New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-17
THE REPORT OF TIE suB-con1TTEB.

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I Messrs. Foster and associates were SOL
here by committee Of the House to co
lect and bring back testimony. The
have responded with an opinion insteat
which is very long and fearfully on
sided. They undertook the business
examining the prisoner. and have onl
arraigned the prosecuting witness. Wei
it not for the presumptive vanity OF
member of Congress from the country, "
should entertain a suspicion that til
| greater part of the six column opinio
had been prepared in this city by an al
torney retained in the White League in
terest. But, whoever may have strun
together the long list Of sophistries, ther
can be no doubt as to the source from
whence they are derived. The origin i
rs obyio us us the reasons given are alb
surd.
1t is not strange that the whole com
mittee have decided to come here afte
such q lamentable failure on the part O
its sub to carry out instructions. As Mr.
Hoar explained to the House, the evil
| dence upon which this wonderful
opinion is based has not yet been written
out. When it is, the public will see that
very little reference has been made to it
bv the writer of the report. More than
one-sixth of the entire document is taken
up with description Of scene in the
House of r representatives in this city,
which did not last more than an hour or
two. And while this portion bears with
mild censure upon the Democratic mem
bers, the committee almost create the in
ference that the scandalous acts were
in some sense almost justified, as we per-
ceive lea ming all the way through to
excuse any act of outrage on the part of
the Democrats, while holding the Re-
publicans to a strict accountability for
the slightest deviation from a technical
legal course.
The committee also go back to 1907
and rake up the acts and doings Of those
days-the creation of monopolies, the es-
Establishment of new judicial tribunals,
the excessive appropriations. etc., which
they charge to the account of Governor
Kellogg. W no had no more to do with it
than President Grant had with the noto-
rious rascalities of Buchanan's Cabinet or
the removal Of the deposits. Nearly every
monopoly that has been created in this
State since the adoption Of the constitu-
lion has been conferred upon Democrats,
and not State bond has been authorized
to be issued since Kellogg was elected
Governor except such as the funding bill |
provides in exchange for old ones. But |
one judicial tribunal has been created,
md that was recognized as necessity by !
Intelligent Democrats. it being necessary
or greater dispatch in the trial Of crimi-
lal cases.
4 Louisiana Democratic politician, if on !
he point Of asking the suffragans of his
ward for their support, might be expected
o concoct some such stump speech as
'1essrs. Foster and Phelps have presented
0 Congress- For many Of their state
nents, there will be found no evidence in
he testimony to sustain them. and the
ogical meaning Of large portion that
'as given has been so perverted that
here is hardly enough truth left to leayen
!. The alleged fact that in two parishes. |
hc Offices were mainly held by one family
'ould probably have weight in primary
leeting: but az there is no law to pro.
hit It. We can not see how it came to be
igged into the report. 1t may. or may
OF. be true: Congress and the country do
o: feel that interest in it that hungry
'emocrat Of Lincoln parish does. who Z!
ands among the outs with tears Of envy
! his eyes |,
The White League organization is
andled very gently The Conservative
'rsion is first given with wonderful per-
'icacity fox three gentlemen who only s
NAMED here eleven days. showing the '
idence Of material local assistance. I
aen the Republican view is mildly stated, @
ID the subject left in an indeterminate e
ate. The committee had no opinion Of
own upon this the most important
after connected with its mission. Con.
ess is informed in this case. as in several I
hers. that there is difference of views p
tween the Republicans and Democrats, "
lich everybody was perfectly we'll aware IL
before the committee came here. OF u
arse. the formidable Instruction of II
ptember II is belittled into little p
,abble on the levee between the police I
d number Of citizens for the possess u
n OF some arms which were being landed a
m the steamship Mississippi. If the COM Il
ttee had been here on the fourteenth Of tt
otember they would have had their al
ions Of the event greatly increased. b.
ey would have wondered what the IL
'ricades on Carondelet. Camp and st. 81
aries streets had to do with an I'M SC
mptu disturbance on the leyee. nearly ia
a mile distant. And from the display tn
guns among the citizens they would III
e inferred that there was very little tn
son to contend for 4 few hundred more 81
ess. as there were some thousands in tn
ir possession already. The demand us
de by committee upon Governor th
logg to abdicate had more to do in a
nping the character of the movement to
II the disputed guns. which were Ia
dly thought Of by either party after in
aot;o,, i SO