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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 181

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Louisiana. One bill urged the adoption of a permanent and uniform system for the reclamation of alluvial lands in the Mississippi valley, 1 and another asked for the renewal of railroad grants, which owing to a time limit had become void. He introduced a bill to suggesting the advisability of acquiring Lower California. 2 Many of the petitions were for the removal of political disabilities.
In 1871 Mr. Kellogg resigned his seat in the senate to become  governor of the state of Louisiana. Few  men have had a more stormy political career than Mr. Kellogg had from this time forward. The conditions in Louisiana were corrupt. The White Flower of the Camilia was doing in Louisiana what the Ku Klux Klan did in other states. Both political parties claimed
1. Congressional Globe - 1871 p 68
2. Congressional Globe 1871-72 p 33

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179 Louisiana. One bill urged the adoption of a permanent and uniform system for the reclamation of alluvial lands in the Mississippi valley, 1 and another asked for the renewal of railroad grants, which owing to a time limit had become void. He introduced a bill to suggesting the advisability of acquiring Lower California. 2 Many of the petitions were for the removal of political disabilities. In 1871 Mr. Kellogg resigned his seat in the senate to become governor of the state of Louisiana. Few men have had a more stormy political career than Mr. Kellogg had from this time forward. The conditions in Louisiana were corrupt. The White Flower of the Camilia was doing in Louisiana what the Ku Klux Klan did in other states. Both political parties claimed 1. Congressional Globe - 1871 p 68 2. Congressional Globe 1871-72 p 33