The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-04-28
NEWS.
Xshiustou April 2G-epmt

Iatur0 VINO 0utoteoAno soS
lingering idea that the troops are
going to remain forI Gods ssks
disabuse him OF that idea, for they |
nre going to be removed.
Packard's Legislature in caucus
issued another series OF resoluT
tone del,incistory OF the CONF
mission.
80 The caucus was +tsmpestous.-i
Senator Young claimed he was
restrained of his personal liberty;
that the guards on the stairs would
not let him out. ...i..,s rs~,s Il
Packard addressed the caucus,
expressing a determination to re-
sis. to the end. 49, ss..l4 ~ "a
The Nichols Legislature had q
returning board membership OF
sixty-fiye in the House and twenty
two in the Senate.
Washington, April 49, : The
Herald's special says Packard still
maintains bold front, and claims
that he has abundant rations,
meats and friends to hold his ditch
4 until the president is compelled to
food it. His Legislators, he thinks,
will come back to him after the
I Nichols legislature adjourns. He
] expects then to re-establsh his
quorum, elect o short-term sena-
tor, and transfer the case to Wash
| ington. The dispatch continues
! The Packard Legislature cancus
tonight sent proposition to. the
Nichols people Offering TO dissolve
provided seventeen new unrecog-
nized returning board members be
paid their mileage and per diem.
The Democrats assented to the
proposition and / am informed by
member Of the commission that
both ,Waruioth and AcMillan aud
their friends will take seats in the
Nicholl's Legislature tomorrow.
The Ludeling faction will still
hold out along with Packard. The
President teiegraphed TO the cem-
{ mission to-day that in response to
, the request contained in Governor
Nichols letter, an order for the
withdrawalo Of the troops to the bar
racks would be issued forthwith.
r The Tribune New Orleans spe-
cial says Conservatives viii wait
, until Saturday tor as many as
choose to come over to them to
elect United States senators, and
, adjourn sine die.
|, If any people remain with Pack
/ ard there is law, passed by the
Repur licans some years ago. under
which persons attempting to con-
q stitute an illegal legislature can be
t arresteds,s r. st1r
a Washington, April II. = The
troops will be withdrawn from
New Orleans on Tuesday, the oath,
at 2'o'clock. 1f. ti,t1e-
Executive MANSION, d. c., /
. - April 20, 1877. !
: SIR-Prior to my entering upon
y the duties of the presidency, there
g had been stationed by the order Of
: my predecessor in the immediate
vicinity of the building used as 9
Statehouse in. New Orleans, La
r and known as the Mechanics In.
: stitute, q detachment of United
o States infantry. Finding them il
that place. I have thought proper
r to delay q decision of the question
J. of their removal until l could de
j termine whether the condition O
/ affairs was such rs to either re-
}. quire or justify continued mill
-tary Intervention of the nationa
government in the affairs of thu
e State.
r In my opinion, there does mo-
II now exist in Louisiana such do
mestic violence as is contemplated
by the constitution as the ground
upon which the military power o
the national government may b.
@ invoked for the defense of thu
! State. The disputes which exis
:. as to the right of certain claimant,
to the chief executive Office Of tina,
. State are to be settled and deter
: mined not by the executive Of tn,
e United States, but by the sucl
O orderly and peaceful methods al
may be provided by the constitu
: ton and laws Of the State.
: Having the assurance that NJ
y resort to violence is contemplated
= but that on the contrary the dis
: putes in question ale to be settled
; by peaceful methods under and il