New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-05
Address 10 the Governor.

| journment, sent the following address to
| the executive:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF LoCIs.ASA !
New Orleans, January4, l%12
To His EScellency H. c. Warmoth, Governor OF
Louisiana;
SIR-The undersigned members of the
| House of Representatives. Law before vour
! eXcellency the following facts:
Daring the session OF Januarv 3. 1872 a
majority OF the House evinced a disposition
to displace the Speaker, George ". Garter.
A motion To that effect was offered. but the
Speaker refused to put the question. An
appeal was taken from this ruling, but the
Speaker refused to put the appeal to the
House. member then put the question,
and it was carried by decided majority.
But Notwithstanding this fact. the said
Garter held possession of the chair. and al
though the House had ordered the hall to be
cleared, he tCarter1 called around him a
number Of men whom he had secreted in
his room, in contempt of the order of the
House.
\ few minutes before the hour for con
yenlng OF the House to-day, eighteen mem
bers OF the House, all belonging TO the op-
position against Speaker Carter, were ar
rested by deputy United States marshals
and torcibly carried ont of the State House
upon TrOunuless charges made bv his
friends and partisans. Deeming this trick
to obtain a majority of the House. enough
members absented themselves to break a
quorum. Notwithstanding this latter fact
the Speaker proceeded with the business Of
the House. contrary to the constitutional
provisions binding the power Of a less num-
Der than a quorum. He arbitrarily directed
this minority. and caused the pretended ey-
pulslon of a number of the absent arrested
members.
He assumed. among other things, that the
House had clothed him with power to ap-
point large number of assistant sergeants-
alarms for the purpose of taking charge of
the State House. and preventing the in
gress OF the police thereto. For these and
other mlsdemeanOrs Speaker Garter has
been deposed and elected from the House
during the extraordinary session held under
your proclamation of this date.
Apprehending that Carter and his parti-
sans viii attempt violence TO regain his
lost position, we demand of vour Excel
lency, the chief executive officer OF the
state that you take measures to prevent
such attempt.
We state to your eXcellcncy that we have
no doubt of the power Of the House to pro
tect It's members. but we feel it cur duty to
take this action in order to avoid riot and
blooii@tit.;;!!
D. A. CccIranc. LAFAYETTE.
J. Darinshurg. Pointe Coupee
II. G. Tounoir, Pointe Coupce
4. Belot. Orleans.
Charles Abel Bossier.
john Gar>tkamp, Jefferson.
W. Il. Barrett Orleans.
Henry RiIey, St James.
George Washington, Concordia.
Thomas Murray, Orleans.
Thomas ID. Worrall. j, ttcrsoL.
O II. Brewster Ouchita.
~ W. Faulkner, Caldwell.
Emerson Bentley. S.. Mary
r Marie. Terrcbonne.
c. II. Nerret Terrebonnc.
John II. Bowen. Orleans.
George Washington, Assumption
W. c. kjnsclla. OrIeans.
w. K. Wheyland Sabine.
T.. w. Devices. De Soto.
Mortimer Carr De Soto.
=. Fonteiicu, Vcrmilon.
T. q. Davidson, Livingston.
Henry l.. Pond, East Feiciana.
John j. Barrow, West Feiciana.
Raford Blunt, Natchitoches.
@. II. Hampstead, Iberyille.
Henry pemas, st John the Baptist.
j. w. Quinn, Third Ward, Orleans,
z. Harper, st. Charles.
William Craw ford. Rapides.
l.. c. LaSaliniere, st. Martin.
w ID. Floyd. st. Helena
Dewitt c. Brown, Ascension.
N. Mahoney ,PlaPncmnes.
ID. l.. Mcfarland, st. Martin.
II. Raby. Natchitochcs,
d. Cady Stanton, Bosscr.
E. c. Morphy. Seventh Representative
District. New Orleans.
C.. F. Huston, East Feliciana
f Davis Orleans.
{. w RInggold. Orleans.
j. Oplatek, Orleans.
Milton Morris, Ascension.