The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-03-17
The Louisiana Resolutions.


The House Of Representatives yes
terday did Kellogg a good turn by
the two resolutions report.
ed in his behalf by Mr.. Hears mi
nority Of the Louisiana Committee.
The second of these resolutions, rec
ognizing Kellogg as the legal Cover.
nor Of Louisiana, all men may readi.
ly understand. It was urged by
Messrs. Hoar, Frye and Wheeler to
relieve Grant in some measure Of his
embarrassment in sustaining Kellogg
and was passed to the same end by
the strict party vote of the Radical
majority in the House. TWAS mild
'ly approved, and doubtless honestly
approved, by Messrs. Phelps and
Foster, as the only action which the
Republican party would be likely to
take towards alsettleinent of the con-
troversy between the usurper Kellogg
and Governor McEnery, and it was
very properly and emphatically, re-
jected by Messrs. Potter and Mar
shall, at both false and unjust to the
people of the much injured State of
louisiana The first resolution re-
ported by iMessrs. Hoar, Frye and
Wheeler, approved by all the mem
bers of the committee, and adopted
by an almost unanimous vote of the
House, needs aalittle, explanation
It is notable instance wherein many
widely different motives converge up
on the same point and tend to in
crease the force and certainty Of the
same result. Theresolutioh declares
| illegal the action of the Returning
Board which shamelessly defrauded
the Louisiana Democrats out of the
results of the last election and gave
the lower House of the Louisiana
Legislature to the Radicals, whereas
the people had fairly given it to the
Democrats by decided majority.
l The action Of Messrs. Potter, Mar
shall, Phelps and Foster recommend
ing this resolution, and Of Demo-
Gratis and honest Republican Con.
gressmen in voting for it, is easily
accounted for: But what moved
Hoar, Frye and Wheeler to report
and Radical partisans on the floor to
vote for it? To be sure nothing
could decently be said by anybody in
support Of the action taken by the
+, Returning Board. But the open Sc
cret of this business is that when
Sheridan set up the Hahn Legisla;
! ture in New Orleans he conjurei up
!; a devil which Kellogg now finds that
s he can neither control nor keep in
0 bounds. 1t has been threatening fol
s more than month to get rid Of Kei
\ logg by impeaching him, and prosos
(, es to elevate the negro Lieutenant
s Governor Antoine OR some creatur,
|, of it's own to Kellogg's place. Tn
t. details Of this plan were given by th'
d New Orleans correspondent OF, tn
5. World some weeks ago, and the fail
8 ure of the Senate to admit Pinch
IL back, a failure which. Kellogg is NOR
re than suspected Of having encoul
l. aged, has only made the negro Legis
ia lature the more hostile to Kellogg
His game now is to. get rid Of thi
Radical majority or to hold the es
- cluded Conservative members of til
- Legislature u, te,yorent over it. Fo
- if, under the compromise which Al
= Wheeler Is trying to consummai
% the excluded Conservatives are az
~ mitted to their seats In the Legisl'
~ ture, they will be admitted und'
. pledge not to impeach Kellogg. TIL
NC is the gist Of Mr.. Hosrs first resol
- ton, and of the humiliationg cor
promise which Mr.. Wheeler is ur
81 ing upon the Louisiana Consery
" tives.-[N. Y. World. g
Dr. THE Courier-J Journal prognosticates
wv follows:
10 Ono short year ago the Inscriptions
IN third-term leanings to the President W,
ed leither ridiculed or denounced. 1t is n