Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-01-14


lana constitute q gross and manifest
violation Of the Constitution and laws.
We have a case before us which shows
the government either ignores the law
or so interprets them that they cease
to be a safe guard. All citizens must
have read with profound regret Sheri-
dams despatch proposing to outlaw q
numerous class OF citizens as banditti
and deliver them over to the military
by Prudential proclamation. No.
body respects Gen. Sheridan more for
his brilliant deeds than he (Schurz).
and every one must regret 10 see the
hero of the Winchester ride stain his
name by an attempt to override laws
is another illustration how men may
be great soldiers and how conspic.
uously unable to understand what
civil law and constitution mean. If
such things can be done in Louisiana,
how long before they can be done in
Massachusetts or Ohio, and how long
before great constitutional rights will
be trampled under foot. How long
before an agent of tho army may sit
In the chair you occupy to. decide con.
tested elections Ia order to make q
majority in the Senate.
Mr.. Schurz said he contemplated the
crisis with grave apprchensions; that
our time.honored Constitutional prin.
ciples will be gradually obliterated by
repeated acts of power, establishing
themselves or precedents, and the ma
chinery of the Administrator become
gradually the mere instrument of ring
rule that the hollow she'll of Republi-
can forms of government will become
the mere foot ball of rapacious and
dcspotic factions. Commenting on
the affairs in the South, he said Con.
gress had passed law comforting on
the National Government dangerous
powers, of doubtful Constitutionality.
Hence partisans in the South, among
them the greatest and completest of the
kind, began to consider Congress and
the Executive as natural allies,
bound to sustain them in power. Ev.
cry Southern vagaboud calling himself
. Republican would claim aid, and Federal once
center Of partisan trickery.. We have the Attor-
ney General called on to make and unmake State
governments, Federal Judge in Louisiana, BY an
Governor and Legislature; the National Executive
sustains that us1rpation Congress permits It be
done; the now Federal soldiers with fixed bayo-
sally recognized as claimants for membership
The Lieutenant General advises wholesale out
rotary Of war informs him that the Government
has full confidence In his WISDOM and thus the
whites Of the South consider the National Govern
ment their implacable and inscriptions enemy
He would hail the day % most auspicious for the
colored people when they threw of the leadership
there Of adventures who made themselves tools
Mr.. schlrz appealed to the Senators to turn
back. Whoever justifies this attack on fundamen-
tai law makes himself an accompice, who strikes
at the life and republican liberty Of the people
HOUSE.
The following bills were introduced:
BY Mr. Hawley, Of Illinois-A resolution
Of the Illinois Legislature relative to
Louisiana, and urging the giving of all
necessary assistance to the Kellogg gov.
eminent.
Mr. Dawes presented the case Of the recu.
SAINT witness Albert, and offered resolutions
for his arrest and bringing him to the bar
for contempt. Agreed to.
Albert, on being brought to the bar. said
on the existing ordar oil the House he would
answer. He was then taken before the COM
mittee or Ways and Means.
Mr.. Cox offered resolution in reference
to the Louisiana affairs, which was referred
to the judiciary committee.
1t sets forth that United States soldiers
having interferred with and controlled the
organization of General Assembly and
prevented persons who claimed seats from
holding them, which acts dispersed State
Legislature, and have been ratified by the
President. therefore the House expressed
the deliberate opinion that said acts are in
violation Of The Federal Constitution, and
force was illegally used that this control
was subversive of the principlea::::upon
which the Government is founded and is
unprecedented in the history Of free
Government. That it is an insolent and revo-
lutionary outrage ON Louisiana, menaces
the liberties dignity aud rights of every
other State aud that therefore the repre-
sentatiyes demand the immediate with.
drawal of the military force, and the condign
punishment OF those guilty Of this reckless
usurpatioD. rg
MIR. Kasson introduced q bill supplement.
airy to the bill restoring specie pay ments,
which was referred to the Ways and Means
committee.
II provides that November LIST, 1876, any
person may present at tho Sub-Treasury
pie, ndOEsoeive gold 10 exchange at che
rate of $50 in gold for 500; and the
rate OF gold shall be gradually advanced un
til July LIST, 1878, when exchange shall be
at par.
The House then went into committee of
the Whole, NJ. Corwin in the chair, OH the
consular and diplomatic appropriation hi /.
1t appropriates S1.300,000.
l; was reported and passed and tho House
adjourned.