New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-24
COMPROMISE no. 3.

We presume it is admitted that NO spe
cial session can be enforced except b!
such an agreed schedule as We have sug
gested. The schedule to be signed, sealed
and delivered by such majority of Rep
. resentatives as may be necessary to confin'
the session within such "limitation" al
was some weeks since proposed by tn
: Picayune. Some of the opposition paper
attempt to cast upon the Republicans thu
sole responsibility Of having proposed
these Limitations. But it is certain The
Conservatives are as much interested il
this matter as ourselves.
We find the intractables still outstand
ing.in opposition to the terms Of the com
promise which has already given add
tional strength to the Conservative ranks.
We have quoted the unqualified protest
of Mr.. Wilt and some thirty others
against the Wheeler plan. The protest Of
Mr. McEnery as representative of the
Last Ditchers vas confined to denial OF
any power to compromise the executive
office, but he has published another
encyclical missive in which he says:
So far as l can ascertain, the public senti-
dennis the course pursued by the Conserva-
tive Representatives who voted for the
compromise, and the people have seen and
conversed with on the subject do not speak
in the softest or most complimentary terms
when discussing their action. Ii any people
in the world were willing and ready to
endure and suffer etill longer, it necessary
involved in the elections of 1872 and 1874,
that people. as unit, could be found in
North Louisiana, and l believe thxt this
sentiment pervades the great body Of the
conservative people of the entire State, and
| the gentlemen who voted for the Wheeler
compromise will, sooner or later. realize this
! important fact.
The Bulletin, as the organ of the same
sentiment, spits upon the compromise. 1t
recites the progress and result of the con-
gressional committee, and incidentally
gives the important testimony that
1t was at no time the intent or wish of
the Conservatives to appeal to the commits
sioners on any matter not relating to the
election of 1874. 1t was an appeal from tho
dI dCuUH duu lThuuulouU 0W0Eu VI
the Returning Board, and from that only.
Nothing else Was complicated with their
proposal. They only engaged to bind them
selves by the committees award SO far as
their own election was concerned.
We fail to see any necessity for or
reference to special session, or full
committee in this statement. The Wheeler
proposition is thus characterized:
Out of this proposal grew the Kidding,
double dealing, obscure, indefinite Wheeler
compromise proposition, which was full of
loop-holes for trickery and fraud. coupled
with q compulsory recognition of the
usurper Kellogg as the Governor of L0uisi
ana.
How is that for the compromise? We
are told the Wheeler proposition twas
rejected (by the Conservatives) as was
proper" "a fair counter proposal" was
made by the Conservatives, (which was
as promptly rejected" by the Wheeler
committee. Here we have the proof that
Messrs. Burke and Zacharie presented
conditions, by whomsoever made, which
were promptly rejected" by the Wheeler |
committee. They then telegraphed the |
caucus that nothing but the Wheeler |
plan straight could be obtained, and the
caucus record shows that plan was
adopted accordingly, with nothing else
except the accompanying protest of hlr.
Witt ct al. that they would not be bound
by the compromise at all. But the B,dle-
tin goes on, land here with the rejection
of the Burke and Zacharie amendments) |
the negotiation of adjustment should
have ended" 1t is not, in the opinion of
the Bulletin, binding upon any body:
The members of the committee OF Con
gress were not legally compent to become
arbitratOrs between one party in a State
Legislature and another party. Our Con-
members could not bind them
selves to accept and abide by any award
made by any person or party, ner are they
now bound by what is called the Wheeler
1t is not binding upon Kellogg.
nor upon the Senate, nor upon Hahns rep
We have agreed with the Picay,tne as to
one point. That the Wheeler plan has
been accepted. We will agree as second
that special session shall be
held on the terms specified. We want
legislation, not litigation. We do not
wish to see the Democracy 60 off in
mother fit of political epilepsy, tumbling
Town in froth and spasms at the base of
he Clay Statue We do not wish to have
United States soldiers bivouacked on our
streets and squares, nor Republican re-
ugees thronging into the city from the
parishes.
As we have, therefore, shown the Wheeler
,lan net binding only upon the Repub-
leans and the Conservatives proper, and
lot obligatory upon the Democratic in
as we have shown from the eau
us record, With the testimony Of the B,d-
tin and those whom it represents that
hey will not be bound by any term of the
Wheeler plan, or of the assumed conditions i
hereto, it results that the Conservatives
roper should unite in conference upon
he measures proper for adjustment at a |
pecial session, and that We shall have q
econd and final compromise of all ques-
ons disputed between the Conservatives
nd the Republicans 8
He LEGITIMATE MUNICIPAL POWERS. G
The Legislature has denied to the five =
r six gentlemen who, with the Mayor, t
,rm the City Council. the possession of .