178 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDING8 [Feb. 4,

found peace, the people of the State of Louisiana, on the
fourth day of January, 1875, through their representa-
tives duly elected to their State Legislature, had assembled
and organized to pass laws for the government of the State,
and being so assembled in the Hall of their House of Dele-
gates, in the State Capitol, in pursuance of their State Con-
stitution and Laws, and in violation of no law or provision
of the Federal Constitution whatever, the said Hall of the
said House of Delegates was invaded, occupied,. and taken
possession of by armed troops of the United States, un-
der the command of officers of the United States, five of the
said delegates were seized by said troops, and forcibly ejected
from said Hall, and other persons were declared to he mem-
bers of said Mouse of Delegates by the officer or officers com-
manding said troops, and seated as members in lieu of those
ejected as aforesaid.

We do, therefore, as the representatives of the people of
the State of Maryland, hereby enter our most solemn pro-
test against each and all of said proceedings, and we de-
clare them to be dangerous to liberty, in violation of the
fundamental principles of free government, destructive of
the jnst rights, both of the Federal Government and the
Government of the several States.

And we do further resolve—Ninth. That the President of
the United States, being by law the Commander-in-chief of
the Army and Navy of the United States, and the military
superior of the said Lieutenant-General Sheridan, on the said
fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,
and ever since; and the said President not having disap-
proved of said acts and proceedings of his said subordinate,
nor corrected the same so far as . e had the power, he must
be held and considered as having adopted and approved
thereof; and in so doing, in the judgment of this General
Assembly, he has committed a most grave error, which, the
respect we entertain for the high office of Chief Magistrate
of the country, alone restrains us from characterizing in the
proper and befitting language of condemnation it deserves.

Which were read the first time and ordered to be printed.

Hon. R. C. Hollyday, Secretary of State, appeared and de-
livered a message from the Executive.

Mr. Lloyd, from the Committee on Finance, reported
favorably,

House bill entitled an Act to repeal an Act to require all
auctioneers making sales in Baltimore county, to pay a
license fee.

Which -was read the second time.