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

| the consent OF popular vote, special td1
On properly in New Orleans to pay for stock
| in the New Orleans Pacific Railroad, was
taken up.
Pending action on the bill the Senate ad.
journed until Wednesday at $50 A. NJ.
The House
was called TO order at about 1920 o'clock. A
quorum present.
motion was made by MI. Mathews to re.
consider the vote by which the rules were
suspended on Saturday to consider the report
Of the committee to investigate Kellogg. The
motion was lost by q vote of 40 yeas to sc
nays.
The special order of the day was postponed,
and Mr.. Wilt called up the report of the
committee on Gov. Kellogg.
The clerk proceeded to read the report, but
the reading was dispensed with.
Mr.. Souer moved the adoption of the mi.
nority report.
Mr.. Wilt. moved to table, and the motion
prevailed, the vote standing yeas 5S nays 43.
The majority report then came up, and Mr..
Wiltz moved to adopt.
Mr. Levisse took the floor. He commended
tina. the law provided mode of proceeding
in regard to impeachment, which the House
had not followed. He quoted article 1879 of
Revised Statutes. There had not been pre-
scented memorial from the member making
the charges, and he commended further, that
the Representative who made the motion to
appoint the committee made the charges.
He had presented no memorial and no in :
vestigation had been entered into by the COM
mittee.
The committee had been appointed under
q resolution which required them to ''inves-
tigate what charges, if any, there are against
all bod hoa n inv
tigation, not one witness had been examined,
indeed at the very first meeting the committee
held, the chairman of the committee came
with the majority report in his pocket.
He said that the only evidence which the
House had in its possession was that rumor,
no evidence at all. The House should have
the evidence on which the charges were based;
evidence which substantiated the charges
should be before the House, presented by
committee, before proceeding to impeach-
ment.
He said that the Conservatives charged that
the Republicans had violated the Wheeler
compromise by refusing to vote away the Re-
turning Board. He argued that the charge
was not well founded, and then proceeded to
show how necessary returning board was for
the existence Of the Republican party.
Mr. Young took the floor, He first con-
which the discussion and the proceedings on
the s'serious subject' under consideration had
been carried on. He said that he had not
been actuated, and he was not now actuated
by personal feelings.
He said that the proceedings Of the House
in regard to the impeachment had been per-
fectly regular. A committee had been ap-
pointed to ascertain whether or not such
charges existed, and this committee had re-
ported. II the Conservatives had wished to
have acted in q summary manner, they had
the precedent established by the gentlemen
of the other side in the impeachment of Gov.
Warmoth.
He said that the article 1879 referred only
to the charges preferred by individual mem
bers, and he was sorry to see that SO good a
lawyer, as the gentleman who had preceded
him, was driven to an extremity, which COM
PEELED him to quote the section as an argu-
ment against the formality of the present pro-
csedings.
The Constitution of 1868. gave the House
the right to i'm peach of its own accord.
He said that this G 1vernor had been guilty
of high crimes and misdemeanors in Office.
He quoted the Clinton case, spoke of his
and his indie m mt, and he
showed by the law that under both the cases
the removal Of the Auditor was imperative on
the Governor, and that the Governor had not
performed his duty.
The Governor had neglected, as the law
direoted, to appoint commission to examine
the books of the Auditor.
Mr.. Young next called attention to the ap-
pointment OF Judge Braughn, and his un-
authorized removal and appointment OF Judge
Steele.
He quoted the article of the Constitution on
governing the removal of Judicial officers,
which provides for their removal by the
H ause and Senate.
He said that in view of these facts it was an
unauthorized statement from the opposition.
that the Cons we're endeavoring to
stir up strife and discord.
Mr.. Lo veil rose. h started out by stating
that it was on the representation of the Con-
servatives that the Republicans had entered
into and Endorsed the Wheeler Compromise.
The very gentleman who had just taken his
seat had offered resolution indorsing the
present government.
He read the resolution, and then proceeded
to argue the want of good faith which the SUBJ
sequent acts of the Conservatives had in his
opinion made manifest.
He spoke of the resolution offered at the
end of the executive session by q Conservative
who had voted for the compromise resolution,