New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-26
BY TELE CIR APH, ,
CONGRESS.
Senate.

1
! WASHINGTON, December 25.-Vice Presi-
dent Wilson being absent from the city,
Senator Anthony, Of Rhode Island, was
elected president pro tenn.
Mr.. Robertson, of South Carolina, pre-.
sented the joint resolutions of the South
Carolina Legislature asking an appropria-
ton Of 100000 to deepen the harbOr of
Charleston. Referred to the Committee ON
| Commerce.
| MIR. Morrill,, of Vermont, introduced .
bill to establish an education fund and
| apply portion of the proceeds of the pub
liz lands to public education, and to provide
| for tho more complete endowment and sup
port Of national colleges for the advance
ment of scientific and industrial education.
Ordered to be printed and lie on the table.
Mr.. Morrill, gave notice that he would call
up the bill at an early day, for the purpose
OF submitting some remarks thereon.
The Chair laid before the Senate letter
from the Secretary Of War in answer to q
resolution OF the Senate of the eleventh in
stant, transmitting copies of the correspond
ence in relation to certain disorders in the
State OF Louisiana. Ordered to be printed
and referred to the Committee on Privilegea
and Elections.
Mr.. Flanagan, of Texas, presented the
memorial OF the mayor and common council
OF Houston, Texas, in favor of having that
place a port OF entry. Referred to the
COmmlttoe on Commerce.
| TIE Senate then resumed the considera-
| tion of the resolution of Mr.. Schurz instruct
| ing the Judiciary Committee to inquire
what legislation by Congress is necessary
| to secure to the people of Louisiana the
| rights of self-gOvernment.
Mr. Johnston, Of Virginia, concluded his
| argument commenced Oh Friday last. He
| said the Returning Board in Louisiana,
after session of two months. had made
nr ~tNaw at In i Lott
| The whole number Of members Of that body
| was Ill, but the other five held certificates
from the commissioners of election, and
they had az much right to seats in the body
as any other member. Referring to the
Presidents message in answer to the resOlu~
tion of the Senate, he said the President
had not informed the Senate as requested,
why the officers of the army of the United
States had been permitted to interfere in
the organization of the Louisiana Legisla-
ture. The President had really told the
army to go to Louisiana, do what Kellogg
tells you, and the orders of Kellogg were
the orders Of the President. The Republi-
can Legislature in Louisiana had seated
men in place of the three or four Of those
men seated in their places had no right in
the world to the seats. Why didn't the
President have them put OutY They were
there in defiance of all law. He next
spoke Of the troops being stationed in the
South, and said their presence there waa
the cause of the greatest discOrd in the
Southern section. The President, as com
manderin chief Of tho army, was bound to
obey the constitution and laws, and it W be
his duty to instruct his Generals to obey
the law. If they did not know it he should
teach them. The President had DECLARED
in his message that if an error had been
committed by the army it had been on the
side Of good order and in the maintenanbe
OF tho law. Was it to maintain law thh ut
the President of the United States under
took to decide who were members of tho
Louisiana Legislature! Was it to maintain
law that directions were given that the
army should obey the orders of KellOgg9
If so, where was the lawl He denied that
any ku Klux organization existed in the
South, and, in conclusion, saiO that all the
Southern people demanded was the right to
govern themselves.
Mr.. Pease, of Mississippi, sent to the
clerk q desk and had read the resolutions of
the Mississippi Legislature indOrring the
action Of General Sheridan in Louisiana,
and said the President of the United States
had been compared to q Cesar, declared to
be a usuper and military dictator. He
had been thus arraigned on mere newspa-
per reports, when the facts came out 1t was
shown instead of any attempt to overthrow
the government of Louisiana the President
had only performed that which his oath Of
office compelled him to. The President was
bound to recognize Kellogg as Governor Of
the State; Congress had taken no action to
establish government there, and the
President had no other course than the
spoke Of the scenes attending the organ
izatiOn of the Louisiana Legislature on the
fourth instant, and said the action of Wiltz
was part Of the conspiracy on the part of
the Democrats to overthrow the govern
ment of that State. Not one word Of GEN.
sure had come from the Democratic side of
this chamber toward Wiltz, who was rev.
OlutiOnist He was surprised that an
American Senator should stand in his place
and apologize for the Outrages committed
in Louisiana in the last few years when it
had been shown that $500 persons had been
murdered there for political reasons since
1866. He read from the report of Mr..
Schurz upon the condition of the South,
made in 1865. and said he begged to assure
that Senator (Schurz) that the condition of
affairs he found then, had been growing
worse every day since. This new move
ment at the South meant revolution and
destruction of this republic. Under the
political teachings of the Senator from
Missouri (Schurz) his State had been turned
over to the secession Democracy, and he
would have the Republican party now turn
over the South to the White League
banditti. The old Ku-Klux organization
and White League OF today were the same.
Yet these murderers and assassins had their
apolOgists on this floor.
Mr.. Thurman said the Senator had A.
serted that assassns and murders had
apologists on this floor He demanded that
the Senator name the apOlOgist
Mr.. Pease said perhaps he should quality
that statement. He had not heard q Senar
tor in bis place ADOlOpiza for mur6ar un1
but when Senators on the
Republican side spoke of these crimes the
Senators on the other side had treated them
lightly, and said it is your Radical outrage
mill, gotten up for political purposes.
When Senators from the South said the
Associated Press in that section was inya-
iabiy in the hands of the White League,
'tc.. the Senators on the other side paid no
to the statement.
Mr.. Thurman said he utterly denied that
here had been any member on the Dem
'cratlc side who had said 0ns word by way
u apology for assassination, aud there
vas no foundation tor making such g.
'harge. The Democratic Senators had
denounced exaggeration and talsehood.
When it came to he question of veracity
between the Senator from Mississippi and.
he gentleman of the Associated Press that
senator Pease) must allow the Democratic
senator's to reserve their Judgment.
Before concluding his speech Pease yield
ID at AS P. M. for motion to adjourn.
House.
A bill was introduced regulating telegraph
oils, also aiding Southern railroads. by Mr..
Young, OF Georgia, apprOp,iating 5000
or the improvement of the Etawaba river.
.lsO improving Galveston harbOr.
Pacific Mail Irwin was discharged.
The bill making Houston, Texas. mort q +