The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-14
THE COMMISSION.
s4rsnt Biusrenre 1f opinion Among tlss
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Members.
WasutsaTpH. April ia New Or |
Iparta dispatch says Ii appears that tho
members Of the Commission are very
much divided In opinion as 10 what
f.1tttsa ty purst1e. The more UeHserva-
tive think they are not expected to sx-
anime Into any matters regarding, the
situation per SCI Others regard the Com
mission In the light of d board Of aIbl=
tration. Two of them deem y htghly
important that the work should be ex.
peiited and the Commission return 10
Washington as soon as possible. 49,.
they should remain on the ground Until
the whole affair is adjusted. These
gentlemen still cling tp tho fusion
Legislature project. and express the
auinign that no Quilted States Senator
Will he admitted wins ID not elected BY q
full Legislature, consolidated on that
basis.
TME LOUISIANA CASE.
Ths ssnesusian Heaft,ed by the eons~
ssaisslaiss
WssHtNaToN, April I'D. Tile Tfjbune.s
New Orleans dispatch snfs II may safely
be- stated that majority, Il not oil. of
the members have been led by their
Inquiries to the following conclusion
/, That the Packard government has
the heat II rot the enly. He jthe title.
III the Returning Board be D uonstitu'
tiunal part Of The machinery OF the
elections, then Packard. his court. fis
officers and bic Legislature are the 10
gilitnate products OF that maohine.
| There Id room for fair doubt as to The
constitutional power OF the board 70
make up Legislature. and TO tet judi
eiaIIy Oh the Supreme Court decision
denying IL the power 10 return WAS
The Nichols party had, therefore. no
right to build ttp u government on their
own doubts ~ to the constitutionaltty
of statutes Under which the board acted.
The question goes to the President. how.
ever, not as legal, but Hs 9 politieal
one. ,and he may fairly satisfy nilnseil
and BIZ governed by bis own ronstruo-
tion al TO whether the boards action
WAS constitutional.
! [, That the Nichols government eAer-
eisea complete de faeto authority
/ throughout the State, and IN every acre
uf its soil except within the walls 81 the
old hotel used by Packard ms u state.
House. The assertions OF Packard that
In certain heavy negro parishes no 10
recognized. have not been verified; re-
putabls sentlement of both parties
having come lib from these parishes to
answer tile Commission that the Mich
ola Administration meets with no more
opposition in these localities than, IN
New Orleans. parkards statement that
nearly all the Circuit Judges ia the
stats recognizes him has been found
ta rest solely III tho fact that these
lindgea were commissioned by Kellogg,
land ID dsproved by the aatbs OF office
flled by them with the Nichols Seore-
tary of State.
| ii In generally true that Packard IL o
prisoner In the btnte- House, aud that
his clnimH nre actually supported by
nobody In Louisiana, except members
OF hiH governments, and two or three
hundred guards he IL feeding and pay
No doubt the negro population be-
lieve In his right and want 1t enforced
but they will not raise d finger To ald
, him. willie the white population ore 10
, active and determined hostility to his
pretensions,
D. That Nichols Administration II
maintaining order throughout the State
and protecting the rights of both races
! and that peace and prosperity would
result from It's continuance.
4 That Packard's administration can
not be established by simple recogpi
ton on the part of the President, hu
only by the tIHe Of /. large force Of Fed
eral troops 10 crush out tho acting gov
ernment. and the maintenance OF gar
risons In the State during the whole o
PAekard's term.
Further, that II this course were prhc
j tieuble. 1t would involve u continuance
OF the race conflicts, social and indus
trial disturbances and business depres
sion. when characterized Kellogg's ad
nlnisttaiion.
The River and Harbor appropriations
WASHINGTON, April 13.-~Gen. Hum
phreys declines to give any Information
: as to what has deem done or Ia proposed
to be done In tho matter Of river an'
! harhor appropriations.
! The Condition of Charleston Harbor.
!, WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Pat
tersnn represented the condition o
) Charleston harbor to the President
who, 1t IL said, issued an order to TIL
l Secretary Of War setting aside th
0 amount required for the work.
A PRISON RENCoNTRE.
Fight in the Memphis Prison.
MEMpH1s, April 13.--About z o'olocl
yesterday morning. Turnkey Dawson Il
going through the Jail to examine tn
celia OF prisoners. discovered that tn
tuOOE uk bAS GGll VI EkGA Aud A16uEy f38y
mour, two brothers recently sentence
to the penitentiary for ten and fifteel
\ years. respectively, for horse stealing
= had been tampered with. Calling hi
assistant. John Aldridge, he ordere
the Seymours out into the corridor 3
search them. When Dawson an
preached, Henry Seymour drew Del
ringer. and cooking it, presented 1t a
Dawson's breast.
q The latter threw up his hands an,
told him not to snoot. Just then AL
bridge cooked his pistol, and Henry
fred almost simultaneously. Dawso
! drew his pistol and fired also at Henry
who fell, and soon expired, having bee
shot under the right arm. Aldridge re
ceived a severe scalp wound. Fre