Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-22
What the Radical Organs and
Leaders Think Will be the
Result-The Case of Clin.
ton, the Defaulting
Auditor.
A Very Long and Very Strong In.
acknowledgements to I'M
peach Clinton and Judge
HaWkins-MOre Com.
plicatiOns.

New ORLEANS, April 2O.-The fol-
lowing kilograms explain themselves:
NEW ORLEANS, April 20.
Hon. W. p. Frye, NJ. C., Lewiston, Ne;
The Democrats have unseated four
Republican members to-day. Telegraph
me whether, in your opinion, by the
agreement signed the Democrats were
10 disturb none Of the members Of the
house except those mentioned in the
award TO 90 out. L. B. PACKARD.
LEWISTON, NE, A pril 81.
Hon. 8. B. Packard, ULited States Marshal,
New Orleans:
BY the agreement and award the
status OF your legislature was to remain
as we left it. The Democrats violate
good faith and their plighted honor ia
their outrageous attempt to change it.
W. P. FRYE.
WHAT WHEELER SAYS.
Governor Kellogg received message
from Mr.. Wheeler regarding the four
members unseated yesterday in the
house, in which he says: 81 have care
fully examined the question Of the four
members, and while | still remain of
the opinion expressed to you and Pack
ard, l feel not at liberty to give q written
opinion without the concurrence OF my
associates" Colonel Packard states
that the opinion expressed by Mr..
Wheeler was that the four members were
to retain their seats.
WHAT THE GRADS" AND THEIR ORGAN
SAY.
The Republicans claim that the action
Of the Democrats In unseating four Re.
publicans and seating four Democrats in
their places was gross breach of the
plig faith Of that party. They say
the Legislature had come together with
the same personal feeling as when it ad-
)ourned at tIe close OF the regular ses-
slon, anc mad made all the changes re-
comm ended in the award. Both bodies
had then adopted q resolution that the
Eouse should remain without change,
except by resignation or death of mem.
bers until new general election. The
contend that the only argu-
ment OF any weight offered by the
Democratic majority that carried the
was that the members unseated
had not been returned by the returning
board, whose other acts that same ma
iority have frequently denounced as IL
legal. These Republicans had been
seated after the contest, and represented
parishes which had heretofore been
strongly Republican. The Republican
ia its leader this morning, says: "What
the result will be is not difficult to pre-
dict. The outraged minority in the
house have no remedy in the senate,
the relations are reversed, but no one be-
lieves the Republicans will put them
selves as much in the wrong as their op-
ponents by retaliation on the Democratic
in that body. But what OPP
portunity Of passing measures Of re-
form can such a body as that which
nOw controls the house afford? What
guarantee now have the people that the
adjustment they believed in will pro-
duce harmony in this distracted State?
1t is plain that the Democrats in taking
the responsibility of breaking faith with
the Republicans have broken the com,
pact and confirmed the truth of the
argument that they intended no justice
co their opponents; render all but parti-
san legislation impossible; destroyed
the hope Of better days, and less bitter
feeling widened the breach between the
people OF each side, turned the effort for
reform into struggle for Office and de-
feated every effort for the benefit Of the
people the compromise was intended to
promote.