The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-01-21
The Election Of MIR. Eustis.

On the 18th, sixty-four members of the
House, majority, in regular session of
hat body, were joined by twelve senator's,
lcting independently. the Senate refusing |
rs q body to meet the House, and the !
thus assembled organized in joint |
session and proceeded to the election of a
Senator to fill the vacanty seat from this
State in the U. S. Senate. The election re-
suited in the choice of Hon. J. b. Eustis,
Judge Taliaferro receiving one vote. OF
the senators participating, nine were Dem
ocrats, and three were Republicans, viz
Messrs. Alexander. Blackburn and Greene.
Only one Republican of the House, ex-Gov.
Hahn, participated in the election, the
remainder entering a protest to the effect
that no vacancy exists in the u. s. Senate,
Pinchback having been legally and duly
elected.
Mr.. Eustis, having received certified
copy OF the proceedings resulting in his
| election, has gone to Washington to beseige
| tho Senate for possession of the "vacant
chair :" and Pinchback, it seems. took the
same train with Mr.. ICnstis, also bound for
the Federal City.
The questions raised by this last move in
] the senatorial contest are not materially diff
| ferent from those that were at issue between
| Mcmillan and Pinchback. Mcmillan main
tanned that Pinchback was never legally
| elected, although in possession of tho regu~
lar certificate and this must necessarily be
the plea which Mr.. Eustis will set up, in
| order to justify the action of the Legislature
and to provide a vacancy for his own oc-
| cupancy. Tho Louisiada question, it fol-
lows, is still before the Senate and the
country. If the Kellogg legislature was a
| legal assembly, Pinchback's credentials are
] good: if he be not admitted, it will be on
CONT of the illegalty of his election-the
want of authority in the body of men who
| usurped powers not delegated to them
Will Pinchback's rejection secure the adj
mission of Mr.. Enstis? Not, we think,
with II Republican Senate. There is suffici-
ent irregu1arity in Mr.. Eustis's credentials
to furnish the Radicals with pretexts TO,
refusing his claims, even were they dispos-
cd to be just and liberal in the admission OF
Democratic Senators. We doubt whethc,
even the new Mississippi senator with the
best of certificates and claims, will be able
to reach his seat until he has fought his way
there after II protracaod struggle. Mr.. IGust is
may be potential. as IL contestant, i'll having
the Senate decide that there is no one reg
larly elected Senator from this Stale, but
to hope, itself, in the face of so many adj
verse precedents that the Radicals viii
give him the seat, is too great degree o.
faith to place in Republican fairness.
Whatever DO tho result, the Democrats
in tho Legislature pursued the proper
course and only discharged their duty ta
tho State in clecting Il Senator. The gel.
tleman elected is we'll qualified for the
place, and enjoys tho respect and esteem OF
his people. We might have found Il man
; whose political views and course come
nearer to our standard of political states.
mnnship, but certainly none who vii
; ! guard tho honor OF his native State with
greater vigilance or more ability than MI
EuSt is