The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-10-05

missioner. But, gentlemen OF TINS
general assembly, am as jealous of
the honor and the integrity of the
constitutional convention as I am
jealous of the honor and integrity Of
this legislature. The very gentlemen
who are now attempting to reflect
upon the constitutional convention
did in that convention attempt to re-
fleet upon the legislature.
"They said that the assembly was
but puppet in the hands of the
governor, and with this argument
sought to sweep that convention off
its feet. Those very gentlemen we're
overwhelmingly repudiated by the
convention, and now they are at.
tempting to play upon the prejudice
of this legislature by saying that the
convention was but puppet in The
hands Of the governor and the
Standard Oil company. rise to cast
back in the face of those who make
those charges against men in that
convention, men who will live in the
memory of Louisiana long after the
ex-governor is forgotten. 1 resent
hose charges. They are unworthy
of the man who made them"
Representative Jules Carville IF
Iberville was the next to speak clos
ing the argument with sturdy dec
laration that no man had bought
or could buy any vote of mine on any
subject, and l resent this charge
more particularly in that it comes
from a former school-mate Of mine"
The Dupre statement said:
MY attention was this a. m. called
to the scurrilous attack made upon
the legislature by Mr.. Huey P. Long
and the equally uniustifiable attack
made upon the constitutional con-
vention by ex-governor Pleasant.
Ordinarily would treat such COM
munications with the contempt they
so richly deserve. But as member
of the present legislature and
member of the convention / feel call
ed upon to say that any charge d.
rectly or indirectly made which seeks
to connect me with the Standard
Oil company, or subject to "the club
of executive power and the budgeon
OF wealth is not only false and Il
belous, without foundation in fact,
but it is worse than that, in that it is
as false as the coinage Of he'll ITSELF
l am not much concerned about
what Mr.. Long has seen fit to say
to us by way of advice. His abuse
Of ex-governor Pleasant is in a class
by itself. 1t is a pretty quarrel be
tween Mr.. Long and Mr.. Pleasant and
I shall not take a hand in it, for fear
Of distributing the pleasant relations
that exist between them. But when
the ex-governor intimates that the
governor uses the club Of executive
power upon me, or that the Standard
Oil company used the buldgeon OF
wealth say in the language OF
another:
I "If thou sayest 1 am not peer,
To any man in Scotland here
LoWland or highland, far and near,
Lord Angus thou hast lied"
Judge Dupre then went on to ex-
plain what had. occurred at the SEES
sion of the convention the substance
of which was that he had voted on
Friday evening for measure that he
believed was agreeable to all, parties,
hut that when on Monday b9 as
certained that what he supposed vas
a compromise and agreeable to all
parties was not in truth and in fact
the agreement which he intended to
vote for, he reversed his opinion, and
that too without influence from the
executive or the bludgeon Of wealth.
'sThe facts are" said the judge,
sthat 7 found three parishes request
ing the other 81. to levy an additional
tax Of one-half cent 100000 Of