New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-26

No. 16-Times, two hundred and twenty
nine dollars. 2z5 w
No. l7-True Delta, sixty-two dollars and
thirty-four cents. 6z "a .
No. 1s-Southern Star, two hundred and
twenty dollars and fifty cents. 22O SO
No. 19-Southern Sentinel, four dollars. 90
No. 2O-Iberville South, ten dollars. 10 90
| No. 2l-Iberville Pioneer, ten dollars 10 90 =
No. 22-Rennaissance Louisianaise, three
dollars. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. w
No. 23-P. Laneaux, two dollars. ..... 2 %
Total-seventenen hundred and sixty
three dollars and twenty-nine cents. sl763 ~
Resolred, That the sum of seventeen hundred
and sixty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents, be
and the same is hereby appropriated out of the
contingent fund of the Senate, to pay the forego-
ing accounts, numbered from eleven to twenty
three inclusive, payable by the Auditor OF fuplc
| Accounts on their own warrants.
On motion of Mr.. Brusle, the above report ana
resolution were adopted. rry
l. REPORT FROM A SELECT COMMITTEE.
Mr. Foute, from select joint committee OF both
Houses of the General Assembly, submitted the
following report, to-wit:
To the Honorable of the Senate Speaker OF the
House Representatives. and Members Of the General
Assembly ofthe State of Louisiana
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investigate and report upon certain charges made
AGAINST the management of the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Northern Railroad Company,
= respectfully report:
= That, in discharge of their duties, they have
travelled over the line of the road from New Or
l. leans to Canton, Mississippi. stopping at every
station and making full and diligent inquiries OF
e such persons at each station as were likely TO pc
If able to give information the subjects to be IN
yestigated, and that they made it their speclai
J. business to call before them, or to visit their
houses when necessary such persons as they were
informed had made any complaints against the
y management of the road, or against any OF Its
10 agents or employees.
Mt After returning to New Orleans, your commit
t; tee fully examined all other witnesses whom they
could find had made complaints, among them the
oe person whom we had to suppose had stated
y to the former committee that he had paid bride
Mt to get his cotton to New Orleans. This witness
declined answering the question whether he knew
of any person receiving bonus or bride for bring
ing cotton the railroad, but he stated Distinctly
he that he did not know and never heard of any charge
of the kind against the president of the road, O.
Dr. the superintendent assistant superintendent
auy other charge against the integrity of either o
les any Of them.
~ The result OF our Wlole HNestibauioli' piieh
stated. is, that all serious complaints against tn
fth management of the road have ceased since I'll
means of transportation have been increased
R. -. oonocitv and that nersons who. two
7ol three months ago, made complaints, now deelar
themselves satfed, from further experience an
isa- observation of the transportation department
use that the matters of which they then complaine
70 grew out of the actual want of the necessal
ON locomotives and freight cars on the road.
: Among the complaints made by persons in Lo
'u isiana. one was that after the road had bee
renared beyond the State line, and trains ht
began to run in the State of Mississippi, preferen
was given to that State in bringing cotton to Ne
~ Orleans, Your committee found that this state
81. things as complained of, had existed +; but u
Wv compaiuants informed the committee that t.
officers of the road gave as reason there1or l
. - fact that for some time the terminus of the TO
had been below the State line, during which III
~" Louisiana had the whole advantage OF the roa
And your committee learned from officers OF t
cry road and from disinterested parties, that anott
A'' reason of the preference given for time to
~ cotton from Mississippi, was that this cotton "
being diverted from the railroad and from N
:, Orleans to Memphis and Vicksburg and that
~ interest of the, road and New Orleans requll
pt. that it should be brought from the points high
Nv, the road to prevent this result.
lrv One party, who had had large quantity OF C
ton at Tangipahoa, and who had greatly &C
GER planned of the temporary preference to Mis-
the sippi, informed your committee that as early
ID TO January he was able to get OIL the last OF his
eray ton by the ralroao' MOST hot an eon,p' ~,
mr. seem to have been founded on occurrences, or
con- the coluilion u 'n''is' -
com. October and November last.
Ior of The committee heard not single complain
ap- any preference or partially to one individual
he re- any other individual at the same depot or me-
holm, borhood. And in this connection 1t may be
l the marked that circulars, exhibited by the de
were agents, IA copy of which is hereto append
2epre. marked Az show that rigid impartiality was
, Joined upon them, and they uniformly stated
ormed all their instructions, whether verbal or writ
e had were to the same purport, ana that II any I'LL
act for preference to individuals DC SHOWN 10 nave
patrick oiven at any depot the local agent is alon'
sigma sponsible.
as, by Besides the eXamlha 'loh Vi tne 'ious "i.Ne
m En- obova referred to, the committee obtained
Coy theirecords of the railroad company, through
nroner officers. statements of the lumber
,sspn timber transported from points within the Sta
,ri+t Louisiana from June, 1865, to March L, 1866
al and of the cotton shipped from Ianslpahoa lal
ian act portant point IN the shph'ene "
dav If vember, 1885, to March 3, 1866 Ihese staten
several will be filed with this report marked and
irected Z our committee found at some OF the de
,rein and along the road at thelower end, eonsae
!. quantities of heavy timber, from 30 to eo ie
'epiten- length, said to be intended for construcu
entitled wharves in New Orleans, and there was CON
of the able complaint from some of the parties Wn'
during contracted to deliver it there that it had not
bstitute carried away as fast it might but your 60
e State tee were satisfied by questioning witnesses
read this lumber could not be transported on the
nary fiat cars without great injury to them
consid that peculiar trucks were necessary for its
he same portaton, which trucks are being constructe
ittee on some of them now in use. ,...pl g %.
One of the witnesses stated that he had
Militia tract with the former superintendent Of til
led /" an which the present officers refused to rect
nrolling butyour committee, further examination
militia, witness, learned from him that the cohtr
wing re. claimed was verbal, and that there was no
"a OIL of it in the possession of the present office
( to the that when, few days since, the former s
it be re- tendent had certified to the contract the
s. as the officers acknowledged it as binding, and be