Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
on Louisiana Affairs.
Civil Rights Bill in the House.
Butler Anxious for a OOmprOmiso,
FIIibustering Tactics Of the Dem
Ocrats.
SENATE.

Va sHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Mr. Dorsey, of
Arkansas, introduced bill to establish
certain telegaphic lines in the several
States and Territories as post lines, aud to
regulate the Transmission Of commercial
and other intelligence by telegraph. Re-
ferred.
TFhis is the same as the bill introduced
in the House on the 25th inst
Mr.. Morton submitted resolution 10 re-
peal the twenty second joint rule Of the
two houses Of Congress in regard to the
counting Of the electoral vote. Ordered
printed and lie on the table.
At the expiration of the morning lOur,
the Senate resumed the consideration of
the resoIutiOn Of Mr.. Schurz in regard to
Louisiana, and Mr.. Thurman took the
floor, speaking first of what took place in
louisiana in the election of 1872. He
said the men who had been in power for
the past two years in Louisiana were in
power by the grosseSt usurpatiOn of a Fed
eral judgeship, by bayonets Of the army Of
the United States and Federal Govern
ment. The sole title kellogg had to the
Office Of Governor was given him by the
President of the United States. BE said
be traced the beginning of this trouble in
Louisiana TO Washington City, and read
from a telegram Of Attorney General
Williams, dated Dec. 3, 1872,
directing Packard to enforce the degrees
and mandates of the United States Court,
no matter by whom resisted. He argued
that there wac no resistance to the Federal
Court, and all correspondence previous to
the telegram did not contain a word 70
show that lawful DEGREES of the courts
would be resisted. Under a midnight or
der, made not in a court, but by this man
Durell, who was in conspiracy with Pack
ard, the State House was seized and bat
teries planted around it to keep the people
of Louisiana from entering it. Durell
would not have made the order, and Packard
would not have executed it, had not the
telegTams from Washington assured them
they would be sustained. He next referred
OF the Lynch Returning Board, and said the
report of the committee of the Senate. as
well as the able speech Of the Senator from
Wisconsin, (Carpenter,) showed it had not
even the color of authority, much less legal
right, 10 count the vote in. Their action
was usurpatiOn. BE then read from Car
penter's speech and the testimony taken hy-
the committee in regard to afiidatits 4
and what use was made of them
by the Lynch Board, and said every |
member of that board was rewarded with |
a lucrative Office by kellogg or by the Leg |
islature Of Louisiana. He uext referred % |
the appeal of McEnery and the people Of |
Louisiana to the President, and the telegram /
Of Attorney General Williams to McEnery |
telling him he need not visit Washington /
with the committee Of 100, as the PreSi- /
dent was unchanged, and the sooner the peO-
pie there acquiesced the sooner order would /
be restored, and said he knew of no despOt /
on the face Ofthe globe who should refuse to
hear men under such circumstances. That
telegram was to the effect that the Presi-
dents mind, right or wrong, was
never to be altered. McEnery asked to be
heard, the Legislature asked TO be heard,
he people asked to be heard; but they were
not. Packard was heard, Casey was heard,
put the people were refused. He argued
hat this Louisiana case could not be
ouched without touching filth. There was
nothing but corruption in it everywhere.
Ourell escaped impeachment by his resig-
nation, vet the usurpatiOn inaugu- -ated
~ him was still sustained, and the peO-
de Of Louisiana We're smarfing under il;
hey would not be American citizens if
hey did not smart under it. Because they
pronounced banditti by Lieutenant Cen
,ral of the United States, whose telesrams
o the President were as if be was satrap Of
Ome Persian emperor. Was not such
tate of things calculated to disturb the
,eOple Of Louisiana? The usurpatiOn
here was such that no people on the face
f this earth could rest easy
lnder it. Since KellOggs Inauguration
ecurities Of the State had fallen
rom 20 or 50 down to %; securities OF the
ity of New Orleans had fallen from so or
% down to so or 40; bank shares and rail-
Dad stock had fallen in a corresponding
egree; in the district of NatchitOches the
Ak reached eight per cent. of the assessed
alue of property, and yet the people were
expected 10 be quiet and cOntented with
aXatiOn of more than five times the aver
ge tax in Ohio. They we've ex- ,
ected to remain quiet; if they did not,
lieutenant General of the United States
rOpOsed to the President that they should
e proclaimed banditti. He (Thurman)
ever expected to see the day, in what was ,
allied free America, when such things as
leSe would take place and any man CALI !
DC himself freeman defend them. The ,
lme frauds of two wears ago in louisiana .
-ere being repeated now, and the same I
over which upheld them then is uphold /
~ them now. 5
[The storm which prevailed last night I
isaTanged the wires 10 such an extent, :
nat we failed to receive the remainder Of i
Ir. ThuTman's speech. i