New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-14
No @rlfaus aailu Gresfsnt.
Louisiana Lesisl.tnrc.


MONDAY, March 81 Senate-A bill appropriatin
$14,70 70 pay for the printing and binding Of q
Revised Statutes Of 1856, reported upon favorably d
the Committee on Finance, was taken up and passei
d NJ second reading =.
~ ils introduced. Mr. Sterling introduced bill Y
amend the law Of divorce. Read and referred !,
Mr. Paul introduced a bill 10 incorporate ths
New Orleans Shreveport and Kansas Railruad Con
many. Read and referred.
Nj. Withers introduced bill to incorporate tht
Mechanics and Dealers Exchange OF New Orleans
Re569Sed to select committee composed Of New Or
leshs delegation.
III st Paul introduced bill appropriating 81, so
fcr the purchase Of safe for the preserva
tinn 1f valuable documents in the office Of the Secre
Ax txry0f State. Passed.
Several local and private bills were introduced.
a# N Rsuitenti1ry Bull. On motion Of Mr.. Ducros
tia took up the bill providing for the LEASE
3 a. NJ Penitentiary, with the view of concurrine
4 a. SeSfain amendments of the House, The amend
5 msnts were concurred in.
"A Mr. Ducros then submitted resolution, which was
adopted setting forth that the eleventh section OF the
bin ~ adopted by the House, was not the section as
adopted BY the Senate, and directing the Secretary
~ the Senate to return to the House with this nfor-
NATION that that body may take whatever action on
the subject they may think proper
Bills on third Te1ding. "A bill from the House au-
thorizing the acceptance Of the land granted BY Com
eress to lie New Orleans Opelousas and Great West
ern Railroad Company Passed. :,
IA bill, from the House, to incorporate the Star
Mutual Insurance Company Of New Orleans, Passed
THE senate soon after adjourned.
sasWxDNEsDAy, March 10, 1857. Senate tier the
reading Of the journals Of yesterday which, IN refer
ehce to the Penitentary bill. Get forth only that the
amendments made by the House were concurred IN
by the Senate.
III. Phillips made motion, which was carried, to
correct the journals 50 as to state specifically what
amendments were concnrred in.
NJ. Phillips then sent 70 the Secretarys table in
writing what We understood to be resolution IN
nj III,
the House and request that body to return said bill
sent 10 them yesterday by resolution Of the Senate
The Chair decided that the bill was out of the pos
session Of the Senate sent ont Of i by resolution
passed yesterday and that it tfhe Char) could not
entertain any proposition to send after it. The Chair
took occasion 10 urge upon the Senate the adoption
of d rule positively requiring the engrossment Of
bills etc. 50 as to prevent the recurrence Of an error
10 discreditable to the body.
Mr. Phillips appealed from the decision OF the
Chair in opposition to the entertainment of his mo-
ton.
"A debate was had on the motion to appeal, after
which the vote was taken; and the decision Of tiH
Chair WAS overrpled ayes 10, nays II.
Mr. Phillips motion, to request the House for re-
turn Of the bill, was then passed l3, noes 10.
And the Secretary was accordingly dispatched.
After delay Of some 6ftsen minutes a messenger
from the House reported the bill as returned. 4I
On motion Of Mr.. Phillips the Senate voted-ayes,
49, noes 6o suspend the rules 50 as to take it up at
once. ~ 80 M
MI. Chew rose to a point of order, and stated it
That the Senate could not entertain the bill at a-it
not being the bill which the Senate had previously
passed Or ift could be entertained it should be as
Oh its first reading.
Mr.. Phillips said that the Senate was just then where
It was yesterday before the adoption OF the resolution
sending the bill to the House, and informing that body
Of the error it had committed in its action on the 18th
section Of the bill The House, said Mr. Phillips had
made two amendments to the Senates bill. The SEN
ate had concnrred in them. But in the 18th section
1a axrfl
made change. Weare bound, said he, to recognise
that change as amendment, which amendment we
have the right to amend Mr. P. then moved to amend
tue amendment Of the House to the 18th section by
striking ont all that part Of the section differing from
words Of tue section as originally passed by the
Senate. 5f -. 4
The Chair (Hon. W. NJ. Kidd) decided the motion I
out OF order, the Senate had no information through
proper officer Of the House, that that body had made
any amendment to the llth section of the BILL No i
such amendment had been reported to the Senate.
MT Phillips appealed from the decision of the chair
Alr. Chew denounced the proposition as preposter "A
ous, enormous, amazing and called upon the Senate
to maintain its own dignity and sefrespect i
The appeal from the decision of the chair was
Withdrawn. q
MI. Ducros then moved to reject the Houses add
ton 70 the llth section as snrpiasage e.. in par
liamentary terms, to nonconeur.
81 Not to concur in what n asked Mr.. Kidd "The
concurrence must be had ii an omendnet--in moth
sng else and this brings us back to the same point
Mr. then raised the question of order as to whether
such proposition could be entertained. i
Yhe chair said that there was one stubborn fact,
which could not be gotten over that the bill passed bg
The House lcas not The bill passed By the Senate-
that was as clear shining star. In this view of
the matter he was compelled to decide Mr.. Ducross
proposition out of order. IA
Y Mr. Phillips appealed to the Senate and the deci-
sion the chair was oYerruied-or sustaining. 10:
t0r reversing 1t, 10. \
" MI Burlington then denounced the whole proceed s