National Republican., 1877-03-07

srSscER saying he was paIrod with Mr.. meRni.
The question was then taken on tho resolution,
and 1t was adopted-yeas 81, nays mir. WAp.
LsGH voting yes alone, and Mr.. SPENCER an.
Nj DAVIS, Of W. Va, then escorted Mr.
LAMAR to the desk and he was sworn in.
DEBATE ON rnE ADMISSION OF WILLIAM rITT
KfLLCoa TO SEAT As SENATOR FROM LouE =
lana.
MI. BLAINE sent up res ,uaon that wm
PIT Kellogg now sworn III.
Mr.. BAYaRD asked Mr.. RtAISR to yied to
him to nhcr a resolution that Mr.. John I. Morgan
Ar. blaine said that With all de-.
ference for tho senator from Delaware, he
hoSg6t I ibis Casc had be tier be PrSc.odsi with
In yesterday when tho oath was arrested by the
objection Of M; Boar.
to strike ont all after the word resolved and In.
sert that the credentials of Mr kelleg be referred
to the Committee on Prhi cges aud Elections,
Mr. BLAINE. 1 do not desire, Mr.. President
TO deiain the Senate by any. lengthy prescnta.
ton OF MIR. kolloRgs case. Regarding him ns
do as the regularly and duly elected Senator
from the State Of Louisiana, could wish that
there would be no object ction to his being sworn In
lature Of Louisiana Ibelicve that he was elected
by and represents the legal government of LouIs
ana, and do not see now 10 day-and that is the
main point desire TO present.how any Senator
who voted in this Chamber that the electoral
vote Of Louisiana 4 was legally and properly cast
dent, Is permitted to doubt that 5. b. Packard
is,equally of right tine Governor of that State
| There may be some technlcalty, there may be
some keen form OF logic which have not yet
| heard and which do not think shall ever bc
able to comprehend by which q man who had
ticket received was not elected Governor when
the electoral ticket was chosen.
And l frankly repeat that am not permitted
to doubt, no man Is permitted to doubt legally
today, certainly the other side of the Cha Der
Is not permitted to doubt legally, that the elec.
Il VRt Nrn nnEl n lAE
Hayes and Wheeler. 1t was decided so by the
tribunal created by that side OF the Chamber.
bows 10 me. lie and are guIitiess Of that tribu.
nal. But with the single exception OF the Scna.
tor from Connecticut; every gentleman on that
voted to establish that tribunal. and It came In
| with peans and shouts and congratulations that
dawned, and that we had now estSblshod a tri. i.
bunsl distinguished above all human instrumcn.
talities for impartIality, and to whose decision
| cordial acquicscence. They took the question
into consideration and heard 1t elaboraicly ar.
the electoral vote Of Louisiana belonged to Hayes
AN Mr.. THURMAN THURMAN. VIII tho Senator allow me
Mr.. BLhINE. Certainly.
Mr.. THURMAN. The electoral commission de.
cded that It could not look behind the decision Of
Mr.. BLAINE. Precisely; but it did decide
MIR. THURMAN. ! am not through. The de.
tore would receive no evidence. But does tho
Senator say tnat the Sensteo the United states,
ions and % return. m Iss Of IL Rembers @ o0n qu'h'"
Mr.. BLAINE. The Senator is too rapid. lam
Mr.. HUFFMAN. That tho Senate cannot look
behind that returning board?
Mr.. BLAINE. l am coming to that In duo
ever, that the electoral commission, OF which he
was an honorcd member did decide that the Lou
isiana Returning Board was constitutiOnally and
l 10 ant wa aEA thaa a
rightT
Mr.. BLAINE A majority constitutes the
| board. lLaughterl Then l understand tho
Senator IRON Ohio to admit that tne electoral
commission did decide that the Louisiana re.
turning board was legal and constitutional
body, competent TO do what 1t did do, and that
they were unable to review or reverse II; and that
pr, sidentiaI electors Of that STATE declared also
who were the Legislature of that state, and tho
Legislature, performing mere ministerial duty,
declared who was the Governor OF that state; and
! stand here, IL l stand alone, to say that the
honor and the credit and the faith of tho Repubi.
can party, In so far as the election OF Hayes and
Wheeler is concerned Is as indissolubly united In
maintaining the rightfuness Of the return Of that
| body as the illustrlous house of Hanover, that
sits on the throne Of England to-day, is in main
tanning the rightiulness of the revolution of 1858.
You discredit Packard and you discredit Hayes.
You hold that Packard Is not the legal Governor
| OF Louisiana, and President Hayes has no title,
| and the honored Vice President who preslies
| 1 say, therefore, that the action OF the Return.
ing Board, which the Senator from Ohio admits 8
was determined by the electoral commission to
be competent, legal, and constitutional body,
rests the authority Of S, b. Packard to the Gov.
eInorship Of that State, and on the authority Of
and by the Legislature Of that State william viii Pit
| Kellogg was duly elected Senator. BY the Gov.
ernor OF that State, thus determined, he comes
here commissioned as Senator, bearing the great
| seal of the State; and maintain-and do not
unless chalisnIed upon that point desire to 20
MIR. THURMAN. DO Interrupt the Senator
Mr.. BLAlNE. Not at all.
Mr.: THURMAN; Does the Senator under.
stand that that Returning Board counts the
votes for Governor and declares who is elected
MIR. BLAINE. The Legislature did that.
Mr.. THURMAN. Then the. Senator is In
MIR. BLAINE. No, I never said any such
| precisely and tho same Returning Board coun led
the votes for members Of the Legislature and also
| counted and transmitted to the Legislature the
| vote for Governor.
MIR. THURMAN. Yes.
| Mr.. BLAINE. That is only one degree of 10
lineal descent; 1t is the difference between soI
MIR THURMAN. Ibeg to say to the Senate,
| that the electoral commission never decided thai
the Returning Board was constitute tonai board fol
counting anything by the electoral vote for Presi
| dent and Nict President.
Mr. BLAINE. DO l understand the Senator
| from Ohio then to maintain that the returning
hoard was good enough to count in the electors fol
| fIesiuoht' put hVt BOVu ehoukh " ueterhino WnS
Mr THURMAN. II the Senator asks my opIn
ion, say II was not good for anything except L
bo hung. Laughter.
MIR. BLAINE. l believe the gentlemen In
| Louisiana, whom the Senator from Ohio repre-
sents In his opinions, holds that tho electora
commission deserve about the same thing, or al
| least eight OF them.
Mr.. THURMAN. A IN m,jority. Laughter. |
Mr.. BLAINE. l want to hold tho Senator I,
tho point that the Legislature, the Governor
and the Presidential Electors Of Louisiana al
derive their legality and their right to act from
the same source and the same court; that II onI
Is diseredited the other Is discredited, and tha,
the electors having boon 30 accredited by tn,
tho laws he is precluded from raising a doubt OF
that question, and It is therefore that maintain
without any elaboration or argument, that rest
ing as Mr. Kellogg docs his claim to q Senator
ship here upon as broad basis and upon pre-
cisely the same foundation that the Presidentia
electors rest upon, he is entitled to be sworn 10
and. say ts the senator from delaware, whom
that believe the right Of Mr.. Kellogg is Just a
absolute as that Of Mr.. MORGAN, and, therefore
could not hnd that vas under any obligation
to yield the one to the other.
Mr.. BAYARD. did not signify any oblga
tion. 1t was a mere matter Of practical conVe
nience.
Mr.. BLAINE. know that there has been
the Capitol around and hbout, In BY. places and Il
high places Of late that some arrangement ha
been made by which Packard was not to be recog
nized and upheld, that he was to bo allowed I
slide by and Nichols was to be accepted as tn
Governor of Louisiana. want to know who ha
the authority TO make sny such arrangement.
wish TO know II any senator on this floor will
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