The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-11


| yited 6. preserve the peace, and That q CON
| mittee be appotntetl to wRait upon Genera
De Trohriandl tile commanding nicer pf Ithf
!, United States troops stationed at tie State
House, and request his assistance il, clearing
fthef lobby.T The motion was adopted, and q
committee OF five tof which AIR. Dupre was
! made chairman) was sent to wait upon
General De Trobriand, and soon returned
with that officer, who was accompanied by
| two Of his staff officers. AS General De
Trobriand walked down to the Speakers
desk loud applause burst from the Demo
| cratic side of the house. General De
/ Trobriaud asked the acting Speaker il
| it was not possible for him to
! preserve order without appealing him as O
United States army officer. Dir. Wilt said
/ twas not; Rbereupon the General pro-
ceeded to the lobby, and, addressing few
words to the crowd, peace was ut once re.
stored. On motion Of MIR. Dupre, Mr..
| Witt then, In the name Of the General As
sembly Of the State Of Louisiana, thanked
General De Trobriand for his Interference In
behalf Of law and order, and the General
withdrew. = H. - q $40 e s-stI}-
The Republicans had now generally with.
drawn from the hall, and united in sigHIng a
petition to the Governor, stating their
grievances and asking biz aid, which petit.
ton, signed by fifty-two legally.returned
members Of the House, is In my possession.
Immediately subsequent to The action of Mr..
Wiltz in electing the clerk Of the old House,
Mr.. BilIreu moved that two gentlemen from
the parish of De Soto, one from Urim, one
from Benville, and one from Iberia, who
had been returned by the Returning Board,
be sworn in as members, and they were &C
cordingly sworn in by Mr.. Wiltz, and took
seats on the floor as members, OF the
House. A motion was now made that the
House proceed with its permanent organiza-
ton. and accordingly the roll was called 0y
Mr. Trezevant, the acting clerk, and Wlltz
was declared elected Speaker, and Tree
want clerk of the House. rel, ,.-..
Acting on the protest made by the ma
iority, the Governor now requested the
Commanding General Of the Department to
aid him in restoring order and enable the
legaly.returned members of the House TO
proceed with it's organization according 10
law. This request was reasonable and IN
accordance with law. Remembering wildly
the terrible massacres that took place In this
city on the assembling of the Constitutional
Convention in 1856, at the Mechanics Instl'
tute, and believing that the lives Of the
members of the Legislature were or would
be endangered in case an organization under
the law was attempted, the posse was
furnished, with the request that care should
be taken that no members of the Legislature
returned by the Returning Board should be
elected from the floor. This military posse
performed its duty under direction from the
Governor Of the ate, and removed from
the floor of the House those persons who bad
been Illegally seated and who had no legal
right to be there; Whereupon the Demo
Gratis arose and left the House, and the re-
naming members proceeded to eject an Or
ganization under the State laws. In all this
turmoil, in which bloodshed was imminent,
the military posse behaved with great discre-
lion.
When Mr.. Wilt, the usurping Speaker OF
the House, called for troops to prevent blood
shed they were given him. When the Gov
ernor of the State called for posse for the
same purpose, and to enforce the law, it was
furnished also. Had this not been done it
is my firm belief that scenes of bloodshed
would have ensued. - .-
lSignedl P. II. SHERIDAN,
Iieutenant-G General.
The New York MeetinG-A Counter
| Cali.
New YORK, January 9.-Mayor Wickham
will preside on Monday night at the Loulsl'
ana indignation demonstration.
:. Both parties are getting up calls for meet
|ings. The counter document reads: We,
the undersigned, recollecting how the rebel.
lion was inaugurated and the country forced
into war by the failure of the Government
10 protect its forts and officers, hereby testify
our approval of the prompt action of the
Government in the late case of the Legisla.
ture in Louisiana"
| Going Back On Belknap.
New YORK, January 9.-According to the
HeraIds special from Washington, secreta-
ries Fish and Bristow, and the Postmaster
General, stated in an interview yesterday
that they were not consulted with reference
to nor did they see the dispatches sent to
Sheridan by Belknap saying that the Presi-
dent and all the Cabinet approved of his
proceedings. ..
Telegram from Kellogg.
WASHINGTON, January 9.-The following
has been received here: ........
NeU Orleans. January 80 Hon. a. z.
Field, care of Senator Vest. Washington !:
The Republican party does not endorse Dib-
ble's letter. He published it in the Democratic
papers alone. Our friends generally con-
denim him.
[signcd] WILLIAM P. KELLOGG.
In the Virginia Senate.
There was an unusually animated discus
sion in the Senate on Saturday upon the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were presented
during the morning hour by MIR. Cochran,
of Augusta:
"Resolued by the General Assembly of
the Commonwealth. Of Virginia, That the
Governors of the States composing the United
States of America be and they are hereby
earnestly requested to convene as soon as
practicable the Legislatures Of their respec-
tive States in order that the States may con.
suit together and advise with each other re.
speeding the late interference of the army of
the United States with the Legislature of the
State of Louisiana, and determine simultane-
ously and promptly what is necessary to be
done to defend and preserve the independ.
ence and autonomy of the States.
"2. Resolued, That the Governor of this
Commonwealth be and he is hereby re-
quested forthwith to telegraph these reso-
lutions to the Governors of the several States
and request immediate replies.
80. These joint resolutions shall be in force
! from their passage"
Dir. Cochran asked that the rules be sus.
pended in order to consider the resolutions.
| Agreed to.
NOT A PARTY MEASURE.
Mr.. Cochran said that since the telegraph
flashed the news through the United States
that sovereign Legislature had been driven
out from among the people who elected them
it had been matter Of earnest thought what
shonld he done. He was opposed to any
caucus consideration. 1t was no party mat