Year: 1875

extent his own degradation, and when the resolution was adopted he was made to get up and read the resolution which condemned him. Now, this would be just as legitimate a subject to consider here to-day as the subject we have now under consideration. We could consider just as we'll reso- lution expressing an opinion with reference to officers of the United States receiving gifts from citi zens of the United States. Why not consider a subject like that; Let the popular heart understand it, and let it respond. It is time we turned our attention to things like this. l merely read this res. olution for the purpose of making a general application to anybody who is guilty of like conduct. This is what England did with one of her Speakers who had re- ceived a gratuity for aiding the corporation of the city of London. THE REPORT OF THE SENATE COM MITTEE.

 We'll, when we get to the Kei- logg government in Louisiana, what do we find there? Do we find a case like the one l call the attention of the Senate to? And then do we find the action to cor respond with the course then taken?. We find, when we get to Louisiana, that Kellogg comes in as Governor, and how? The con- mittee of able gentlemen of this Senate made a report in reference to Mir. Kellogg and in reference to the government of Louisiana. In the conclusion of their report they say "It cannot be maintained that it's proper exercise violates the rights of the States, because the States have no protection or security from fraud or violence without. calling upon the national government, and the government cannot refuse or neglect to exer- else it in proper case. The condition of the people of Louis jana is substantially one of an- archy, and it becomes the duty of Congress to act in the premises" The committee report and say that it is the duty of Congress to act in the premises. When we come to examine that clause of the constitution as the committee argue, and, 1 think, very ably, we find that it is not the Executive, that it is not the House of Repre- sentatives, but that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union republican form of government. Has the President of the United States such power? Ido not understand him to be the United States. Does that provision authorize the Executive, upon his own volition, to go and take charge in person or by his agent-some man select ed from the army-of the govern ment of a state? No, sir. There is no such thing in the constitu- tion; and the interfering in the State of Louisiana in the taking of that government is palpable violation of the constitution of the United States. The commit tee in their resolution say:- Therefore, your committee rec ommend the adoption of the fol lowing resolution:--

 Resolved, That there is no State govern men at present existing in the state of Louisiana.

 There is no State government existing in the state of Louisiana, hence the power of Congress. The State has reached that point in which she shows her capacity, her want of capability to govern her self, and the committee ably argue that it must be a very extreme case for even Congress to act in the matter. I should think that in agreat case of emergency, when state was in anarchy and all was confusion and disorder, there might possibly arise a case in which the government of the Unit ed States according to the forms of law and the constitution, might pass upon and save them from anarchy and disorder. But the case must be an extreme one and