The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-08-08

in public print and belabors the Gov
ernor because he does not 60 around
from parish to parish making afida
Wits against criminals, or because
he does not remove some parish
officer or other that he has no con
stitntional or legal right to remove.
Even the City Item, a paper that
ought to be better posted, nsu
the Governor for not keeping up
with Sheriffs, ex.oficiota tax collectors,
and for not suspending them when
they are delinqnents.
Sheritfs, as tax collectors, make
their returns to the State Auditor
whose duty it is to report delin
quents, not to the Governor but to
the District Attorney of the local.
ty where the Sheriff exercises his
functions.
1t is then the duty of the District
Attorney to proceed against the
delinquent both criminally for cause
of embezzlement, and clvilly to re
cover the amount due the State
parish CT any municipal corporation
for taxes collected and not account
ed for.
AS 500 as a criminal prosecution
is begun against the delinquent,
the Distric: Judge aud not the
Governor has a right to suspend
the detaulting official.
The only case in which the Cover
nor has the right to remove an off
Ger is provided for iu article 100 of
the State Constitution which reads
as follows:
"For any reasonable cause the
Governor shall remove any officer
on the address of two thirds of the
members elected to each house Of
the General Assembly. In every
such case the cause or Causes for
which such removal may be required
shall be stated at length in the ad
dress and inserted in the Journal
OF each house,
Article 1876 provides that State
office rs can he impeached "for high
crimes and misdemeanors, for non
feasance or m~alfeasance III Office,
for inccmpeteucy, for corruption,
favoritism, extortion or oppression
in Office, or for gross misconduct or
habitual drunkenness"
Article POI says that "for any of
the causes enumerated in Article
1876, District Attorneys Clerks of
Court, Sheriffs, coronors, recorders
Justices of the peace and all other
parish, municipal and ward officers
shall be removed by Judgment OF
the District Court of the domicile
of such officer lin the parish of Or
leans the Civil District Court :; aud
it shall be the duty of the District
Attorney, except when the suit is
to be brought against himself to in
stitute suit IN the manner directed
in article 200, on the written re
quest and information of % resi-
dent citizens and tax payers, in the
case of district, parish or munich
pal officers, and of ten resident citi
zens and tax payers in the case OF
ward officers. Such suit shall be
brought against a District Attor
ney by a District Attorney of an ad
Joining district, or by counsel ap
pointed by the judge for that pur
pose. In all such cases the defend
ant, the State and the citizens and
tax payers IN whose information
aud at whose request such suit was
brought, or any one Of them, shall
have the rightto appeal, both on
the law and the facts, from the
judgment Of the court. In all ca
e where the officer sued as above
directed, shall be acquitted, pay
ment shall be rendered Jointly and.
IN solido: against the citizens sion