The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-10-31

Then the spirit again moved the
President, and he again invited Mr..
to the chair, notwithstand- |
ing that lis attention was called point /
eddy to the fact that the Vice President
present. willing and ready to act.
But the President and his cote RE had
come there to do what vas right.
less to observe such small things
as the social amenities and pal
courtesies. And if the Pre-
had been hasty to relieve him
self Of his official robes, and to cast
them on worthier shoulders, Mr..
Whitehead was not less p%recipitous in
taking the chair, and needed little the
suggestion that common courtesy as
well as parliamentary usages and rules
required that the Vice President should
preside, the instant the President saw
fit to vacate the chair.
A formal point of order was now
made that inasmuch as the Vice Plesi-
dent was present in the hall, willing,
ready and competent to act, he became
of right the presiding officer, as soon
as the President vacated the chair.
To be sure, this point brought into
question Mr.. Whitehead's right to pre-
side, and, under ordinary circumstan-
ces, he would probably have declined
to pass judgment in his own case.
Common fairness would have suggest
ed to any fair minded man his reeusa-
ton and the reference of the caee to
some other jurisdiction for decision !;
but these seemed to have been extraor-
binary circumstances with the gentle
men Of the small minority, and as for
tair-mindedness, was tia word unknown
to their vocabulary, and they were not
there for that. They had other fish
to fry, and Mr.. Whitehead hesitated
not to sit in Judgment in his own case,
and to adecidethimself the rightful oc-
cupant Of the chair. An appeal was
taken from this wonderful and not al
together disinterested DECISION and
mirable dicts! Mr.. Whitekead's nice
sense Of, justice and fair play again
led him. inexorably refuse tU put the
motion. or to have the .rull called on
it. .stA~. .
If the conduct,ofthe proxy chair and
his unda9htsd and upabashed six had
been thus far most revolutionary, un-
democratic and,palpably unjust, the full
measure of their schemes had not vet
been reached, and the Democracy of
Lafourele was, yet To- receive another
more dangerous stab sfrem the hands
Of these self constituted censors of
public morals, and regulators of Demo
cratic. usages.'. ;af.
The last act of the cgnspi-
racy against the rights of the majority,
and the.liberty of the people was now
Dor put on the boards. 1t was sooa
made known that our truly wise Presi-
dent had taken official cognizance of
she existence of five vacancies in the
committee, and had, in the plesitude
of his powers and p~rerogatives, all by
himself and unaided by any one, except
bya little Anti caucus, of his small
c%oterie, filled the alleged vacancies, and
directed the secretary to place the
names Of the recipients of his royal ap-
pertinent on the roll of the commit
tee, and the chair here requested the
secretary to call the names,of the five
gentlemen recently created members
by the grace OF the President. The
Secretary at once explained that the
President had called on him In the
morning and requested him to put five
names on the roll in the place of D. ].
Babin, jules. B. Falgout and Thomas
Leblanc, removed from the parish
T'eophile Ducos, deceased, and E. H.
Lacroix, alleged to have resigned
but that he had denied the authority Of
the President to make appointments,
and had informed him that he would
place the names at the foot of the roll
subject to the action of the committee
At once the point was made that the