Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-19
Latest kilograms.
EASTERN.
Cold Weather in siOntana-Chin nam cn
Freeze to death.

NOhU WcNtner
Freeze to death.
HELENA, MONTANA, January l4th.
Last night the mercury in the ther-
mometers all froze. Small Quantities
of mercury in walls also congealed.
Proof whisky, placed out of doors, froze
solid in half an hour. -Four China
men who left town ut p. NJ, Tues
day, were found "Wednesday morning,
about halfa mile from town, frozen
to death. The whisky they had with
them in small kegs was frozen solid.
A report from Phillipsburg, Montana,
states that two Cinnamon were frozen
to death near that place.
The Sandwich Islands "Omrs.'
WASHINGTON, January l4ih--Min-
lister Pierce, in arguing in favor of the
reciprocity treaty, before the Senate
committee, yesterday, forcibly eX-
posed our danger of losing the whole
control we have over the Sandwich
Island trade, unless we establish closer
relations. opposed the idea of our
purchasing the port near Honolulu,
because in time the whole group will
be ours, almost without asking.
Comments OH the Kresiaent's Siesssge
on Louisiana AfFnlrs.
NEW YORK, January 14th.-While
here and at Washington there are
sharp divisions of opinions about the
accuracy of his filcts, the Presidents
Message has inspired a general feeling
of relief on the part of thinking men
of all parties, because while it asserts
the strong provocation from the Con-
servatives for the military iDterven-
tion, it carefully avoids asserting the
latter as principle or justifiable pol
icy. The SUM- IISpzo1iti and iiTordtd1,
however, violently denounCe the mes
sage, but the general popular verdict,
apparently, is that Grant is less to
blame than Congressman who over
look the Presidents technical re-
sponsibility for the military interven-
ton, in view of the gross illegally of
the lawless revolution which such in-
tervention defeated; also, OF the fact
that the President does not claim the
right of military dictatorship which
the Louisiana action seemed to imply.
The Times comments on the mes
sage as u moderate, strong sensible
document, calculating to make a fa-
vorable impression on the country.
The President does not justify the
military operations at New Orleans on
the 4th inst, but regards Kellogg's
call upon the military rs debatabie.
He distinctly states his opinion that
the constabulary and military force
of the State should have been called
OH first. The Federal military acted
under general instructions which could
not contemplate the precise Occasio
The military error therefore was not
committed under his Instructions, ac-
cordingly there is no occasion to CEN
sure him. The President effectually
disposes of the Democratic clamor
against him. The safeguards against
recurrence of the events of the 18th,
lie in the hands of the Republican ma
jority in Congress. The Times pub
fishes an elaborate letter from lawyer
Houghton, ably reviewing the Lou
siana caseto show that the body where
the military interferred was not the
Legislature, but revolutionary body,
which had seized the House by violent
and illegal means, and then added to
their numbers enough to constitute n
majority. Houghton, however, be-
lieves Kellogg erred in call on de Tro-
BRAND.
The point of the Herald is to show
that the Presidents message is entire
ly different from the one originally
written, and that it was recast to pre-.
vent the resignation OF three cabinet
officers, who refused to accept the re-
sponsibility of defying public senti-
ment and orders for military inter-
vention in defiance of the organic aud
statute laws.