New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-14
SOUTHERN POLITICS.
LOUISIANA IN THE CABINET.
A REPORT FROM THE COMMIssroN--THE REPLY UN.
KNOwN--A SOLUTION IN WEEK.

KNOwN--A SOLUTION IN A WEEK.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBUsEl
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The first important COM
mnnications which the Louisiana Commission has
sent to the Administration were received yesterday
and to-day. They the subject of consideration
at the long session of the Cabinet this afternoon.
Neither the exact nature of the reports submitted
nor the conclusions reached by the President and
his advisers have been disclosed, but there is
10 believe that the solution of the controversy in
Louisiana il close at hand. The points that the
Commission agree upon were reported correctly to
day in the New-Orleans correspondence OF
THE TRIBUNE, and much more in detail than
in the private dispatches to the President.
These that the Packard Government has
probably the de are title, but that the Nichols Gov
eminent exercises complete Dc yacto authority in
every part of the State except in the st. Louis Hotel,
used by Gov. Packard State House, and in the
four streets that surround it. The Commission Is
also understood to have reported that peace and
order are maintained throughout the State by the
Nichols administration, and that the Packard Gov
eminent has very little nothing to do with it.
They are also of opinion that Gov. Packsrds au-
thority cannot be established except by the Of
large force of Federal troops, and that military sup
port of this kind TO be effective must be continued
throughout the four years for which the Governor
in Louisiana has been elected.
These points on which the Commission agree arc
understood to have been reported to the President
though not rs much in detail in the letter of THE
TRIBUNE's correspondent already referred t.. The
Commission, in addition to this, is believed to have
informed the President of the unwillingness Of
either party in New-Orleans to agree to any solution
which they have felt authorized to suggest. The
Nichols Government has nothing whatever to gam
by compromise, and for Packard to yield single
point is to give up the fight.
1t is impossible to learn whether the Commission
has suggested any new plan, whether the Pres-
dent has telegraphed tonight to the Commission
any new suggestions upon which they to take
final action The belief in the best informed circles
is that the communications sent to the Commission
this evening, whatever they are, will have the effect
TO bring matters in New-Orleans TO an immediate
head. Either some propositions will be made to
both parties there which if accepted will result in an
immediate solution of the difficulty, the Commits
sion will return and report its failure to bring about
any understanding by which one government can be
secured in the place of the two now existing there.
| One ching is certan-the President and his Cabi-
net expect the Louisiana case to be disposed OF
within week from this time. The solution they are
looking for does not contemplate the support OF Gov.
| Packard's administration by further use Of the
troops now there, or by sending any others in their
| place. III Announcing his determination to put an
end to military support Of governments III Southern
| States the President will undoubtedly express the
| belief which lie holds that Packard was legally
| elected and that his title to the place cannot be
| challenged; but the withdrawal of the troops will
! be based upon the principles already laid down in
the South Carolina case and in the letter of instrnc-
ions to the ComInssion-namely, that it is mpossi-
Bile for the President to support continually by the
| use OF The military any State Government, III the
North or South.