Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-20
GRANTS DILEMMA.
Can He Enforce the Louisiana Com.
PrOmise2-Plnehbsek Opposition.
washington Special to the Chicago Times

Can He Enforce the Louisiana Com.
prOmise2-PInehbs.ek Opposition.
Washington Special to the Chicago Times.
The President hal now a problem
upon his hands to s)lye, that will re-
quire all the statesmanship he and his
Cabinet possess. It is now pretty GER
tain that, according to the count Of
the Arbitration Committee in New
York, the Conservatives will have
seven or eight upor joint ballot in
the Louisiana Legislature. The ques-
ton then presents itself: How will
these Conservatives declared entitled
to seats, be seated?
The colored leaders here, in caucus,
have advised the colored men in the
Legislature to stand by and refuse to
60 out. Seventeen Radical members
have been seated, In districts now
known to have been carried by the
Conservatives. OF the seventeen, all
but three are colored men. They have
been acting as members Of the Legis.
lature; have voted upon bills which
have become laws, and when Kellogg
calls the Legislature together, on the
29th of this month, these seventeen
members viii respond to the call.
Then will come the question,
What viii be done with these eolored
men if they continue on their purpose
to hold their seats There is only one
way to GUST members legally, and that
Is by impeachment. it Is not possible to
get the present Legislature to impeach
any Of It's members, for the sole pur-
pose Of getting them out. Grant has
pledged his good faith to Wheeler, be-
fore he began this compromise, that it
should be carried out. The only way
for him out of the difficulty will be to
use his military again.
Few think, however, that he would
care to place himself before the coun-
try In the attitude o.: again reorgan-
ling Legislature by military force.
The Conservatives seem very much
pleased with the present attitude of af-
fairs. 1t is clear that the President is
in a trap, and the Conservatives here
have led him into it ty their diplomatic
shrewdness.
Pinchback is now The representative
Of the colored element. He is not an
Administration man, only 50 far as the
Administration viii help him. If the
President attempts 10 carry out the
compromise, he will find Pincaback and
his cOlored hackers his most bitter op-
ponents.
The sharp trick sprung upon the
Senate of postponing the consideration
of Pinchback's case, was the work Of
Ben Butler. Word was passed around
among the Administration Senator's,
some fifteen minutes before the resolu-
ton was sprung. Logan was outside
at the time, and did not bear a word of
it; and that Is why he got up with such
a puzzled air, and said that he thought
the passage of hat resolution
would be fraught with great dan
ger to to the country. Pinch
back, who was in the cloak-room, here
sent for Logan, and explained mattersto
him. Logan then could not vote for
this resolution, after ne had made the
statement that he thought its passage
was fraught with danger to the coun-
try. and SO he let himself down by say
ing that he could not go against his
friends, and did not vote at all. Itwas
the most clever stroke ever made IN the
Pinchback business. 1t Is a nine
months reprieve for Pinchback, to lay
further plans, and, as he says, the pay
Is going on all the same, if he can't
draw until he gets in. The admins
tratiOn men think that, IL the fact is
sufficiently brought before the Repub-
hcans of the country that the admis-
sion of Pinchback is the only way to
keep out another Democratic Senator,
a strong enough public sentiment will
be raised to warrant his admission.