New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-16
Louisi.na I.esislature.

BAToN RoUGE, March III, 1851 Senate The
Assistant Secretary of the Senate read the ournes of
yesterday, which embraced the decision Of the Chair
and the reasons therefor, upon the motion Of Mr. Du
eros to amend the assumed amendment Of the House
to the 11th section OF the Pententiary bill.
Mr. Phillips and stated that the decision of the
Chair contained a statement which was untrue and
moved that as his decision constituted part Of the
journals the journals be corrected in that particular
In other words, SO as to make the Chair speak the
truth
The Chair said that when he stated certain facts
upon which his decision was based, he stated the
facts as he himself understood them. The evidence
was to his own mind He decided, not for the Senate
but for himself That he had the right to do. The
Senate had oyerrned his decision. That the Senate
| had right to do.
Messra Phillips, Ducros and Griffin maintained that
the statement Of the Chair in his decision as spread
upon the journals, was untrue in point of fact and
insisted upon the right Of the Senate to correct the
| journals in that particular. w
The Chair replied that the statement was his own
not the senates and that 1t in the power of
the Senate to change the facts as he understood
| them.
The motion of Mr. Phillips was not to be enter
| taned
Mr.. SHINES rose for information. He desired to
know whether not the Senate had control Of their
own journals and if it had, whether an error in tie
| journals might not be corrected by the Senate
The chair ruled the inquiry out of order.
Mr. simmes again took the floor, and, with great
feeling said that member Of that body he pro
Th tie q the
ourans of his decision, with the reasons which i'm
PEELED him to it, was objected to, it was competent
for the Senate to adopt resolution ordering the de-
csion to be stricken from the Journals Go to work,
said the Chair introduce your resolution and pass it,
il it your pleasure he would make opposition
to such course; but as president of that body he
would not sit there and hear such vain and offensive
language as had fallen from the Senator from Pointe
Conpee.
Mr. Pearce sustained the position of the chair The
Chair said he, clearly ad the right 10 give the
forb and tn hnro thorn yrpuny
the journals. The Senate had the right to set aside
that decision; they had done That also had been
entered upon the journals Thus both were set right
| before the public. fH EtU 7HI.
| The proposition to correct the journals was not
| pressed farther but III.
Mr.. Withers gave notice Of statement contradict
/ ing that made by the Chair, which would be sub
mitted tomorrow morning on behalf of number of
Senator'S which they would ask to have entered upon
| the journals.
Mr. Burlington offered protest, signed by himself
and several other Senator's against the vote the Sem
took yesterday overriding the decision chair
upon the point OF order then raised ~. 4 @
The protest was ordered to be spread upon the jour
| nails by vote OF Is ayes to 10 noes.
Neto Orleans Election BM.-The New Orleans
election BILL which was last night ordered to be en-
crossed for third reading vas taken up but on mo-
Immediately after the reading Of the Journals.
Some local and private bills were passed.
Mr.. St. Paul introduced . bill to incorporate the
New Orleans Horticultural Society.
taken up on its second reading number of items
were adopted, when the Senate went into executive
session, after which it adjourned
BATON ROUGE, March l2-Senate.-Reports were
made by the charmen of several committees.
AEesoution requiring the engrossment of bills and
joint resolutions adopted. ,stgE ..'EHT
A joint resolution authorizing the appointment by
the Governor of Board of Examiners for the State
Seminary of Learning at Alexandria and for other
!, purposes.
non e., oe +to
Mechanics Association Of New Orleans, advoca-
: ted by Messrs st. Paul, Chew and Munday
Mr. McMardo opposed the passag Of the bill though
friendly to its objects. He eft it his duty to state,
and did state with much seemnity that, unless the
. lavish expenditures authorized by the Legislature
. were stopped the State would soon be bani1upted
hr the appropriation measures passed or about to be
passed by the present Legislature would leave the
Treasury at the end of the fiscal year. from $4,000
. to S3oOOoo in arrears, and not one cent to pay.
l. Messrs. Pearce and Phillips opposed the bill upor
i'd similar grounds.
H. The bill was then passed-ayes II, noes s.
u Special Order-The bill to regulate elections il
y, the parish Of Orleans taken up and debated al
III considerable ength-Messrs. Lavergne, Ducros, Buf
es ngton and Chew opposing it and Messrs. MeMurdo
e, Ryan and Pearce advocating it.
he After the debate the bill was passed Ayes Is
noes, 10. Senate adjourned
House.-Ater the reports of several standing com
mittees were received, the House resumed consdera
hi ton of the bill to allow the Citizens Bank to exten
~ her loan of $5o0000 of State bonds due in 1888 10
r 2s yeas and 33 nays. The Union College bill wa
taken up and passed.
. A bill to appropriate s4sOO to purchase the civ
p code and code of practice $500 vols. of eaeh) ws
lie discussed and referred to the committee on the
Is brary. .....a
in An act to grant the aid of the State to the Bato
= Rouge and Clinton Railroad passed its second readii
~ and was made the order Of the day for II o'clec
ID Tuesday next.
d. An act to appropriate 81 500 for a freproof sal
"a for the Secretary of States office. Referred to Con
~ mittee on Public Buildings.
An act fixing the fees of Clerks Of the Distric
Courts. Referred.
< Joint resolution authorizing the further improve
IT, ment of the Ouachita river Referred to Committee
ir Internal improvement. ~
~ bill relative to divorces under consideration
Is when the House adjourned.
MORE TRACES OF SIR JOHN FRANkLrN's PARTY
Capt Sherard Osborne has forwarded to the editor
7e the London Times the following extract of Letter
w dated Red River Settlement, Hudson Bay Territory
:" December 6: ....s
)r. and he expresses wish that should write to you
rs the first opportunity, and state particular
m about the reports we heard last summer about som
IL traces of whites been seen in the North have jus
returned from -, who was at Norway House lai
July and the man who brought down an expires
he to Sir George Simpson, from Mr.. Anderson in Mao
he kenzies River district, stating that Indians ha
80 brought reports to one of the trading posts j
- that quarter, that Indians had two more
X. campments of whites on island some pon
where Anderson and Stewart turned back, lin 1855,
of and that one of the encampments particularly wa
i, quite fresh supposed to have been abandoned da
" or two before the Indians it, and from the trace
thought there might have been ten or twelve mer
to could not hear of the exact locality further tha
to that Anderson and Stewart were within very shor
distance of the place where the traces were seen.
hope you have heard more particularly Of the repor
nt
TIC CREvAssEs-Eary on Monday morning Drea
es was discovered in the levee, in front of Mr.. job
tn Williams plantation, about two miee above Thib
EST dauX. The rush of waters was fearful for son
:" hours but by means of sinking large empty iii
he hoat which fortunately at hand, the breach W;
thoroughly closed before night.
ort Had this accident occurred during the night,
ei- would have occasioned immense injury to the adj
to cent properties, The two crevasses Lockpol
nj are still running and will doubtless continue open
er- the bayou waters subside. Thibodaux Union l2t
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GovERNoR-By and ,ci
of the .idrice and Consent of the Seaate.-Homer Cal
lard, Edward Pillsbury, Henry Peychaud, Directors
- the Consolidated Association of Louisiana Rchal
is a G. Wooten, Notary Public in and for the parish
n Catahoula P. D. Hardy, District Attorney for th
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