New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-13

site to point outside Of the said parish as
it now exits, and at distance OF about
sixty miles from the present courthouse.
The boundary which this bill will establish,
if passed, is SO near my parish site as may
make it necessary to move the courthouse
to give it central position in the parish, at
probable cost of ten or fifteen thousand
dollars: Mr.. Clerk, please hand me the
memorial accompanying this bill; wish to
see how many genuine signatures it con
tains of the citizens of Cameron and Cal
casieu.
The petition is not produced. This is very
significant, indeed. A petition or memorial
asking for the passage OF a bill, and filed
with it, but lost or misIaid at the very time
when it should be exhibited for inspection,
is, certainly, if it is the document it pur-
ports to be, very remarkable. Now, Mr.
Speaker. if this was measure of reform,
and to the interest of the people of the par
ishes of Calcasieu and Cameron, would be
ready to give it my support; but as 1t is
Just the reverse, l am forced to oppose it.
hope that the House viii reject the re-
port of the committee.
| now, sir, call for the yeas and nays on
the motion to adopt the report of the COM
mittee.
Speaker Brewster-Before the House
acts on this motion desire to say few
words. ask the members of this House
when they propose to legislate You all
know there are many important measures
of reform to be passed. and we have but a
few days more to perform our duties. Mon
day will be Lincoln's birthday, day set
apart by you as a holiday. Tuesday will
be Mardi Gras, and there Will be no session
that day. And then comes the twenty
second of February. which is a national
holiday. Now, l ask the House when it
proposes to leeislate! We have been here
the best of the session and have actually
succeeded in doing nothing.
|. for one-if we do not accomplish these
desired refOrms-will be ashamed to go
back to my constituents and tell them we
have not carried through the reforms they
SO much need. l would suggest to the
House that it remain in daily session until
four or five o'clock. Then we can get
through the calendar-the regular order of
business. If we do not, we will be under
the necessity of holding night sessions, at
which, the members all know, there is con-
siderable discussion and excitement, and
very little business accomplished. | make
these remarks with the hope that the House
will proceed to business. If, as the people
desire, proper legislation is not accom-
plished, the responsibility will not be upon
the Speaker.
SATURDAY, February 10, 1872.
Mr.. Devices rose to question of privi-
lege and said:
Mr.. Speaker, in this mornings Times l
notice in the testimony Of man named
John Burke that he makes charges against
me before the congressional committee, and
l want to show how utterly false the charges
are. l never knew that he was the receiver
of the United States Land Office in this
7 LII T., D+3,o !,
the conversation which he testities before
the committee. He said that Mr.. Carr drew
pistol on the third of January in this
House. That is another talsehoOd. Mr..
Carr did not draw pistol. Now
do not deny being arrested in
1866, but how was it done ! l was
at that time chief of the military police
under Captain Morse. who was acting pro-
yost marshal. Colonel Lemley, a lawyer,
came to the marshal's office, and gave in
formation that his men were under arrest in
the Fourth District, and they were refused
a hearing by the recorder. The provost
marshal asked me to investigate the case. l
went to the place where they were confined,
and while there | was locked up, for what,
at that time, did not know. l was kept
there two days. l. after considerable trou-
BILE, succeeded in procuring a man to carry
note TO Henry Train, Esq. a lawyer.
This gentleman had me brought be-
fore Judge Abel on writ of
habeas corpus. and was released
on giving $1,000 bail to appear when sum
moned Up to this time no charge has
been preferred against. l was informed
some time afterward that two men had
been arrested with bundle of clothes in
their possession, and that they had said !
advised them to commit robberies. This
charge was preferred against me and
assigned as the reason of nv arrest. A
few months before nay first arrest l was
ordered to place guard around man s
house for the purpose OF securing his
arrest. l was then charged with going to
the mans house with an armed force to rot
the First District Court. when the
prosecutors offered TO enter a nolle
prosequ, but the proposition was
refused. and the case submitted to jury
and they rendered verdict of not guilty
without leaving their seats. Now, l have
letters from prominent men showing my
entire innocence on all these charges One
of these letters is from General Baird, and
another from the foreman of the jury, en-
tlrely generating me from these four
charges. l ask that they MAJ be printed in
the journal.
Mr. Carr, of De Soto-I also rise to a
UUISOual i HttlCt Ill ILLS
mornings Pic0y7tne, in the testimony of one
John Burke before the congressional com
mittee he says that he saw me with pis-
tol drawn on the floor of this House, on the
fourth day of January. Now Mr.. Speaker,
that man is a peTjurer. He tells false
hood.
testified before the congressional COM
mittee that l did not have pistol in my
hand Thursday. In answer to their ques-
ton, did you have pistol in your handf'
l answered, "No, l did not; did not have
trearm of any kind, neither pistol, re-
volver, knife or any thing; l had a pistol on
my person, but 1 did not have it in my
hand" And l defy any one to tell me that
they saw either pistol, knife, revolver, or
firearms of anv kind. Ii any man says
did, that man is a liar.
Also the charge made on the day previ-
Gus, in regard to MY receiving bride from
the Jackson railroad, is malicious and false
entirely.
The subject of registration was brought
up, and Mr.. Murray arose to privileged
question, and said +: Mr.. Speaker come
here as Republican, and | anu in as much
for reform as any member upon this floor,
for do not intend to vote for anything that
will affect the interests of the people | re-
present, and will not vote to repeal the
election laws.
The Speaker must call the gentleman
to order; he can not rise to privileged
question at this time.
Mr. Carl think this motion of the gen.
tleman from st. Tammany should prevail.
We cannot surely oppose that. Let us take
up the bill section by section Let us take
the obnoxious sections and debate them.
then we can get at the bottom of it and
modify them if we so wish. The bill as it
comes from the Senate is almost the same
as it is upon the statute books and it has
but few changes. Let us read the bill, and
what we do not like we can amend. We
are pledged to reform, Mr.. Speaker, and yet
We find these members who cried for reform
some time ago now vote to postpone the
hill What harm can we do in rpatlinr il