The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-14
How TiEdem was Thrown Over
board,

Extract from the N. o. Times, April 10th.
Hon. s. S. Cox, who reached the city
yesterday morning, paid his first Visi'
to the s~tateh0use, and closeted some
time with Mr.. Packard. Within the
past few days several private letters
received by Republicans here, have con.
tanned earnest enquiries concerning
testimony which could be adduced in
s. proceedings under a writ of
QUO wARRANTo
were deemed advisable by the friends OF
Mr.. Tilden. From certain o%ntcroppings
we are inclined to believe that the very
strongest testimony is in existence, and
that the claims of Mr.. Tilden to the
vote of this State can be fully as well
established as those of Governor Nj
cholls. AprOpos of this,
A NEW PHASE
has been put upon the matter by a prom
inent constitutional lawyer with whom
the writer recently conversed.
The gentleman asserts that the law ap-
pointing the electoral commission was
known to be wholly unconstitutional and
simply enacted to pacify the country at
one Of the most critical periods in our
political history. He asserts it was
equally well known that so far as the
decision of the commission is concerned,
it amounted to nothing, but that
MR.. HAYES TIDE
rests upon the fact that the electoral
vote was counted by the vice president
of the United States with a concurrence
of a majority Of the House and Senate.
The constitution, he says, was really
complied with, and the electoral com
mission was simply a Diversion to ap-
pease the nation. A discovery of this
fact proves
A BITE PILL
to Northern Democrats. They realize
now that had a bargain not been con-
summated with Mr.. Hayes by the South
ern Democrats, and IL flibustering had
continued until after the fourth of
March, that the president of the Senate
would have been president dd interim,
and that the matter, under the consti-
tuition, would rave come up before the
next House. What course the current
will take under the new lights is prob
lematieal, but in the meantime the
ORGANIZATION OF THE NEXT HOUSE
becomes a serious matter of contest. 1t
will be seen from yesterdays dispatches
that the predictions made by the Times
fully q week ago are more than verified,
and that Mr.. Hayes is making strenuous
exertions to secure a Republican organi-
cation, with Foster or Garfield as
speaker. Nichols and Hampton are
said to be his price for the votes of the
louisiana and Sorth Carolina delega-
lions, aud Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and North
Carolina are expected to fall into line in
the same direction. BY this means he
hopes to secure {
AsoLID SOUTH
In favor of his new policy, and of course
combined with administration Repuh-
lieans, they will be potent against the
Northern Democrats and extremists
whether they fight with writs of quo
soarraRt0 or not. In the meantime,
from the presence here of numerous
strangers and the number of kilograms
hourly arriving from leading politicians.
it il evident that something unusual is
In the wind. The commission NAV not
accomplish much, in fact there is an
parentiy very little for it to accomplish,
but the relationship between the snew
policy = and the next Congress may
possibly be determined. When it is
remembered that Butler, of South Caro-
lima, is certain to be seated, and that
two Democrats will be sent from here,
one can estimate the necessity for a
Republican House. c~sS@l