New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-13
hparisOn with the State House
Body.
EICH IS THE GOVERNMENT
Facts and Figures Which An
swer the Question.

FACTS coNcERNING THE SENATE.
,P he Senate of The State of Louisiana is
pn posed of thrty-six memberships.
.vi4 ccording to the returns of the Returning
I'd, added TO the members exisIng before
holding over, there would be nineteen
,sis ublieans and seventeen Democrats.
leo u be Democratic returns agree with these,
else ept as to three members Hamlet Blunt
Weber.
Snt' ,snt be testimony before both the congress
We 81 committees shows abundantly the
es 4 binds for returning Weber from the dis
: 80 az embracing the Felicianas and Pointe
pee, and Hamlet, from that embracing
chita and Caldwell, and nobody pretends
to doubt the intimidation sufficient in
e parishes to affect the returns.
be high Electoral Commission has said
i decided, That the Returning Board of
p isiana is constitutional body under a
as Mtitutional law, and a vacancy in its
A lber does not vitiate its proceedings"
20 70 must suppose then it had adequate
!, nnds, aud the law makes it the best
" 70 of grounds, to return Blunt from the
D' riot of Natchitochcs Red River, Sabine
DeS1to.
much for these three Senators. OF the
Br sixteen the Democrats make no ques
al for they have accepted Breaux, De
! ~ H., and Wheeler in their Senate, and on
a Floy sixth of March introduced q resolution
oa ing on the other thirteen by name TO
T.,no their seats with them, or they would
pas made vacant.
Chas be whole nineteen were present at the
yb.r,, hing of the legal Senate in the State
P se, voted in two additional members by
hrv lest, and continued to attend the meet
'2Isne yn2n Of the Senate till the eleventh and
ph NJ toenth of January, respectively, when
q s reflections occurred.
w bis covers all the proceedings of this
om ion excepting the ballots for United
a. = a los Senator, which do not require quo
Se.rJ Of the Senate.
III hese proceedings cover the organization
,sr election of officers, the returns of mem
3 to the Legislature and action thereon,
ward count for Governor and Lieutenant
s Wtss ernor, and all the statutes and enact
Is that have been passed, and renders
eiN''s legality unquestiOnable,
Ohm I of this took place with the cognzance,
GO Hrrence and executive approval of w.
,R Kellogg as Governor, whose title is un-
a toned; and what took place elsewhere,
Wa bout his recognition, can not have the
Q of legislation. Then, as we are surely
g Dr. tied TO one Legislature, and as surely
iarlss lied to only one, there can be no ques'
iySsts HSIss that that in the State House was the
siish,s one
'IniSs i X H be retirement of some of the members
a be ground that some of their political
hos ers thought the defensive arrangements
: sg5sge 5sg, he State House did not favor bulldoz
IN pan be of no force, and whatever they
Dauiel eaewhere can have no more force than
larles sy went home.
nTJ tus now examine some
Chari FACTS ooNcERNING THE HOUSE.
laTles Returning Board returned seventy
james Republicans and forty.thres Demo
IN LeS 10 all III, and three vacancies Tone
arant parish, where the supervisor
IeSn to hold an election, and two in L ast
nRH iana, on the ground of no legal cleo
N.,1at reasons for these three vacancies are
Walter BUS Grant parish, with the memory
las L . great massacre, was probably il
MOIria . condition as to make it unsafe foI
Thomas proper election officers to make their
m Samuel arance. At least they did not.
vhss East Feliciana there was not Repuo
3 vote. although at all previous elec
MOTIFS Mort the majority of its people have showr
MP selves to be Republicans.
&c much for the vacancies declared bJ
Is ohas Returning Board. Notwithstanding
~ WIN act that tifty-eight might be assumed
wSuu.t quorum of III, the House of Repre-
nrg Ales flives has always required sixty -one
pad, at each days session, sixty-eigh
u.s. Ders present.
SsH y HsPu Democratic returns virtually admit
liEaSsi acknowledge sixty Republican mem
At any rate, they show the Repub
.sa, .. carried parishes which returned sixty
hers.
~, " openly acknowledged and returned
'x Republican members, but sup
LOu ID tba retprns for the House from Madi
Terry sying tive members, and st. Martin
Inrch auug two members. But these very
Z Pes they acknowledged to have giver
10 II ities to Hayes and Packard of say 22Ot
4s 81 olson and sevsnty-seven in st. Martin
he'd in tnl suppression of the returns from thess
daily Parishes as to Representatives in thu
g case of throwing OUT to effect
anization of their bogus House.
! ~ pkkaI ~ styls, manner and sangfrOid o.
oommif ing ont these parishes to effect theil
- ,e casts all the performances of the
--.-- Returning Board, even according tC
I'D. ldest and most romantic and fictitious
ptlons, in the shade.
We have como pretty near establish
= Or legal Legislatere by Democratic
:, Js.s, pity, and without the aid of the regu
A and constitutional method of re
i1r without any other canvass or com
! / rIaaus, ,IaS than that Of our enemies.
Sa sts@Sns1 es now proceed to analyzs the differ
rom New between the number of Republicans
T. ahed by their returns, or, say sixty
", ws.t ee number We claim, aeYenty-fouri
pa Of the three vacancies.
81 ses ~ Yod fourteen comprise three from East
Rouge, two from Morehouse, two
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