The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-16
BY EARL Sparkling
Times Special Writer

HOUSE
Mr.. Sergeant Arms. seat the
gentleman!" roared Speaker John
FOurnet
The sergeant-at-arms swung up
an aisle Of the lower house Of the
Louisiana State Assembly, and was
crowded against a desk by wedge
OF Anti-Long legislators.
Cecil Morgan Of CaddO Parish
(oil center Of the state) continued
to speak: This is dastardly out
rage. You shall not vote me down
until have had my say"
The House was a bedlam Above
it all sounded Rep. Morgan's voice:
1T is charged here by Battling
Roseman that Gov Huey P. Long
wanted to hire him to asSassinate
J. Y Gamblers Jr., and you dare not
adjourn this House until 1 have had
my say"
All Lights Vote eyes"
"A motion to adjourn sine die is
recognized" shouted Speaker Four
net. one of Longs right hand men.
and the clerk will open the
machine"
The anti-LOng legislators were
convinced they could vote the mo-
ton down. They dashed to their
desks and pressed the buttons
marked no" which were supposed
to flash green lights on the board
Every light on the voting board
flashed red.
The machine is fiXed!"
I'm trying to vote no and I'm
voting red!"
I declare the House adjourned
sine die"
You double damned crook, open
that maChinel"
We must do something. Oh, God,
don't let them get away with thisl'
Machine Fixed" Is Roar
Rep. Harvey Began seized the
gavel from Fournets hand. Shrek
ing: When they steal the vote,
we'll lake the vote ourselves"
Rep. Clinton Sayes leaped up the
ladder to the voting machine and
roared: The vote was fixed! 1t
was a crooked votel" AS he came
down the ladder a legislator from
the red clay uphills smashed a stick
on his head. Sayes went fiat.
II was March 25, 1929. and there
was hell 20 pay; and Huey Long,
GOvcrnct of Louisiana less than a
year. mad trouble at his door. On
April 5 he was impeached, SO to 40,
on count IA Of the charges brought
against him. That charge was that
he had attempted to intimidate the
press by threatening Charles P.
Manship. publisher of the Baton
Rouge States-TimeS, with publica-
ton of the fact that Manships
brother was in a state insane
asylum"
Murder Plot Charged
Much more serious charges had
been brought against Gov. Long, in
Guiding the one that he had been
guilty OF SubOrning murder. in at
tempting to hire Battling BOzeman
to aSSaSSinate j. Y. Sanders Jr.
On the matter of abusive language
(and every one in the state who had
ever heard him speak new his
language was five-star STUFF j. w. A.
Jeter. of Shreveport, testified that
he was present when Long tele-
phoned Rep. A. J. Ellender. Said
Mr.. Jeter: He said hell and
damn and possibly put God in
front of it."
The Impeachment charged that
Long had demolished the executive
maSiOn without authority" He had
tried to get the Legislature to pro-
vide for a new mansion.
Orders Mansion Demolished
When they refused, he obtained a
building inspectors certificate that
the ola frame building was infested
with termites and was in imminent
danger of falling down and had it
demolished. Later, after he had
licked the Impeachment, Long per-
SuadCCi the Legislature to build a
S150.0G1 marble Governors home.
among other things, the House in
dicted Long on charges he had paid
F. J. Richardson $500 to resign as
superintendent of the state colony
and training school for the feeble
minded and make way for a Long
man: that he had paid his cousin,
w. o. Long, $3.50 of funds appro-
priated for repair and upkeep Of
the executive mansion which Huey
had demolished: that he had used
SLIP of the same fund to buy law
books for himself. and that he had
paid $4,000 for defective CulvertS
condemned by the u. S. Bureau Of
n
State Highway Commission.
But the chief interest Centered in
the charge that Long had tried to
get Battling Bozeman to kill J. y.
Sanders Jr., son of the 70-year-old
former Governor. who during the
campaign had publicly chased Huey
with an umbrella in the Roosevelt
Hotel.
Tells of Long OFFER
Bozaman. an eX-pUgilist. was
Huey'S first bodyguard. Bozeman
testified that Long had summoned
him and said:
u. Y. Sanders Jr. is going to
fight al my measures. I want you
TO get him out of my way
mean for you to kill the -! Leave
him in a ditch where nobodyll
know how or when he got there.
I'm the Governor or this state. and
if you're caught III give you full
pardon and pay you we'll"
Mr.. Bozeman demurred. he said,
and shortly was fired by the High
way Commission which had been
paying his salary. The Highway
Commission was heard then by
Oscar X. Allen. the Sunday School
teacher who later became Governor
TO succeed Huey Long. and who is
now titular head of the Long
machine
Meanwhile Gov. Long had been
making the best of a bad deal He
had called the special session of the
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