The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-27

be due. >' ' -,
But as to this compromise, let us examine it
iney ten us That We are to have majority OF
."enty-nlne members in the House. They tel
US so, out can any man swear how MANY the
congressional Committee will give us. Who can
teH what construction they will put upon that
aoomlnaIloD the election law
1hey say they will give us our Senators elected.
Suppose they give us the ten, that Will leave
them majority of ten.
Then they say that on JOINT ballot we will have
majority, but there can be Joint ballot bat for
one purpose, and that is the election Of United
STATES senator; 1t cannot be used for the relief
OF the state. We are pOwerless even surprising
we have majority in the House. No law can be
repealed without the consent Of the Senate
They tell us they will aid us in relieving the
State. Do you believe it?
Do you believe that they Will repeal the election
law, the metropolitan police law, the constabu-
larry bill and all the other bills of abominatlop
Ii they are 10 be repealed why has not this
Legislature repealed them? They do not intend
| to repeal them. They want you to come in and
Illuminate yourself, and then they will do nothing
for you.
If you SO into this arrangement, Kellogg Sc
cures the election OF 1876 and secure
| the House Of Repre- sentatives, if such body
can be called such, and nothing else.
| The compromise gives the enemy recUa,r.il ~.
Kellogg With his veto and the Senate 10 sus-
tain it.
They talk of aiding us to reform. Will they
|
! hrea h III their nos,rils. VIII they repeal any of
the outrageous bills Which they enforce o rob
| Us No. Their stealngs arc what they live on
| and thew will not do 1t.
| Where is the bond they have given? The Con
| servatIve Caucus has eNacted nothiag, and you
VIII IN 1876 have Madison Wells and Tom Anier-
| son to count your votes, and we know how they
VIII count then. Kellogg will not appoinr good
men On TIL, b 'rd indeed lie VIII eve nothing
| III or ell5 Of tie Custom IIorse.
| Kellogg has promised, they say, but his pro-
misses amount to nothing. de promised some
time ago to give us tw men on this last Re-
turning Board. Did he 90 1t TCrics Of no no 4
~ Hog Is far III promises when the people are
arfavcd III opposition against him, but lie never
keeps them.
Then what have we gained: We have carried
81 tii's contest and fought for the liberty OF the
whol1 pep @ and tue people responded and gave
us Democratic majority i'll the House of Rep
f1scntativcs of sixty men.
line compromise does not give us one thing
that VIII secure You; they promise that peace aud
prosperity will descend upon us il we will but
say that Kellogg IS Governor and not the
u,urper W lich We havc,called him. We cann,t
take back what we have said; we can
not withdraw from the position that has
moved the whole people. They tell us that there
IS no hope, that Congress is against us
The House OF Representatives may be against
Us, but cannot understand how any one can say
that the Senate are against us. Has the Senate
admitted PInchback? No; and vet if Kellogg is
Governor, Plnchback is Senator But if we &C
cept this compromise. we seat Pinchback, for as
sure as we indorse it. the Senate will declare
Kellogg Governor, and admit Pincbbach
Upon the close of Mr.. Rollers speech,
Hon. E. John Ellis stepped forward, and read
the following resolutions, being frequently
interrupted by applause:
We, the people of New Orleans, in mass
convention assembled, in view of the accept
ance and adoption, by majority of the Con-
servative Caucus, Of that odious compact
with tyrants and usurpers known as the |
wheeler proposition" do most solemnly
and earnestly protest against the consumma-
ton of that compact, sand do here repudiate
it, declaring that We will never acquiesce in
or be bound by if, and for the following rea-
sons:
|. First, because we absolutely deny the |
authority of members Of the Legislative |
Caucus, or of the agents whom they sent to |
Washington, to enter into or agree to the |
surrender contemplated by the Wheeler
proposition. The authority of members of
the Legislature is strictly bounded by the
Constitution and laws of the State. Called |
into official existence by the votes of the
people, under the operations of the laws and
Constitution of the State to perform certain
functions, they are invested with limited
powers alone and can bind their constitu-
ents only when acting within the legitimate
sphere OF their delegated authority. We fail
to find in the laws or Constitution of the
State any warrant for members of the Legis-
lslature entering into any arrangement con
corning their official status, or compromising
one jot or title of their constitutional pow
ers, or constituting Judge Wheeler, or any
lndlvual whomsoever, Or any committee
Judges OF their election and qualification, or
the supervisors OF any election held in this
State
III. SAID compromise proposes to set aside
the Constitution, which vests in each House
the sole right to judge Of the election of its
and in direct violation thereof to
confer certain individuals unknown to
the law or Constitution, the power of deciding
what persons have been elected the repre-
sentatives of the people.
1t proposes, further, to bind and fetter the
consciences of the members Of the Legisla-
ture by coercing them to vote against their
convictions for it; it prevents their hearing
the cases of claimants who can prove their
election beyond the shadow of doubt, and
debars them from rendering the full and ex-
act justice due to others under the Constitu-
ton. while it forces them to violate the man
date of their constituents. and to disregard
the solemn oath they must take before enter
ing upon the performance of their duties to
faithfully anu lnpdItlally ulScnarSe tne
same and to support the Constitution.
III. Further, while said proposition binds
the Conservative members of the House to
maintain unchanged the status established by
the persons therein designated, whether it be (
right or wrong, it leaves the usurping major {
lty in the Senate free to seat or unseat Sena- t
tors elect to that body, without qualification
or restriction. And even conceding that a
Conservative majority in the House, sur
rounded by Metropolitan police and super {
vised by Federal troops, could pass the re-
form measures demanded by the people Of E
this State, such measures Judging the future
by the past, would fail to receive the sanction !
and endo sement of the usurping Radical
Senate, whose punic faith has been illustrated !
again and again by the broken pledges and :
promises with which all the paths by which i
hey have marched to our ruin are strewn; t
therefore be it
Resoired That the declaration of the Baton 7