New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-27
WHOLE NUMBER 1920.
POLITICAL NOTES,

POLITICAL NOTES.
The Cincinnati Times of January %. con.
tains long and able review of the Return
ing Board law of Louisiana, from the pen Of
Hon. Robert j. Caldwell, of Monroe. The
article fills four columns of the Times and
is valuable document.
The Legislature of New Jersey has elected
Hon. John r. MCPHERSON United States SEN
ator by majority of one vote over f. T.
Frelinghuysen. Mcpherson is a Democrat,
but was elected in opposition to the State
House ring, the railroad interests, and the
New York World, The latter paper ad-
monished the New Jersey Demo Gratis to
elect Ashbel Green, profound lawyer, If
they would do credit to the party. This
| they failed to do, although Mcpherson is
not lawyer and Green is relative of the
Worlds editor.
Senator Oglesby, of Illinois, on bis way
home from this city, where he served as a
member of the Senatorial Investigating
committee, was entertained by number of
the citizens of Cairo, to whom he expressed
| great interest in the work for the protec-
tiOn of the banks of the Mississippi river.
The old Governor is a good friend of Louis
lana, especially of those OF her citizsns who
increase her riches by the sweat of their
| brow. His vote for the levee bill can be
looked for with confidence. We wish as
| much could be said of his Democratic col
leagues of the Louisiana committee.
The Boston 1rdvellcr says:
Two more "eardsy from the respectable
caste of New Orleans appear this morning
in glorifcation of the peaceful conduct and
| Christian disposition of the Louisiana bull
dOzers. The case, of course, is desperate
one, but by constant effort and frequent
repetition these men expect to deceive the
North as they did for long weary years in
relation to the divine institution of slavery.
On the twentieth instant, in the Senate,
Mr.. Morton presented the credentials of
William Pitt Kellogg as United States SEN
atOr from Louisiana, and asked that they
be read and laid on the table. This is the
customary action in all such cases, and the
motion was adopted.
Governor Kirkwood, of Iowa, has issued
an order for the reorganization of the Iowa
State militia, under the name of the
|
the artillery companies are ordered to meet
on January 81 at their respective srmories
, to elect officers.
Hon. Henry B. Anthony, United States
Senator from Rhode Island, was attacked
3 by paralysis in the railroad station in Wash
ington, last Saturday night, on his return
2 from Baltimore, where he had spent the
! evening and dined with party of friends.
! He was conveyed home by the police, where
! he at once had medical attendance. His
! illness was only temporary, however, and he
! was out again in day or two.
i The House of Representatives, on Tues
= day, in seating Mr., Butts, of South Caro-
70 lima, seems to have abandoned the attempt
to have that State counted for Tilden.
Q Mr.. Butts presented his certificate early in
q the session, in due form, from Governor
Chamberlain. There was no contest, but
the Democrats insisted ON referring it to
the Election Committee, upon the petition
from some Democrats who opposed the ac-
a ton of the State Canvassing Board. The
s evidence in the case was overwhelming as
). to the fair election of Butts the report of the
Q Sayler South Carolina investigating COM
e mittee, leaving the Election Committee no
9 ground to stand upon. That committee
tavorably reported the case prin,a 5facie, and
= Mr.. Butts was seated.
D Bailey, the new Senator from Tennessee,
is another Confederate brigadier, and that
!. is about oil he is.
e Ben Hill has been elected Senator OF
Georgia after a long and bitter struggle.
9 His chief competitor was Thomas NJ Nor.
a wood, the sitting member.
9 Judge David Davis, of the Supreme Court
was on Thursday elected United States
a Senator by the Legislature of Illinois, to
al succeed General John A. Logan. The sue,
= cess of Davis was the result of stupid BE.
g publican blunder in Withdrawing the name
of Logan. Enough votes had been divided
q between Logan and Washburne to elect one
u or the other, when, in the face of the ad
Il, vice of the best Republicans in the State,
= Logan's name was withdrawn. The cleo
= ton of Davis was by mejority of one.
Hon. Henry G. Davis was on Friday re-
10 elected United States Senator for the long
term, in West Virginia. Hon. Frank Here
30 ford was elected for the term ending IN
1881, vice Caperton, deceased. Hereford il
a earpet-bagger from California.
A Washington special to the Chicago
Inter Ocean ssys there is good deal of pri
vate comment on proposition brought be
IL al fore the Democratic caucus Monday to EN-
Il plOy eminent legal ability to prepare the
Democratic case for presentation before the
n commission provided for by the compromise
r. bill. David Dudley Field seems to have
r. been the originator of the idea. 1t is said
by various Democrats that his motives ar.
v not entirely disinterested in regard to tht
" matter, and that he has an UNDERSTANDING
Il with Mr.. Tilden's friends that in case ths
re proposition is adopted he shall be retained
as senior counsel. Mr.. Fields friends CLAIM
ID that this is not go; that he would him
be self prefer, and Mr.. Tilden alaO, to be ont
o. of the i've to represent the House in thu
high Joint commission. The matter is lef
with the vigilance committee of the House
appointed early in the session, of which Mr.
Randall is chairman. The caucus was verl
stormy, and the signs of an outbreak d
strong that an adjournment was taken afte
only fifteen minutes session.
We The Republicans are also discussing thu
hn method Of presenting the case to the tribu
he nal. II has been suggested that q commit
tee of Republican lawyers frame the case
he with the assistance of Morton, Sherman, an.
others who went to the South. William d
Ast Evarts and E. w. Stoughtop, of New York
James f. Wilson, of Iowa; ex-AttOrne