The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-29

Imprisonment would NOT 9ucCe00s - AAks -
moth was closeted with Gov. Kellogg. III
gave it for the benefit of all sensible men.
| He then, in vigorous and eloquent Ian
guage. spoke of the expectations with whiof
the Conservatives had entered the Legisla
ture and how disappointment had succeeded
disappointment, until the Conservatives
even those who had favored it, became salts
| fed that compromise was failure.
| He then arraigped the Republican party
| and predicted its coming dissolution. "Lou
isiana," he said, "was coming from out hel
| trouble, leaning on the arm of the people
She was being led from under Radical damn ma
ton"
He said that Vim. P. Kellogg should seel
an Investigation, but he shirked it-ever
feared it-else why thess barricades, these
bolts and bars, ana these additional sergeants
alarms.
Personally he arraigned VIM. P. Kellogg
as the responsible author of the tragedy of the
l4@h of September, an 1 for the taking Of the
State Houss by United States troops in 1872.
Hs then in conclusion spoke of VIM. p.
Kellogg IS a usurper occupying the seat of a
gentleman, ana exercising powers whicn he
had no right to assume, and exercising them
in an arbitrary aud iileg Il manner, and closed
quoting Gen. Grants celebrated dispatch in
the whisky Gases, Let no guilty man es-
cape"
Mr.. Dsnas replied to Mr. Booth in a ram
bling sort of speech in which he spoke
about the Returning Board. the Republican
party, the Conservative party, and on politics
in general, aud subsidized exhausted.
Mr.. Carloss told the Republican members
that they were damaging their party by oppo-
sition to a measure that it Was the sworn
duty of every memb to support. He would
not hold the Governor responsible for any
acts done prior to the compromise (although
his record was es black as helD. because he
had by voting for the compromise condoned
them. The House proposed to submit the
charges based on &C s alleged to have been
,mmtted after tho compromise to a tribunal
.mpetent to try them, and if these charges
were proved, he, if a member of that tribunal,
would vote for impeachment.
Mr.. Hunsacker said that if there had been
any hing laid before rh4 House jusufying the
i'm parchment Of the Governor, he would vote
for the impeachment, but there had been no
evidence at all presented. He wanted 1t un
derstood, that it was but one man and not the
Republican party which was arraigned. HIS
idea Was that the action of the Democracy
was intended to punish the Republican party
because the Senate had refused to accede to
certain demands of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Guichard replied to the charge made
by Conservative members that the Republi-
cans were the first to violate the compromise.
He said the Democrats violated it after the cleo
ton of their Speaker by unseating q number
of Republican members
He commended that the impeachment was q
political move, and demanded to know why
the House proposed to impeach Gov. Kellogg
for sanctioning diversion of funds and at
the same time had protected the City Admin
istrators who were charged with divertipg
funds by opposing the resolution calling for
committee to examine the charges
In conclusion he referaed to the memorial
signed by prominent merchants against the
Impeachment of the Governor, and spoke of
their high standing in the community.
MI. Ray and Mr.. Sartain both held that the
House was sitting as q jury, aud that it was
about to pass upon case without evidence
being heard. Mr.. Ray, in addition, repeated
the arguments of the Conservatives, but did
not attempt to reply to them.
Mr.. Souer moved to table the motion to
adopt the majority report, and yielded the
floor to Mr.. Kidd, with the understanding
that he would renew the motion.
MIR. Kidd said that he thought that any fur
Their expression of reasons why the report
should be adopted would be unnecessary. In
concluding the debate he would reply to some
of the statements made by the opposition.
He would take up the charge that the
Conservatives had proceeded irregularly and
without precedent.
He, in reply, to show that there was a pre-
cedent, read the proceedings of the Republi-
Can House in the impeachment of II. G. War
moth, which took place on the first day of
the 81 ssion. A resolution impeaching Gov.
Warmoth had been introduced, and under q
Of kho r,,1oc haH rutt
inquiry or investigation of any kind. He
read the names of those who had voted for
this resolution, and among them were Dsmas,
Hunsacker, Kea.ing, GuichArd, Murreu OF
and Mathews of Tensas. He
thought it was hardly proper for these gentle
men to talk of unprecedented action.
He spoke of the action of the pr esent Senate
on the House election bill, which he said was q
fair bill, and then spoke of the action of the
Senate on other bills intended for the relief of
The people, of the condition, of "poor, down.
Irodden Louisiana" and asked il the Con-
servat.ves had not sufficient incentive to
carry out to the end the proceedings inaugu-
rated in the House.
He told those gentlemen who expo cted to
carry the next election that it would be a
oeaceable and free election, and he warned
hem, that, if the will of the people was again
Jet aside by the infamous Returning Board,
hen indeed there would be trouble, and the
State would indeed be in revolution, and he
would be an humble private in the ranks to
punish the outrage.
He said the Democratic party would enter
me next campaign believing that the colored
men could be made to see that they had been
deceived, and with the intention of endeavor-
ng to gain their good will and support. with
he intention of having full and free cleo
ion. and with the intention Of having the re-
'ults after the election.
MIR. Souer withdrew his motion to takle,
md the motion to adopt the m .jority report
,.me up.
Mr. Stafford, of Rapides, explained that IN
7oting as he proposed to do he was actuated
~ sense of duty and honor. He held diff
erent views in regard to the impeachment
question, and though he might lose friends
~ it he must be governed by his views, which
we're convictions He voted no.
The vote was as follows: Yeas 81, nays As.
The Speaker announced that, by formal
7ote of the House, VIM. p. Kellogg, Gov.
,rnOr of the State of Louisiana had haan