Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06
LONG IMPEACHED
BY 58A0 VOTE OF
LOUISIANA HOUSE
Action Comes After Body
Refused to Consider Rep
rimand Instead.
SENATE is PREPARED
FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION
Charges Against Executive Run
From Swearing to Plot to
\. Murder Representative.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La. April 6.-The
Louisiana House of Representatives to-
day voted for the impeachment Of Gov.
Huey p. Long.
The action came after the House in
an earlier vote had refused to consider
motion for public reprimand instead
of impeachment.
The vote was So. TO 40.
The earlier vote was taken amid wild
confusion in the House after fiery
speeches had been delivered by both
opponents and supporters of Gov. Long.
The substitute resolution was offered
by Representative Ard Of Lafayette
over one previously presented by Repre-
sentative Perault of st. Landry, calling
for impeachment of the governor on
the count in which he was accused of
attempting to intimidate Charles p.
Manship, Baton Rouge publisher
Expresses Confidence in Bennett.
The House began its session by adopt
ing resolution voicing the confidence
of the House in Representative w. H.
Bennett of East Feliciana, whom Gov.
Long was accused of saying he had
bought and paid for him like a sack
of potatoes"
Perrault then presented resolution
providing that the House vote without
debate on impeachment charges against
Gov. Long, embracing the count alleg-
ing that he attempted to intimidate Mr..
Manship by threatening to expose the
infirmities of Mr.. Manship's brother,
who is a patient in the State Insane
Asylum, unless he stopped writing edi-
torials against the governor.
The House agreed that q vote on a
count in the impeachment resolution
would close permanently consideration
of that count.
Speaking on his resolution, Repre-
sentative Perrault declared it was the
duty Of the House members undo.
their oath TO transmit to the Senate
their findings on that score and there
would be a bill of indictment to the
Senate which the Senate would try,
Iioodlum Remark Withdrawn.
An extended debate followed, in
which the question OF whether the al
legged offense was an oficiai act was
discussed.
The debate became particularly warm
when one of the speakers referred to
the supporters of Long who gathered
here as "hoodlums" A dozen members
resented this, declaring that some of
them were from their districts. Even
tually the remark was withdrawn by
L. T williams, who, had made 1t.
The House voted on charges In the
impeachment resolution that run from
swearing, to a plot to have a State
Representative murdered.
The Senate is prepared to receive
the impeachment charges at moments
notice and turn itself into court of
impeachment.
The joint committee appointed to In
vestigate the controversy between Rep
resentative Charles Moon of Oklahoma
and Attorney General Percy Saint over
the Oklahoman's visit to Louisiana will
meet during the day
Mr.. Moon claims he was called here
and was paid a fee to advise on i'm
peachment procedure, which he had
learned during two impeachments of
Oklahoma executives.
Attorney General Saint declared that
he knew nothing of Mr.. Moon and
charged him with ''butting in.