The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-11-11

Thursday Morning, Nov 9, 1865
A Vexed Question.


been located in Baton Rouge, not n
session Of the legislature has passed,
without q systemised effort on the part
Of dissatisfied spectators in State
funds aud restless revolutionists, TO re-
move it. Some obscure individual
from the country, in order to have his
name figure in the journal of Pro
ceedings; or some city leecher, has al
ways been the instigator. if not the
mover Of this vex-d question, which
we hope in few months more to see
at rest, at least during the interim
that must take place between this and
the time necessary to get up another
convention to make new constitu-
ton.
When the Hon. Michael Ryan in
troduced the last bill to re-tohe the
sense Of the People on this subject
which makes the fifth time within a
few years he, the aforesaid Michael
was smarting under the excitement OF
a little personal difficulty about Segars
ir Lafayette street. The bill intro
ducedt 10 the previous legislature, was
confessedly gotten up on account of
the bad brandy, offered for sale in
Red Sick coffee houses.
It was thought. when the bill upon
which the people have just passed
judgment, was introduced to The Sen
ate, that inas,nuch as il is in clear viola
ton of the Constitution that it would
be vetoed by the Governor, 1t was not
however; and the result will be an
other .quabble and waste Of time, over
this matter in the next Legislature.
New Orleans has voted nearly
unanimously in favor Of removal
Under what constitutional authority
has the sense of the people been or
dered on the question of removal ?
Article l07 Of that instrument. says:
"The seat OF Government shall he and
remain al Baton Rouge, and shall not
be removed without the consent of
three .fourths Of both Houses Of the
General Assembly" Under title Tx
Of the same instrument, il is said
"Any amendment or amendments TO
This Constitution may be proposed in
the Senate or House Of REPRESENTS
tives, and If the same shall be agreed
to by two-thirds Of the members elected
to each House, such proposed amend
ment or amendments shall be entered
on their journals, with the yeas and
nays taken thereon, and the S, cretar,
Of State shallQtause the same to be
CablisheJ, three months before the
next general election fur Representa-
tives Of the State Legislature, in at
lesst one newspaper in French and
English, in every parish in the State
in which newspaper shall be pub
lished; and such proposed amend
ment or amendments shall be submit
ted to the people at said election and
if a majority Of the voters at said cleo
ton shall approve and ratify such
amendment or amendments, the same
shall become part oftbe Constitution
in the face Of this clause, less than
one half Of the members Of the last
legislature got together. and act upon
the motion Of the Hon. Ryan, to re.
take the sense Of the people on this
subject! The only apology for it is
that three consecutive legislatures un
der the new constitution have SO re
peatedly violated that instrument, thai
this-tLe only true expression We
have Of the Sovereign will Of the PEG
pie Of the State, has heen so often Vi
olated. that it has become nearly. j
not nuita-a dead, letter.