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474 ; report of the Reform Committee of Citi- 

 zens, 474 ; address of the committee, 474 ; ad- 

 dress of the State Central Committee of the 

 Democratic party, 474 ; meeting of the Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 475 ; address and resolu- 

 tions, 475 ; convention of the " Custom-House 

 ring," 475 ; resolutions, 475 ; speech of Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor Pinchback, 476 ; preamble 

 and resolutions against excessive taxation, 

 476 ; convention and resolutions of the Pinch- 

 back Republicans, 476, 477 ; letter of Govern- 

 or Warmoth declining to be the candidate of 

 tins party, 477 ; reassembling of the Democrat- 

 ic Convention, 477 ; Reform Convention, 477 ; 

 plan for the fusion of parties in favor of na- 

 tional and State reform, 478 ; State ticket 

 agreed upon by the Reform Convention, 478 ; 

 rejected by the Democratic Convention, 478 ; 

 Democratic State ticket, 478 ; conventions of 

 the two wings of the Republican party, 478 ; 

 State ticket of the Packard Convention, 478 ; 

 resolutions, 479 ; resolutions of the Pinchback 

 Convention, 479 ; convention of Liberal Re- 

 publicans, 480 ; State ticket, 480 ; platform 

 agreed upon by the State Central Committees 

 of the Democrats and Reformers, 480 ; nomi- 

 nations of the Pinchback Convention, 480; 

 resolutions, 480 ; fusion with the Packard or 

 Custom-House party, 481 ; ticket agreed upon, 

 481 ; the election, 481 ; dispute about the re- 

 sult, 481 ; composition of the board of return- 

 ing officers, 481 ; charges against Governor 

 Warmoth, 481 ; injunction restraining the 

 Warmoth Board from canvassing the returns, 

 481 ; extra session of the Legislature sum- 

 moned by Governor Warmoth, 481 ; trial of 

 the injunction, 482 ; decision of the court, 

 482 ; proclamation of Governor Warmoth de- 

 claring the election of certain Senators and 

 Representatives, 482 ; Judge Durell orders 

 possession to be taken of the Mechanics' Insti- 

 tute, 483 ; Governor Warmoth and others re- 

 strained from interfering with the organiza- 

 tion of the " Custom-House " Legislature, 483 ; 

 election returns, 483 ; organization of the 

 Legislature, 483 ; Lieutenant-Governor Pinch- 

 back recognized as the lawful Executive by 

 the President of the United States, 483 ; meet- 

 ing of the "fusion" Legislature, 484; Gov- 

 ernor Warmoth's proclamation to the citizens, 

 484 ; articles of impeachment against the Gov- 

 ernor, 484 ; armed collision threatened in New 

 Orleans, owing to the conflict of authority be- 



tween Pinchback and Warmoth, 485 ; mass- 

 meeting in New Orleans, 485; memorial of 

 the Warmoth men to Congress, 485 ; resolu- 

 tions adopted, 485 ; refusal of President Grant 

 to interfere, 485 ; address of the Committee 

 of One Hundred to the people of the United 

 States, 486 ; review of the situation at the end 

 of the year, 486 ; debt, 486 ; vote of taxation, 

 486 ; debt of New Orleans, 486 ; taxation, 

 486 ; statistics of occupations, 486 ; of agricult- 

 ure, 487 ; of manufactures, 487 ; of newspa- 

 pers and periodicals, 487 ; of libraries, 487 ; of 

 churches, 487 ; of pauperism and, crime, 487. 



XIII. Act to suppress unlawful assemblies, 

 444; mass-meeting to oppose the Pinchback 

 government, 444; address of the committee, 

 444; address of acting-Governor Pinchback, 

 445 ; rival Legislatures organized, 445 ; address 

 of Senators, 445 ; inauguration of Governor 

 Kellogg, 446 ; action of Congress, 446 ; synop- 

 sis of the report, 446 ; views of Judge Du- 

 rell, 447 ; his action, 447 ; non-action of Con- 

 gress, 448; McEnery's address to the people 

 of Louisiana, 449 ; act to enforce the collection 

 of taxes, 449 ; proceedings in opposition, 449 ; 

 act to protect civil rights, 449 ; act to muster 

 metropolitan police, 449 ; insurrection in Grant 

 Parish, 450 ; movement of troops, 450 ; pro- 

 ceedings at St. Martins, 450 ; proclamation of 

 the President, 450 ; State Committee of Sev- 

 enty, 450 ; action of Congress, 450 ; State 

 debt, 451; assessment at New Orleans, 451; 

 deepening the Mississippi, 451 ; cotton-crop, 

 451 ; message of President Grant, 195. (See 

 Congress, United States.) 



XIV. Bill to restore the rights of, 222 ; ac- 

 tion of the Legislature, 476 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 476; resolutions, 476; nominations, 

 476; Democratic Convention, 477; nomina- 

 tions, 477; resolutions, 477; the Coushatta 

 tragedy, 477; address of the people of Red 

 River, 478; statement of Governor Kellogg, 

 478 ; action of the Federal Government, 478, 

 479 ; resolutions of the Committee of Seventy, 

 479 ; mass-meeting to protest against the Kel- 

 logg administration, 479 ; resolutions adopted, 

 479 ; reply of Governor Kellogg to the delega- 

 tion, 480; response of the committee, 480; 

 proclamation by IX B. Penn, claiming to be 

 Lieutenant-Governor, 480 ; assembling of mili- 

 tia, 480 ; possession taken of the public offices, 

 481; dispatch of Penn to the President, re- 

 questing him to withhold Federal interference, 



