New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-02

close, that the language OF yesterday, "A
happy New Year, may not prove mock
ing sarcasm, spoken over blood red
record.
THE ADJUSTHENT---ALL Oh NOTHING.
The Democrat makes the novel point
that the Wheeler compromise is invalid
in consequence of improper ipjoinder OF
parties. The whole gamut of the politi-
cal history of the State for the past three
years is touched lightly to show who
were and who were not, in the opinion OF
the faction it represents, entitled to rep
resent the Republicans in that business.
Some twelve or fourteen Senators are
specified by name as not being entitled to
seats for any purpose, not even to vote
admission to those Democratic members
who at first refused to come in, because
they took the same ground now held by
the Democrat. The Deutsche Company
Hall caucus stood out upon this issue as
long as they could be held together for
that purpose; but when the compromise
was finally agreed to they necessarily
waived their objections in consideration
of certain concessions which the Repub-
licans made. The Republican members
of the Senate even went beyond what
they had agreed to, and seated Mr. Goode
in place of Mr.. Crosier, while the House,
taking advantage Of its Democratic ma
jority, ousted several Republican MEM
beers who were undoubtedly included in
the terms of the adjustment. The
Democratic members signed the agree
ment with q full knowledge of the
status of every member of both houses.
They took their seats with reasonable
degree of promptness the moment they
could do so without subjecting themselves
to imputations of deserving. The same
Legislature that passed the joint resolu-
ton whose validity is now called in ques-
ton, passed also an appropriation bill
which took $4,000 out of the State
treasury to defray the expenses of the extra
session, and give Democratic members
pay and per diem for the whole of the
regular session, although they had refused
to serve, and imperiled the public in
terest in every possible way. The validity
Of the appropriation act was never ques-
toned, and we fail now to see wherein
it has any better authority for its sanction
than the joint resolution.
To deny the competency of the parties
to the agreement opens up the whole
question, and leaves parties exactly where
they were before Messrs. Hoar and
Wheeler appeared upon the turbulent
scene. This would drive the Republicans
to take the defensive, and they would in
sist that Mr.. Crosier be restored to the
Senate, and all the expelled Republicans
to the House, with Governor Hahn as
Speaker, William Vigers, Clerk, and a
vacancy in the Office of Sergeant-at-Arms,
occasioned by the murder of John Gair.
The Democrats can not be permitted to
crumble away the rights of the Repub-
licans under the agreement by pieces. Not
a Republican hair can be touched further
without giving the signal to undo the
whole. We insist that Messrs. Detiege,
Masicot, Cage, Sypher, Herwig, Whitney,
Greene, Harper. Blackburn, Blunt, Kelso,
Alexander and Twitchell are truly elected
members Of the Senate. We believe Mr..
Crosier also belongs to that body, but
he has submitted to ejectment without
protest, and is therefore excluded in the
manner authorized by the constitution
The history of each Senator has been
recited often enough to be quite familiar,
and all that could be said, pro or con, has
been said They have a good title to
their seats as we'll by the insistence of
their friends as by the written agreement
Of majority of the Democratic members
Of the General Assembly.
If the Democrat now wishes to break up
the whole agreement, and inaugurate
another revolution, there is nothing really
necessary for it to do but to say so, and
move for execution. The whole case has
been argued threadbare; it has been SUBJ
mitted and decided, and it is with that
decision alone, and not the causes which
led to it, that we now have to do.