The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-18
broadcast POWERS
TO WIPE OUT FOES
GIVEN TO 'K|NCF|SH'
Special Legislative Session
Ends in Uproar, smuggling
And Arrests
BAR NEwsMEN FROM FLOOR
Legislation Gives Husy Powers
Over Elections, Courts
And cuardsmen

Baton Rouge, La, Aug. 1s.-R-
The Huey p. Long machine Saturday
held the broadest powers Of military
and political control ever conferred on
single faction in Louisiana.
The Louisiana legislature handed
over the powers to Senator Long in
the early hours Saturday amidst
weller Of parliamentary confusion,
marked by exclusion Of newspaper
representatives from the house, slug
cling In the lobby, fist fights on the
floor and arrests In various parts Of
the state house.
Uroar and disorder such as has sell
dom been witnessed in Louisian,s al
ways tumultous legislature filled the
closing hours Of the assembly which
Senator Long called to enact legisla-
ton broadening his powers over cleo
tons, the courts, the Nationla Guard
and the local city and parish govern
ments throughout the state.
Squads Of state highway policemen
and the state bureau criminal investi-
CATION officers in plain clothes
swarmed through the state house
Throughout the night as house and
senate rushed through the long-en-
dorsed measures in an after midnight
session.
Session Adjourns 1t 3:1l Q. m.
Senator Long. actively directing the
course Of business, remained to the
end to see the last Of his proposals
put through.
The legislature adjourned at 3:ll
a. m, and few minutes later, Politi-
cal Dictator Long was escorted by 20
bodyguards down three flights Of
stairs to private door in the capitol
basement where he entered his limou-
sine to be whisked away to Q down.
town hotel.
In the closing hours Of the ASSEM-
bly,, after the house had voted 70 put
newspaper representatives outside
the doors, Leo Trice. newspaper pho
tographer, attempted to snap Senator
Longs picture and was slugged and
knocked down flight Of starets, sus-
tanning painful injury to the left
side Of his head.
As reporters went to his rescue, his
photo plates were seized and carried
away.
His assailant went unidentified.
Exclusion OF the press from the
house chamber follower another Of
long series Of floor fights over sena-
tor Longs activity in the house. The
anti-administration bloc was power
less to combat the Long proposed
legislation, but easily mustered the
necessary ten votes to invoke an anti
lobbying rule to exclude Long from
the floor.
Fist Fight On Floor
A fist fight ensued Gu the house
floor when dispute arose over the &C
tioa Of Rep. Rupert Peyton Of Caddo,
q newspaperman by profession, in
walking down to the press table and
announcing he would take down the
proceedings land protect all the re-
porters on the outside
Equipped with the broad powers
conferred on him by the legislature,
Senator Long Saturday prepared to
leunch at once new offensive against
his arch foes Of the New Orleans city
governmeat-with whom he is already
at armed war-by invoking the legis-
lative investigation which the assem-
bly, voted for him.
Aimed at the regime of Mayor T..
Semmes Walmsley who defeated the
Long picked candidates in last jan
uary's municipal election, and at the
New Orleans civil courts from which
have recently emanated a series OF
decisions against the Long faction.
the inquiry will be conducted BY a
committee Of four state senator's and
five representatives, granted the DOW
ers OF q court and unlimited as to
scope or expense.
Senator Long, barred from the
floor OF the house by the anthology
ing rule, played the Kingfish role UNI
restricted in the senate.
Long roared and swore when in
formed that Hiram Evans, of Atlanta.
imperial wizard Of the Ku Klux Khan.
announced that the khan had been or
dered to use the force Of the khan to
drive Long out Of politics on account
Of his "un-American, dictatorial tao.
tics" He dared the imperial wizard
to come into Louisiana and threaten
ed him with the penitentiary. Evans
said there were enough klansmen in
Louisiana to carry out the headquar-
tiers bidding.