The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-07
Etc, Etc, Etc.
FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS-.
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. &. The Senate was
called to order, Mr. Ferry in the chair
The Senate adopted the usual resolutions to
notify the President and House OF Representa-
| tives that quorum OF the Senate had assem-
| bled and was ready for business, ana then adj
| iourned after the statement of Mr.. Anthony
| that it was not probable that the message
could be received to-day.
| MIR. Boutwell, announced the death OF the
Vice President. Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Mcpherson called
the House to order. The McEuery certlh-
| Gates we're read and laid aside The Missls-
sippi deleg atoms received their credentials
signed by the Lieutenant Governor. The
call of the roll is progressing There is a
numerous crowd.
| MR. KERR's SPEECH.
"Geutlemen of the House of Representatives.
am truly grateful for the honor you have
conferred in calling me to this exalted station.
[ profoundly appreciate the Importance and
deiicacy OF its duties. i shall doubtless many
times need your patient indulgence. l pray
that you will grant it, and with nothing but
kindly feeling toward every mem 'er OF the
House, promise that in all my official acts L
will divest myself to the utmost of my ability
of all personal bias and observe complete
fairness and impartiality towards all, and
towards all the great and diversified interests
of our country represented in this House
Two hundred and eighty members present.
Tn swearing in members Messrs. Morey, of
Louisiana, and Goode. of Virginia, were ask
ed to stand aside, as they were contested.
A motion to refer Nc. Moreys credentials
after warm debate tailed, and he was sworn
in Mr. Goode, after short discussion, was
also sworn in.
Mr.. Lamar, of Mississippi, offered a resolu-
ton declaring the following officers OF the
House:
Clerk, George M. Adams, of Kentucky;
Sergeant-at-Arms, John G. Thompson, OF
Ohio; Doorkeeper, Lafayette Il FazHugn, of
T.xas; Postmaster, james Nj Stewart, OF
Virginia, and Chaplain, Rev. j. L. Townsend,
of District of Columbia.
The resolution was adopted.
After appointing a committee to wait on
the President, and ordering the drawing OF
seats Tomorrow at / o'clock, the House adj
jonrned
In calling the roll the clerk said, in refer
9 ence to the Louisiana delegation, that he had
received two sets Of certificates tor the hrst
four Districts, both sets indicating the cleo
ton of the same persons; that, to the
: Fifth District, he had received two certii-
Gates. one signed by VIM Pitt Kellogg shoH-
: ing the election of Mr.. Morey, and the other
; signed by John McEnery showing the cleo
= ton of MIR. Spencer, aud that as
MIR. Kellogg was the de facto Governor,
He tine clerk had acted on his certificate
and had enrolled Mr.. Morey. As to the Sixth
District he had only received one certificate
. signed by Mr. Kellogg and had acted on that.
Mr.. Wood, OF New York, objected to Morey,
of louisiana and Garfield, OF Ohio, objected
b to Goode, of Virginia; therefore these gentle
. men were not permitted toqualify.
= MIR. Wood offered resolution referring the
= credentials of Morey and Spencer to the
:, Committee on Elections, with instructions TO
- :, report which of them is entitled to the seat.
He said he did not propose to raise the ques-
ton "a to who was the legal Governor OF
Louisiana 1t was not pertinent to this in
:. auiry to determine that question the sole and
" exclusive question being as TO what form OF
credentials the respective claimants pre-
scented.
Mr.. Blaine, of Maine. declared there was
no more official ground OF speaking OF John
McEaery as Governor of Louisiana than there
was for speaking OF the gentleman Wood as
Governor of New York. No department OF
the government had ever recognized Nc
r Emery and the House last SESSION, by very
q large vote, to which many gentlemen on the
|. Democratic side of the House were consent
e ing and many of them anxious that the reso-
u luton should pass, had solemnly recognized
1t Kellogg as Governor of Louisiana, and for
v the gentleman from New ork 10 make q STATE
AZ ment that the governorshp OF Louisiana was
still a matter of doubt or was still In sus-
pense, was to place the House in wrong pc
). sition.
o He thought the Clerk would have been per
h fectly justified in tearing mp as waste paper
:, the credentials signed by McEnery. HI
"a trusted the gentleman from New York did no
'r wish to open the whole Louisiana controversy
Of on this question.
Mr.. Wood replied that the papers in the
case of all the members from Louisiana were
ie themselves a sufficient answer to the gentle
I'd man; for if there was no possible question Oh
c. to who was the Governor of louisiana, why
-, was it that all the members OF that State nae
> deemed it necessary to obtain the certinca'e
D Of McEnery.
h Thew had all deemed it important to come
10 here clothed with certificates from each o.
;. these so-calIed Governors. He did not pro
pose to raise in this inquiry the question al
u to who was Governor OF Louisiana. ne qnes
a tion to he determined in the first place was
at whether Mr.. Morey presented credentials lila
entitled him to seat on this moor
~ Mr. Wheeler. of New York, said he haC
t,nsted that the question to who was Gov
ernor Of Louisiana had been set at rest, a
es Iaas. until the next general election, and re
TX ore,ted that for a paltry advantage it SHOULD
in he again raised Not only had Kellogg beef
ut recognized az Governor OF Louisiana by tn
President of the Z nited States and by boil
houses of Congress, but also by the people Q
'e- Louisiana, and by statute passed by it
Legislature at its extra session held last April
X. Besides this man Spencer bad absolutel
'foreclosed himself by having made him
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