The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-06-02
Senator M0rtsn on the Southern
Policy Of the Administration.
Defeat Was Certain, Had Hayes
Attempted to Sustain Pack
ard and Chamberlain.
The Legality OF Hsmpt0n's and Nichols
Governments Consists Only In the
Fact that Chamberlain and
Packard We're Unable to
oppose Them
The South Firmly United In Favor Of the
Payment Of Rebel War Claims Tilden
BY Opposing Those Claims Lost
the Struggle In Congress.

Payment Of Rebel War Claims -TiIden
BY Opposing Those Claims Lost
the Struggle In Congress.
what Cas be seesred Usaer Hayes.
which she N~uth Could Mes Osssin |
Under TAiden. ~ Net EApiniuea by
she willy Peiiaicfan.
Senator Morton publishes a letter |
on the situation, In answer to an open |
letter published in the New York
Times, and other private Ietters. He
says, regarding the credentials of Kel- |
iogg, after they had been referred to
his committee: "The committs on |
privileges and election met soon AZ |
terward, and this republican members |
united In q report, that on prina
tdcfd showing, s. h. Packard was the |
lawful governor OF Louisiana, the
Legislature was the lawful legislature
and that William r. kellogg had
been elected in conformity With the
act Of congress, and vas entitled 70 be
sworn In and take his seat As . num-
Der Of the members OF the senate were
absent and the subjects would
LEAD TO . long debate and
there was general anxiety 10 ad-
jotirn, the report was not laid before
the senate. 1.-THE majority of the sem
ate shali, at the next session, be OF the
opinion that Kellogg was lawfully
elected by the legislature Of Louisiana,
he will be entitled to his seat, notwith.
standing the events that have since
occurred. No subsequent breaking up
OF that Legislative continuation or
arrangement can, In the least. affect
his title or destroy the legality OF what
took place At that time, though the
very.members who.proclaimedt the cleo
ton Of Packard, aud made that OF KEEL
logg. should subsequently declare that
Of Nichols and take part In the cleo
than Of 5pofiord. It Ii too clear for
argument that they could not take
away the rights which had vested, or
make that unlawful which had been
before lawful. Unless kellogg volun-
tarily withdrsws, the senate will have
to decide the question Of his election
as It stood at the time of adjournment.
The republican governments of South
Carolina and Louisiana have yielded
TO force; they Rave gone down before
an armed minority. whose threats
OF future violence were guaranteed by
long train Of bloody deeds done In
the past. regret this; regret that
the character Of the transaction
should be obscured Ia the least by
these pretended Investigations or
negotiations. Stripped Of all DISCUSSES
and pretences, the simple fact IL that
Packard and Chamberlain were not
able to maintain themselves In au.
thority, and the government of the
United States, In the exercise of It's
discretion, require them to support
themselves. The legislatures finding
themselves defenceless fell to pieces,
and from their ruins, In part, new
legislatures have been constituted,
| whose legality consists only In the fact
that there are none to oppose them.
The laws aud the rights Of the majori-
" have yielded to an armed, AZ
gressive minority" Morton, describing
what the government might have
done, intimated that had Hayes pro-
ceeded to maintain Packard and
Chamberlain by using the army, he
would have proceeded to inevitable
defeat.
He ssys: 1.-THE republican majority
in the senate upon the southern ques.
ton b bat nominal, ifit sxists 1t all.
Five republican senators voted at the
late executive session against seating
Kellogg and to refer his credentials
TO committee. thus refusing to recog.
maze the Packard government, and q
number Of republican senators, suffi-
oient when added to the democratic
nsmbsrs to eonstitats ! majority. have
stsadliy refused 70 recognize the 70
pabaieAn State governments In LoQisi.
aaA, slaOs 1879, ~ voting against
seatane . senator chosen By II While,
II ny ju<lgement Il w. clearly the
&As fisAt.Tof the president undsu
Tie eonstitntioR to recognize
fssppast II By military power,
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