The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-12
By Telegraph to the Dispatch.
The Troubles i'm Congress.


| WASHINGTON, January lin the Senate
| to-day
sMr. SEIZURE spoke to his resolution in.
structing the judiciary Committee to report
what legislation was necessary to secure a
republican form of government to the PEG.
Die of Louisiana.
mir. SEIZURE, in speaking Of the Louisiana
troubles, said he approached the subject in
no party spirit, as he was about to retire to
private life, and the success of no party
would benefit him, nor the defeat of any in.
lure him. The subject now before the Sen
ate was so great that passion or prejudice
should fad no place in the breasts Of sena-
tors in discussing it. He did not think the
debate Of last week premature or In advance
of the facts. All the important facts of the
case were in possession of senators.
He then reviewed the scenes in Louisiana
of Monday last attending the organization
of the Legislature, the interference Of the
military, &C., and said if such interference
be permitted in Louisiana who could tell
how long it would be before General of the
army might occupy the chair Of the Vice
President in this body to determine con-
| tested.eection cases.
He commented upon the general condition
of affairs in the South, and said he would
bail the day as most suspicious one for the
colored people of the South when theJ threw
off the scandalous leadership of those adven.
turers who, taking advantage Of their igno-
rance, made them tools for their rapacity.
The people of the South were not murderers
and banditti. There were bad elements
among them, but the National Government
itself was giving to these bad elements a
strength which they never would have pos
sessed otherwise. By its unconstitutional
proceedings it put every one Of these bad
men in the position of being oppressed and
pleading for freedom.
He argued that Virginia, North Carolina,
and Georgia, where self-government was
unobstrucled, were advancing in prosperity,
while in Louisiana and in other States where
self.governfnent was obstructed there was
no prosperity. He thought the laWlessness
of power was becoming far more dangerous
than the laWlessness of mob. The Conser.
tires of Louisiana did carry the late election,
and were defrauded Of it BY the Returning
Board. No man would be able to obscure
the real question before the Senate by any
fimsy side issues.
He hoped his motion to instruct the Judi
ciary Committee would mott result in Dill
for new election in Louisiana, with Gene
raj S0cGluall as Culot ! ulCA adu <As A'"Sn~AN
to conduct the campaign. No measure
would avail which did not boldly vindicate
the constitutional privileges OF the land and
preserve to the State the right of self-gov-
eminent. . -~-a..
Mr.. MORTON followed with the usual
speech. ~.
In the House Of Representatives to day
Mr.. HAwLEY, of Illinois, introduced joint
resolution reciting that at the election held
in November, 1872, in Louisiana, William P.
Kellogg claimed to be elected Governor; that
he and other officers holding under him have
since exercised all the functions Of their
several Offices; that the President of
the United States In message to
Congress on the 23d January, 1873, in.
yted attention to the Louisiana question
and to the fact that the courts had recognized
the validity of the Kellogg government, and
that unless Congress ordered otherwise the
President would continue to recognize the
Kellogg government; that at Kellogg's sug.
gestion the President furnished troops; and
az Congress has not taken any action, and
therefore resolving that the existing gov
eminent in Louisiana, represented by kel.
logg, is the lawful government Of the State,
that said government is republican in form,
and that Kellogg should be sustained by the
United States forces when called upon to do
so, and that persons who have been guilty
of disturbance should be punished. Re.
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.