The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-30
A Peep Behind the Scenes.
A Phantom Army - Who
Drew It's Pay.
Four Charges Against the
Board.

against grinding tyranny and oppression in
every conceivable shape, the passage of the
metropolitan police law was and is the
worst.
The design Of Warmoth when the act
was framed was to take away from the
municipal authorities all power, and to
render the city New Orleans sort of mill
tary dependency, which should be governed
by hireling soIdiery and enormously taxed
for the luxury.
The result was just what Warmoth ex-
pected and desired. The metropolis of the
South, the proud city of New Orleans was
at the mercy Of a set Of miscreants, the
like of which no .demagogne may ever hope
again to assemble to support his daring
schemes of ambition and avarice.
This Pratorian band which Warmoth found
SO valuable in carrying out his plans was
Immediately utilized by his successor Kel-
logg, who has used them in a manner, the
very thought of which, would have stag
gered the man who brought them into ex-
istence. He has not hesitated to convert
them into a standing army, and to send
them, in plain violation of law, to overrun
the country parishes, and to murder such of
the inhabitants as would not meekly bow
their necks to the most arrant usurper and
INSCRIPTIONS demagogue that ever dis
graced community or a political party.
Most of our readers are aware that, under
this law, the administration of the police is
in ha hop Of yJn4 T., In
Board of Metropolitan Police Commission
ers, which is vested with full pc xers to APP
point and discharge members of the fore
and to make all rules for the regula-
ton of the force, the city having no voice
in the NATTER except that the Administrator
Of Police is permitted to take part in the
deliberations OF the Board and to vote.
The Present Board
Is composed of the following persons, ap
pointed by Kellogg: Gen. Geo. Badly,
Vice-Presldent, r. A. Bray, Treasurer, J. B.
Gaudet, (colored), V. A. Ryan and B. F.
Joubert, (colored).
Lieutenant Governor Antoine is President
and er oticio a member of the Board. and
Mr.. B. F. Joubert has recently been ap-
pointed to take the place of C. F. Ladd,
who has been made by Kellogg Assistant
State Engineer for the reason that he
knows nothing whatever of the duties he is
expected to discharge.
During the last session of the Legislature
law was passed giving the Board power
to reorganize the force, which power they
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manner, looping off all such individuals as
were not partisan enough to suit their
fancy, and exhibiting especial severity as
regarded
The Germans.
1t was regarded as very heinous offence
to be white man and if to this misfortune
peeler happened to add that of being Ger
man, off went his head y to the manifest
delight and grinning satisfaction Of every
negro on the force. 1t was not so inexcus-
able an outrage for man to be an Irishman,
but Americans and Germans were in bad or
der, and the odeur T4frique was the perfume
most affected by the Board.
Among the first decapitated was Mr.. E. E.
Adams, book-keeper, who had held his posi-
ton for several years, and against whom there
were no charges whatever. During his long
sojOurn in the employ of the board, Mr.. Adams
had naturally picked up much information
respecting the peculiar method by which the
members transacted their business, and he
recently went before the Grand Jury and
gave them the benefit of his knowledge
The Grand Jury, however, we are inform
ed, could find no law under which they
could frame an Indictment, and SO the mat
ter dropped But though there may be no
law in the books under which an action can
be brought against men who have violated
their obligations to society, and to tho Sc
under their control, yet the press can frame
an indictment under the great moral law
which existed centuries before Coke and |
were born.
The First Charge
against the Board is that the members
have been in the habit of increasing the
issued to themselves for salary, to
make up for the depreciation of the war
rants on the market. In other words, if it
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amount was added on to the warrant of
each Commissioner, so as to make it equal
70 cash. This was not only gross wrong
% the city and an indirect robbery Of the
taxpayers, but it was a direct injury to the
police force, is their warrants were greatly
appreciated by reason Of the increased
Tolume in the market and the suspicious
ngendered in the minds of the purchasers
hereby.
The second Charge
$ that they have paid numbers of persons
Who have never performed days duty,
md that they have squandered the peoples
money to maintain horde Of the members
4 Kellogg's Legislature in idleness. Among
he special supernumerary officers who