The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-11-07
marks of a wondrsus inexperience il

marks of q wondrsns ine1perience in
matters parliamentary, and yet cum
ningly drawn so as to conceal the very
facts which the reeorfof the proceed
ings of a deliberatiye assembly is de-
Signed to make known
Who answered roll-call. who was
present, WHO participated in the de-
liberatious outside of Messrs. Ledet,
Whitehead and Kent and the Eve APP
pointees of the first named gentleman.
The report Of the proceedings enlight-
eneth US not. As to who were the
members who had become .'~disgruntl-
ed" and withdrawn and what their
number Was, the record speaketh not.
All these material facts are ensbroud-
ed in a silence a. ominous "a that of
the grave : aud it was well for our
good friends that they should have had
as much discretion, for had hey
spoken. and spoken the truth. then. in
deed, would it have been made mani
fest TO the whole community that it
was rot CLEARLY evident that the Ants
were in the majority : but that, on
tile contrary, when the revolutionary
conduct of the President and his proxy
chair Lad become intolerable, the dds
gruntled" members denominated in
the report az Pros retired to the num-
Der Of fourteen. When We studied the
last of the three Rs, in the good old
days of yore, fourteen members used
to be something more than a majority
of twenty-five ; but 30 many strange
changes have taken place in thess
times of modern civilization and pro-
gress that, perhaps, it is not, any
iongerso.
, But if the report be silent in thu
s-ry material particulars which w
have indicated, there are something
about which the scribe of the minori +,
i PIRATES too-much. He has evidently
mistaken his position be forgot the
, plain duties of the secretary to essay
! part of the advocate, and has woefully
involved the narrative with the argu'
mentative style. 1t is a bad cause tina
must be argued in its statement. 70
= example, our sapient scribe, speaking
: of alleged vacancies on the committe
informs US that I'm former years th
chairman was vested with authority t
gil such vacancies BY appointment
etc. This is a direct misstatement o
fact /; the chair is not now nor wa
ever in former years vested with gu,
such authority and neither the learn
ed scribe nor any member of the nj
= nori : can show any such investmen
of authority in the chair. The chair
: man was duly authorized by a forma
resolution of the out going committe
of 1887, directing the election of TWEEN
I ty members of the committee, to ap
point five members for the parish a
: large but he was never empowered a
u any time to fill vacancies /; and nc
even SO versatile an advocate as til
;, scribe of the minority can, by the mos
:. refined process Of reasoning, twist tn
power TO appoint originally member
= of one grade into an authority to Fl
vacancies occurring in another grad
Thus the frail shaft of sickly sarcasl
aimed at some of the members of I'll
majority falls pOintless aud Harmless
Many other whimsicalities, almo
rich enough to entitle them to a plat
;" in the columns of Puck, can be foun
in these so-ca.led proceedings, ar
their puerility is calculated to provoi
a smile of pity.
This Article has Already exceeded
= limits, for us to bring out these ri
:, poiu to, but some of them are treat.
j.. of elsewhere.