The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-12-01
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power ct the >'nI;r to question th
award ut The returning boards. and I'D
"''S 'h"t the returns AZ made Ivy til,
commissioners of elections show thai
'ilrtc "l til" Packard senators and ten q
tn" representatives w''o joined in elect
'''9 nm and "ri" essential to his quorum
" were h"atrn at the |'o("t box. bit claims
:, they were h'alrn by intimidation and
Il wen" rightly counted in Ivy the rrturniu.
: board; that the Sherman and Howe trSti.
!, In"ny is ample proof in the case that the
y farKaru government was the true gov.
4 ttniirnt chosen by the people and aitc,
MS election WAS "vcithtown l,y :,iu,,la'
= "voln1ion; that Long, rf Desc was !,
:. Democrat, whn denied his own election to
aid his party.
Jn'l"" Spot"''l r':i"inS that the powc.
vt the ~"Atr is nIrlEl'y tn determine
"''l'E Is the real legislature and to that
,, 'nd to rnIulr" whom the people elected !:
'h;'f the admissions show that enough. of
the Packard senate and hn,l>r were de-
hatrd I" }rav. both without a quorum
every day they pretended to sit: he seat
ny .! Baker anu krl>o wa, an iIlc"al
farr'; that '\ri}"s.s joint assembly con-
tanned IL rl'rtri lIir'n''rr>. nine less than
aHN"lH'n, that '',r r,;r,n!u" Hoard w?v
without constitutional power to- suppress
single poll as the commissioners re-
't'ii's were Required TO go unchanged to
|h' secretary ct state; that the dr>truc-
non OF polls by taking evidence OF intim
ldatlon WAS a judicial act which the con-
Stlf"tI'n Inhibited to rr,nrniHy officers;
mat their count was Illegal and void be-
cause lii'y looked only at the supervisors
consolidated statement and did not COM
PIE thr commissioners returns: that they
tfaitipI,' OIL heir own law by making
f"rblddtu euquiticS witlout the tuuuda
non NAT law prescribed: that Kellogg,
himself, instituted illegal complaints end
the board acted upon them conclnSvr]v
aud traudulrntly; that the Vernon parish
returns were altered 10y forgery in order
to defeat Smart and elect Brown to the
house; that no other acts of violence Than
those hct"rrn tie 18th Of August and 7th
OF November were rNaillllabr and the
murders charged with were chiefly out.
side OF these dates and We're non poitirai
exaggerated, and often rrhuttrd; that the
Morrison and Field testimony must I've
considered If the Sherman and Howe tcs-
tlm"ny Was and that Long was Rrpub-
llra'I and was supported only Ivy Rrpuh.
Il ans. lii closing he says: The hiStor
an VIII lock IN vain for the line which,
Kellogg $ counsel was hunting for where
the Packard government ended and where
the Nichols government began. These
governments, such as they were, had 81
multanrouS birth The one ~hirh NV |
competitor seeks to represent was still |
born aud has been laid away. The other
which have tn, honor to represent, was
born capable of living. still lives ana will |
continue t" live through its constitution
al term to restore, purity aud bless a pro-
rl" VIII" have suffered SO long the misery
of being ruled by the hand Of the stran
ger
House, Nov. 23.-Thc great interest in
the house to day was the bill to repeal
the resumption act. There we're fourteen
amendments pending when the house he
gan to vote and all of them were mega
TWEED except offered ny Fort, of Illinois,
as a substitute. and which had actually
been accepted by tlr committee on bank.
ing and currency. The bill was finally
passed by a vote of 1873 to TO. The fol-
lowing is tn" text of the bill as pa srd to
ame!il. the title SO as t" 'tad, "a bill to
repeal all that part of tho act approved
January 18th, 1873. known as the reSump-
ton act, which authorized the secretary
Of the Treasury to dispose OF United
States bonds and redeem and cancel the
grernlarA currency: that all portion OF
the act approved January l4th. 1873, en-
titled IAN act to provide tor the rts,lmp-
ton of specie payment (which reads rs
follows, to.wit: Sand whenever and SO
often as circulating. Nntra shall be issued
to any stitch banking association so in !
creasiny its capital or circulating notes,
or so newly organized as aforesaid, it Shall {
be the dnty of the secretary of the treas
ury to redeem the legal tender United /
States Eotes in excess only of $500, 0OO,- ,
OoO to the amount of so per ccntum of
the sum Of national bank notes so issued
to any such banking association as atolv-
said, and to continur such redemption ~ :
such circulating notes are issued Unit! !
there shall he outstanding the STUN of
$500, WO,OoO of such legal tender United I
States notes, and no more, aud on and ai-
ter the first day of January, \. d.. 1879, +
the secretary Of the treasury shall redeem =
in coin the Cnitcl States legal tender ,
notes then outstanding ON their prrscnta- q
ton for redemption at the office of the d
assistant treasurer Of the United States
in the city of New York in SUMS of not I
less than fifty thousand collars; and to q
enable the secretary of the treasury to i,
prepare aud provide for the redemption I
in this act authorized Or required, he is ,
authorized to use any surplus revenues
from time to tim" in the tVasnry not :;
otherwise a propriatc,l, and to issue, sell :
and dispose Of at not less han par in coin !
either Of the desert ptinns Of bonds of tie |
United States described in the act ot con. I
grcss approved Ju.y II, 1870, entitled AN {:
act to authorize the rebuilding OF the ma !:
tioual debit with lik" qualities, privle- r
gcs and exemptions to the extent llccts !.
>ary to carry the act into full effect, and ,
to use the proceeds thereof for tho pur- .
pose aforesaid be and the same is hereby |
Vote 100 to l2o Vote more I
sectional than political. House adjourn !
I'd to Tuesday. i
Washington, nov. 23.-1'hc committee
On privileges and elections voted six to-;
in favor of seating Kellogg. They set i.
Eustis' case for Monday an'! directed But I
Ter and Crrhn from South Curolinu TO I
pWpHre their cases forthwith. ,
Treasurer's Report.
The treasurcrs report shows a decrease
in the net revenue Of ST. ,juOO,oCO and
decrease in the expenditures of nearly ,
sl9,0OO."oO. This i, compared with last =
year Reports say an increased demand i,
for silver coin is caused bV the ilccrssi-