The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-04-03
The Majority nnd Minority Re-
ports ina the HkeiIo@s-spofi
ford Case.

Washington, March 23.--The ma
jority report Of the Senate COMMITTEES
on Privileges and Elections sets forth
as the results of the committees in
vestigations:
l. That Kellogg, while Governor Of
Louisiana, fraudulently used the
power of his Office to secnre the cleo
ton, by corrupt means, of q Repub-
lican Legislature favorable to his
election to the Senate.
8. That failing in this, he entered
into conspiracy with others, and
fraudulent'y used the power of his
office as Governor to change the re-
suit of such election by fraudulent
election certificates, in order that he
might secure Republican majority
in said Legislature favorable to his
election as United States Senator.
3. That through the aid of the
metropolitan police and United States
army and by the use of threats,
money, promises of Office, etc, he us.
sembled in the Legislative halls a
mob of his co-conspirators, many of
whom had not been elected, to the
end that he might procure pretend
ed Legislature for the Inauguration
of S. B, Packard for Governor, whom
he knew had not been elected, and
from which mob he might procure
the form of his own election to the
Senate, and to which pretended cleo
ton he knew that said pretended
Governor would certify.
4. That Kellogg excluded persons
elected and admitted those not elect
ed to said Legislature, for the pur-
pose before named.
8, That knowing these facts he with
held them from or denied their exis-
tence before the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections, thus inducing
a majority of the committee to de-
clare him chosen as Senator.
9, That to prevent revelations of
facts he procured government Offices
for his co-conspirators, and bribed
witnesses in the investigation before
the committee.
The report then concludes with q
long and elaborate legal argument
to sustain these points, quoting cop
iously from the testimony, and show
ing that no evidence was taken by
the committee which formerly report
ed in Kellogg's favor,
The minority report rccites tho
,aonJutinno ,,c tho Gnnatn paaunI.
November 80, 1877, declaring Kel-
logg on the merits of the case cntit-
led to seat, and says: The party
majority in tho Senate has changed
since Kellogg took the oath of Office
in pursuance of these resolutions,
but nothing else has changed. The
facts which the Senate considered
and determined were in existence
then as now. 1t is now sought, for
the first time, by mere superiority
of numbers to thrust Senator from
the seat which he holds by an ex-
press, deliberate and final judgments
Of the Senate. The act which is de-
manded by this party majority woald
be, in the opinion of the minority of
the committee, q great public crime
-one of the greatest political crimes
in American history.
The minority say they do not think
proper to enter upon a discussion Of
the evidence by which the claimant
of Kellogg's seat seeks TO establish
the charges affecting the integrity of
that Senator. Such evidence can be
found in abundance in the slums of
great cities. 1t is not only unworthy
Of credit, but is in many instances
wholly irreconcilable with undisput-
ed facts, and Kellogg has met and
pverthrown it at every point.