Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-12-14
legislature of Louisiana.
MONDAY, Dec. 4, lS4S.

MONDAY, Dec. 4, 1915.
The General Assembly Of Louisiana
convened day at the State House, in pur-
suancc of the proclamation of the Gov
ernOr.
In the Senate but little business was
transacted. A resolution was submitted
providing for the adjournment of both
Houses on Saturday next, 9th Instant
The Senate then adjourned.
In the House. the Hon. p. w. Farrar
took the chair. Several members were
sworn in. A committee was appointed to
apprize the Governor that the Legislature
was organized and ready to proceed to
business. A message from his Excellency
was soon received, read, and ordered to
be printed to the number of 500 copies.
Two acts were presented making appro-
p%riations for the support of the Public
Schools, and regulating the disbursement
Ct the School Fund. They were referred
to the Committee on Public Education.
MI. Noise, submitted a resolution in
%structing the Judiciary Committee to
report a bill providing for the revision
and consolidation of the statutes of the
States. Referred.
Also, a resolution ins,ructing the same
Committee to inquire into the %expedien-
cy of amending the Act of -, so that
the Attorney General shall not be obliged
to reside at Baton Rouge, or to increase
the salary of the District Attorney.
A number of petitions were presented,
and referred to the appropriate commit
tees. ... .
Mr.. NOISE offered a joint resolution pro-
viding for the adjournment sine die of
both branches ofthe Legislature on Satur-
day next, the 9th instant. The rules
dispensed with, and read a second time,
on a motion to adopt the vote stood yeas,
As; nays, 25. So the resolution was pass
ed. . ..#s...t .,.
The House adjourned until 10 o'clock,
Tuesday. ~ ..-s
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
The following is the message of Gov.
JOHNSON, transmitted on Monday to the
two Houses of the Legislature:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and House of
Representatives.
can never feel Indifferent to any thing
that concerns the interests of education,
and it is nc newborn zeal that has ava
kened my sympathy for those whose lot
it is to sigh and suffer for instruction in
the first lines of thought. To read, in
other times, was the privilege of a favored
few; in ours, it is the right, and is destin-
ed to become the possession of all. To
tax the wealth of the nation for the %univer-
sal diffusion of kLowledge, is the noblest
characteristic Of the age in which we live,
and from the benign operation ofthis prin-
cipIe, I believe there can be no recession.
The rich lessons Of history have tooplainly
that it affords the only solid foun-
dation on which the virtue and happl-
ness of the people and the moral energy
of republican institutions can rest. Give
the people but to read aud the power of
a free press, acting upon the mighty i'm
pire of public opinion, in harmony with
the purifying doctrines of Christianity,
will emancipate them from every bon
dage and reform them Of every error in
compatible with a perfect equality or
rights, social and political To this way
only, car civil freedom and religious iber-
ty be enjoyed in full perfection. The
trainers of the new constitution well un-
derstood this, and did not hesitate to en-
ploy the idea in the instrument, in Ian
guage, the letters of which deserveto have
been written in gold. 1t inperativly
demanded the establishment Of free public
schools as a governmental policy through
ont the State-this organic revelation of
a sublime and patriotic sentiment was
approved by the people, and the first
Legislature that followed gave unqualified
sanction to the principle, and imposed an
ample tax on property for its support.