The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-01-24
,IOs1|GE DEMANDED FROM LEVEE BOARDS
Citizens Insist That Steps be Taken to Construct
Locks in Bayou Observation-Disclosures Referred
to Governor Hall, Who Approves Pro-
iect--PIans and Estimate OF
Cost to be Obtained.

1.-THE Bayou. Lafourche locks must
be built was the ultimatum issued
to the joint organization OF the Atcha-
fa1aya and Lafourche Basin LeFee
Boards by a mass meeting OF clIlzehs
and taxpayers of Ascension, Assuhlp-
ton, Lafourche and st. Mary PARISH
as at the regular semi-annual SESSION
of the two levee boards held mere
Monday. and the manner in which the
demand was presented, combined
with the overwhelming sentiment
throughout this entire section III ID
vor of the improvement, assures del-
mite action in the premises "lLhlL
the near future and PresageS the III
innate accomplishment OF the import
ant project The meeting resolved IL
self into a debate between mehpeIs
of the Atchafalaya Board on one
hand and representatives OF the as
sembled taxpayers on the otheF, as
to the ability of the leVee poards
to carry out at this time their clear
| legal and moral obligation to replace
the dam at the head OF Bayou Lid
| fourche with a lock, and the upsAoI
of the discussion WAS that the matter
he referred to Governor Hall 10
decide whether the levee boards snall
at once look into the status OF, the
| plans for the locks and proceed 10 ue
wise WAYS and means for their con-
struction.
The meeting of the levee boards
was attended by the following COIN
missioners:
I,afourche Board-R. c. Martin
Jr,. Assumption; F. B. Lemann, AS
cension; Clerville Himel, St. James
; A. Champagne, st. John; George Ao
rio, St. Charles; Charles V1erlng
Jefferson: R. E. Perez, Plaquemlnesi
T. V. Thaggard, McDonoghVlle, rep
resenting the railroads, and Secre
tary w. J. McCune.
Atchafalaya Board-Presldent
l M. Lefebvre, West Baton rouge; b
t c. Leblanc, Iberville; J. A. Hum
/ Dhreys. Terrebonne; Honore Dugas
/ Assumption, and Secretary Thoma
3 Irwin.
u In the absence of President J. +
Wigginton, of the Lafourche boare
! Vice President Clerville Himel Gale
: the assemblage to order. Owing t
the fact that the rooms of the LIZ
fourche board were inadequate I
y accommodate the large crowd, tn
meeting was held in the Grand The:
q ire, which was comfortably filled Wit
J. an intelligent and representative a.
# dience, among whom were the 10
II lowing delegations from parishes
the two levee districts;
n St. Mary-Mayor M. D. Shannon
L Morgan City, Capt. J. R. Dracket
t. member Of the police jury; SOL. Loe
=. IL. Wilmer, Wallace Ditch, Manag
ID Clark of the Cumberland telepho1
or exchange, City Engineer W. c. Ol
e, | son of Morgan City, and j.
re Drackett, Jr.
bert fsbh,aaPpptionnnMayor franz IlIz, me-
Lezin Hinel, o. Broussard, Charles
Chaisson, E. D. Gianelloni, Dennis
Truxillo and Demephon Leblanc.
Lafourche-F. L. Knobloch, editor
of the Thibodaux Commentators
nal, and representative of ne Cham
Der Of Commerce and city council OF
Thibodaux.
Alter the preliminaries of the
meeting had been concluded, the
chairman stated the boards were
ready to entertain petitions Or COM
munications from the assemblage
present, and Mayor Walter Lemann
of Donaldsonville with a few intro
ductory remarks read the following
resolutions which had been prepared |
at a meeting Of the delegates earlier |
in the day:
We, the representatives of the |
parishes of st. Mary, Lafourche, As
sumption and Ascension, commercial |
bodies and the municipalities Of |
Morgan City, Thibodaux, Napoleon
vile and Donaldsonville, in mass |
assembled, indorsing and re-
iterating the several resolutions |
adopted by these several bodies, |
which resolutions are hereto annexed |
and made part hereof, do hereby |
assert that, in view of the fact that |
Gen~years have elapsed since the dam
was placed at the head of Bayou La
fourhe; and whereas, the time for
~i1S iSAi4Sfftj Va lIlS t1Esl1i 1GS ADlI Gu
since the year 1910, after the date
was extended on two different occa
5ions covering a period of six years, |
which period of time was fixed at
he instance of the joint levee boards;
therefore, be it
Resolved, that We demand of the
Atchafalaya and IafOurche Ievee
boards that steps be taken Immediate
y toward the construction of locks at
he head of Bayou Lafourche and the
york thereon be prosecuted with all
possible speed and without delay. Be j
further |;
Resolved, that this body propose {
0 appeal to the federal government
or relief Be it further t
Resolved, that the people of this :
ection have been treated in bad faith, I
nd we declare that our right to de- {
land the construction of locks at the E
cad of Bayou Lafourche is based up T
n clear legal and moral obligation. /
c it further
Resolved, that copies Of these res I
IutIons be forwarded to Senators Y
hornton and RansdeL, Congressman
roussard and Morgan, and the Secre- f
Try Of War"
Mr., Lemann also read the resolu- n
ons passed by che Thibodaux Cham b
ar of Commerce, and those adopt p
at the meeting held at Morgan
ity on the 18th inst, with repre- S
ntatiVes present from the four Il
lrishes vitality concerned in the "
lilQlng of the locks. He then re- &