The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.

LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.
WARRINGTON, Jan. -Senate-The work
ingmen OF Pennsylvania ask subsidy for the
Texas Pacific Railroad.
MI. sherman opposes any appropriations
lor public buildings in the present state Of
finances.
Senators Gordon and Edmunds made some
personal remarks Of conciliatory character.
Inc Louisiana question was resumed. Mr.
Hamilton, OF Maryland, said the Senator from
Wisconsin (Howe) had suggested, what are
you going to do if the President don't answer
the resolution He did not believe that the
President would decline to answer, but what
will we do If he don't give the reason for his
action?
The army does not belong to the President,
nor to the Governor of any State. bnt f. he.
longs to the people; and rs representatives
of the people-lf the President uses the
army for improper purposes, if he uses it
against the liberties Of the people-we can
stop his supplies; we can strip him of every
soldier; we can leave him without q vessel
This is a remedy which we have against a
despotic Executive. and our duty to the peo-
pie might be such as would compel us to
use it,
Mr.. Logan said he had reported that in his
opinion there had been such frauds that
neither Kellogg nor McEnery were elected.
He then repeated his question to Mr.. Hamil-
ton, whether he Endorsed the action of Penn
in overthrowing the State government.
MIR. Hamilton-Why, there was no State
government to overthrow, and the Hon. Sena-
tor has so reported. Laughter on the floor,
and applause in the galleries.
MIR. Sargent, of California, gave notice that
in case of further applause, he would move
that the galleries be cleared.
Mr. Logan said, so far as he was concerned,
he did not mind the applause in the galleries.
1t WAS the same that he had heard wears ago.
in the infancy of the rebellion.
MIR. Hamilton, resuming his argument, said
as to the cause Of the late war be would say
nothing, but he would say to the honorable
Senator from Illinois (Logan) that American
freedom was born in revolution and rebellion
and the sympathies Of the American people
We're always with those who rose again st OPP
preston and tyranny. (Great applause and
hisses in the gallery on the right of the
Chair.)
Mr.. Sargent moved that the galleries be
cleared. Agreed to.
MIR. Conkling appealed to the Senator from
California (Sargent) to SO modify his motion |
as to aim it at those portions of the galleries |
where repeated disrespect had been shown !
So far those persons whom he heard, as their
predecessors in 1860 and 1861, were practising
their indignities upon the rights of the Senate,
and he had no objection to interpose against
turning them out of the galleries.
MIR. Upton, Of Nebraska, said he only
wanted to finish the speech commenced by
the Sepator from New York, when he (Conk-
ling) intimated that all the applause came
from persons who sympathized with the gen.
tleman from Maryland. He (Hpton) wished
to remind him that most OF the applause yes
terday was from those who sympathized with
the party to which the gentleman (Conkling)
belonged.
Mr., Conkling said-Yes, and time after time
as applause occurred, the Chair had ad-
the galleries to be quiet. few
ago, when his friends behind him
made some remarks, there was applause in the
galleries, and it was then that the Chair first
admonished the galleries to-day. Applause
had before been beloved upon the gentleman
from Maryland, but no admonition was given
then. 1t did not concern him (Conkling) as
he had not received the applause, but it did
concern the decency and order of the Senate
The spectators should not be allowed to thun-
der as if they were in a theater or circus.
long discussion about the police of the
Senate ensued without action.
Mr.. Hamilton, in conclusion, urged that
peace be given to Louisiana by allowing the
people of that State to rule over their own
affairs, and once more there would be peace
throughout the land. I
Mr.. Bayard has the floor. {
The Senate went into executive session.
Hoase-The petition of Irwin that on ac-
count of health he be incarcerated elsewhere
than in the common JAIL tabled.
The Senate bill to resume specie payments
in 1879 passed without amendments; 125 to
LOG. Il
Proceedings against Busted and Durell in )
tabled.
Butler will force the Civil Rights bill to an
ISSUE on Monday.