The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-04
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
--oF THE
CONVENTION
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
or THE

STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Thlrty-seventh Days Proceedings.
New ORLEANS, Monday, June 2, 1879.
The Convention met at Ii o'clock a. m.
Present-The Hon. L. A. Wiltz President
and LIS members.
Absent-Mesgrs. Elam, Faulk, Gaakins,
King, Land. Smith OF st. Mary, Stage and
Thompson.
Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. I. David
son. Of Claiborne.
The journal Of Friday, May 80, was cor
rected and approved.
The reading Of the journal Of Saturday was
postponed.
Leave Of absence was granted to Mr.. Land
on account Of sickness.
Leave OF absence was granted to Mr.. Moore,
Of Lafourche, until Wednesday.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
The special order OF the day, being the re-
port OF the COMMITTEES on Contested Elections
In the case OF Tebault and Nugent We. Phelps
and McConnell. was taken up.
Mr.. Knoblock, member Of the committee,
asked and obtained leave to present bis views
upon the case, as follows:
The undersigned, d member Of your commit
tee to which was referred the contested elee-
ton case OF Nugent against Mcconnell, begs
leave to submit:
bribery and violence set up by contestant, are
not substantfated in any particular.
Q. That at poll 8, In the tenth ward, there
was error In the count Of ballots, and the
count at that poll Is tainted with fraud. The
@crf hrru my fhja rff rn1
Is not stamped with sufficient precision to
establish, beyond all reasonable doubt, that
either party to the contest Is clearly entitled
to @ seat In this Convention.
Hence, following the precedent established
by the Convention in the contested election
case Of Rivet vs. Augustfn, [ recommend that
the matter be referred back to the people
Of the tenth ward for another election, to be
held on Monday, June O., 1879, according to
existing laws, and that the Governor issue
his proclamation to carry into effect this
recommendation.
1'sepe''l'', sd CLAY KNoBLooK.
The report of the committee and the views
OF the minority were read.
Mr.. Leake moved that the further consider
alton OF the case be postponed until to-mor-
row evening at o'clock.
The motion to postpone was lost.
Mr.. White moved that Messrs Phelps and
Mcconnell be declared entitled to their seats
Mr.. Girard moved as substitute that
Messrs. Nugent and Phelps be entitled to
their seats, and on that motion he called fo1
the previous question, which was seconded
by the Convention.
When the main question was about to be
put, on the motion Of Mr. George the ques.
tion was divided, and the question first put
was: .Shall the Hon. John Phelps be de
clared entitled to seat In this Convention as
Representative Delegate from the Tenth
Representative District Of the parish OF Or.
leans Z"
The question was decided In the afffrma.
tive, and the Hon. John Phelps was confirmed
in his title to the seat.
The question was next put: us Mr.. James
Nugent entitled to q seat as member Of this
Convention, representing the Tenth Repre-.
sentative District Of the parish OF Or.
leans 7"
On this question the yeas and nays were
called for, with the following result:
Yeas-Messrs. Baskin, Bienvenu, Blaneh
ard, Bourgeois, Bridger, Carey, Claiborne
| Colvin, Cunningham, Davenport, Davidson
OF Iberville billiard, Forman, Girard, Cow
ers, Gueringer, Henry OF Nathitoehes, Jas
Lott, Luckett, Moreland, Moore Of ST Landry
Munday, MeGloin, Noguez, Mutt, Ogden
Reid, Rivet. Roach, Sell, Smith. OF Jackson
Stone, sutherlin, Todd, Vance, Young Of East
Baton ROuge-41.
ham, Bobie, Bolton, Breaux, Breen Brian
hem Chaffe, Chiapella, Collins, Davidson b
Claiborne, Davis, Demas, Denis, Dtckerson
Henry Of Cameron, Heron, Hongh, Howell
Kelly, Kemp, Kernochan, Kirkman, Knob
lock, Lagan, Lanaux, Landry Leake, lie
! Gardeur, Loan, Long, Lyons. Marks, Mar
shall, Matthews, Msntz, Willard, Olivier, OFT
| Ponder Richardson, Robertson, Semmes, 81
mon, Stamps, Steele, Stevenson, Stewart
Stille, StringfeIiow, Strovich, Warmoth, Wat
kins, Webb, Wells, White, Williams OF Grant
| Williams OF TerrebOnne, YouHg of COncor
dia-81.
Absent-Messrs. Easterly, Elan, Faux
| Gaskins, King, Land, Moore of Lafourche
Smith Of st. Mary, Stage, Thompson-1o
! Mr.. Knoblock moved that his own report b
adopted as the substitute for the report OF th,
committee and the Views Of the minority
On that motion he called for the previou!
question, which was seconded by the Conven
tlOu. IHe Yeas hHu nays WeEo GalLeQ IOE Of
the main question as follows:
Shall there be new election ordered In thu
Tenth Representative District OF the parish
Of Orleans, for one Delegate TO FILL the sea
now occupied by the Hon. James Mcconnell
| The result Was as follows:
ard, Bourgeois, Breen, Bridger, Carey, Clai
borne, Colyin, Cunningham, Davenport
Davis, billiard, Favrot, Forman, George
Girard, Covers, Gueri1ger, Hazard, Henr.
OF Cameron, Henry Of Natchitoches. Heron
Kemp, Kennedy, Kidd, kirkman. Knoblock
Lagan. Long, Lott, Luekett, Marshall, Mil
lard, Moreland, Moore Of st. Landry, Nun
day, Mciloin, Noguez, Mutt, Ogden, Par