The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-01-06
Kellogg Declines TO R-eogais the ~.
Patrick Hall Gody.


New ORLEANS, January 2.-Shortly
before nom the committee from the
81. Patrics's Hall House, consisting OF
r. H. Wilde, of Orleans; I'M. Williams,
OF East Baton Rouge, and Singleton. of
ST. Landry, waited upon Governor
kellogg, al the State Housc, and pre-
scented IA written communication, in
forming him that the House of Repre-
,entalives was organ xcG ut 81. Patrick's
He'll, at the same time entering their
solemn protest sgainst the
Armcd toiic. anu 8itIrIa.
aud against the exclusion fro u the
state House Of day elected represent
a,ives OF the people; aud -gsinst the
presence OF armed ne;rupoliisns ana
soldiers. Governor Kellogg replied
that there were several statements con.
tanned in tue communication which
were incorrect. There were 20 mill.
tary, properly speaking, In the State
House yesterday. There was a farce
of police, armed not differently from
the way in which they were ordinarily
armed as const rvsIors OF the peace
they were specially distracted not TO
interfere with any member OF the
Legislature, but protect them from
interior nee 10y others; there were
so Cniiesi state. Troops In she ssste
uoase.
II was not true that any passage way
had been cut from the state House 10
an adjoining building, to facilitate the
bringing Of troops into the building:
whatever communication existed baa
existed a long uaIe; rs To The House
which the committee protests against,
It had been legally aud properly or
gained; the law providing that the
Secretary Of State should furnish the
clerk with a list of members elected,
that list WAS furnished the clerk; sixty
eight of the members whose names
were on that lis, appeared in the regu-
lar hail of the House OF Representa-
tives yesterday, aud forty-two or forty
three, at most, appeared in ST. Patrick's
Hall. Kellogg said be must decline TO
receive airy communication from n
body which lacked nearly twenty of q
quorum.
NICHOLS and wfItz and Packard and
Antoine Declared Elected.
In the Democratic Legislature a
concurrent, resolution vas introduced
to notify the President of the United
States that the legal General Assembly
of the State of Louisiana is now In
session at ST. PrtrIck's hall.
The House and Senate met In joint
session, read the vote of the State az
cast at the last election by parishes,
and declared that Francis I. Nichols
was elected governor and Louis A.
Wtltz lieutenant governor.
In the Returning Board Legislature
the two Houses met Ia joint session,
when Burch, of Eas, Baton Rouge,
read returns from each parish as ma
nipulated by the Returning BSari aud
tuf uisuSu W tue C-tieeaif VI SINE,
and announced that Packard had been
elected governor and Autoine lieuteu-
ant governor.
A Protest with the Bark on L..
The Democrat of this evening says
in reference TO its burning article OF
yesterday that no man or officials are
| responsible for It's utterauces exceps
It's editors. Ito article denounce-
the Returning Board, KEEL.
logg and his coa1jutators as
traitors who deserve tho halter,
and the action OF Wells, Anderson 4
Co. ~ revolutionary and au outrage
on the people. and holds those who &C
complished the Same and participated
In u ~ wholly Responsible. and ex.
tsnds that responsibility to the nc
countability for any ostbreak tina, their
snfamlss court aud which the consum
nation Of their plane will surely
oriug upon heir heads.
ne osasos 81 the N-gps.
1 the SENATE iavsstig Ating committee
examined Mari II great length In
| reference TO the political situation 10
Louisiana. He said. In common with
many others, he bad thought, owing
70 the ignorance and blind following
Of the ffeedmen, that the elective
| franchise shoald have been given t.
negroes with some property Or sdncs.
tiouai quaitncat,on;. they were nos
besinnins v think fsr themselves as<
| iisssn y argument; they we're IN 10
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