The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-24
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
NEW ORLEANS, MARCH q, 1875,
THE EXTRA SESSION.

From our Evening Edition Of Yesterday
The RepaoJEcan Of this morning discusses
the extra session as an 'inevitable forthcom
ing event, treating the demand for the same
as coming from Democrats exclusively. |
claims that Republicans do not desire an eX
ira session would rather avoid it to save ex
pensc, and are under no obligations to carry
out the fiat Of the Wall Street Returning
Board 1t claims that there can be no session
without the assent OF the Republican mem
bers Of the Senate, and even doubts the pos
siblity Of organizing the House without the
help Of its Republican members.
This is a matter easily remedied. A9 the
RepubHcan claims quorum for the Helm
House the members will answer Gov. Kel-
logg's call, 60 to the Hotel and announce to
the Governor and Senate that the House is
ready to proceed to business The sixty-three
Conservatives will likewise have a quorum,
will assemble where they please, will re-atlirln
the organization of January IT'D, and inform
the Governor and Senate that the House is
ready to proceed to business.
If the R'pabLicaa's theory and allegations
had quorum and will have one when reas-
sembled, and if the Wall street arbitrators are
right the Conservatives have all along been
entitled to and now have quorum. Now as
one quorum is enough for one House, and as
there are two quorums there must be two
Houses. 1t is evident that they cannot sit
as Joint House, there not being seats enough
only hundred and eleven TO
accommodate ffty-siX Radicals and sixty
three Conservatives. Or if seated each side
would have majority of full House on any
and all questions. They would therefore be
obliged to act separately, leaving to the Sen.
ate to elect the House with which it would
cooperate, and to the Governor the choice OF
the House whose bills he would consider and
sign.
Absurd as the matter seems there is no
evading it. The Radicals all claim validity
for the acts of the General Assembly passed
between the 1.h of January and the 4Lh of
March, and Of course claim legal quorum Of
fifty-six without single one of the Wall
street sixty-three. The House began with |
fifty-two members, all who were returned by |
the Wells Board and who were left after the |
expulsion of the Conservative tifty-six yet
the Hahn House by some potent magic grew
to fifty six and more. We need not be sur
prised, therefore, that the Republicans should
claim that the Radical members who con
stitute the Hahn House will have some
thing to say and something to stipulate in the
proposed arrangement. Our neighbor rim law
remarks:
If the Democrats want al extra session let
them prepare schedule Of subjects to he
discussed, accompanied with some sort OF a
pledge that nopohtical or aggre sive measures
will be brought forward. There seems to be
Just trihe of disposition on the part of the
Democratic 'ad listers" to ignore the wishes
of the Republican members in this important
matter. In all the protocols treaties, bar
gains, caucuses, Understandings" interpola-
tons, and everything else necessary to bring
the contract to its present condition, there
has been no pretense to consult with either
Republican Senators or Representatives.
Their assent TO anything that Mr.. Wheeler
and his colleagues would say has been rather
presumed than asked for. But the
whole thing has gone its lengths with the
present parties. The active cooperation of ,
those who have heretofore been excluded is
now necessary before proceeding further aud
it may rs well be learned at once how far
these important parties to the arrangement i
will consent to it and its resulting conse-
4uenceS. .
To judge from the Republican, the Radical
legislators will insist upon an understanding /,
that legislation at the extra session shall be
limited to certain expressed objects which
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acquired by fraud and usurpation. Says the
Republican,:
To remove all doubts. let the Democratic
or rings which have the party in
custody for the time being. prepare a specific v
plan of procedure, in case an extra session fl
hall be called with the understanding u
l. That the session shall in no case extend
beyond the time fixed by the Governor in
lis proclamation #
2. That the acts passed Mt the regular ses- t.
ION shall remain undisturbed =
3. That there shall be no attempt to unseat
my of the State oilic is. =
4. That Immediately upon running through II
With the business in an agreed schedule to be Il
the Governor, and by him en- 5,
Traced in his CALL the session snail be ad-
burned.
This is merely realizing what the BULLETIN
las all the time declared. that the compro-
Mise, bargain, adjustment and surrender Will =
'e exactly what the Radicals want in every =
or else their consent to it, which is :
bsolutcly essential, will be refused and the :
9hole complicated and disreputable thing will !
all to the ground in defeat in which all will :
e lost, including 10 small part of the reput,- =
ion OF sundry political managers for forecast {"
nd knowledge Of Radical human nature.
THE FUNDING BOARDS ACTS. -