Vicksburg weekly herald., 1878-03-29
HEssIoNAL.


gia, 10 have a branch mint at Atlanta
Referred. ..tfr -.
Stephens. OF Georgia, BY request, ia.
troduced q bill Tor the issue Of Post.
office bonds bearing interest at the rae
I Of - cents per hundred dollars for
every calendar month and redeemable
on demand at any Posl-oflce having
the funds on hand.
Various motions 10 suspend the
rules and pass or make special orders
of bills of Q financisl character were
made and rejected for want Of q two
thirds majority.
senate.
WAsHINGToN, March 25.-Windom,
of Minnesota, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported with amend
ments the House bill making apprOpri.
alions for consular and diplomatic ser.
vice tor tie fiscal year ending June 30,
1870, Placed on the calendar.
SENATOR Ho TE's sPEEcH-HAYEs's AD.
N HI.TRATIoN SEVERELY CRITICIZED
tCHURz RECEIVES AN EXTRA DRESSING
THE LOUISIANA QUESTION, ETC.
Howe, of Wisconsin, called up res
olulion submitted by him last week,
calling on the President tor informa.
lion as 10 charges Of Judge Whitaker.
of Louisiana, being a dtfauller to the
United States, and said during the past
year we have seen here and every.
where throughout the country, small
but active squads Of political inquis.
itors busy with the work Of asserting
the Republican party, gathering into
hallowed garners all those who avow
themselves supporters Of the Presidents
policy, and pouring unquenchable FIRE
upon all the rest. Poles have been sci
up at all crossroads, Gage inscribed
with the Presidents policy have been
suspended from them, and the self-ap.
pointed inquiaitors have lurked in con.
venient jungles to detect who did and
who did not uncover under the flag.
He had withheld no honest effort to
elect Hayes, aud it panied him to be
found not in accord with his views.
He believed q Republican President
should, as The Cincinnati Convention
declared, select Republicans for ali
those places where harmony and vigor
Of the Administration requires a
policy to be represented. lie then
commented on the Civil S,rvice
policy of the President, aud said be
bad selected for his Cabinet ore man
who was not Republican but Dem.
oCrat still the individual was 40 well
known 10 him (Mr. Howe, aud he he.
lieved so implicitly in the moderation
Of his opinions, IN the juslness OF his
sentiments, and the integrity of bis
character, that ii he could not have ad.
vi,ed his seleclinn be could not and did
not complain Of il. He then referred
10 the appointment of Mr. Schulz to
the Ministry of the Interior, and said
although not Democrat, yet be was
not q Republican; he was equally at
home with all parties, and in all places
by turns he had been everywhere and
espoused and deserted every party he
spoke like an oracle, and his facie
speech could be fitted TO the vicissi.
tudes of parties as readily as q double
faced satin can be turned to hide the
accidents of wear. His criticisms on
his political associates always won
him popularity with his political oppo.
nents inconsiant 10 everything else, he
has been constant to his trade, that Oi
politics. His first enterprise was 10
revolutioDize the Government un.
der which he was born; that failed
, and be fed. Mr., Howe commented
severely on the life aud history oil
Schurz, saying that he threw more mud
at Gen. Grant than any dredge, and
. argued that the President had made q
, bad choice In bis appointment.
He next referred to Louisiana af.
fairs, and said when the President was
, lnaugurated Stephen B. Packard wa.
. Governor; within sixty days after the
Inauguration he ceased to be Governor
When he disappeared the will OF Lou.
islsna was subverted and trarnpled on
. II Packard was not elected Governor
, Of Louisiana, nothing can be more Ger.
. tain than that Mr.. Hayes was not elect.
ed President, Without the electoral
vote Of Louisiana, the whole world
knew Mr.. Hayes had not the votes in
the Electoral College necessary to con.
, stitute aG election; aud II Louis.
, lana did not vote for Packard, the
, whole world knows that Louisiana
did not vote for Hayes. Packard re.
ceived 1900 votes more than some OF
the Hayes Electors. Under the Con.
sliulion the President bad but one
duty to discharge-that was to asctr.
tain whether the constituted tribunals
OF Loui,i na declared Packard Gov.
ernor, and then to defend bis authority
: 10 the extent Of his ability when legal
, ly required so TO do. II they hal not
, so declared, It was equally his duty moi
: merely to have withheld all support oil
Pack ards pretense, but to have given
ell required support to the claim oI
. Packard's rival. 1t was bis duty to
have done that, not merely on the 20lh
; Of April, but to have done It on the
4th OF March, Immediately upon bis
assuming the Office OF President, and
If he found 1t his constitutional duty tU
require Packard 10 surrender his office
be should also have recognized the
duty OF surrenderlng his own. l do
not intend to intimate doubt that the
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