The daily gazette., 1877-03-08
4 UNI1ED. STATES SENA1E. /

appointed, was adopted BY vote Of yeas
30, nays 20. During the L debate Mr.
Blaine made a-xigorens speech, in which
he read o telegram from D.. H., Cham
berland saying that he had been urged
| BY letters from VIM. M sEvarts and SIAN
| ley Matthews to withdraw from the gnbr
ernstoriai held. Mr.. Blaine character
al times asked If there was any Senator
in the chamber who was willing to stand
sponsor for such policy. For one, he
did not propose to desertthe Union men,
white or black, in the South but III nee
essary would defend them, alone and sin
gle-handed on tho floor OF tie Senate,
At this point the private secretary Of tlie
President announced o message from the
PRESIDENT In writing. Mr., Grover, Sena-
tor.eiect from Oregon, presented himself
10 be swornin, but objection being made
| by Mr.. Hamlin to his being sworn in he
was ordered to retire for the present "A
resoluti on was adopted referring to the
committee on privileges and elections the
credentials of ID. T. CUrbin and M. O..
Butler, claiming to be Senatoraelect from
south Carolina. "A resolution was sub
mitted that John 7. Morgan. Senator
elect from Alabama, be sworn In, but Mr..
Spencer said heewanted to speak ON the
subject, but was unwell, so the Senate
the doors were opened adjourned.
II siiHH MIR. BAYARD's sPKECH! gromR
b Mr.. Bayard, (Del., who was entitled to
the floor, said his reasons for moving to-
refer the credentials Of Mr.. Kellogg to-
the committee on privileges and elections
were those who warranted by the unbrok-
en- usages of this body, so far as he was
Informed, since its organization. The
credentials Of Kellogg did not create a
pran,d fdcie case because they were sign
edlby Stephen B. Packard, who was not
Governor Of Louisiana either de jure or
de .facto. On the contrary, the Senate
must take cognizance of the public fact
that Francis L. Nichols was the Govern
or of the State, and had legal Legisla-
ture acting in accord with him; that they
had control of every part of the State of
Louisiana except about one acre, upon
which stood hotel used by Packard as
a State House. He argued that Nickolls
was the only Governor of the State to-
day, AID his certificate was the only one
the Senate of the United States could
but it demanded the same consideration
now that it did in 1873, when the discus
sion was continued at such length. -
He argued that it was the duty of the
Senate TO see that the State of Louisiana
was Represented byt.two persons, but
those persons must be chosen by her law
full Legislature He then referred to the
use of the military in the South, and said
there was an admission of the outgoing
administration, tardy, but honest, that
the use of the military to uphold State
governments had been tried, but with no
good results. He then quoted from the
telegram of the late, President to the ef
feet that a government which Could not
maintain itself without the aid of the
strong arm of the military should be per-
mitted to 60 down. He (Mr, Bayard)
viewed that language as a parapbrase of
the Language of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, under which our people took
up arms to make them free. ..e--a
(Ex-President Grant, who came Into
the chamber soon after the Senate OPEN
ed, was an attentive listener to the above
remarks of Mr.. Bayard.l r'o3 9f'' ..H /
Continuing his argument Mr.. Bayard
commented on the legality of the Louisi-
ana returning board, and spoke of the
proof in regard thereto offered before the
electoral commission. He said majori-
ty of the commission claiming that they
were only imbued with the counting
power of the two houses of Congress,
held that they could not look into the
charges of fraud against that returning
board. There was in thatdecision blow
| to his fondest hopes and belief in law.
He then referred to the remarks of Mr..
Edmunds in the Pinchback case III 1875
and said that Senator based his objection
to Pinchback on the illegality of the
Louisiana returning board. He then re-
piled to the argument of Mr.. blaine to
al commission was binding upon the Sem
ate, and contended that that decision had
no force in law to control the action of
the Sen ate.
Mr.. Blaine asked if the Senator from
Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) did not satisfy
himself, as member of the electoral
commission, of the legality of the COM
potency and constitutionality of the re-
turning borad sf ~.
Mr.. Bayard said the Senator from Yer
mont gave as his reason for accepting the
Louisiana returning board his want of
power to examine into its returns and
composition. Continuing his argument,
he said that commission refused to take
testimony, which the Senate was bound
to take The remarks of the Senator
from Maine yesterday led him with much
abruptness to challenge the position Of
the President of the United States, The
new President seemed to recognize, as
at the lest did his predecessor, the true
condition of affairs In Louisiana.
Mr.. Bayard then quoted from the in
augural address of President Hayes in re-
gard to Southern affairs, and said they
were wise words. He (Mr. Bayard)
recognized in the distressed condition of
the country the need of that which the
President had proclaimed in regard to
the Southern States. The peace of Lou
isiana was the peace of all, and her de-
struction was the destruction of all. He
argued that the recognition of the Pack
ard government and the forcible over
throw of the Nichols government would
not only shock the very souls of the peo-
pie of Louisiana. but would cause thrill
in every bosom in this land, He asked
for Louisiana to-day the same measure of
law and justice that he would ask for
Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Bayard again referred to the re-
marks of Mr.. Blaine made yesterday, and
said he recognized in them the same cry
for sectional aggressions as has been
heard for years past. 1t fell upon his ear
like fire bell at midnight, and he earn
estly hoped it would not be heard by the
President and his constitutional adeisers.
In conclusion he deprecated this section
al aggression, and hoped there would be
an end of now. ~. ~. 3.
MR.. BLAINE IN RAGE. ',t,.
Mr.. Blaine argued that the same re-
turning board which gave the electoral
vote of louisiana to Hayes and Wheeler