The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-29

|. The Zee THINKS bnat heiIOSR HhS oCon
driven TO the wall by the appointment
OF the House Committee to draft articles
Of impeachment against him, and that
his proclamation convening the Senate
in extra session is a desperate move TO
ward of the blow with which no Is
threatened. It would like Kellogg TO
show where the constitution confers
upon him the power Of calling an extra
session of one only Of the two houses.
and where the Senate under such call
has the power Of sitting as q Court OF
Tmpeachment without the House also
being In session to prosecute the
charges. gd H ggyg
We publish i'm another column trans
lation OF an article entitled "a Plea Tor
Kellogg" which appeared in Sundays
Bee. and to which we direct the special
attention Of our readers.
The Republican accuses the Demo
cratic majority with intending to take
snap Judgment on Kellogg, by delaying
the accusations against him until 1t will
be too late for the Senate to try the
charges. and denies that the mere
accusation of an officer by tho House
operates his suspension from Office, to
effect which 1t contends that the officer
must be impeached at the bar OF the
Senate. 1t says that any illegal attempt
to impose any disability on Kellogg
without the observance OF the ordinary
forms, will be deemed revolutionary.
and, among other means of defence
enumerated. dares to threaten that he
| may declare the Wheeler adjustment at
an end, and invoke the General Assem-
| bly as it existed before the corlsumma-
| ton Of that bargain. 1t predicts lively
times In the event Of an attempt to i'm
peach Kellogg. and tries to think that
the whole scheme will prove failure.
It considers the constitutionality OF
the call for an extra session OF the Senate
settled by the precedent set by that body
| i'm 1872, when It adopted q resolution de-
claring constitutional the extra es-
sion which had been held in December,
1871.
The Picdyrne alludes to the proceed
ings in the House relative to the i'm
parchment of Kellogg, and considers
that any decided expression OF opinion
by the press would be an impertinence.
| Tt defines its own position In these
words: Gas for ourselves, we intend TO
preserve in regard to this matter q per
pectly impartial and judicial attitude.
| When we have heard the charges and
the evidence we will be better prepared
to e.iticise the course Of the Legisla-
ture. It makes no comment on the
memorial, which appears In Its columns,
protesting against the Impeachment OF
Kellogg. ....
The Bulletin, though blaming the
House for not acting more promptly,
gives il credit for having, perhaps, done
as much as it Was able to under the cir
cumstances, toward the passage Of re-
form measures, and though 1t cannot
say that the reform bills would have
passed the Senate II they had been be-
fore it for longer time, yet thinks that
the House would have been in better
attitude if its action had been more
| timely and more vigorous. 't
It prefaces editorially the memorial
opposing the impeachment OF Kellogg,
and evidently thinks that the House
should be governed in it's action by the
wishes Of the signers Of that document.
The Times discusses the specie re-
sumption question, 1t thinks that Gree
ley's aphorism; ''the only way to re-
sumo is to resume" contains the cor
rect solution of tho problem, and that
il every commodity and transaction
were placed upon a specie basis and val.
uation. gold payments would be resumed
Immediately, without causing such a
shrinkage as would entail ruin or any
calamity approximating it.