New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-20
y r II Q Il AL 10 u r n a I
OF THE
CONVENTION OF THE STATE Of LOUISIANA.

New ORLEANS, SATURDAY, March 16, 1861.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Hon. A. Mouton in the chair.
The roll being called, eighty-seven delegates
answered to their names.
The journal of yesterday was read and approved.
Mr.. Bienvenu offered an ordinance in the follow
ing words:
Be it ordained, ETC., That the President of this
Convention be aud he is hereby requested to lay
before the Convention the official returns of the
popular vote given in each parish of the State for
delegates to this Convention.
And requested q suspension of the rules to enable
him to take up the same.
Upon the adoption of this motion, Mr. Bush
called for the yeas and nays, with the following
result:
Yeas: Mcssrs. Bienyenu, Bush, Clark Connolly,
Cottman, DuGel, Fuqua, Heron, Hougl, Lagroue,
Lewis Of Claiborne, Lewis Of Orleans McCollam
MclanGon, Meredith, Pike, Rozier, Scott of East
Feliciana, Sompayrac, Stocker, Taliacrro, Thomas
son, Tucker-23.
Those who voted in the negative were Messrs
Adams, Anderson, Barrow, Bermudez, Bonrord,
Bonner, Briscoe, Burton, Butler, CALDWELL Cannon,
Conner OF ConcoTdia, Conner of St. Tammany
Dawson Of Sabine, DeBanc, Dorsey, Duprt, Elan,
Estln, Fuselier, GLADDEN., Gill, Girard, Graves,
Gray, Griffin, Hodge, Hodges, johnson, Kennedy,
Kidd, Labatut, Lawrence, Lewis of Bienville
Manning, Marshall, Marrero, Marks of Caddo,
Marks of Orleans, Martin of Carroll, Magec
McClOskey, Mcfarland McNeey Miles, Michel
Miller, Moore, Norton O'Bryan, Olivier, Perkins
of Orleans, Peck, Pemberton,. Provosty, Pugh,
Richardson, Scott of Claiborne, Semmes, Sawson,
Smith, Stewart, Swayze, Tappan, Taylor of st.
Charles, Taylor of st. Landry, Texada, Todd
ToWles, Valentine, Warren, Walker and York-73.
Yeas, % ; nays, 70.
So the Convention refused to suspend the rules,
and the ordinance was ordered to lie over.
Mr.. Manning presented an ordinance " to sus-
pend temporarily the operation Of article % of the
Constitution" which was ordered to lie over under
the rules.
Mr.. Walker submitted the claim of The Printer of
the Convention for work done, which, on his mo-
ton, was referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mir. Thomasson offered resolution "that in
stead of II o'clock, as now fixed, this Convention
will hereafter meet at 10 o'clock A. NJ, for the
transaction of business and asked a suspension
of the rules to put the same on its final passage;
and the Convention, on division, refused to sus-
pend the rules and the resolution was ordered to
lie over.
Mr.. Olivier, chairman of the Committee on the
State Constitution, reported favorably the ordi-
nance introduced by Mr.. Hough, on the It'll March
instant, and entitled ordinance to alter articles
rs, rs aud so of the CONSTITUTIONS and, on his mo-
ton, the same was ordered to be printed and
made the special order OF the day for Wednesday
next.
Mr.. Fuqua, chairman of the special committee Of
nine appointed under the resolution offered by Mr.
Thomasson the 9Th March instant, in relation to
the appointment Of committee of nine to prepare
ordinance with regard to the ordinances already
passed. reported ian ordinance to repeal GER
tain ordinances and to amend others heretofore
adopted"
And moved to make the same the special order
of the day at O'Clock this day, but the Conven
ton refused suspension of the rules, and the
ordinance was ordered to lie over.
MFR. Williamson offered the following resolution,
which, after suspension of the rules, was adopted
Resolved, That the delegates to the Montgom-
cry Convention from this State, not members of
this body be invited to seats on the floor"
And, Oil motion Of Mr.. Butler, the name of the
Hon. Jacob Thompson, late Secretary of the In
terror of the late United States, was included in
the said resolution.
The President announced the special order of
the day, being the ordinance introduced yesterday
by Mr.. Cannon, which was taken up, and is as fol-
lows, viz:
i +, to p5oEds for ss6at'gg the
People of the Stae of Louisiana
SECTION |. Be il ordained by the Pe0pze of The
State Of Louisiana, IN COnUentiOn assembled That
the Permanent Constitution for the Confederate
States, adopted by the Provisional Congress at
Montgomery on the - day of March, 1861, shall
be submitted to the qualified voters OF the State
of Louisiana, for their ratification or rejection
SEC. z. BE IL further ordained, That for this pur-