Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-02-27
LOUISIANA,

LOUISIANA,
From the Associated Press dispatch
es to our western exchanges we gather
the various opinions entertained and
presented to Congress by the different
members OF the Louisiana Investigat-
ing Committee. The matter has now
been presented in almost every o
ceivable light, and we sincerely hope
that the kaleidoscope business Is for
ever ended.
The committee Is composed as fol-
lows: Experimentation, OF Massa-
chusetts; Frye, of Maine; Wheeler, OF
New York; Foster, of Ohio; Phelps, OF
New Jersey. Democrats-Marshall, of
Illinois; Potter, of New York.
With a Republican majority of three
in a committee Of seven, it was conf
IDENTIFY expected by the Administration
press and by all advocates of the dra-
gooning policy of Grant and Sheridan,
as applied to the reconstructed States,
that such a report of facts would be
made as would justify the suspension
of the habeas corpus, the retention of
the military in power, and the relega-
ton of Louisiana to the condition of a
conquered province. Most grievously
have these anticipations been disap-
pointed. After investigation, the com
mittee has divided itself into three par
ties, sustaining different views. Mar
shall and Potter ~(Democrats) and Fos-
ter and Phelps (Republicans) consti-
tute the majority of the committee, and
this majority rep First--There
are no laws inimical to colored people
in Louisiana, as las been charged.
Second-That the colored people were
in no instance wronged in registration
or at election; but that the wrong, if
any, was against the Conservatives.
Third--All evidence goes to show that
Kellogg's Inauguration was an usurpa-
ton. Fourth-The Conservatives I'M
doubleday carried the State last Fall,
and are to-day entitled to the control of
the Legislature. As a conclusion, all
Of the majority unite in saying: I'm
our judgment, all that is needed in
Louisiana is to withdraw the Federal
troops and leave the people of that
State to govern themselves" Verify,
we fear for Messrs. jPhelps and Foster,
lest the Virginia Enterprise and the
Washington Republican should read
them out of the congregation of loyal
s~aints.) Beyond this point the major
ity differ among themselves; but differ
only as the Conservatives of Louisiana
differ in their ownfranks. Phelps and
Foster advise a compromise upon
the basis of tolerating Kellogg and re-
storing the Conservatives to the legis-
lative control, from which they were
ousted by the military. Potter and
Marshall repudiate the usurpation in
toto. The eleven conclusions arrived at
in the report of the minority-Hoar,
Wheeler and Frye-we have already
given in full in our telegraphic col
umns on Wednesday last.
1t is difficult to characterize this re-
port, but as a practical document it is
something like this: These gentle
men find that republican rule in Lou
isiana has ever been characterized by
"muGh dishonesty and corruption "
by "maladministration /" " illegality,',
and "fraud;" they find that the
"White mems party" has been struck
first, and that it then struck back,
which was, of course, wrong and un-
c~hristianlike; and they conclude by
recommending that prayer meetings
should he held all over the land, and
that all should pledge themselves to
abstain from murder and highway
robbery, and unless this can be done
the free institutions of the whole
united will not survive the de-
struction Of those in the South"
While we sympathize warmly with
Messrs. Potter and Marshall and be.
lieve that with them is tho abstract
\ right, we are still so non-partisan as tc
incline toward the practical solution
offered by the conservative majority
in New Orleans and indorsed BY
Phelps and Foster of the committee.
THIRTEEN FEET ABOVE GROUNn