New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-03-12
cApIrOL1AN CoRREspoNpENoE.

BATON RoUGE, March o. 1853.
Eds. Crescent AT yesterdays evening session of
the Senate, the bill in reference to the salaries and
fees of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office
at Baton Rouge, as shaped by the amendments of
Col. SHINES, particularly referred to in my last
note,) was passed. The balance of the fighting over
this question will have to be done in the House.
have understood also (for | was not presently
that the Senate last night rejected some of the series
of swamp land appropriation bills passed few days
ago by the House, and here commonly called, as
whole, the " omnibus bf.n This series of measures
was determined on by a common understanding, by
members Of the House from nearly every portion Of
the State--the large amount Of swamp land funds
now on hand to be distributed by these bills through
out the Districts nearly practicable in the ratio
in which these funds have been paid in by said dis
trcts This understanding unfortunately for the pro
jectors of these measures, did not extend to the
Senate, which body maniests resolute determine.
ZION to kill them of seriatim Jas they present them
selves.
You doubtless. Immediately learned by telegraph
today that the Senate passed on its final reading the
Citizens Bank bill. The vote stood, ayes 49, nays
IL. Two Senator's known to be opposed to the bill,
absent from their seats on account of sickness
sure would have been defeated. 1t now goes to the
House with fair prospect of success there Ger
tainly it has able and most energetic friends to work
for it. H. Of course, is accompanied by the bill pre-
viously passed by the Senate authorizing the estab.
lshment at Shreveport of branch of the Citizens
Bank, and an agency at this pace-one bill, in fact,
being but supplement to the other
The Senate, to-day passed two other bills of import
ance, especially to New Orleans though they will,
in some degree affect the general nterests-the bill
to dispense with days of grace on sight drafts and
orders for money and the BILL previously passed by
the House, to establish Normal School department
in connection with the High Schools of the city OF
New Orleans This last bill was amended so as to re-
quire the graduates of the Normal School to teach at
least two years within the limits of the State.
The bill introduced some time since by Mr. Pearce,
to transfer to the Road and Levee Fund five per cent
Of the proceeds of the sales Of swamp lands was on
the motion OF Mr.. Pearce made the special order for
the second Monday of the next session Of the Legs
lature. The principle of this important measure is
that, on the entering of Louisiana into the confed
eracy, she did with the stipulation that she should
be allowed for road and levee purposes five per cent
Of the proceeds of the sales of all the lands within
the State-swamp as well as hill lands aud that the
subsequent grant by Congress to the State of the
swamp lands for the purposes of drainage and re.
elamaton, does not and cannot change or in any
manner affect the terms OF the compact originally
entered into between the Federal and State Govern.
ments and that, consequently, the Road and Leyee
tund Is entitled to five per cent of the proceeds of
the sales OF the swamp lands not less than the up.
lands. The proposition is clear one, and do not
readily see how there be difference of opinion
IN regard to It, II the bill should be passed at the
next session OF the Legislature 1t is obvious that the
Road aud Leyee Fund will become one, not only Of
respectabty but of Importance to all the parishes,
among which, by the provisions Of an act Of the
present session, that fund is hereafter to be equally
distributed.
The House continued to be engaged to-day in efforts
to give proper shape to the general appropriation bill
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