New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-10
rigues, Of Orleans. offered the following

| rlgGess OF orleans, oneTeQ Gne 1olloWinS
resolution, which was read and adopted:
ReSclued, That committee of five be aP,
pointed to go to the Senate, and at the bal
thereof III the name of the House OF Rep
resentatives and of the people of the State
of Louisiana, to impeach H. @. Warmoth
Governor of high crimes and misdemeanOrs
in office, and acqualnt the Senate that the
House of Representatives will in due time
exhibit particular articles of Impeachment
against him, and make good the same; and
that the committee do demand that the Sen
ate take order for the appearance of said
II. G. Warmoth to answer to said impeach-
| ment.
The Speaker appointed the following
committee:
NJ. Hahn, of St. Charles; L. S Rodrigues,
of Orleans; August " Williams, of East Baton
Rouge; A. c. Bickbam, of Washington: C.
w. Keeting, of Caddo.
Under suspension Of the rules, Mr..
Rodrigues offered the following resolution,
which was read and unanimously adopted:
/ Resolved by the House of Representa-
| tives of the General Assembly of the State
| of Louisiana, That committee CT five
| members Of the House be appointed by the
! Speaker thereof to prepare and present for
| the consideration of the House articles of
| Impeachment against Henry G. Warmoth,
Governor of the State of Louisiana, for
high crimes and misdemeanors in office, and
that they be authorized and empowered to
send for persons and papers in furtherance
of their Investigations.
MIR. Hahn, of st. Charles, in the chair.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The Secretary Of the Senate was an
nounced with the following message:
To the Honorable Speaker of the House Of Repre-.
sentatives:
have the honor to inform you that the
Senate has concGued in House concurrent
resolution relative to and requesting federal
protection.
C. H. MERRITT.
Secretary Of the Senate.
The Speaker resumed the chair.
Messrs. James Timony, Of the first, and
E. Howard McCaleb of the third repre-
sentative district of the parish of Orleans,
presented themselves, and were duly sworn
in as members.
Mr Hahn, of st. Charles, chairman Of the
committee appointed to wait upon the
Senate and inform that honorable body
relative to the impeachment Of H. c. |
Warmoth, Governor Of the State, of high |
crimes and misdemeanors, reported that the |
Senate had received the report, and would
take order in the premises.
Mr. Paris, of Orleans, offered the follow
ing resolution, in conjunction with the
resolutions of Impeachment I h was
read and adopted under suspension of
the rules:
n l. IL e |
the Senate concuTring, That, |
the House of Representatives has
formally presented and approved articles of
against Fl. G. WarmOth, and
the same for action of the Senate;
And, whereas, under the constitution the
of the Governor operates the
of office pending the trial of
5he articles preferred against him, the Gen
7ral Assembly IN the premises considered,
10 now declare H. c. Warmoth is suspended
from office of Governor of the State OF
Louisiana until such time as the Senate
hall try and decide upon the charges
against him.
Upon motion of Mr.. Allan, OF East Baton
Rouge, recess until Z P. NJ. was taken.
Evening Session.
The hour of recess having expired, the
House was called to order, Speaker Lowell
II the chair.
The roll was called, and the following
members responded to their names:
Speaker Lowell, and Messrs. Allan. Arm
tead, Antoine, Bowman, Bryant, Baker,
Boyd, Blackstone, Bickham, Barrow, Con
laughton, Cousin, Demas, Davidson, Davis,
)evezin, Dejoie, DumOnt, Devices, Greene,
4air CAN'T, Heffner, Hill, Hahn, Heath,
Iedgepath. NJ. Jones, Heating, Kenyon,
Keys, Lewis, Landry. Lawes, Murrell, Of
addison, Mahoney, Martinez, Marie Ma
hews, Montaldo. Page. Paris, Rochon,
ouer, Sawyer, Stewart, Sartain. Snaer, ]
,0uthard, Sutton, Sewell Thomas. Tureaud, {
Williams, Ward, Wands-57. {
A quorum present.
Messrs. V. 0. King, Of Orleans, and Isaac
lawyer, of Assumption, presented them
elves and were sworn in as members Of the
louise.
Mr.. Devices, of Red River, chairman of
he Committee on Elections and Qualitica-
ions, submitted the following report, which I
7as read:
Rooms COHNITTRR on ELECTIONS ! | :
New Orleans, December 8, 1872. ! |
o the Speaker and Members of the House of Rep.
resentatives:
Your committee, to whom was referred :
he contested election cases Of P. Jones :
orke against L. G. Beuham, Of the parish
Carroll and r. 4. Davis and w. II.
becker against James Mcconnell and r !
lummel, of the tenth and eleventh wards ,
f the parish of Orleans, having examined
ne evidence presented, beg leave to sub
lit the following report:
They find that frauds were committed in
le election, and that the ballot boxes were
'und open when they were about to be {