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Show The Louisiana Commission). New Orleans, 7. The joint committee com-mittee lrom the democratic legislature legisla-ture waited upon the presidential commission this morning at the St. Charles. The session of tho commission commis-sion lasted two hours. It was secret. 1 Tho commission propounded numerous numer-ous questions as to the stale of aflairs. The committee made a detailed verbal statement of the status of the government, govern-ment, giving tho number of the parishes par-ishes and officiate that acknowledged tho Nicholls government. They will present documentary facts to the commission early next week, and visit the legislature and various state offices. When tho democratic committee com-mittee retired, Mr. Packard's supreme court judges were admitted lo the parlor and began their argument. Chief Justice Ludeling, Associate Justices King and Leonard ol the Kellogg supreme court, bad a lengthy interview with the eommUsion and laid before them an elaborate printed brief showing their title to office, irresDective of tho question whether Packard or Nicholls was the right governor. At 3 o'clock District Judges Marks, Cole and Hunton, for the 4lb, 5th and Dili judicial districts of the stale, each elected on the republican re-publican ticket, bad a long interview with the commtesion, and emphatically emphatic-ally declared tho sentiment of their districts to be in favor of tho Packard government. Tho three districts embrace eleven parishes, with a total copulation of 130,000. |