The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

has been entirely too much time wasted
and fustian used on the debt question.
1t has been discussed In all its bear
ings and the people want little deci-
sivc action on the part of the delegates.
A GROWL FROM THE NORTHERN
DEMOCRATS.
Especial to Cincinnati En4uirer.]
The feeling still runs high among
tho Northern Democrats against their
Southern brethren. They charge that
the Southern men sold out to the Pres
Says the President to the Southern
members, eff you will give me all of
the appropriation bills will see to it
that you shall have the jurors test oath
repealed, and will get enough Repub-
lican support to pass bill providing
for the Mississippi river commission"
The trade was made with Garfield,
representing the President, and Ran
dali Gibson and Acklin of Louisiana,
and Herbert of Alabama, representing
the South. The first part of the trade
was consummated last week. Garfield
made a speech favoring the Mississippi
commission bill, and for the earnest
ness he displayed received the APP
plause OF the Democrats. The bill was
passed, and notwithstanding the Re-
publicans led by Garfield had hereto
fore opposed the bill, enough were will
ing to stultify the record to seal the
bargain made. The repeal Of the ju-
rors' test oath was the next move.
Although tho Senate long since passed
bill to repeal this oath as an inde-
pendent measure, the House Republi-
cans never would let it pass in this
shape. They saw in tho desire the
Southern mon had to get the bill re-
pealed, that if it was passed as sep
arate bill, the Republicans might not
be able to get enough Southern votes
to prevent an adjournment, and thus
the judicial bill would fail. Again
Garfield, representing the President,
steps to the front, says he: eve will
not pass the Jurors test oath as a sep
it if you will put it in the judicial bill
and strike out the second section of it,
which repeats the law authorizing the
employment of deputy marshals."
This was objected TO by the Southern
men, because they thought this plan
was TOO palpable en- its face, and if
they agreed to it, it might create such
a stir within the party that both prop
ositions might be lost. 1t was finally
decided to split the bill, as has been
done. In one bill is the section re-
pealing the test oath; in the other the
| prohibition against the employment of
deputy marshals. The Southern men
will stand by the first bill, it will pass
both Houses of Congress, and will be
signed by the President. The second
bill viii be vetoed, and the end will be
that the appropriation for the marshals
| will be passed witt.Gou:: ..1ly prohibition,
| because enough Southern men have
gone into bargain to bring it about.
They have protested they will not, but
will do it solely to get the test oath
repealed. When this is accomplished
they will sell out their Northern allies,
and the deputy nlarshals will still be
authorized as a menace in all large
Democratic cities. The trading and
huckstering of votes which has been
going on for ten days has been simply
disgraceful, equallcd only by the bar
gain pending the Electoral Count.
McMahon is so disguised with the stu
alton that to-day he refused point blank
to take charge of the marshals' bill.
Cobb, of Indiana, has charge of it, and
will try and push it through tenor
row. Several Northern Democrats have
served notice on the Southern leaders
that hereafter they will not vote for
any bill for Southern Improvements as
distinctive proposition. The action
of the Republicans in voting solid
against the judicial bill is merely in
keeping with the programme agreed
on. They vote thus not because they
have any doubt that the bill will be-
come law, but to keep their record
straight with their constituents. Be-
tween patronage judiciously placed
and secret trades made in Congress, the
administration, engineered by Shcr-
man, is leading the Democratic party
as it listoth; and what is the disgusting
feature is that a good many Dem ocrats
know it.
A negro woman by the name of
Sophie Scott got into a row with an
old negro man named William Pier
man last week, and in the row Sophie
struck William on the head with a
heavy picket, cracking his skull and
knocking him scnseless for several
minutes. In the preliminary trial be-
fore the parish court Scott sworc the
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