New-York tribune., 1875-02-08
An UNVISE COMPROMISE.

Discouraged by long and apparently fruit
less waiting, a faction of the Louisiana
Conservatives seem about TO accept a
comprOmise which would be practically
an abandonment of their strongest
and most defenslble positions. The
proposition under consideration cmanatcs from
the members of the Congressional Committee
now in New-Oreans. 1t provides for
the submission of the credentials of claim
ants of seats in the Louisiana House
of Representatives to the arbltramcnt OF
Mr.. HOar and his associates of the Con-
gressiOnal Committee, and the members who
may secure seats by this award pledge them
selves to a full recognition Of the kellogg
Government, and not to impeach the de tlc'0
Governor for any past official misconduct. by
this compromise the Conservatives would
gain nothing more than the control OF
single branch Of tho Legislature, with some
voice in legislation during the remaining
years OF Mr.. Kcllosg's incumbency of the
gubernatOral chair. On the other hand
they would sacrifice the rights of duly
elected State officers, including Cover
nor McEnery, forfeit their well-established
claim as to other results of the election of
1872, fasten usurpation upon their own necKs,
give the Packard Ring new opportunities to
devise schemes Of robbery and oppression, and
greatly disspate, if not entirely lose, the sym
pathy they have of late conquered throughout
the North.
Our dispatches indicate that while the scheme
to which we refer finds some support, it is
support of doubtful if not suspicious nature.
The HOar Committee favor it because
their investigation has utterly failed
to sustain their previously expressed
opinions as to the merits of the Louisiana
controversy, and has fully vindicated the state
mcnt and conclusions of the Foster Committee
upon whose labors Republican journals and
speakers have thrown discredit. Gov. Kellogg
favors it, as he has favored every compromise
which his Custom house hackers would allow
him to accept, and which would give him better
tenure of an Office to which he has no just claim
The CustOm-hOuSc party support 1t because
it gives the Administration an easy road out
of a serious dilemma. The mass of Louisiana
Republicans will doubtless agree, because it
continues their out voted party III power. Many
Conservative members of the Legislature adyO-
cate it because the organization of that body
on some basis giving them seats is their only
mileage. Why any others than the classes we
have indicated should consider the cOmprO-
mise favorably, we fail to see. Its acceptance
by the Conservatives would be in fact a sur
render of the strongest points in their case
1t is not surprising, therefore, to hear that 1t
is opposed not only by Gov. McEnery, but by
such aOle and conservative citizens of
Louisiana as Judge Manning, Gen. Ogden,
Representative-el Ellis, and by the almost
unanimous voice of the Committee of Seventy
The people of Louisiana must exercise yet
q little more patience, and the claims of can
ddates for Office must not be allowed to out
weigh the claims of the great body of the
people. This is no time for temporz-
ing expedients. The country is now
in full possession Of the facts in their case,
and the decision thereon is favorable to the
Conservatives. The day when justice will be
awarded this loDg-suTering people by the
Government, as it is now by the citizens
of the United States cannot be
much longer postponed. In the mean time, let
them not be deluded into accepting any
patchwork settlement of the great consttu-
tiona questions at issue in their struggle
with President Grant and the Kellogg usurpa-
tion.