New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-17

lot box, will not come here to ask the
Sena te TO revoIutioDize my country. Ap-
plause in the galleries.
The Vice President announced ii the
demonstration was repeated he would
direct the Sergeant-at Arms to clear the
galleries.
MIR. Bayard resuming, said the Senate,
by giving ass to the proposition OF the
Senator from lnuiana, u uud declare that
elections in States we're to % Judged by the
Senate of the United SraJea.
Mr.. Thurman said the resolution of the
Senator from Indiana had not been referred
to any committee. It was brought in by
the Senator yesterday, ana contained the
preamble, "Where.d, 1t il alleged that
these disorders existed He tTburmaB)
asked by whom it was alleged-not by the
President of the UGited States, OF sny
department, OF tho government, or by any
paper before the Senate. 1t was alleged
by papers, the address on which was in
the private pocket OF the Seua' or from In
diana. Did that Senator want TO forestal
The judgment Of the Senate by going into
an inquiry which should not come 10 the
Senate before 1877, when il came to decide
rpon the credentials OF person VII might
come there claiming a seat Fl om the State of
M'ssissippia 0ther Senators would be in
the chamber then to decide all questions,
and this Senate had no right to torestall
length to the Louisiana case, and argued
| that il was no precedent for the action now
proposed in the Mississippi c&le. Investiga-
| ton was not ordered until after the Gre
| fentials of persons claiming seats from that
| State were presented 1t would not do for
| him Mr.. Thurman) to say that this an
attempt on the part of the Senator from
| Indiana TO get up an eleCtioneering dUcu-
| ment at the public expense, but when the
| Senator tAlr. MortoD) asked himself what
| right the S-nate had 10 pass such resolu-
| tiuD, he wonld find it impossible To give
| himself satisfactory answer. ''e Thur
| man agreed with the Senator from Oe!a
ware, that the cuurts we're open IN Missis-
| sippi, and il the enforcement act had been
| violated the offenders could be punished.
| Mr. Morton said, in his opinion, that this
| debate on the Dart of his Democratic friends
was simply extraordinary. 1t was in con.
| ttict with The whole OF thoi. course in the
| Louisiana case. He argued that he Louisi-
| ana investigation was ordered by the Senate
| before the credentials of applicants for sea i,
| were presented, and be believed the investi-
| cation was ordered with the appreciation of
| his friends fr0m Gho iThurnan) and Della
ware tBayardl. Now they had discovered
| there was no power 20 make an lnvestiga-
ton. He lMortonl argued that the power
| to make this investigation was de-
| rived from several clauses in the
| cOnstltut1On, tlat instrument ealn the
| United States must guarantee a repub
lican form Of government to every State.
| If ballot boxes were to be stuffed, rs in
| Mississippi, the whole republic would be
overthrown. His frit nd from Delaware
| (Bay ard had said this was revolutionary
measure, but to guard against revolution
the Senator (Baysr said if Republicans
should carry his State he would not come
here for relief. He (Mo-ton) was quite
sure if the Republicans were to carry that
State by the means which the Democrats
carried Mississippi, the last of it would
never be heard. The Democrats would let
these outrsges go op, and If the Repub
licans made fuss about it, then they were
told that they were lighting the fires OF
discord.
Mr.. Gordon, of Georgia, said he arose tC
correct to some extent some of the impres
sions bout Mississippi which the Senator
from Indiana had received from newspa
pers, but as he could not catch all the Sen
ator said. He would like tho debate to &c
over until he could read his remarks.
a memorial from practical steamboat
men, and persons engaged in navigation
designated certain portions in the steam
boat laws which should be changed,
In presenting the memorial Mr.. CDnk
Ing said ne took great pleasure in laying
this paper before the Senate, because it in
dicated particularly what changes should b,
made, ana it also showed that the men en-
gagged in steam boating had some regard to
the safety OF those travelling on steamboafs 8
The Senate went into executive session
after which it adjourned.
The Senate meets tomorrow.