He declared "that the determination of who shall and who shall not be jurors appertains to the legislative power," and he indicated his intention of carrying out the existing law of Louisiana in regard to the selection of juries.

General Sheridan had distributed certain memoranda of disqualification, together with questions to be proposed, for the registrars.

Their effect in substance was to disqualify all persons who, having acted, prior to January 26, 1861, as _United-States senators and representatives, electors, officers of the Army and Navy, civil officers of the United States_, and State officers provided for by the Constitution of the State, had afterwards engaged in the Rebellion; and also all those who in 1862 and 1864 claimed the protection of foreign powers.

General Hancock set aside this action, declaring that he dissented from the construction given to the Reconstruction laws therein, and ordered the registrars to be guided by their own interpretation of the laws and of the Fourteenth Amendment.

It was the popular understanding that General Hancock, in these successive steps, was acting in full sympathy with the wishes and designs of the Administration, in all of which he readily concurred as a Democrat.
The appointment of General Pope for the District of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, had not been agreeable to the President.