New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-10


Of Beef and Crocodile Navigation Com
pany.
Special committee to examine schoo
board of the parish OF st. Landry.
Mr.. Beasley, from the select committet
appointed to examine and investigate thu
accounts Of B. Bloomfield & Co. sgains
the State, submitted tho following report
which was ordered spread on the journal:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members Of thu
House Of Representatives.:
Your special committee appointed to ex
anime the accounts of B. Bloomfield & Co
against the State Of Louisiana, beg leave
to report that the committee has examined
the bill and taken the testimony of 3 mum
Der of witnessed, and it appears from the
testimony that the goods set forth on the
face of the bill we're furnished to the OK.
Sergeant farms, - Quinn, at the State
House, for the use of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
In asking for the vouchers, Mr.. Bloom:
field stated that they had been transferred
to Mr.. Hunsaker, ex-chairman of the Com
mittee on Contingent Expenses. Mr.. Hun
saker says these vouchers have never been
transferred to him, and upon inquiry your
committee has never been able TO find the
vouchers in the hands of any member or
committee of this House.
And referring to the bill of B. Bloomfield
g. Co.. your committee finds that very
large amount of stationery, etc., was FUR
nished-and We suppose was largely in ex-
cess of what was needed for the use OF the
House of Representatives:
Your committee also finds the charges
upon said bill to be exceedingly high, in
manv instances from 200 to 500 per centum
above the market value of such articles.
With the evidence before US, your COM
mittee is compelled to report unfavOrably
upon the claim Of B. Bloomfield g. Co.
Respectfully submitted.
r. r. BEASLEY, Chairman;
A. A. MAGINNIS.
I agree with the other members of the
committee as to the articles charged being
furnished by B. Bloomfield g. Co.. but am
warrants is taken into consideration, and
the delay of payments. that the charges are
not excessive 9, and if the appropriation was
now made, as claimed, think it would be
doubtful as to B. Bloomfield & Co. real
ling the money they have really expended
by selling the warrants in the market.
L. w. BAKER.
Mr.. Bolivar Edwards, from the select
committee appointed to investigate charges
against Hon. w. Murrell, Representative
for Madison parish, begged leave to submit
the following report, to wit:
New ORLEANS, March ?, 1876.
To the Honorable Speaker aud Members Of the
! House Of Representatives,:
Your committee appointed pursuant to
House resolution No. =, requiring said
committee TO examine certain charges
Of having bribed the jury IN the trial Of the
case of the State vs. Travis and Travis, in
the thirteenth District Court, in and
for the parish of Madison, at the November
term, AID. 1875, beg leave to report that they
have inquired into and investigated said
charges 20 far only as the same relates to
Mr.. Murrell, and after examining various
witnesses tor and against the accused, dis
cover no fact upon which to base . cOnclu-
sion that he is guilty.
Yonr committee examined, among others,
Colonel j. E. Leonard. district attorney,
Thirteenth Judicial District, who prosecu
ted the case against Travis ct al, on the
trial of which the said bribing is alleged to
have been done, and your committee can
not more appropriately close their report
than by quoting the language used by said
attorney in the closing part of his testi-
mony before your committee, to wit: That
he had NO reason to believe that Hon.
William Murrell used any improper infu-
ence with said jury"
Respectfully submitted.
BOLIVAR EDWARDS,
Chairman;
J.ROSs STEWART,
WILLIAM j. HAMMOND.
The Speaker of the.House having taken
under Amusement the point OF order
raised by Mr.. Louis A. Wilt, of Orleans,
as 70 the reception of the message of the
Senate informing the House of Representa-
tives Of the acquittal by that body, sitting
as a Court of Impeachment, Of William
Pitt Kellogg, Governor of the State of
Louisiana, for high crimes and misdemean-
ors, submitted the following as his de-
cision:
A point of order has been raised by Mr..
Wilt, of Orleans, that the message of the
Senate relative to the impeachment Of the
Governor can not be received, because the
Senate, never having notified the House
that it had constituted itself into . Court
of Impeachment, it's message regarding it's
final action in the impeachment could not
be received.
According to parliamentary rules in cases
of impeachment, as established by numerous
precedents, it is made the duty of the Sem
nate, after having been informed by q COM
mittee of the House that an officer has been
impeached for high crimes and INSIDE
meanors, to proceed to resolve itself into Q
high court of impeachment, and to notify
the House of the fact, and that it is ready
to receive the managers appointed BY the
House. In the present case the Senate
never fulfilled its duty, for it never no.
tilted the House that it had resolved itself
into high court Of impeachment. The
Chair is, however of the opinion that it
can not deny the Senate the right of pre-
senting to the House the evidence Of its
gross direliction in the performance of q
solemn and imperative duty. On . careful
examination of this remarkable message,
the Chair finds certain portions thereof go
disrespectful to the House, that it can not
construe them otherwise than as direct
insult to its dignity, and to the people
whom it's members represent. The Chair
therefore will order the Clerk to enter
upon the minutes only such portions of said
Senate message as can be received by this
House without prejudice to it's dignity.
SENATE CHAMBER,
New Orleans, March /, 1876.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members OF the
House Of Representatives:
l am directed, in obedience to instruc-
tions contained in the following motion.
viz:
THAT the Secretary of the Senate be in.
structed to communicate to the House Of
the final order of acquittal
adopted by the High Court of Impesch-
ment, sitting for the trial of William r.
Kellogg, Governor of the State, - the final
action of the Senate in the matter of i'm
peachment Of said William p. Kellogg,