New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-18
THE LOUISIANA DISCORD.
THE RADICAL LEADERS ANNOYED BY THE
COMMITTEES REPORT

cu.poRn TO RE FAIsE-EyERY EFFORT TO BE
MADE TO NEUTRAIIZE ITS EFFECT-SENAIoh
MORTON OF THE OPINION THAT THE COMMITTEE
DID NOT HALF DO THEIR woRK-HE BELIEVES
THE RETURNING BOARD LEGAL THE WHITE
LEAGUE AN ARMED BODY OF INTIMIDAToRs, AND
THE OPPOSITION TO KELLOGG VERY HosPIrABIE
To COMMITTEES AND CoRREsPoNDENTs-THE
sRNArOR CONFIDENT OF THR SUCCESS OF THE
PARTY IN THE FUTURE.
IpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBuNEl
WASHINGTON, Jan. Il. Administration office
holders and members OF the Radical Administration
marty in Congress do not hesitate to express their
opinions in regard to the New-Orleans report OF
hessrs Foster Phelps and Potter, and the fact need
not be disguised that the criticisms are anything
but favorable. The report is discussed on every
side and although its effect on the country has not
yet reached tue partisans in Washington, II IS easy
to see that it is of great annoyance to the
foremost managers of the party. Every effort Will
be made to neutralize its effect and break its force,
and to this end and for this reason moro than any
ether Committee composed wholly OF Radicals
has been selected for o new pilgrimage to the
scene of discord. The Attorney General has no
faith whatever in the accuracy of the sub-Commit-
tees report and says il is impossible for anybody to
make full and impartial report on Louisiana af-
fairs who has not studied the in all it's bear
ings and in the light of all the facts from the start
he believes that the Committee were not impartial
and that their going to New-OIleans was wholly I'M
necessary. Congress- he thinks has all the iDfOrma
ton necessary for intelligent action and if longer
delay occurs and greater troubles ensue. it will be
the fault Of the Legislative and not the Executive
branch of the Government.
Senator Norton who is probably the foremost
and best informed of the Administration men in
Congress speaks of the sub Committees report In
most earnest manner and in such terms as would
indicate mind not wholly tranquil. The sub-com-
nittee was never to his liking, and he knew from
the moment they were selected what kind of o re-
port they would make. He does not accuse them OF
any dishonest OF unfair intentions and says their
personal character stands high, but he thinks they
have been prtjudced and mised, and Also that
their opportunities for ascertaining the true cond
ton of affairs in Louisiana were very limited.
The report he says false to the White Leaguers,
false as to intimidation, and false to the Return
ing Board lie says it is most difficult to get at the
facts in Louisiana. The opponents of Kellogg are
most vigilant in their efforts to prejudice their OPP
ponents; they are rich aud very hOspitable and he
thinks that hospitality with newspaper correspond
ents and members of Congressional committees is
more potent than anything else; and while he does
not say that hospitality potent in the present
case he says he knows it has been in other cases i'll
that State.
As to the White League, Senator Morton is very
emphatic III his opinion aud very severe on the
Committee. He says the White League is an armed
force, and that the Committee might as well say
that the Ku-Klux was political body of men of
peaceful habits The League is very strong and,
even as far back the 14th of September numbered
1000 or 1000 men in Louisiana alone. 1t extends
through Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and other
States and there's abundant evidence that it has
committed acts of brutality and even murder. Ii
was unnecessary to go TO Louisiana to learn this,
The Senator was quite emphatic in regard to
the treatment 10y the subcommittee of the Return
ing Board. To any minded man, who has ex-
amned the question, there be no doubt as to
that Board and the Senator thought its legality and
the legality of its acts could not be impeached by
Congressional committee He thought the Commit
tee did not give the subject as full inquiry as il
deserved aud that their testimony bearing on that
part of the subject superficial. No full, fair,
and unprejudced case cOuid be made out in a few
sayS examination. The Committee ought to have
gone to the Parishes Of Rapides aud De Soto, par
Gculary to the former.
"Ho committee Of Congress-" said the Senator,
"gong to Louisiana and staying for few days, can
make the country believe that there has been no in
timidation in that State 1t is not Necessary that
armed men should stand around thepolis on election
day and threaten the lives Of voters. Intimidation
mlttee were present on the 4th Of January, they
think there was no intimidation. 1t may be and
generally is exercised before the day of election; 1t
may be done by hints, by suggestions, by signs,
BY threats Of discharge, and a hundred other ways
The negroes are superstitoHs race, and il is easy to
Influence them through their fears, and nobody
knows this so well as the Southern people" The
Senator then proceeded to detail the various ways
ia which intimidation could be practced, going over
much the same ground Senator Logan did in his
speech The Senator also said thaC the picture of
the skull and crOssboues used by Gen. Logan in his
speech was sent to him Mr. MortOnl from the South
and he gave it ~ MI Logan He said those pic
tures pasted the doors of cOlored men, would n-
timidate them ard prevent them from voting. lie
said very little Of the INTIMIDATION consisting of per-
tonal violence and yet there was enough Of that 10
Brighten negroes from the polls.
When asked what he thought the new Committee
would learn, he said they would learn one vesy I'm
portant thing They will show that the object of
Wilt was to organize the House and to connect
with the McEDery Senate. which was in the State
House at the time of the assembling of the House,
aud then to recognize McEncry and complete the
revolution. The Senator said McEnery had declared
that be had 1900 OF 10000 fighting men ready for
woyS if it was needed. These facts, according to
Size Senator are beycnd question. Mr.. Foster of
the Sub-C Committee heard DR.. Mcmillan, one of
the McEnery United States Senators, say that such
was the purpose. During the excitement Of organ
izng Oh the 4th inst, McEnery made the same
Acknowledgement to q member of Congress Mr..
Foster wrote the facts TO Senator Sherman who
turned the letter 10 the President, and il is
now in the hands Of Senator Frelinghuysen Mr..
Morton thinks that o reference to this ought t.