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Show Tlie Louittluuti Committee'! Keports Washington, 23. The questioi came up in the house on the reporti on Louisiana atlairs to-day. As U the majority report and minority report it may be staled that all mem Kara nf rim enmm i I f pa rpnnrt. airiin. the action of the returning board j that Foster, Phelps, Potter und Marshall Mar-shall unite in the majority report that there was no general intimidation ic the utate, but a free and fair election which resulted in favor of the conservatives, conser-vatives, who were deprived ot t it result by the wrongful action of tht returning board; that Hoar, Wheeler and Frye unite in a minority report, ' and that Foster assents with Hoar, Wheeler and Frye to a compromise, recognizing Kellogg as governor and' giving the majority in the house to conseJvative delegates. Messrs. Foster, Phelps, Potter and Marshall, the majority ot the committee com-mittee on the Btate ot tho seuth, in I their report, Btate the reasons for ! their non-agreement with the conclu sions of Hoar, Wheeler and i?rye, 1 which are briefly as follows: The laws inimical to the colored people of 1 Louisiana referred to in the unuori'y rspo:t have been repealtd for vears. The assumption that color-d voteis were intimidated by the recollection of the Colfax and Cousbatta fl kirs, the causes and circumstances ot winch are disputed, is regarded as violent when it is recollected that bulh parishes par-ishes elected the full Kellogg ticket by increased republican majorities. She report says the registration of the state was wholly in tho hands of Kellogg officials with whom the republican re-publican central committee with United States Marshal Packard at their head, co-operated, and that the registration was incorrect, and exceeded the true colored vote. In only three parishes did the republican supervisors ol registration make any complaint of unfair registration , y-hWv meat complaint was inaxLaJ-;--Tue conservatives, t.uo opei-uia with truth 1,200 cases of conceded false registration in New Orleans clone ? The committee a y the registration ot colored voters exceeded by 4,000 the total number of colored adult males returned by the census of 1870, while the registration of whites was 10,000 less. The whole number of voters registered was 107,004; ol these 146,-523 146,-523 voted, which is a larger proportion propor-tion ot the registration than umaJlj votes in any ot the northern states. The committee also call attention to the fact that the year 1S74 was one of political change and against the republican party, and also to the obvious ob-vious fact that it was to the interest of the conservatives not to intimidate colored voters, but to win as many by fair means as possible; and to the testimony showing load combinations combina-tions were made between whiles and blacks against Kellogg. The committee com-mittee repeat the statements made by the sub-committee in reference to the absence of any proof of intimidation intimi-dation of colored voters, and the fact that if there was intimidation it was by United States marshals against consrrvatives. They also repeat the conclusions of the Bub-committee in reference to the illegal action of the returning board. |
