New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-08-12

| cltlZenS or New IBERIA, and ignored those
most important facts of an investigation,
| would have won the undying gratitude
of Jules Dupuy. But l am not of Dupuy' s
caliber. do not finch from duty. | re-
ported the facts as | found them, some of
those facts are burning into his snnl, and
On what a dreadful calamity, l have in
Cured the enmity of the ''Teche Phenom-
enon."
Now for the celebI ated warrant No 944
and pardon me Jules Dupuy, if it breaks
your heart once more.
Refer to stub No. 944, dated April 80,
1904, and you will find that a warrant was
issued the Peoples National Bank for
$Sl7.49, to cover IS per cent of old war
rants 48S and 545, payable, Feb. l, 1905.
The warrant detached from that stub was
not found when audited the books and
it is still unaccounted for. On March 81,
1905, warrant No. 1858; III favor of Peo-
Piles National Bank for 1868 20, for old
warrants 488 and 545, was issued and
paid on the same day by the Treasurer.
Relative to this to-day wired Mr.. Del
hommer as follows:
| "Dld you get cash for warrant No. 944.
or another warrant for $86S 49Y Was it
not warrant for 1868 49 that was paid you
in March 1905. Wire at once. His reply
by telegram. was: "Warrant 944, with in
terest, amounting to $869. SO settled by
voucher No. 1858 on March, q, 1905, and
paid by Treasurer same day.
| The records show beyond doubt, that
two warrants, No. 944 and 1858, were is
sued to the Peoples National Bank, and
there is absolutely nothing in the rec
ords to show that No. 944 was paid You
| have the word of Mr.. Delhommer, and |
do not doubt the gentleman, that the City
does not owe the amount of No. 944
| to the Peoples National Bank, but that
warrant was not paid by the treasurer, it
| was positively not cancelled, it is still ont
standing and my report shows that fact in
perfectly good faith. | challenge any re-
putable accountant or any honorable and
ir-minded business man to show mo in
error.
The issuing of a new warrant to pay
the same claim, and the cashing of said
warrant on its date of issue, shows on its
| very face contempt for regular proceed
ings. The cause for the disappearance of
warrant No.944 can only be conjectured.
Perhaps Dupuy can explain. But, will
he?.
To charge that my report is doctored is
the only defense that Dnpuy can make,
and in his dilemma he ''lights his last can
dle'.
If that man had, in any reasonable
and honest manner been able to show
the people that the report was incorrect,
he would have rendered service to the
City, and would have acknowledged his
privilege, as a citizen, to do so.
But your Honorable Board, when Du
puy attempts to charge me with dis
honesty, he makes a foul accusation
and brands himself as being low and
cowardly, and beneath the notice of a
gentleman,
defy Dupuy to point out any dishonest
act, or semblance of one, ever committed
by me. Every cent / ever made was
honestly earned and l hope thst Dupuy
can truthfully say as much.
My conscience is as clear as crystal, |
will stand by my report and by every
thing have subsequently said or done.
l ask for exhoneration and having
implicit trust in the honesty and
justice of the Council with them l rest
my case.
Your Board knows full well that Du-
puy's assertion of doctored statement
is born and bred in lying brain and di
rected as much against yourselves as
myself. Dupuy went a step too far when
he made his charge against me, and as l
said to him in a personel letter, few
days ago, Gin which | paid him my re-
spects(O he "might realize that in the
bitterness of defeat and exposure he has
done me an injustice"
If he has a spark of manhood left, it
will show thea.
Thanking you for your many past court
estes, and anticipating a complete vindi
cation, am, very respectfully yours,
(Signed) EMILE BfENvENU.
Moved by Mr.. Delahoussaye, seconded
by Mr.. Indest and carried by the follow
ing yea and nay vote: Yea-Messrs. In
dest, Renoudet, Delahoussaye, VOORHEES,,
Fisher and Stansbury, that the article
written by ex- Mayor Juld9 E. Dupuy and
published in the ''New Iberia Enterprise
and "Daily Leader" during the last week
of Jnly, 1905, in which he charges that |
Mr.. Emile Bienvenu was employed with
out authority and that he was employed |
by the "Council" for the specific purpose
of "mud- singing be denounced az abso-
lutely untrue.
Be it further ordained, that it was the |
sense of this Council that the committee |
appointed on the 10Th day of June, 1905, |
was authorized to employ an expert ac- |
cOuntant to audit the books OF the pre- |
vious administration and not to perform |
this work itself, as shown by the ordinance |
adopted ON that date and which reads as |
follows: By motion of o. Renoudet, sec
onded by l.. Indest and carried. the Mayor |
was authorized to appoint an auditing |
committee Of three members, with instruc- |
tions to have audited all the books, papers |
and business affairs of the City. The fol |
lowing appointments were then made: o. |
Renoudet, l.. Indest and r. ID. Stansbury. |
Be it further ordained this Council |
as a body and individually do hereby |
vouch for the absolute correctness of the |
statement of Mr.. Bienvenu this day made |
to the Council in regards to warrants Nos. |
944 aud 1858 and that warrant No. 944 |
while paid with warrant No. 1858 is still |
outstanding, and that no warrant for
$Sl7. 40 and being No. 944 was ever paid |
by the Treasurer but that warrant No. |
1858 for 1860 40 was paid by the Treasurer
and that this warrant was checked by the |
Auditor.
Be it further ordained, that we the |
the members of the Board of Trustees OF |
the City of New Iberia aud each individual |
do hereby denounce as being absolutely |
false the statements made by Mr.. Dupuy |
that an auditor was employed to make |
false statements for the purpose of discred |
iting the Dupuy administration or any
member thereof
Be it further ordained--that we do here |
by ratify and approve Of the complete, |
thorough and exhaustive report made by |
Mr.. Bienvenn, believing it to be absolute
ly true and correct as shown by the books |