The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-04-07
WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT?

than answered. An extra session
has been called. The Body that will
meet is the same that sat during the
winter under Antoine and Hahn
THE proclamation is addressed to
that Body and none other can res
pond. The first business will be un-
folded in message from His Acct
dency informing the two Houses of
the decision made by the New York
Returning Board, as the New Orleans
Republican calls it with sarcastic
truth. The action of that Board will
be referred to the Committee on Elec-
tons. The Report of that Commit
tee will inform Hahn and his House
that some of it's members are to be
decapitated. DeLacey and his two
colored colleagues will find their leg
islative career coming to sudden
end. They must vote for their own
execution. The required formula is
gone through with, and our three
Representatives walk in along with
such others as have been approved
by the New York Board. The House
thus renovated will be moved to go
into the election of Speaker. Mi
chael will rule the motion out of Or
der. On appeal from the decision of
the Chair, the House will reverse
his ruling and Wilt will be elected.
The Senate will remain as it was
on the closing days Of the late ses-
sion except that Mr.. Goode will be
admitted No change can be made
in it's composition as to the members
sitting under the election of 1872
Kelso, defeated by nearly a thousand
votes in this District, will sit through
the term. No disturbance of that
portion of the Senate is one of the
stipulations of the Compromise.
This programme is wholly based
on the assumption that Kellogg has
both the will and the power to per-
feet the scheme concocted by Mr..
| Wheeler. This gentleman will be
present in the modest role of Adju-
tant, but will perform really the func-
tions of Commander in Chief. All
disputes as to form, or to the legality
and regularity of the proceedings,
will be crushed. Refractory individ-
uals who drew something near a
thousand dollars apiece out of the
State Treasury in the winter under
the delusion that they were members
of the Legislature, and who have the
authority of the Louisiana Returning
Board for that delusion, will be told
to shut up. The Sword of State,
held aloft by Sheridan, will be thrown
into the scale Of the rival Board Of
New York, and the new era dawns.
All this requires such complete
ness of arrangement that a catastro-
phe may we'll be feared if any part of
the machinery should not work we'll.
Will it be so we'll creased as to work
as smoothly as is desired? For in
stance, suppose the Committee on
Elections shall not report as men,
bers, those designated by Mr.. Vince
Ter, and should prove contumacious.
Or as the Committee is small body,
and can probably be managed, if it
does report as directed, suppose
Hahn's crowd refuse to adopt it.
What will be done if De Lacy blurts
out that Guyerner Wells is desaying-
est mon on the arth to make pretend
to him that he was to sarve all the
while, and then turn him adrift so
soon. What if Conaghton and his
sable ally, laying their hands on their
breasts, shall protest against the in
iquity Of the decision that ruthlessly
deprives them of the proud privilege
of sacrificing themselves for the good
of their country. And when the
bleating of these wounded lambs is
silenced, and the House put up &C
cording to order, and the. inevitable
motion is made to 60 into the cleo
ton of a new Speaker, what if Mr..
Wheeler shall interpose with the OBJ
lection that the election of new
Speaker is no part of the adjustment,
but on the contrary it was expressly
stipulated that the new members were
to go into the House 'Sas at present
constituted" ,-
Then there is the Senate. If the
twenty-sever Radical Senators should
stampede, could Sheridan find rough
riding troopers enough to hunt them
down and drive them out Of their
lairs. If the sleek little Ebony that
graces the curule chair should carry
so far his distrust of that cd Wea-