everybody and everything connected with the Congressional plan of

reconstruction; and the pernicious influence thus exerted was

manifested in various ways, but most notably in the selection of

persons to compose the jury lists in the country parishes it also

tempted certain municipal officers in New Orleans to perform illegal

acts that would seriously have affected the credit of the city had

matters not been promptly corrected by the summary removal from

office of the comptroller and the treasurer, who had already issued a