The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-28
HOUSE..

HOUSE.
Immediately after reading of the Jour-
nal, Mr.. Harris, Chairman of the EeC
ton Committee, called up the election
case of Acklin VS., Darrell, from the 4Jh
Louisiana District, the majority report
being in favor of Darrell sitting member
Mr.. Stephens-To-morrow or as soon
as the case is disposed Of, shall move to
proceed to the business on the Speak er's
table with view of taking up the House
e. bill which has come back from the Sem
ate with amendments. | state further,
that my object shall be to move to con-
cur in those amendments Applause
on the Republican side,
Mr.. Butler Mass. Every supporter
of the bill will vote against that.
Mr.. Bland explained that he had in
tended 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
WOulu 10 pIOuBuJ up
THE LOUISIANA CONTEST.
Mr.. Hale made speech on Louisiana
affairs, claiming bad faith in the prose-
Cution of the Returning Board. He ar
gued that there was no legal ground for
the prosecution of Anderson of the Re-
turning Board, who had been for twenty
years elected to the Legislature from his
own parish; who had always stood high
in public and private estimation. and
who had never before been considered
an outCast and malefactor, In confr.
nation of his statement that there was a
compact that there should be no polite. |
al prosecutions in Louisiana, he quoted |
from letter of E. V. Smalley in the New |
York Tribune.
Mr.. Davis IN. c. asked whether there
was compact that crimes of forgery and |
perjury should go unpunished in Louisi-
ana. If there was, every person con-
neCted with it, or who assented to it,
should be in the penitentiary.
Mr.. Hale ridiCuled the sensitiveness of
those who were so anxious to have the
law vindiCated, and quoted the case of
the murder of Supervisor Webber in his
own town, in FeliCiana parish, in broad
daylight, for which crime no efforts had
been made to bring anybody to punish
menS.
Mr.. Robertson stated there had been
a Coroner's inquest held in that case,
and reward of $1,000 for the arrest and
conviction of the murdered had been
offered by Gov, Nichols.
Mr.. Hale went on to say that adherents
of the Democratic party in the South
who were now so eager for the upholding
of law and for the punishment of any in
fraction of it Iurked in swamps and on
and in ravines of the South to
ambush and shoot down officers of reve-
nue.. 1t was party 30 sensitive to day
that it robbed constituencies of their
on this floor and cast de-
cisiVe votes in the House at the hands of
men who had no more right to seats than
Dick Turpin had to the booty which he
had plundered on the highway.
Mr.. Atkins Indignantly denied the
statement Of Hale to ambushing and
of revenue officers.
Mr.. Hale went on to say that there was
! profound impression that the proceed.
Ings in Louisiana had its root, its main
Ipring, its source elsewhere; that there
we're many who believed that that whole
performance had been dictated and {
1riven forward by reckless men who did !
not mean ever to admit that the Presi- {
1ential title had been settled, The {
President Of the United States was learn I
ng to-day lesson of misplaced conf
1ence. 1t was the old, old story. There
lad been nothing which the President (
,ould do to make eHcacious his cause to- {
Yards the South which he had not done. /
There had been no announcement /
which could be held out to that section,
Ihowing the Presidents good faith, {
which the President had not resorted to. {
de had appointed cabinet ministers, for.
.ign ministers and other high officials !
rom that section because he had been {
lnxious that If the experiment failed no. {
,ody. should be able to say that it had
allied from any lack on his part, and I
low was the return received from Lou {
5iana. In conclusion he intimated that {
| might be the constitutional duty of the1 d
resident 10 see to it that no Injustice was /
rne to a citizen Of the United States. !
NO IMMUNITY FOR CRIME. \
Mr., Gibson replied to Hale. He de-
led that there had been any such COM C
act for immunity for crime as had been o
sserted by Hale. as to the case of the e
lurder Of Webber. in West Feliciana
arish Of which Hale had spoken, be o
3ibsOn) had interested himself In hav. v