Year: 1873

AFFAIRS IN NEW-ORLEANS.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNBI


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s-The defeat of the Louisi-
ana bill in the Senate little before s
o'clock this morning, after an all night
session. has greatly increased the anxiety
for the public peace of that State. The de-
bate of yesterday and last night instead of tending
to allay the hostility now existing between the rival
parties in New Orleans has rather famed the flames
Before the Senate Committee made its investigation
and report in regard TO the proceedings OF Judge
Durell, the State Government, and the Executive,
there had been review of those proceedings, and
the controversy was, far any official knowledge
of il went, an unadjudcated political quarrel, one
party To which had received temporary
recognition by the President But the re-
port of the Senate Committee puts an en-
tirely new face ON the whole matter. This Commit
tee consisted OF six of the political friends of the
President and of the Kellogg Government and one
representing the minority. OF the six Messrs. Car
penter, Morton, Anthony, and Logan are among the
most influential in the Republican party The find
ing of a Committee of this character that the Kel
logg Government was set up by fraud and Federal
usurpation, made operative alone by Federal bayo-
nets, and that the only Government IN Louisiana
which has the least shadow of claim based on the
people is the McEnery Government, comes with more
than redoubled force


Before this report and debate the claims of the
McEnery Government met at every step by the
adverse decision and njunctions of State and Fede-
eTal Courts and by line of Federal bayonets.
Now, such men as Senators Edmunds, Carpenter,
Morton, and TIumbull, the best lawyers in the
United States Senate have deliberately declared in
report OF speech that those decisions and injunc-
tons are and were wholly void for want of jursdic
tiOn that the courts which issued them had not
and could not have jurisdiction of the matter; that
the use of the military was wholly unauthorized,
aud that Kellogg and his whole Government have
no right to administer the Executive Offices OF
the State than the King of the Cannibal Islands.
The only conclusion that the people of Louisiana
can draw from the debate and report is that they
are no longer obliged to obey the Kellogg Govern
ment to pay any taxes tolerate it any longer


The President has given notice that, notwith-
standing that the character of the usurpaton is
notorious he proposes to sustain this fraudulenty
established government The all-important ques
ton which has been much discussed in all political
circles to-day is, VIII the people submit? Mr. Car
penter has said the people would overthrow it in ten
days if the support of Federal troops was with
drawn. Are the people of that State to be kept in
submission during the whole Summer by the use of
Federal bayOnets and if they conclude to no longer
tolerate the usurpation, will there be an armed con-
hOAN'SA''
These are questions that the thoughtful of the
Senators and Representatives contemplate with
feeling that almost partakes of alarm.


The defeat of the Carpenter bill is justly attribu
table to the members of the Committee who signed
the majority report. Had the House amendment,
continuing the Kellogg Government in power until
after the proposed new election, not been put upon
the BILL ii is the general belief that it would have
passed as reported. Mr.. Morton and all his follow
ers of course voted for the House amendment Mr.
Carpenter is also recorded in the affirmative, and
Messrs. Logan Anthony, and Alcorn were not in the
Senate Chamber when the vote on the amendment
was taken. Mr. Hill, the remaining member of the
majority of the Committee voted against the
amendment. Had Mr.. Carpenter stood by bis BILL
as he reported it, the vote would have been O tie; ;
so the amendment would have been lost and even
when Mr.. Carpenter deserted the Others who signed
the report, he might by little effort have saved
the bll


One more attempt will be made, probably, to get
this question before the Senate the Senatorial
contest between Ray and Mcmillan, but it is doubt
ful if the attempt succeeds.