New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-14
Baton Rouge Correspondence.
Correspondence Of the grssftnt.

Corrfspanntnrf oil the grfsffnt.
BaroS Rouer, March II, 1858.
The Judiciary Bill districtng the State has finally
passed the House and this bone of contention removed
business will proceed rapidly great change seems
to over the minds of of the members upon this
subject since the session commenced. From what saw,
convinced that to the old Probate sys-
TEN not in any manner contemplated BY respeota-
BILE number and that the plan adopted would be the one
introduced by the minority of the Judiciary yz every
Parish to constitute District After fighting upon every
species of compromise offered aud voting in every imag
pabe way the old plan of the majority Of the Judiciary
Committee has been fallen upon the last resort and
adopted by large majority So that the State far
the House is concerned is divided into Districts
tout NewOrleans with Probate Judge in each Parish
the District Judges receiving three thousand five hundred
dollars salary and the Probate Judges twelve hundred
Whether this plan will be adopted by the Senate remains
of course to be seem but my impressions are that it will
although know Senators who violently opposed
to it, among whom is Mr. Lacey the Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee who has tavorite scheme Of his
which he is not willing to abandon without great
struggle. There many the other hand who viii
be warmly in favor of it.
The course OF several gentlemen the House upon this
subject rather amusing well instructive. Every
day they seemed to have turned complete somerset and
only after the final vote had been taken that any
one could have said with any certainty what plan would
be adopted l remarked that Mr.. Miller, from Point
Coupee who had been of the most strenuous advo-
| Gates of the Judge system, and who made more
speeches upon the subject than all the balance of those
who believed with him put together when the time
to vote found in his seat-hhough he had been
arguing and appealing all the morning to that moment
and although he continued to do after the vote was
taken When his constituents read the debates upon the
subject wherein they will find his eloquent and patriotic
remarks ten times told aud then find that he didn't
Ivota he VIII nitedh i'm In
forensic displays they viii perhaps be able to comprehend
something about that Buneomb policy which is deeply
| rooted in the minds of some politicians.
Among those things which this Legislature will have to
to their constituents and which they should
with fear and trembling the heaviest sin which
they fastening upon their shoulders is the woful
squandering of the swamp land fund, of which they
being guilty cannot particularize all the bills
which have been presented for appropriations from this
of revenue because would take up too much
time and space But notice one, which is enough
for present purposes the application for thirty
six thousand dollars which has been made for the Grand
Levee caed) of Point Coupee fthe Levee alluded
to protects the land of the State from inundation and
if by its presence any of the swamp lands donated to the
State redeemed then, without doubt the State
should assist in keeping the Levee up But should do
this under general Levee law, and not make it matter
of special legislation The assistance might with
quite good grace from every parish the river
bank If the State is to build the Levees in Point Cou
pee, why not in West Baton Rouge The Levees in the
latter parish unless greatly mistaken and am GER
tain am not cost in the aggregate much do those
of Point Coupeewhere then is the justice the reason
in giving to that parish thirysx thousand dollars and
not cent to the other Point Coupee is the only parish
which has asked for this appropriation and she not
any entitled to it than others. Besides which, this
is not the first time application has been made for the
purpose The statute book will show that only last
year twenty five thousand dollars appropriated for
that Levee-so that it would it is to become regu
lar pensoner upon the treasury and that every year
pension is to be increased Last year it was wenty
thousandthis year it is thirty sixapply mathematics
to the question, and it will be hard to tell then what will
be the amount asked next time.
1t intended that this magnificent donation
should be FILTERED away in this of style 1t should
be applied to general and not special purposes 1t
matter in which the whole State has deep political and
pecunary interest 1t has political interest in it
of the immense population it would sustain, and has
great pecuniary interest in it because the millions the
sale Of reclaimed swamp lands would put into the
ry 1t should be guarded therefore, with jealous eye
and not be looked upon granting which came
easy and may without prejudice, go easy 1t should be
left intact and applied to purpose except the accom-
plishment Of the ends it intended accomplish
But say the advocates of the appropriations from it
the ask trhing when you consider
of money which will realized from the these lands
They calculate that because much has already paid
in upon them that therefore they go calculating
with certainty that hereafter much will come in as
in before This is sheer folly for it can be easily
that nothing but the lands susceptible of being
drained by purchasers without assistance have been taken
up and that whenever all such lands taken then the
sale will The consequence of this will be that spe-
cia appropriations having absorbed the funds prescribed
that purpose system of evees be started
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