The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-11

abolished and nation al bank notes IT etired, ant
in lien thereof the Government of the Uuitet
States shall issne an equal amount of treasur,
notes, commonly known as green backs" AND
we also demand the unconditional aud imme
alterahly opposed to the runous policy pursued
by the Repnb loan party whereby the volume
of the currency mas been contracted far below
the basiness requirements of h4eountry. and
| failures, depression of business and pAupei
wages have been entailed. We edemapd the
repeal of all laws imposing q tax upon TIE
circulation of State banks.
10. That 1t jS the sense of this Conveu tiou
| that all bonds and obligations Of the national
| government should be paid in the legal tender
| greenback notes of the United States, except
| law under which they were issued We further
demand the repeal of all laws passed subse-
quent to the original lew creating the public
dett by which the obligations Of the country
nave been made more onerous, and We recon-
mend that United States treasury notes shall
be made receivable for ell dues, public and
private, including customs duties. -
IL. That it 10 the sensa and Judgment Of
this convention that the L LsgaAsss&Eo of this
State at its next session should provide for
the calling and assembling of q convention at
the earliest practicable time thereafter, to
frame and to establish q new constitution of
the st ate of Louisiana.
IL. That in favoring q call for Q constitu-
tional convention 1T is not purposed to dis
place or interfere with the incumbent fl cals
In the State government.
The Delegates from the several Congress.
sional districts made tine following nomina.
tions for Congress.
First District.-Gen. R. T.. Gibson.
Second Dittrict.-E John Ellis.
Third Di.triot-J. II. Acklen.
Fourth District-J. B. Elan.
Fifth Distriet--
Sixth DtHtrtCr-E. W. Robsrtson.
The contest for the nomins ION ns State
Treasurer was very long and, We are ,rry to
hear, developed considerable bitterness. The
were J. q. Monoure. of.Ca6do, E. |
A. Burke of Orleans, and R. Richardson of
Out chita. On le fret ballot the vote stood {: |
Moncure 1S4i, Richardson 93f Burke 1872 |
With slight variations this vote was cast |
fifty nine times when, by agreement among |
the contestants the following resolu tions were
adopted:
Be it resolved. That for the purpose of ter.
pinstipg the exist,ug deadlock and of asoer-
tanning the strength of the represent alive can-
idates, the convention proceed, by d % ami mons
,or s3ut to t AXE three 10 formal ballots in the
lowing order First Burke and Richardson;
second, Burke and Moncure; third, Richardson
and Moncure.
Belt further resolred, That after thess infor.
nal ballots the candidate receiving the lowest
1umber of aggregated votes be dropped, and
hat no other nominations be in order, and
hat the two highest candidates so ascertained
De brought before the convention for formal
Ind defioite ballot.
Be IL further res0lued That each delegation
hail cast It's full vote in every ballot, as above
provided for.
Under this agreement the vote stood:
First ballot-Burke 223. Richardson 2O2.
Second bAllot-Burke 206, Moncure 209.
Third ballot-RichArdson 246, Monoure 169
Totsls-Barke 429; Rich srdson 44S; Monoure
7S
Moncure was accordingly dropped, and on the
ext ballot Burke was nominated receiving
65 votes to 147 for Richardson. The ITmes
upon this compromise plan says
The last ballot, 10 the order taken, was be- 1
ween Richardson and Moucure. In the pre- {
ions trial ballots the friends of the candidate J
ot being voted for divided pretty evenly on | !
be other two. Burke had all his votes on the
rat two ballots and it was only necessary for
is friends to vote on the third solidly for
richardson to cut ont Moncure or vice versa ; | 7
bus making it Q certainty that Burke would
o one of the two candidates to be voted for
u the formal ballot. His friends evidently
rent solidly for Richardson on the last triSl 2
allot, giving him 2i6 votes while Moncure 4
My carried his original strength, 169. The t
stter wes thus hopelessly shut out. The re- 4
alt was doubtless puyely accidental, bat We b
Incy tho plan will never be tried again under +
milar circumstances by candidates with their o
yes wide open. 1t iS a m msthemStical certain 1
that one of the two voted for on the last b
'ial ballot will be slaughtered It would be
to cslcRlsts the croes voting that b
inst have occurred in these test" ballots, bot o
. have not space to pursue the subject fur- o
Ter here. g
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