New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-04
Especial Correspondence of the Republican !
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER..
WASHINGTON. January 81, lS

gress charges pref Judicial to the official in
tegrity of Senator West have been circu-
lated here. They have invariably been
traced to few bitter personal enemies of
the Senator and unreliable partisan cor
respondents, and but little, if any, attention
was given them. When Mr.. West in his
capacity as chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Railroads, introduced resolution
with view of compelling the Central and
Union Pacific railroads to disgorge over
$4,000, 600 due the government, he naturally
incurred the bitter hostility of Jay Gould
and his ring who control these roads. His
enemies here and in Louisiana saw and i'm
proved the opportunity of securing power
full ally, and the charges published in the
Tribune was the result. There have been
three parties to this attack. First, the rail
road monopolists, who desire to weaken
his influence as chairman of his committe;
secondly, some of the opponents of Mr.. Bill
lings, who think it will aid them in their
efforts to defeat that gentleman's confrma-
ton; and third, personal enemies, acting
IEOW mOLlVe6 Oh revenge.
The whole affair has been bunglingly ex-
ecuted. The Tribune is the recognized
organ of Jay Gould, and the publication of
the charges in it's columns destroyed what
little moral effect it might otherwise have
had. To those conversant with the circum-
stances attending Mr.. Vests election it's
falsity is apparent. Four of the parties
charged with accepting bribee namely:
Dave Young, Charles Abell, w. D. Floyd
and George Washington, did not vote for
him.
1t has made no impression here, not even
IN Democratic circles. The correspondent
Of the Baltimore Gazette, the organ of the
Maryland Democracy, says:
The Senator is chairman of the Com.
mittee on Railroads. and as he has inter-
fered with Jay Gould's stock jobbing opera
tiona. by reporting in favor of compelling
the Pacific railroads to pay their debts, it
was expected that he would be made the
victim of attacks from that quarter. No
one here believes the charges, and no notice
will be taken OF the accusations.
The Louisiana Democrats in lending their
assistance in this effort to damage the repu-
tation OF Mr.. West, lo.e eight of The fact
that they are endeavoripg to weaken the
ablest and most powerful advocate the
Texas Pacific railroad has in the Senate. 1t
matters little however, how much the COM
mercial and agricultural interests of the
State may sutf-r. SO that the advancement
of political faction is assured
The troubles in the Felicianas are not
likely to rebound either to the interest or
credit of louisiana The German papers
throughout the North are publishing ac.
counts Of the outrageous treatment to
which some German families have been sub
jected. The Illinois !Staats Zeitunq, in
speaking Of the matter, uses the following
language:
The Louisiana State Legislature has re-
quested the Governor to send troops to the
incendiary regions, and, il necessary, ask
for federal assistance. The diabolical
spirit of the hatred of foreigners can of
course not be banished by such measures,
though it may be cured for time. 1t is,
there fore, the duty of every honorable
paper to warn the Germans in the Union,
and in the old fatherland. most earnestly
1lom emigrating to louisiana.
The Sentinel, published in this city by a
prominent German quotes the above, and
gives an account of an interview with
several members of the Louisiana dele
cation in Congress. Colonel Levy is re-
reported as feeling anxious
To have that erroneous i'm preston that the
people of Louisiana were hostile to the emil
grant corrected, as he knew that they were
sensible enough to see the immense advan.
tage which white immigration would confer
upon them. There were a set of law.
less and bad men in Louisiana, who would
perpetrate gross outrages indiscriminately
on all, Germans and natives. They were
not, however, the former "slave barons,"
but q set of worthless scamps, who never
owned q negro. That lawle ssness was an
outgrowth of the disturbed condition of
the State during and after the war, which
every honorable citizen of Louisiana deep
ly regretted. But there was no illfeeling
among his friends against the Germans.
Mr.. Ellis
Knew nothing of the facts in the case,
but was sure that the outrage had been
committed by set of regulators" who
had organized last fall for the purpose of
protecting their cotton crops against pilfer-
ing, but had since degenerated into law
less mob.
Mr.. Spencer said Louisiana
Had a large number of wild, ugovernable
young men who had entered the war as
boys and had come out of it as young men,
OF course, with very neglected school
education. Had there been no constant
between the governing powers,
these evils would never have grown to
what they are now.
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rest of his colleagues, and said the troubles
were caused by an irresponsible body of
men, who cared nothing about the welfare
Of Louisiana, and deprecated the idea of
for the action of few individuals.
The Sentinel, while it acknowledges that
the inhabitants of Louisiana are neither
"Goths nor Vandals," carefully refrains
from expressing an opinion, and tacitly in
dorses the advice given the Germans by
the Staats Zeitung
No action mas yet been had by the Ju-
dietary Committee on the case of Mr.. Bill |
lings. but they will take it up in few days.
Not a single protest has yet been sent |
through any Republican source, all reports |
to the contrary Notwithstanding. Letters |
urging his confirmation have been received |
from some of the best known jurists on
the bench in the South.
Colonel Morse, superintendent of the con-
'tructiOn department of the customhouee, |
will resign about March l, and John j.
Hannop, Esq, now in charge of the marble
work, will probably be appointed TO the va.
,ancy.
The Committee on Levees in the House |