the stories of intimi-
daslon and coercion, and the proceedings of
the Returning Board, and they were eye
January.
When they presented their report to the
full committee by which they lad been depu-
ted to visit the South, they were found to be
all Of one mind Unanimous reports, in
political Investigations, are almost unprece-
dented; but here the case was clear that these
three honest gentlemen could not differ in
their verdict. They told the committee that
there had been no intimidation of the colored
voters last November; that the election had
been conducted with remarkable fairness:
that the Conservatives unquestionably had
q large majority; and that the action of the
Returning Board had been outrageous. They
added that the stories OF oppression and law
/. oy the White League were fctions,
that organization of which Gen. Grant believes
such awful things being perfectly harmless
md holding its meetings with open doors
he full committee spent four or five days
trying to force Messrs Foster, Phelps and
Potter to take back this report, and, unable to
prevail upon them, attempted to suppress it. |
Now, it is said, Messrs. G. F. Hoar, FRYE and |
Wheeler purpose going to New Orleans to see |
what kind of a fist they can make of the
'ffair, and to present, if possible report
more favorable to the Administration. Are
hey really simple enough to imagine that thew
vii do their party any good by such course F?
!Hey start upon tAelr "Trip foredOOmed to
all. In effect they declare to their political
associates: "These three gentlemen have re-
ported the wrong way and told some IN
pleasant truths, and now we are going to See
it is really out Of the question to make a
more favorable showing for the Republican
arty than they have found it in their con
cience to make" If the Hoar report, then.
hould differ from the Foster report, which
I'LL men believe?
Gentlemen in Congress, that rotten carcass
l Louisiana is past saving. Throw it over
card, and for the sake of common sense and t
mmon decency do wash your hands q