New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-28

Last night there was to have been a specia
meeting of the Board of Assistant Aldermen
for the purpose of entering into an Investigation
Of the charges against George Pandely, invol
wing his expulsion from membership in tha
Board. portion of the members, aware o
their right to judge of the qualifications of ont
of their own body. and determined to assert i
in defiance Of the unsustained injunction Of {
court Of Justice, met there and with boldnes
and manlinees in the highest degree honorable
to them, prepared for the investigation. With
the decision of Judge Reynolds in their favor
declaring that the Board was the exclusive
Judge of the qualifications of its own members
"a position never doubted until it was made a
question before the Fourth District Court-they
determined to confront all opposition, and at
therisk of their personal liberties to assert the
dignity of the body to which they belong. We
take pleasure in recording the names of those
who. in defence of their own respectability, did
not shrink from the risk of personal annoyance
on this occasion. They were Z. O'Sullivan,
Denis T. Donovan, DR.. Dalton, T. o. Starke, H.
Vanderlinden, R. ]. Kerr, p Hermann, Bon
dousquie and Maggioni. No quorum being
present the Board adjourned until this after
noon at the usual hour.
We have taken some pains to discover the
cause Of the absence of quorum on this occa-
sion. We learn that Mr.. Pandely having de-
termined to send in his resignation, many of the
members staid away purposely, to prevent the
meeting Of a quorum, in order to shirk the re-
sponsibility Of expelling Mr.. Pandely for cause,
and to give him a chance to resign, 50 as to pre-
vent further annoyance
The members who staid away have not done
themselves justice by so doing. If their object
in intending to accept Mr.. Pandely's resignation
is to save trouble, Mr. Pandely might have done
the same thing six months ago, when his right to
seat was first questioned If he had intended
to resign, he should have resigned then. In
stead OF doing SO, he has set the Board at de-
nance denying them the right-whch was
never aenied oefore--to Judge of his qualifca-
tons Tor membership among them, and ap-
pealing to the protection Of Court for the mr..
pose of coercing the members into a recognition |
Of his claims. The public business has beor |
trihed with by the proceedings in this raoard
the dignity Of the Board outraged-and now
when the member on trial finds that the Co,,r, |
to which he first applied has decided him to hs
wrong, and that there is a probability-nav. n
certainty-that the decision will be against him
in the appellate Court, he thinks to come out of
the difficulty with honor by lodging an investi-
cation! He will resign, forsooth, to prevent
the possibility Of the charges against him being
proven! 30 sI
We cannot bring ourselvessto believe that the
high toned gentlemen composing the Assistant
Board will permit such IN outrage on their dig
nifty as the resignation of Mr. Pandely. The
resignation of seat in legislative body i'm
plies apre-existing right to sit there. The
Board of Assistants deny that Mr. Pandely
ever had such right He can not resign po-
sition which he has never rightfully held If
the members Of the Board do not wish to make
themselves the subjects Of public derision, they
will refuse the resignation offered until they
End out whether Mr.. Pandely has any rights
there which he can surrender, 4