Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-20
House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Immediately after
the reading of the journal Mr.. Harris, chair
man of the election committee, reported the
case of Acklin VS.. Darrell, from the 4th
Louisiana district, the majority report be-
ing i'll favor Of sAcklin, contestant, and the
minority in favor of Darrell, the sitting
member.
Mr.. Hale desired to obtain the floor to re-
ply to speech made a few days ago by Mr..
Gibson, but withdrew his request with an
understanding that he would be allowed an
hour during the debate on the election
case,
Mr.. Stephens Tomorrow, or as soon as
this case is disposed of, shall move to pro
coed to the business on the speakers table,
with the view of taking up the House bill,
which has come back from the Senate with
amendments. I state further, my object
shall be to move to concur i'll these amend
ments Applause on Republican side.
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts Every sup
porter of the bill will vote against that.
MIR. Bland explained that he intended to
make the same motion as the gentleman
from Georgia intimated he would make.
Mr.. Buckner said he had intended this
morning to move to refer the bill to the
committee on banking and currency. but he
was not particular how the bill would be
brought up.
Mr.. Harris, in opening his speech on the
election case, said he was not sorry the sill
yer bill would not come up to-day, as its
friends seem to have no concert of action
and success would be promoted by postpone
ment.
At the end Of Mr.. Harris speech, Mr..
Hale obtained the floor, and referred to the
remark made Thursday, by Mr.. Gibson, that
he, MIR. Hale, had taken occasion in season
and out of season to denounce the people of
Louisiana. He denied he had ever de-
trary, he has taken occasion heretofore on the
floor of the House to speak plainly upon the
grievances which had existed in that State,
and which he had exceedingly regretted.
He had been profoundly moved with his
observation of the course of events in Louisi-
ana for the past year, and especially for the
past six months. In the beginning he had
watched the experiment made there peaceful
~, believing that the magnanimous and con-
ciliatory course pursued by the President to-
ward that people would be met by generous
and hearty return, but he had seen that the
honor, pligghted support and pledged return
for the generosity, had been forfeited: that
the resolutions of the State Legislature went
for nothing, and that political prosecutions
were urged in Louisiana with spirit of vio-
lence which reminded him of the olden days:
he, therefore, could keep silence no longer.
He then reviewed the course of events in
Louisiana from the close of Grants admins
tration, bringing forward prominently the fact
that the title of the Packard government and
Packard Legislature had been settled by the
electoral commission, it being based on the
count of the returning board-the same
board whose action in the case of the Presi-
dent had been confirmed by the electoral
commission, whose decision had been ac-
cepted by both houses of Congress. It's title
had also since been affirmed by the Senate
in the admission to a seat in that body of
Kellogg, elected to the Senate by the Pack
ard Legislature.
He spoke Of the call of that Legislature on
the federal government for protection against
domestic violence. He did not know, or
nobody could tell the reflections that passed
through the mind of the President on that
subject, but he could see that the President
was looking on the subject with desire for
peace, with a disposition for Cancellation,
with tendency towards tenderness, deter
mined to start out and commit his admin
istration to course not of repression, OF
the strong iron hand upon that people, but
Of concession, magnanimity, and to disregard
the call of the Legislature of Louisiana.
He went on to speak of the sending of the
commission to Louisiana by the President
the result of whose visit was the disintegratior
of the Packard government and installation
of the Nichols government. The Legisla
ture and Gov. Nichols had promised par
don for all political ofenses. He asked ths
House to turn back it's mind, and he asked