New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-13
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Is 1875

the Kellogg government responsible Il
what occurred thirty years before we ev,
thought of having such a government Their
"WaterwOrks."
Ditto for that; waterworks belonging
the city of New Orleans, and the cit
yet the Republicans are charged with hay
ing monopoly of them!
Cleaning vaults and removing filth"
That is business we are perfectly wilin
to surrender to the other side.
doing work as wharfngers.'
was surprised at that There are twelv
wharfiDgers holding positions in Ne'
Orleans. They are every one of theI
Democratic appointments, and they have
monopoly of the business. They have
monopoly of drawing their salary, four Q
them at $500 a year. and eight OF them a
$1,000.
Mr.. Scotland controlled by the State.
Mr.. West-Yes, controlled by the city IN
der the State; and they are Democrati
appointments, every one of them. That i
one of the charges brought against Repub
| Leans
"By unlimited appropriations for tn
| payment of legislative warrants, vouchers
| and checks issued during the years 1870 ant
! 1872"
There was such provision migrated
upon an appropriation bill, as it passed the
Legislature, and the Governor could no
veto that bill without stopping the
whole wheels Of government. He
signed the bill, but he promptly
through his Attorney General, instituted pro
ceedings and enjoined such action; and to-
day am informed that not one dollar has
heau n ra Urn ont of fho fraacurv rpdor cuol,
surreptiriOus proceedings.
"Bv laws declaring that no persons in
arrears for taxes after default published
shall bring any suit in any court of the
State or be allowed to be a witness in his
own behalf"
That is one of the methods that has been
resorted to to strange the existence of
Republican government in that State. In
the testimony taken in what is known as
the investigation Of Louisiana affairs. the
secretary of one of the tax .ressting assO-
Citations was put upon the stand in room
in this building and he testified to the ex.
istence Of league, not embracing all the
people of Louisiana who were taxpayers,
but thinking that nine-tenths of them would
refuse to pay their taxes. There is the
sworn testimony Of the secretary of that
league that they intended to resist by all
constitutional means the payment of taxes.
L Oo NV UiuuIO OuCu 4OI tudU UldIl0 no
man for resOrting to constitutional means
to assert his rights; but maintain that we
have the right also to resort to cOnstitu-
tiOnal means to make him perform his
duty.
Then again, with reference to the financial
condition of the State:
1.-THE securities of the State have fallen
in two years from seventy OF eighty to
twenty five"
l scarcely wish to weary the Senate with
all the circumstances under which the secu-
rites of the State of Louisiana have been
scaled; but it is we'll known here, or if it is
not remembered now l will remind the
Senate that by an act OF the Legislature at
the last session, an act framed and origi.
mated in and solicited by the New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce, land when you say
that you say by the leading Democrats Of
the city,, the debt Of the State of Louisiana
has been scaled, and there has been con-
sequent depreciation of value. That is to
say a debt Of 100, according to the coasti-
tuticnal amendment recently passed, is now
been decline from 100 to sixty, decline
made in the interests of the people of Louis
lana generally, whether property holders or
mere indirect taxpayers-a reduction that
they asked for. Therefore the reduction of
the debt or the depreciation of the value of
that debt to at least that amount can not
be charged to the wrong doing of the Re.
publicans. But they say it has gone down
to twenty five. All, yes and 1t will go
down to zero if you keep up your strife.
Keep up your revolts, your revolutions,
your threatenings, your prescriptions. and
your violence and your bonds will go to
protest, and Louisiana will have no place to
lay her head in Wall street.
Then the securities of the city of New
Orleans have fallen from eighty or ninety
in two years to thirty or forty, as the COM
mittee state. There is another evidence of
your violence and intimidation, and the
shrinking always arising from fields of
strife and insecurity. But why was it so9
,ity OF New Orleans in the last wo or three
years! When the Republican administra-
ION went out of power in the city of New |
Orleans her bonds and securities were
worth ninety cents on the dollar today |
hey are worth but thirty; and yet that is |
,harged as one of the faults of the Kellogg |
government. That is one of the faults Of |
ms Republican Legislature of Louisiana,
which, coming to the relief Of these very |
ecurities, has offered constitutional |
amendment which has been adopted by the |
,eople, that the debt Of the city of New
orleans shall not be increased. Where is
he responsibility there9 1t is with the
Democratic city administration and with
hat inherent spirit of bedevilment that |
NESTS that community that does not |
Inspire confidence in its ability to keep
Is engagements. The governor in his
asst annual message calls attention to this
act. He says:
"In the year that is Just ended the re.
eipts have been nearly equal to the
expenses: the rate of State and city taxa.
ion has been largely reduced, and for the
rst time for many years not one dollar has
cen added to the public debt, which, on
be contrary, has been considerably
educed."
Taxation has been increased. Property
an not be sold for taxes" That
so. Some property in New Orleans
an not be sold for the taxes, because there
year upon year, and sometimes five years
tax resistance to pay on it, and who
ants property in that State when taxes
ncumber it! That is the fact. When you
ought for taxes, it is because there
re five years of tax resistance
it. When the Kellogg
was inaugurated, the taxes in
le State were twenty-One and half mills
70 cents and fifteen hundredths. Now,
Y the act of this Republican Legislature,
titled by the people of the State, the tax
fourteen and a half mills. When the
ellogg administration went into power the
ty taxes we're thirty mills. BY the act of
70 Kellogg Legislature, ratified by the
sople Of New Orleans, the taxes have
zen reduced to twenty-five mills, and yet
lat government is charged with cucumber.
e the people with taxation and increasing
5 burdens untold
Mr.. President l must confess my in
gnation at the character of this re-
,rt, that men who had the opportunity
have learned the true state Of affairs,
en- who could not have failed to have
,own by all the history of the day OF
10 acts OF violence that have been