The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-16
BLtNE'S SPEECHES on THE LOUISI
ANA NATTER.

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. BLtNE'S SPEECHES on THE LOUISE
). ANA NATTER.
Mr.. BLAINE E raid: | do not desire
, Mr. President, 70 detnin the Senate by
! any lengthy presentation of Mr.. kel
, logg's case. Regarding him as | do a.
regularly aud duly elected Senator
. from the ate of Louisiana, 4 could
! wish that there would be 10 objection
, TO his being sworn il. | believe he
, was "lected by the legal Legislature oi
Louisiana. believe that he was elect
/ ed by and represents the legal govern
ment of Louisiana. and do not see
how. to-day that is the main
point / desire TO present-how any
Senator who voted in this chamber
/. that the Electoral vote of Louisiana
was legally and properly cast for Il.
B. Hayes and yourself Mr.. Pr-si
dent. is permitted 20 doubt that S. b.
Paekart is equally of right the Gov
ernor of that State. There may be
some new form of ogic which / have
not YET heard. and which | do not
think | shall ever be able TO compre
hend. by which man who had nearly
a thousand votes more than the Elec
toral ticket was not elected Governor
when the Electoral ticket was chosen.
and l frankly repeat that ! am not
! permitted to doubt, 40 man is permit
ted TO doubt legally to-day Certain
ly, the other side of the Chamber is
not permitted TO doubt. legally, tina,
the Electoral vote of Louisiana was
| properly cast for Hayes and Wheeler
Il was decided SO 10y IL tribunal created
| by tba side of the Chamber The
! Senator from Connecticut (Eaton)
bows TO ne. He aud are guiltless of
that tribunal laughter. but with the
single exception of the Senator from
Connecticut, every gentleman on that
side of the Chamber in the Congress
just closed, voted to establish that
tribunal, and it came in with peans
and shouts and congratulations that
tine day of the political millennium
had at last dawned, and that we have
now established tribunal distinguis
| ed above all human instrumtntalities
for impartiality and to whose decis
ion we would all bow in the most!
ready spirit of cordial acquiescence.
They took the question into consider
alton and heard it elaborately argued,
and decided, as believe riehtfully
that the Electoral votes of Louisiana
belonged to Hayes and Wheeler.
interruption by Thurman.
Mr.. BLAINE-Then | understand
the Senator frouf Ohio to admit that
the Electoral Commission did decide
that the Louisiana Returning Board
was legal and constitutional body
competent to do what they did do, and
that they were unable to review orJe
verse ii, and the same board, compe-
tent 10 declare who were the Presiden-
tial Electors of that State, declared |
also who were the Legislature of that |
State, and the Legislature, performing |
mere ministerial duty, declared who |
was Governor of that State, and | |
stand here. stand alone, to say that
the honor and credit and faith OF the |
Republican party, in so far as the elec
ticu OF Hayes and Wheeler is concern
ed, are as indissoluble in maintain
ing the rightfuiness OF the return of
that body as the iliustriouS house Of
Hanover that sits on the thron: of
England to day is in maintaining the
righttuluess OF the revolution ia 1868
You discredi. HT.. Packard and YOU
discredIt Mr. Hayes. You hold that
Mr.. Packard is not the legal Governor
of Louisiana aud President Hayes has
no title to his seat, and the honored
Vice President, who presides over our
deliberations, has no title to his chair.
l.a-
the Returning Board, which the Sena
tor from Ohio admits gas determined
10y. the Electoral Com uBssion to be a
competant legal and constitutional
body, rests the authority of 5. b.
Packard TO exercise the Governorship
of the Soate, and on the authority OF
that board rests the Legislature of that
State William Pitt Kellogg was duly /,
elected Senator of that State. THUS
determined, he comes here commits
stoned as Senator, bearing the great
seal of the State as maintain, and
do not unless challenged upon that
point, desire 70 go into any of the de-
tails of the election.
Mr. Thurman again interrupts. IL
Mr.. BLAINE-I' want to hold tie
Senate 10 the point that the Legisla
ture, the Governor. and the Presiden- ,
tisl Electors of Louisiana all derive ;
their legality and their right to act !
IRON the same source ana the same
count; that If one is discreoited, the !
other is discredited. and that the EIec ! /;
tors having been accredited by the :
highest tribunal known to the Consti- :
tuition and the laws, he is precluded | ,
from raising a doubt on thar question.
aud 1t is therefore that maintain that.
wi hout any elaboration of argument.
resting as Mr. Kellogg does, his claim
to the SenatoTsGlD here on as broad O IL
basis and upon precisely the same
tiiae the Presidential EIec r
tors rest upon, he is entitled to be r
worn in, aud say 10 the Senator from G
Delaware, whom an always desirous / q
Of treating with courtesy, that believe {
.he. right Of Mr. Kellogg is Just as alb {
'olute as that of Mr. Morton, and there
,ore could not fDd thar was under 4
my obIigarionto to yield the one TO she {
)tlIsr. r-1laf @vGf -f.dit --'f--tE -
air, BAYARD-I did not signify any 3
4 Ii was a mere matter of iii
PRACTICAL convenience. 4,
Mr. RLAINE-I know that there I
las beer great deal said here and Il
here in the corridors Of the Capitol O
,nd around ana about in by places, aud g
L high places, OF late, that some ar In
had been made by which Dir q