New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-17
POLITICAL TOPICS,

nature of the forthcoming report of the
congressional committee on the condition
of Louisiana. The report will, it is stated,
declare that the influence exerted at the
last election by intimidation was very great
indeed. 1t will deal very severely with the
White League. AS to the election of 1872
it will state that the evidence taken before
the committee substant tiates beyond doubt
the claim of Governor Kellogg to the
gubernatorial Office. All three of the Re-
publican members of the committee
Messrs. Hoar, Frye and Wheeler-will sign
the report, and not imposslbly Mr.. Mar
shall, the Democratic member, may sign it
also, as he is generally represented to be a
very fair man. 1t is stated that Mr.. Foster
will add supplemental report to the effect
that, so far as the evidence taken before
the subcommittee Of which he was chair
man related to the subject, it bore out the
conclusion arrived at by the Hoar COM
mittee, that Kellogg was elected Governor
in 1872.
In this connection it is a curious fact that
the evidence before the Foster sub COM
mlttee has not yet been printed. 1t is
believed that the printing of this evidence
has been held back for the reason that the
gentlemen of the committee bssed their
report upon the brief submitted to them by
Democratic counsel, and that they we'll
know the printed evidence would not bear
them out in their conclusions. So thew
caused it to be suppressed until Congress
adjourns.
The Democratic legislators continue to
hold daily sessions at Deutsche Company
Hall. Their principal business seems to be
to receive dispatches from Messrs. Zacharie
and Burke, who are on diplomatic service
in Washington, and to pass resolutions to
keep the contents of the aforesaid dis
patches from the public. 1t is reasonable
supposition that they a re not Of satisfac-
tory nature to the striking legislators
excepting, perhaps, the Mark Tapley of the
party-the great Shakesperian scholar and
dealer in hats, Mr.. Booth who is never in
such high feather as when the prospects of
his party are the most gloomy. 1t is then
that he 'comes out strong" exactly like
Mark Tapley with the fever and ague in
Eden. The Picayune yesterday morning
complained that the good man would not
allow the publca ton Of an extremely On
couraging letter from Mr.. Ballard, of
New River Postofice. 1t is not our good
fortune to know Mr.. Ballard, but there can
be no doubt that his letter is of vast i'm.
portance, or it would not be so unfeelingly
withheld from an anxious public. Why
should New Orlea nS be deprived of the
opinion of New River Postofice on the
great questions of the day. Mr. Booth
should be compelled to disgorge this infor.
nation.
There is nothing, of course, like being
enterprising. No one will dispute that.
But newspaper may be so enterprising
as to be unintelli gible. The Bulletin, for
instance, rushed an extra on the street
yesterday evening, which, among other
remarkable stateme nts, contained the fol.
lowing:
Appropriation bill-It passes the House over
kellogg's veto-The crowd hungry for
their per diem.
"A ouo cIOck Ino 1Oub0, aICer CONSIDER
able discussion took up the resolution to
pass the bill appropria ting moneys not
otherwise appropriated to the current ex-
penses of the Assembly, notwithstanding
the veto of Kellogg. A call of the yeas
and nays showed a vote of IL yeas and 16 |
nays.
This is all wrong. The House didn't |
take up any 'res olution to pass the BILL"
The House does not do business that way. |
1t did not "pass the appropriation bill over
kelloggs veto. The question being put,
Shall the bill pass, the objection of the
Governor to the contrary Notwithstanding"
was the only ques ton put, and that did not
'how al yeas and 16 nays" 1t showed. on
me contrary, 16 yeas and Al nays, and the
7eto Of the Governor was sustained.
A great many of our Democratic friends
we're felicitating themselves last night on
he strength of this publication, believing
hat a split had been occasioned bet ween
he Governor and the Legislature. The
ruth is that there is perfect accord between
he two branches of the State government.
is really unkind in the Bulletin to build
p peoples hopes in the evening edition,
My to ruthlessly shatter them the next
lorning.
Occasionally one of the boys who are
nder the tutelage Of Messrs. Mari and
Doth and the Com mittee OF Seventy plays ;
hockey" and leaves the bare benches in I
eutsche Company Hall for the purpose of :
Ding down to see how the bad, naughty a
Dys are getting along at the St. Louis '
otel. They go in and come out without .
~ sergeantatarms to harm them or make n
lem afraid. Sometimes they take seats v
,side their Republican confreres in the L
ouse or Senate, but they don't ask to be y
worm in, and no one presses the subject ri
BON their attention.
Messrs. Zacharie and Burke are hard at
ork in Washington attempting to patch Ii
} compromise. Major Burke had an in - -
rview yesterday morning with Senator II
orton on that subject. Mr.. Albert II. | b
,onard, who has been the leader of the o.
has been telegraphed for to a, .,
lnforce Messrs. Zacharie and Burke, and n
It for Washington yesterday evening OF
The following is the list of passen gers per OF
samship City Of Merida, from Mexican ., ~
rts: ~
Fl: Schoonmaker, S. P. Leverich, George W
'rllsie, X. }. Bestor, Henry Clay, N. A. tt
,ctor, r. Pidgeon, James A. Mckee, Mrs. ! 10
Rrap2mO,1ta III; I 4