The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-30

| from Ohio could bs considered IA dis
courteous to the COMMITTEES ON nrivi
teRes and elections. Accordino tn hi.
views of the facts in the case. Il.
Thought the resolution q proper one
He then reviewed at some length the
case of Mr.. Eustis, claiming a seat as
senator from Louisiana those of But.
Ter and Corbin. claiminv sta, 4. ..ss.s,ens,
tom from south C,arolinn. and ,hos., q,
Kslloxe .and Spof1orl. claiming seats
from Louisiana. and said during the
discussion OF the Pinchback cas*, in the
Senate the Senator from Indiana. now
deceased, distinctly stated that if Pinch.
back was not entitled to the seat Eustis
was. Subsequently the Senate decided
that Pinchback was not entitled to'the
seat. He had hoped at the beginning
Of this session that no one would want
to reopen the Louisiana case. but. that
Mr.. 6p0flOrd would be seated. In this
he was mistaken. In his opinion the
committee should have considered
these credentials in the order of their
date, which would have brought the
Eustis case first, the Butler-C Corbin cast.
second and the SpofIord- Kellogg case
third, but the committee decided to
invite Messrs. Kellogg and Spofford to
present their cases first, and of course,
Messrs. Butler, Corbin and Eustis could
not present their cases until invited by
the committee to do so.
Mr.. Mitchell {Oreponf said the Gre
dentials of Mr.. KelloxR were first re-
ferred to the committees on March :
1877; those of Messrs, Butler and Cor
bin were afterward referred on the
same day, but the Eustis credentials
were not referred until the next dav.
Mr., Hill. resumine. said he did not
oppose the consideration of the X Kellope-
SpOtford case when the committee
took it up because he Thought it would
not consume much time. He thought
it could he settled in an hour, as it was
historicslly known that the people OF
Louisiapa had settled their own con-
lroversy, and in his Judgment it wa,
ueediess fer this Senut, to waste, time
to INQUIRE rs to what body was tl,e
legal Legislature of Louisiana. He
then referred to the action of the COM
mittee on privileges and elections and
said this was the first instance ne ever
knew of where the Judges insisted upon
inquiry into the merits of II dispute
after the disputants themselves had
settled the matter. He was guilty. of
surprising aud hoping, ave, and believ-
ing. that the COMMITTEES on privileges
llnL0oOINlGIv
we will not open y settled dispute, we
will not revive u cOnciliated controyer-
~. but we viii take this settlement ~
the people Of the State have made j,
and be satisfied with it. He had built
air castles often in his life, and he con-
fessed that this was ar air castle. On
the 22d of October le offered in the
committee resolution to accept the
settlement in Louisiana, but it was re-
jected. The committee cut itself loose
from the harbor of peace which the
people of Louisiana had made for them
and launched out the boat on Il very
troublesome sea. A majority of tht.
committee on privileges and elections,
six to three members, he hoped would
never become classical. They resolved
not to abide by the settlement made by
the people of Louisiana, but decided to
open all these questions of which tie
earth ought to be sick about, returning