The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-05
VIOLATION OF TIE WHEELER AID.
JUSTMENT.

The preamble and resolution Of the House
adopted yesterday, relative to the action 0!
the Senate on the House Election bill, speak
for themselves. The Senate majority insist
on retaining the State Returning Board, and
their substitute introduces new and more
atrocious features into it. The House ma
jority are resolved to accept of no form or
semblance of Returning Board, even if put
under their sole control; and in this resolve
they fully and accurately reflect the wish and
eager expectation of all Democrats, of all
Conservatives, of all thinking and honorable
white men of any party.
10 this spirit the House prepared and
passed the bill, of which the BULLETIN gave
an extended analysis few days ago. The
bill bore on its face the intention and honest
resolve to give every guarantee for q free and
fair election and for full, prompt, true and
proven returns thereof. This bill was fore
the Senate, and any amendment they might
have made in the due course OF legislation
would, upon the return Of the bill to the
House as amended by the Senate, have been
concurrence Of the House in such amend
ments, the bill would have been again sent to
the Senate, and if they insisted on their
amendments, then committee of conference
on disagreeing amendments would have fol-
lowed. The Senate chose to take very
different course, and ons which was nothing
short of an indgnity, in view Of the we'll
known wishes of seven-tenths of the men,
bers Of the House. They substituted for the
House bill Que entirely antipodical in terms
and spirit.
1t is we'll known that the adjustment Of
the Returning Board was one of the meas
ures Of reform, concession and paclfcation
promised by the Radical leaders as an induce.
ment to an acceptance of the Wheeler ad-
justment by the Democratic and Conservative
members Of our House Of Representatives.
The repeal Of that loathsome and abomina-
BILE engine Of partisan machinery was just as
distinctly agreed upon by those who repre-
scented the Radical party as any act or pur-
as finally ratified. And now when insultingly
and defantly attempting to fasten the odioas
and disgusting yoke of oppression upon US
with new and more CALLING seventies, they
can only be taken as having violated COM
promise founded on the removal Of this great
nuisance as one of the best understood con-
siderations on which the adjustment was
based.
The action ofthe House is not to be judged,
therefore, by ordinary rules, nor to be squared
by the precedents of parliamentary procedure
However it may appear to those not familiar
with the situation in Louisiana, it will be
hailed and applauded by all right-tLinking
men, as q just manifestation of resentment
against gross violation of faith, couched in
most invidious action.
The question as to what is the logical Sc
quence of the resolution Of the House, or as
to its probable effect, is too wide to be dis
cussed at this hour. Those who remember
the earnest opposition Of the BULLETIN to the
Wheeler compromise, in every stage Of its |
progress until its final acceptance, will re-
that We warned our friends of the /
subtle and treacherous character of the men
with whom they were forming compact, but
even then We did not anticipate SO speedy or
10 atrocious realization of our fears.