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that it should be a fair one, it would be far more satisfactory to the people of the whole nation. He thinks the conduct of Judge Durell, sitting in the Circuit Court of the United States, cannot be justified or defended. He greatly exceeded his jurisdiction, and assumed the exercise of powers to which he could lay no claim.
In conclusion, the Senator deplores the troubles and earnestly hopes that the people will take warning and with one accord insist upon honest elections and the faithful observance of the laws. It is my deliberate judgment that it is better for them to bear the ills they have and seek reformation and relief under their own laws and tribunals than to invoke the National Government to the assertion of a power under which State governments would exist hereafter only by sufferance. He says the Kellogg government is a fact, and its legality is sustained by the judicial tribunals of the State, and it is in active operation in all its departments, without resistance anywhere. The McEnery government exists only on paper.
MR. CARPENTER'S REPORT-THE ELECTION DECLARED NULL AND VOID AND THE HOLDING OF A NEW ONE RECOMMENDED.
In the Senate to-day Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, made a report on the credentials of Messrs. McMillan and Ray, each claiming to be the legally elected Senator from Louisiana, accompanied by the bill providing for a new election, for the purpose of establishing in Louisiana a republican form of government.
The bill declares that the election held in that State on November 4, 1872, is null and void, and reinstates in office the State officers and Legislature who held positions at that time. It further requires a new election to be held for State officers and members of the Legislature on the second Tuesday of May, 1873, and directs W. B. Wood, United States circuit judge for Louisiana, to proceed to Louisiana and appoint two citizens of different politics to be State registrars, who shall also cause a new registration to be made of all legally-qualified voters of the State, commencing on March 18, and extending ten days prior to date of the election. The State registrars are to appoint two supervisors of registration for each parish, except Jefferson and Orleans, for which a greater number are to be appointed, and in each parish the registrars are to be divided in politics. The President is empowered to employ the military and naval forces, on application of the Governor of Louisiana or the United States circuit judge, to carry out the provisions of this act and enforce judicial process and $200,000 is appropriated to defray the