The New York herald., 1877-10-27

Representatives 80 returned . copy Of which letter
viii hereafter bs submitted 10 the committee.
In his supplemental statement Governor Kellogg
says that he denies generally and specifically the ma
terial avermsnts OF Judge sponord that the
event the committee shall decide 10 take testimony In
regard TO who were duly elected members Of the Leg
islature oi Louisiana, that such investigation shall be
made through and In obedience TO the designs Of the
Election laws OF Louisiana; tha, Il shall decide who
were elected after excluding from the election re-
turns such polls az The Election laws Of Louisiana
desgaed should be excluded; and no states further
tnat If such exclusions made as are required by
the design OF the law will be found that the action
Of the Returning Board In certifying the election Of
members oi the Senate ard House they did was
justified bv the evidence and tho law In the
Juoge spoGnrd, In his supplemental statement.
says
The vaguensss OF tho statements OF Governor Kel-
BILE Tor mo 70 specify wnat shall desire TO adducs In
rebutla suit upon such pleadings could have no
end and assume that Il 10 the desire OF Governor
keiogg and OF the committee, as certainly 10 mine,
that this matter should be determined spcedily-ccr-
tainly within few weeks As TO tho specific docu-
the COMMITTEES OF the 22d inst shall desire prove
that the act creating the Superior Civil Court tell
through, An utter abortion; that It did require
any repeal, because never went into vital Iorce
that processing TO abolish the sixth District Court VI
New M Orleans Orleans Il never did abolish =, bu. that
IN tho inll exercise OF It's original Jurisdiction though
there has been no law revrvng IL II It be deemed
proper or material 10 20 into the general
whose horizon Is boundcss Indicated by Governor
Kellogg, the only effect OF which wlll be indenuite
delay and proftless wrangling, the Undersigned
suggests that It would DO proper to limit quota
tions to the testimony tux zen by the Howe Committee
but that the testimony taken by the Morrison Com
mitteo Of the House should, IN common larness the
othqn side, DO allowed consideration. or course the
journals and acts OF Assembly OF tho Nichols
Legislature as printed In volumes by authority 10
referred TO, aud tho undersigned In return agrees
that tho newspaper reports Of Journals Of the Packard
Legislature may be referred 10 by either party
The committee, alter hearing these statements read
held brief secret session, but took further
than to order that they be printed and Ihen adjourned
until next Monday.
THE FRENcH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF CON-
oRxssIoNAL ACTION TO ENABLE AMERICAN
CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE.
The attention Of the Department Of State has been
callcd by the French Minister in Washington to tho
statement recently made In the New York journals
that American citizens desiring to participate IN the
Universal Exposition Of Paris Will be authorized to do
SO upon simple presentation by the hinstcr OF the
United States in France, and the French Minister
ngan notifies the American government that,
Ing to the regulations foreign exhibitors cannot DO
admitted TO the Exhibition OF 1873 except through
the intervention Of special delegate, officially de-
signated by their government and accredited to the
French Commissioner General No presentation, in.
deed, would be made by the Minister OF the United
States at Paris without special instruction from this
government and the Departments OF State has no In
tenton Of taking any step in the matter that would
anticipate the action OF Congress in any way AZ.
sumo the authority 10 create positions of commis
srs or incur any expenditure expressly authorized
by law In Short nothing be done this subject
until Congress shall act upon II