New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-27
VOLUME XIV
Associate Justices. The amendment was accepted

Associate Justices. The amendment was accepted
| and adopted.
Mr.. Provosty offered a substitute for the whole |
ordinance, that the General Assembly be author
lied to revise the judiciary SYSTEM and amend
certain articles Of the Constitution, to that end
| Denounced by Mr.. Tappan as an impossible thih8'
| (thc Legislature being the creature OF the tohsu-
tution) and laid on the table.
Mr.. Stockcr moved to strike out that part of the
section authorizing the Supreme Court to appoint
its own clerks. After discussion, the yeas and
| navs were called and the motion laid on the table
| by Sd yeas to nays.
This vote showed there was no quorum present,
and the business stopped. The Scrgeant-at-Arms
was sent out after absent members, and brought
back enough to make a quorum.
The yeas and nays were taken again upon Mr..
| Suckers amendment and it was tabled by GG yeas
to nays.
The first sec tion as amended was finally put to
vote and adopted, by majority Of about two
thirds.
The second section providing for the appoint
| ment by the Governor of the Judges OF the Su-
preme and Inferior Courts, was adopted without
amendment or debate. Yeas A, nays %.
On motion of Mr.. Tappan, the third fourth fifth
SIXTH seventh, and eighth sections were stricken
out.
TIE ninth section was adopted as the third, with
an amendment, by Mr. Fuqua, more particularly
describing the wording of the ballots to be used IN
the vote by the people upon the ordinance at the
election in November next.
Here again it was discovered, by the vote, that
there was no quorum. Four O'Clock, the hour OF
final adjournment, was only five minutes oil, and
the friends and the fathers of the ordinance were
very restless and uneasy. General confusion ruled
the hour.
Whilst the Scrgeant-at Arms was again ont IN
search of absent members, Mr. Lawrence offered
resolution which did not require the action of
quorum. to-wit a resolution of thanks 10 the Pres
dent, Mr.. Mouton, for the able, impartial and dig
nifed manner in which he had presided over the
Convention. Mr.. Heron being in the Chair, the
resolution was unanimously adopted.
Some of the absent members returned, and again
there was quorum But O'Clock, the hour Of final
adjournment, was now past. There was much con-
fusion and disorder among members as to what
: should be done. Finally, under a parliamentary
rule cited by several members as having been re-
coenized by Legislative bodies, that O'Clock was
4 o'clock up to the hour of 5, the hour was con
sidcred to be 4 until the clock should reach ), and
the business of the Convention was proceeded
with.
The tenth sccti0n of the ordinance was then
aioptcd as the fourth, without amendment or de-
bate 1t provides that no appointments of Judges
shall be made under the ordinance before the eX.
y piration Of the term Of Office of judges who may
be in office at the time of the adoption Of the ord
nance by the people, except in case of vacancies
= by death, resgnation or otherwise.
" Mr.. Heron offered, as fifth section, an amend
Il ment that the General Assembly shall have power
J. to make snch provision for rccused cases as may
be deemed proper. The amendment was accepted
= and adopted as the fifth section Of the ordinance
The vote was then taken upon the adoption 0
IL the ordinance as whole and again the tall.
!" showed that there no quorum.
> There was now lively and somewhat confuse
VI debate as to whether the ordinance did not stan
adopted by the adoption of the sections separately
IT Mr.. Tappan thought that the ordinance did stan
'e adopted Mr. Olivier thought otherwise; bot
" gentlemen spoke warmly
le The President finally decided that the ordinanc
c, could not be considered adopted until adopted a
a whole.
as Mr.. Semmes appealed from this decision of til
I'd chair, but as there was quorum, no vote coul
IL be taken upon it. Mr.. s. then asked that his az
peal be recorded and the request was acceded tt
u Mr. Rozier made strong appeal to the men
)
" leave an important matter unfinished and aske
'N that the Sergeantat-Arms again be sent in scare
:" Of absent members. The Chair refused, as III
~ Sergcant-at-Arms had been cut several time
preyOu=ly and as he believed there was now L
lo hope of getting quorum together again.
The question Of a recess till I o'clock, or Il
IL next day, was raised, but loored by the argume
"a that less than quorum had no authority to a
'' iourn to any fixed time.
"a Mr.. Moore, before the quorum was known to
broken moved that the seal Of sccrcsy be remove
from some Of the proceedings in secret session
"' but oH ing to the confusion prevailing, no acuC
was had
''', fi0al call of the house was had and siXtytv
W ~" members answered. four less than quorum.
'' Members went on, making motions and 'ebatn
P'- amidst much confusion, till the hour Of W
-, reached
lNc The President then rose, cut short the discr
sion, and, returning his thanks feelingy to t
ave Convention for the honor with which he had be
aux treated throughout the session, declared the &c
n.y. vertun finally adjourned.