Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-04-05
THE NAMES OF THE LOUISE.
ANA COMPROMISES AN.
NOUNCED.
Their Object is 20 Effect the Or.
ganizatiOn of ~ Legal Leg.
fsIatUre.
Special Dispatch to the Gin. Gaz. ]

Special Dispatch to the Gin. Gaz.
WASHINGTON, March 28.
The Louisiana Commission is at last con-
stituted. According to creditable authority
its membership is as follows: Gen. Jonn NJ
Harlan. of Kentucky, Chairman; Gen. Jos.
R. Hawley, of Connecticut; Judge Charles B.
Lawrence, of Illinois; Wayne McVeigh, of
Pennsylvania; and ex-Gov. j. c. Brown, of
Tennessee. Louisiana men to whom the
names of the commission have been submitted
this afternoon, say that it is an eminently sat
isfactory commission. All the members of it
are moderately conservative. Ose is Dem
ocrat, and two of them are Southern born
Wayne McVeigh was not agreed upon until
last Eight, when he telegraphed his letter of
acceptance, and arrived here this morning
Gen. Harlan is well known as the law part
ner OF Gen. Bristow, and leading active Re
publican of Kentucky. -, -
Gen. Hawley is prominent Republican of
conservative views, and an eminently fair
man.
Judge Lawrence is well known in the West
as distinguished jurist and Conservative Re-
publican.
Wayne MeVeigh, although the son-in-law
OF ex-senator Simon Cameron. has little sym
pathy with this class of Republicans and pos
sesses liberal conservative views.
Gov. Brown was an old line Wing of special
prominence, and is said to be man of dis
tlnguished ability.
A gentleman who had an interview with
the President tosdsy,~sel-sxho is. familiar
with his Southern policy, says that the Presi--
dents purpose is this: The commission was
Gov. Hayes plan before the Inauguration. 1t
will be sent to New Orleans to endeavor to
induce both parties to agree to reorganize the
Legislature by permitting the members of
both branches whose seats are uneontested
and whose election is conceded by both par
ties to pass upon contested cases, and that
the Legislature so constituted shall, under
the Constitution and laws of Louisiana, can:
vass the votes for Governor. The President
is understood to hold that the canvass of the
vote for Governor, already made by the two
Legislatures, was not under the forms of law.
The commission will go to Louisiana, inform
ing both parties that reorganization of the
Legislature in such constitutional and legal
basis, is the desire of the administration. The
Constitution of State, adopted in 1862, two
years before the act creating the Returning
Board was passed, provides that the Secretary
of State shall make up from the returns of
the election list of members entitled to seats
in both houses of the Legislature. 1t also di-
rect the Secretary of State to transmit to the
Legislature the returns for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, and makes that body
canvassing authority to determine the cleo
ton of these officers. The President will
recognize the Governor which the Legislature,
30 constituted, shall declare to have been
elected. Such Legislature would have about
seventeen nominal Republican majority on q
joint ballot. Of these, nine anti. Packard Re-
publicans would hold the balance of power.
The Nichols people insist that a Legislature
so organized would declare Nichols elected.
Legislature, the President is fully determined
to thereupon Immediately withdraw the
troops from the support of the Packard gov
eminent, and to notify both factions hat,
having failed to-accept the adjustment pro-
posed by the administration, Federal troops
can not be used to sustain any State govern
ment, and that the two pretended Governors
must settle their own affairs in their own
way. If bloodshed should follow, the respon-.
sibility would rest with the politicians Of
Louisiana and not with the President.
1t is known that some members Of the Cab
met were in favor Of prese ating this latter
ultimatum without sending a commission to
New Orleans. There can be little doubt that
if the purpose of the commission fails, the &C
tion Of the President will! be as indicated.
The commission will receive Its instructions
and start the first of next week. 1t is expect
cd that its mission will be success or fail
ure ten days after the commission arrives at
New Orleans
b sStanley-writes the Important infOr-
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