The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-01-15

Ipartment charges that there exist.
Ipetty spite in the charges and prose.
i cation, If that be true then the
/ Grand Jurors. who have made tn,
! foregoing report. are not honorable
imcn, nor can they be trusted, ane
The Judge, who presides over the
| Nineteenth Judicial District Court, i.
part and parcel Of the petty spite al
legged hv the Conservation Commits
sioner, by permitting 10 he filed with.
out protest. on comment. in the re-
cords of his Court. the foregoing fin
nj report OF a Grand Jury, according
| to the Conservation Commissioner
the Grand Jary, the Judge of the
District Court the District Attorney,
are not fair and honorable citizens, or
they have very little intelligence to
permit such petty spite to be used by
a minor official
The Conservation Commissioner a
| gain shows how much respect he has
for the law, when he deliberately
permits himself to issue statements
ss 90 the proceedings and occur
rences lcforc the Grand Jury, how
ever ii an officer can not enforce the
laws of ills department efficiently
how can he be expected to obey the
laws Of The State that employs him,
what is the law to the Conservation
Commissioner?
want to ask you 10 answer these
questions, for ! know you will an
swer them correctly, | do not be-
lieve you would attempt to evade any
of them, unless it be deliberately to
withhold information you have in
your possession, and as a STATE
OFFICIAL | know you VIII answer
them:
lst Who made the charges, when
lnd where that Mcllhenny had been
harged with shooting wild game on
the STATE GAME PRESERVES?
End II these charges were made
10 you, why did you not advise me
that these charges were being made.
and why did you not have an inyesti-
cation made, either yourself or by
one of your numerous inspectors, Con-
5eryation Agents, Detectives Of other
experts connected with YOUR De
partment?
3rd We're you afraid that ! might
investigate as / have had the Grand
Jury do?
18th. II il was to your knowledge
that the wardens Of the Conservation
department were charged to have
been lax in the enforcement of the
laws, why did you not make an in
vestigation of these charges or ask
ne to make an investigation, again
we're you afraid?
Beyond the question of a doubt
something was wrong with your IN
spectors, the Grand Jury so charges
in their report after having heard
your testimony in the Grand Jury
room.
5th. | want to ask you as the
Conservation Commissioner of the
State Of Louisiana, If you knew orI
had been advised that car load OF
wild ducks. consisting Of ONE HUN
DRIED AND TEN crates, containing
IN Ill ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUN
pRED AND TWENTY birds, passed
through the City Of New Orleans
during the month Of December, 1916,
consigned TO John Haywood, of Gard |
ner, Mass, and if you knew at that
time December 6, 1870 that John
Haywood was operating game farm
in Mass, as a private enterprise and
not as a State Institution
9Th. want to ask the Conserva-
tion Commissioner, whether or not he
had been advised that such ship
3nent would be made from the Par
ish of iberia, and who advised him orI
asked his permission or consent tol
make the shipment, and when the
permission or consent of the Con-
serVation Commissioner, was secured,
before or after the shipment?
7th. | want to ask you, the Con
servation Commissioner, if the per
mission, consent or authority to make
this shipment had been granted inl
writing or verbally?
sth. If the permission, consent or
authority was granted verbally then
/ ask the Conservation Commissioner
10 quote any Statute Of the State OF
Louisiana giving him such authority
9th II is not fact and a record mi
YOUR Department, that a permit
was issued for the taking Of wild
birds, only after the shipment Of the
ONf. THOUSAND FIVE HUMID
RED AND TWENTY NINE live
dueks had gone through New Orleans
10th. | want to ask the Conser-
yation Commissioner in what way the
interest Of the State Of Louisiana,
entrusted TO him as the head OF the
Conservation Department, was cared
for in this shipment Of ONE THOUS-