Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-08
The Louisiana Question.
sUNNARY OF LAST NIGHTS

sChhARh OF LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
Nothing new is reported from New Orleans
in military circles. Both houses of the Kel-
lOgg legislature are still in session while the
conservatives remain in caucus. Governor
Kellogg has stated i'm an Interview tn at he
would abide by the decision OF the Congress
sional committee If they would arbitrate the
election case.
SENATOR GORDON. OF GEORGIA,
III answer 10 several telegrams yesterday,
sent the following:
"GOre7aor John Ne Emery, Lieutenant Goucr-
nor Penn and X. II, MdBT: ! congratulate you
on The lorbearance Of the people. Still for
pear; Bear every wrong; and if arrests and
hahdcuHs are reSorted 10 still fOrbear, and
your rights Will be vindicatei by the Ameri-
can people. You cannot better SubSpTye the
interests of Louisiana. OF the south generally
anu ol liberty, than by continued forbearance,
even unto death
GENERAL sHERIDAN's DISPATCH DE-
NOUNCED.
Ihe foreign residents OF New Orleans held a
meeting at ST. Charles hotel yesterday and
adopted resolutions 10 the effect that although
thelr position as foreigners does not permit
them as a body TO express any opinion as to
ine pollllcal opinions now disturbing the
city, they declare the character given 10
themselves, and to the honorable Iaw-abiding
cltlzens with whom they are brought into
dally contact by General Sheridan'S dispatch
Is not consistent with truth, and is calculataI
TO injure and degrade them in the ewes OF the
business community at large. as well as their
cOuntrymen at home and society in general.
AT a meeting OF Tammany Hall General
committee yesterday resolutions of protest
ana denunclations against General Sheri-
dams dispatch and the government action
we've passed.
The Catholic bishop of Little Rock and a
number of other divineS of that city have
issued an address to the people of the United
states in which they say: There have been
no prosecutions, political or otherwise. and
as far at we have been able to learn no white
league or any other similar association. As
General Sheridan has not been in Arkansas
and could only have formed his opinion of
heaTsay, this fact may account for an opin-
A W flrapn Or fv.an.
which he proposes a remedy which of itself
would eXtinguiSh all law and procure a con-
dlti0n OF affairs which would be terrorism
The Missouri Legislature met yesterday and
organized. The governors message was re-
celYed. Touching the Louisiana question.
NE governor Ia keS strong ground against the
kellogg government and federal intarfer-
ence, and urges the legislature to adopt res0-
!utlons expressive of the indignation felt by
the people.
Governor Brown. in his message to the
Tennessee legislature, congratulates the Ie-
glSlature upon the fact that no such state of
affairs exists in Tennessee as in Louisiana,
and recommends solemn and earnest pro-
test from the legislature against the govern
ment action in Louisiana.
In the Arkansas legislature yesterday res
olutiOns of protest were adopted and an an
peal made To the candid Judgment of the peo-
pie OF these United States TO know whether
or not the southern states are mere provinces
or independent states within and composing
part of this union, with the constitutional
right to govern in their own local affairs.
THE JURY IN THE BEECHER TILToN
CAsE.-In the Brooklyn City court Yesterday
the proceedings in the Tilton- Beecher suit
was res mcd. Lewis Robinson the FIRST
juror chosen, was proven TO have expressed
an opinion and was discharged. Witnesses
were also produced showing that Mr. Lewis
also selected as a juryman, had expressed an
opinion, and he was excused, leaving only
SIX jurors in the box. Christopher Filter was
CHOSEN as the seventh juror, Samuel Flate as
The eighth, A. X. Chase, druggist, as the
ninth, Edward Whelan, builder, as the tenth
VIM III. Davis, real estate dealer as the
ELEVENTH, and Edward Blunt, dealer in paints,
as the twelfth.
The n. Y. Tribune says: More searching in
quiry into the personal character and the
mental condition of jurors was probably
never witnessed in any trial, not even fOr the
highest crimes, than is made by the respac-
tive counsel of Beecher and Tilton. Resort
haseven been had to the unusual process of
trying jurors by summoning their acquaint-
aLceS 10 testify TO their acts. In this way
MI. Beecher's counsel yesterday succeeded in
rejecting juror whose principal fault ap-
peared TO be entire ignorance of the case Mr.
Tllton's counsel sought to impeach one of
the Jurors accepted on Tuesday. All this in
dlcdteS simply the caution with which Jurors
are selected. Eight have been obtained thus
far, but all are subject to peremptory chal-
lenges. 1t is anticipated, nevertheless that
the lmpaneling OF the jury will be completed
to-day.