Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-01-14
BY TEL EGR A PHI
spEciAL 70 1JiE PIoCus DAILY aEcnrr,
nj WESTERN UNION LINE.
Eastern Dispatches.

Gazette's Washington special saya the
following nre tho leading points Of the
report Of the Congressional Sub Com
mittee on Louisiana: The committee
say they were unable to find any evil
dence that the Republican colored voters
were intimidatod during the last cam
paign in Louisiana. or that their civil or
political rights were in any way inter-
fored with, and that 80 far as the COM
mittee could learn from the evidence sub
mitted to them. the election was an excep
tionally fair and honest one. This con.
clusion is concurred in by all the men,
beers 81 the committee. Had Phelps and
Potter been alone on the committee
they would have reported that instead
of the Republicans being intimidated by
the Democrats, the reverse was the fact.
That the white Conservative voters were
frightened away from the poles by the
appearance OF the United States Marshal
accompanied by Federal cavalrymen q
few days before the election, or on the
day OF election. Tbs committee reports
also that the Conservatives undoubtedly
carried the State by considerable ma
jority and that they elected a majority
Of the Legislature, and the individual
members of the committee say tina. of
this there can be no question Tho fail
ure OF the Freedmen's bank and the col
lection OF the poll-tax from negroes,
which had never been done before,
since the war, caused thousands of col
ored Republicans to stay away from the
polls. Besides this, the planters for the
first time tried the effect OF persuasion
ON the negroes employed by them. They
did not threaten to discharge their
hands, but argued with them and demon.
strated to them that the interests of the
two races were common, therefore they
should support the same men and meas
ures. The result of this policy was that
many people were induced to vote the
White League ticket, as it was called,
and many Of them so testified before the
committee. The committee condemn in
the strongest language the action Of the
returning board as being illegal and in.
defensible. The returning board had no
able defenders before the committee.
The chairman of it, Ex-Governor Wells,
did not appear and his attendance could
not be secured. The remaining mem
bers were comparatively ignorant and
their defense Of the action Of the board
was very weak. The committee will re-
port that the character of the White
League has been very much misunder-
stood throughout the North. 1t is not
secret organization, and numbers among
its members scores and hundreds of the
very best men in the city of New Or.
leans-men who are the most prominent
in business and who would not counte-
nance lawlessness OF any kind. The ma
jority of the full committee will sign the
subcommittee report. They will be
Foster, Phelps, Potter and Robertson,
while Hoar and Fry will not approve it.
The Tribune's New Orleans special,
written last night, says the coup d etat
of Pinchback yesterday, created great
excitement among the politicians. A long
consultation between Pinchback s oppo.
nents, of whom the strongest are Kellogg
and Packard, was held last night, and it
is reported that the former offered the
Democrats the organization of the House
with Wilt as Speaker, if they will unite
with them to defeat Pinchback in Joint
session to-day. The Democrats are to
hold caucus this morning to consider
the matter. The Times special confirms
the above rumor and mentions Packard
as the probable candidate of the anti.
Pinchbackites.