[100] House Jour., 1870, 46.
[101] Committees were appointed to investigate if bribery had been used in the appointment of officers of the Insane Asylum, the sale of levee bonds, the school-money, the defalcation of the Land Registrar, the councilmen of Jefferson City, the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, and Board of Public Works.
[102] Session Laws of Louisiana, 1869, Nos. 10, 88.
[103] Ibid., 1869, No. 66.
[104] Sen. Deb., 1870, 771.
[105] In 1869, the appropriation bill passed the House Jan. 7, the Senate Jan. 12; in 1870, it passed the House Jan. 10, the Senate Jan. 12.
[106] Session Laws, 1869, No. 15; 1870, Nos. 2, 49.
[107] Ibid., No. 52. The governor, unwilling to veto this bill, allowed it to become law by expiration of the time limit. Herbert says the overissue of vouchers forced these warrants down to two and one-half cents in 1871, 403.
[108] House Deb., 1870, 22.
[109] Ibid., 1869, 122. The speaker of 1871 considered that he had used his patronage very sparingly when he gave “three or four indigent friends places as messengers and clerks.” Ibid., 1871, 136.