The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-10
LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.
Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

The interest in the Louisisna outrage has grow
more snd moro intense ~ men begin to resliz
it, sn1r@,ty and to see thatit il only part Of
cersfaly planned revolutionary scheme to D. q
woke anvil war, and thus coin third term 70
GraAb cat OF the blood and suffering OF a RUNE,
people, The galleries of Congress were crowtle,
today with anxious snd excited spectators. tn,
chamber was very soon snlivened by the presenc,
Of Gfant's Secretary OF War, Gen. Belknap VII,
came up with bunch OF kilograms from Gen
Sheridan to give the cue TO Messrs. ConkLng
West and Logan, and to impress any waverin,
Kepoblicsn Senator'S with the odor and part o
The debate was opened with slow, well-con-
Gdefed speech from Senator West, couched il
the Kellogg interest which was enlvened only
py me- rancor and ISLANDERS upon the people. q
Louisiana. Not much attention was paid 10 this
dull and perfuctionary harangue, but when Gen
Gordon arose TO claim the floor every ear was
fixed upon his utterances. The General, who has
heretofore scrupulously avoided the discussion
ot any sectional or exciting issue, and has sat
silent under frequent and severe provocation,
felt that continued silence would be improper
whom the people with whom he was identified
were held up and branded BY the Republican
leaders as assassins, muir ierers and banditti.
Hh defense Of the Southern people to-day from
these vile and wholesale SANDERS was perfect
Uucce9s, and nearly every word be uttered created
asympsthetc thrill which swept through the gal
the very Republican Senators who had provoked
the reply sitting with downcast and guilt stamped
faced and whitening under the moral indignation
ok tho speaker, Yet there was not one word in
nothing that any respectable Northern Repub-
loan. anxious Tor peace, liberty and restoration
Of fraternal feeling would not cordially indorse
The pfea3or justice to the South might have been
uttered and echoed as well in Massachusetts, or On
the Western Reserve as in Georgia, and it really
left Morton and Edmunds not leg to stand
upon. -
There were repeated echoes Of applause from
the galleries., forming refreshing contra st to
the plaudits given IN the past to the ordinary
Radical cries OF hate and vengeance. The greas
point Of the speech was it's moral elevation and
the generous spirit Of catholicty and nationality
which prevailed al through it. Gen. Gordon ex-
pressed the confident opinion that the great
body Of the people of the North were friendly to
thOss of the South, and had no sympathy what
ever with the malignant utte frances made yester-
day IN the Chamber. Mr.. Morton sat silent under
the notice OF his accusation. Mr.. Edmunds en-
deavored, with his usual disngenuousness, to
reply, but in every point he made he was COLI
pletely ioiled and defeated.
MIR. Flanagan wound up the day with stump
speech in hls usual vulgar style by which he
covered himself and his party with added con-
tempt. Public opinion ct the capital is over
whelmingly against the Administration on this
issue. Numbers OF respectable Republicans here
freely condemn it, and it is generally conceded
that the sentiment OF the country will be 60 en-
phsticaly pronounced thatit will be difficult even
Tor drunken despot to uphold what has been
done. In the Senate there is strong exhibition
Of servile Endorsement OF Grant ana Sheridan,
but in the House OF Representatives it is thought
that there will be serious division in the Repub-
Ican ranks. Speaker Blaine and Me.srs. Dawes,
Hale. Willard and Hoar are reported - being OPP
posed to the Sheridan coup detat.
THE MAIN FEATURE OF INTEREST
in The House to-day was the arraiRnment Of Irwin
befOr8its bar at the instance Of the Ways and
Means, Committee He il young man, about
thirty-6ve years OF age, with hight hair, fair com
plexi0n aud fiery red WHISPERS; somewhat foolish
IN appear rance: o man to measure tape and rib |
bonn, SaGher than one who would buy Congress I
and lead lobby. After long discussion, in |
which Messrs. Dawes, Maynard, Kasson and
other leading Radicals talked about their charac-
tiers ssd the majesty OF the House, Irwin was |
consigned to the District Jail, an institution
which, b . disgrace to the city and the whole |
country. One Of the questions asked him he an
swered, viz: that the highest sum which he
paid to any one man was $275, OCO st
Theaeene ia the House while his case was I'M |
der discussion was not off very exciting charac.
tor, and very little interest taken In it except
upon the flor. He is at his rooms at the HOTEL
tonight, but will be sent to prison to- morrow. /
The District Attorney for the District will be no.
titled By the Speaker to have HIM presented to
The Grand Jury. Irwin il in exceedingly bad |
health, and 1t il Thought that his imprisonment
will have the effect of compelling him to make
clean breast Of the whole affair. 90
@Ex'sPEAKER CARTER or LOUISIANA,
ID herOFmanaging Pinchback's case, and acting as
his counsel. He thinks that Pinch will undoubt-
IDLY becarried into the Senate upon the present
wave o. Southern excitenont--that II, II he can
explain away the charges OF fraud and corruption
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