New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07
CONGRESS.
Senate.

| WASHINGTON, December 6-The Senat,
| was called to order, Mr.. Ferry in the chair
| The only Senators absent to-day wer,
| Messrs. Alcorn, Cragin, Dorsey, Jones
Goldthwaite, Norwood and Sharon. Quail
| fed, to-day, Mr.. Key, of Tennessee.
Vice President
The Senate adopted the usual resolutions
to notify the President and House of Repre-
| sentatives that quorum of the Senate hal
assembled and was ready for business, anC
| then adjourned after the statement of Mr.
Anthony that it was not probable that tht
message could be received to-day.
House.
Mr.. Mcpherson called the House to order
In calling his roll the Clerk said, in refer.
| ence to the Louisiana delegation, that he
had received two sets of certificates tor the
| fret four districts, both sets indicating the
election of the same persons; that as to the
| fifth district, he had received two certifi
| Gates, one signed by William Pitt Kellogg
showing the election of Mr.. Morey,
and the other signed by John McEnery,
showing the election of Mr.. Spencer, and
that as Mr.. Kellogg was the de tacto Gov
tifcate, and had enrolled Mr.. Morey. As
to the sixth district, he had only received
one certificate. signed by Mr.. Kellogg, and
had acted on that.
Mr.. Wood. of New YORK, objected to Mr..
Morey, of Louisiana, and Mr.. Garfield, of
Ohio, obj to Mr.. Goode, of Virginia;
therefore these gentlemen were not per-
Wood offered resolution referring
the credentials of Messrs. Morey and
Spencer to the Committee on Elections,
with instructions to report which of
them is entitled to the seat. He said he
did not propose 20 raise the question as to
who was legal Governor of Louisiana. 1t
was not pertinent to this inquiry to de.
termine that question; the sole and exclusive
question beng as to what form Of creden-
tials the respective claimants presented.
Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, declared there was
no more official ground for speaking of
John McEnery - Governor of Louisiana
than there was for speaking of the gentle.
man fWoodl as Governor of New York.
No department of the government had ever
recognized McEnery, and the House last
session By . very large vote, to which many
House were oonsenting and many of them
anxious that the resolution should pass,
had solemnly recognized Mr.. Kellogg as
Governor of Louisiana; and for the gentle.
man from New York to make o state
ment that the gOvernship of Louisiana
was still q matter of doubt, or was still
in suspense, was to place the House
Clerk would have been perfectly justified in
tearing up as waste paper the credentials
signed by McEnery. He trusted the gentle.
man from New York did not wish to open
the whole Louisiana controversy on this
question.
Mr.. Wood replied the papers in the case
of all the members from Louisiana were in
themselves sufficient answer to the gentle
man, for if there was NO posslble question e.
to who was the Governor of Louisiana, why
was it that all the members of that State
deemed it necessary to obtain the certifi-
cate of McEnsryi They had all deemed it
important to come here clothed with certifi-
Gates from each of these so-called Gov.
ernors. He did not propose to raise in
this inquiry the question - to who
was Governor Of Louisiana. The question
to be determined in the first plsce wss
whether Mr.. Morey presented credentials
that entitled him to seat ON this floor.
Mr.. Wheeler, of New York, issid he had
trusted that the question ~ to who was
Governor of Louisiana had been sst q rest
ut least until the next general election, and
regretted that for . paltsy aAvnnta9s 1t
should be again raissd. Not emily hsi Ksl-
leGe been E0eoguixed - Governor Il Lea
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and hy both he1sess ~ alss n ~ peeple