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Show The President on Lonisiana Affairs. Washington, 22. The Louisiana conservative committee had an interview inter-view with the president to-day. Burke, of the committee, proposed to read his amendment to the Wheeler proposition, pro-position, but the president informed him that he could not be a party to any agreement, as his duty was to execute ex-ecute the laws, not make compromises; comprom-ises; but he would rejoice U the opposing op-posing parties in Louisiana could fimje to some agreomeut.- Thp rijL Sromiser. He said some mistako ad been made, but if he had been governor of Louisiana at the timo of the September trouble, ho would have turned the disturbers of the peace over lo the courts, instead of consulting with tho president. He informed the committee that he would consult with othor parties to the contest in Louisiana, and said no man would rejoice more than he if some settlement of the disputed matters mat-ters could be made. It being suggested sug-gested to the president that some iuti-mation iuti-mation from Washington would probably pro-bably be necessary to influence the action of the republicans in Louisiana, he, after some consideration, referred the committee to Wneeler, who, being interviewed, said he would do all iu his power by action, influence and advice, ad-vice, to settle the Louisiana difficulties on the basis of his proposition, which he declined to modify. |