New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-22
TIE SPECIAL COMMISSION.
TIE DECISION REACHED AT YESTERDAYS CABlNF1
MEErING-MK HAYES RESOLVED TO RECOGNIZE
NOBODY AT PRESENT.

TIE DECISION REACHED AT YESTERDAYS CABINET
MEEuNG-MR. HAYES RESOLVED TO RECOGNIZE
NOBODY AT PRESENT
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-The determination OF
the President, approved by his Cabinet to-day, to
send a commission of eminent citizens, conserya-
tive in their political views, to Louisiana before
disturbing the present status of affair there, is IN
no sense an abandonment of the policy outlined in
his inaugural address, some of the Democrats
from Louisiana appear to suppose; nor is it in con-
iict with any pledges OF assurances which the
President has given either before since his inau-
guration.
Every day since he arrived in Washing ton the
President has been visited by the representatives OF
the rival governments in Louisiana and urged to
take some action in accordance with their respective
views The agents of Gov. Nichols have on every
occasion requested and urged him to direct Gen.
Augur to remove the United States troops from the
vicinity of the State House. in order that the people
of New-Orleans and Louisiana might see that the
Administration proposes no longer to uphold GOV.
Packard by the use of the military forces. So
anxious have they been to secure this change that
they have not he STATED to give numerous pledges
not only that forcible means should not be employed
to displace Packard but also that Gov. Nichols
would support the Southern policy of the Admins
tration and do all in his power to lead his followers
10 do the same The President has on every occasion
listened with great patience to the arguments and
explanations of both parties, but he has never in
dcated lust what he intended to do. During the
special session of the Senate he told every one who
called upon him to talk on this subject that he could
not give it that careful attention which It's import
ance demands until after the adjournment OF that
body.
The intimation that the subject would be taken
pfor consideration early this week was interpreted
by the Nichols and Packard men alike to indicate
his inclination to accege to the wishes OF the Dem
ocrats. At the same time Gov. Penn, the prlnclpal
representative of the Nichols administration now III
Washington, admitted no longer ago than Monday
that the President had in none of his conversations
promised him to withdraw the troops from the
State House, and that his belief that he would do SO
was founded wholly upon inference.
The Presidents purpose in sending commission
TO Louisiana is probably twofold. 1t is first to
obtain through the investigations of dlsinerested.
nOn-partisan gentlemen a compact statement OF all
the facts in the case and secondly to ascertain II
possible the best method of dealing with the
anomalous state Of affairs now existing there. lie
considers the Southern question as embracing
much more than the fate OF any pollt-
ieal party, either in Louisiana or SOuth
carolina, and that any solution OF IT ought
70 have in view the welfare or the
whole South and to be based on principles apphca-
Die that entire section of country, should troubles
srse IN other States they are likely to do at any
tine. Whatever policy the President may adopt
after the return of his Louisiana Commission 1t may
be safely predicted that it will not be that hap
hazard, half military half civil. hand-to-mouth
policy which distinguished the dealings OF the
Ate Administration with the Southern question.
ihe President believes that the time has
come when civil government should be reestaD-
hshed in all the Southern States, and when
military interference should not be resorted TO 10
cure the evils from which that section OF country
nas suffered much At the same time 1t IS equally
incumbent upon him TO see that the rights OF the
negroes are respected and protected all over the
country and that all the amendments to the Cons1-
luton Of the United States maintained not only
N their letter but in their spirit The features OF
ue Southern policy of the Administration will there
iofe probably include full guarantees of the rights
Vi all citizens well non-nterfereDce with the
military arm of the Government; but the policy
Will undoubtedly be put into operation as whole
~H0 not by piecemeaL A change in the status OF