The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1872-10-26

oecame law, empowering the Police Jnr,
.o levy any amount of taxes, that they MIGHT
LINK proper. The tabular statement which
Will be found elsewhere, will exhibit how much
the pockets of the people was minus, in the
service rendered them by their Senator.
notwithstanding the enormous amount oil
annual tax, thus exacted in violation of law
fat largesses to the various officials connected
with this service, and system of prodiga]
appropriations and expenditures which char.
aeterized the operations of this august and ir.
responsible power In our midst, Senator An.
derson oblvious and totally unmindful of the
gene rai1nterests and forlorn condition of his
common constituency, gave full scope in his
acknowledged generosity, towards a select
! number OF his personal adherents, never for
getting Can't, in the form of exclusive corpo-
rate privileges secured by Legislation to build
and maintain Toll bridges across the Bayous
Carron and Courtableau, another form of taxa
ton which bore uneqnally upon those Districts
OF the Parish, who had no other access to their
shipping point, fWashington) than across
those bridges But the most curious of those
iargesses, was an Act of appropriation in aid of
the BGuf and Crocodile Navigation company
We briefly refer for a history of this singular
transaction, to the Act of interpretations enter
ed into by the parties on the 10Th of February
1866. The Act of the Legislature incorpora-
ting the company, according to the terms sti-
pttlated BY them approved the 2sth of March
ioilowing-- an Act of January Sd 1870 grant
ing in aid Of the work, eighty Thousand dol
lars OF State Bonds, maturing in twenty
years with forty coupons of interest of forty
dollars each attached and an appropriation of
S250O for surveys. &C., all to be drawn upon
the order of the President of said company,
and to be refunded to the State in twenty
years. The remaining legislation purports to
be an Act to amend the 5th Section of the pre-
vious Act of 1867, passed at its last session,
intended evidently to revive and give vitality
to the charter, doubtless forfeited long before
even the appropriation was made by the State
to the company. 1t provides by way of amend
ment to the 9Th section of the Act of 1867. that
the charter shall be forfeited if the work is
not begun III six months and finished in FIVE !
years. The Bonds have been received and |
discounted, bnt what has become of the pro- !
ceeds I The work has been begun, it is said I
but thus far, only progressed to the extent of
creating Instructions, rather than facilitating
navigation. s
Of Mr. Andersons course in the Senate upon
measures. of general interest, there can be no |
difference Of opinion, if we consult tile Jour
nails OF that Body. The 6elat with which Coy
ernor Warmoth and his party went into power
four years ago, was too alluring and attractive,
too rich in The spoils, offices and influence it
promised, to be disregarsled by our Senator
He became an easy victim to its temptation.
The odieus Election and Registration laws,
he Printing law, the Militia law, the Gonsta-
sHlary law and other party measures, ii, the
,egining of his term, then partially stistastefnl
q bis early Virginia conceptions Of the rights
# an American citizen. yielded most kindly,
hiring tile last two sessions Of his Senatorial
.areer to their support. &
i The limit assigned this article forbids MS. at
siiis time, to enter into details of the various
votes, which he gave, when not absent, Which I
generally occurred on questions involving res
The Journals Of 1s79-1871 and 4
1872, III our Office, subject to the pernsalof any 7.
Foter, furnish abundant evidence, that he
ought at least for term. be relieved from
iuty, and spared the painful task of again
ooking iq'on the darkest pages of legislative
'ppressinn, fraud and venality, which was ever
,rooded or weighed down any civilized people
,efore. I;