New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16

every particular. On the second day OF the
session, January 2, the General Assembly
met In Joint session, with sixty-eight Repre-
sentAtives and twenty-0ne Senators present,
made the canvass and declared the result.
A quorum of the House lie sixty-one, and Of
the Senate nineteen. OF the eixty-eiEht
Representatives present all were returned
by the Returning Board, and of the twenty
one Senators nineteen were so returned,
and two seated on contest. Thus it will be
seen that there was an undoubted quOrum
of the members of each branch of the LegiB-
lature present and participating in the cam
vass, whose names appeared on the rolls of
the Secretary of State as entitled to par
ticipate in the original organization. The
impression that. there was not q quo
rum present has probably arisen from
the fact that five of the Senators
present when the votes were counted for
Governor, and when Kellogg was elected
Senator, were subsequently induced to
withdraw, and some of them ere now act
ing with the Nichols Senate. Two have
since returned. There was no lega. quorum
of either house present In the Nichols
Legislature when the pretended canvass
was made for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor. The House had but fOrty-twO-
legal members and the Senate but seven
teen. Nor had they before them any re-
turns as prescribed by the constitution on
which to base their canvass. Deslonde,
Kellogg's Secretary of State-then undis-
puted Secretary of State-not only refused
the returns when committee from the
Nichols House formally waited upon him
to request them, but presented them, as di-
rected by law, TO the Speaker of the legal
House, in whose presence the vote was can
vassed as above stated.
Referring to President Hayes Southern
policy, Governor Packard said: II do not
understand that the President sacrifices
Dripninla mr. ahannn0a the fPt0ndg nf
the Union and the Republican party in tho
South. l do not understand it to be his de-
sire to force the colored people from the
Republican party. On the other hand 1
understand that he will sustain, under the
constitution and laws of the United States,
each State of the Union in q republican
for N of government, and will suppress in
surrectiOn and domestic violence. I'M
derstand him as wishing to avoid the
constant use of troops in the Southern
States at elections, and as police force
for States. The foundation for this desir-
able state of affairs has been laid here al
ready. 1t has been my desire to facilitate
the entrance into the Republican party of
the Old-line Wings and Conservatives, and
during the past canvass my efforts IN that
direction were crowned with gratifying sue
cess. ALI of that class of aeeeseions, which
number among them some of the best of the
| native white citizens of the State, are now
porary difficulties here have had the effect
Of relieving US of the wSrst element OF the
party. l shall endeavor to aid President
Hayes in his Southern policy by administer
ing the government of Louisiana honestly
and economically and in the interest Of
the whole people, white and black. 4
shall endeavor to have some of
the defaulting ofiee-hOlders sent to
the Penitentiary and some murderers hung.
This State is in condition now which ad-
mits of division on other than color Ines.
The Republican party will lose Pinchback
and a small following of colored men who
will 90 to the Democratic party. On the
other hand, the Republicans will gain
lsrgely from the Conservatives and old-line
Wings. If, however, the revolutionary
Nichols party, representing the extreme
Democratic element, we're to succeed in
supporting their unlawful State govern
ment, the color line may be expected TO be
drawn tighter than ever, and the perseeu-
| lions of the eOlOred men continue as in Mis-
sissippi, Texas and other Republican States
which have been stolen bv White Leaguers,
until the last vestige of Republicanism haR
been stamped out"