New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-25
, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY n, 1866.
senate.

ut four other members afterwards appeared,
fhen there were present, besides the President,
fessrs. Anderson, Bell, Brusle, Bnrthe, Campbell,
,oco, Cooley, Ellis, Fellowes, Foute, Gibson, Cor
lon, Kavanaugh, Kenner, Lapayre Munaay, New
on of Jackson, Newton of Morehovse, Palfrey,
Taylor, Scruggs, Welch and Wpcoxen-24; a |
ull quorum.
Prayer was offered by the Rev. Father jeremiah |
Aoynihan. 5+
The minutes of the proceedings of yesterday
we're read, approved, and ordered to be entered.
Mr.. Gibson inquired whether there was any
necessity for two such committees as one on
Public Works, Lands and Levees, and one on
Or whether the one was not included
In the Others BE saw that his name was announced
on botf. tf.cciamttees, and if there was any distinc
tion between them, he would like to know what it
was, rs ne desired to do his duty.
The President said that the Committee on Inun-
dltioBs was select committee. @a
Mr.. Gibson asked If there could be any use in
having both standing committee and select
one upon the same subject. If there was, of
course both might be continued.
prsr. Munday complained that there was snch
Tvnfusion about the Chamber that he could not
hear what was going on. He said that he could
conceive that it might be very proper to continue
both committees. The Committee on Public
Works, Lands and Levees was an old one. Owing
to the late foundations by the wilfui breaking of
the ievees it was right that some means should be
devised by which the best lands in the State might
be reclaimed. A select committee had been ap-
pointed to see that the taxation was properly laid,
and that the high lands should not be taxed for the
benefit of the low lands, because this was thought
the best mode by which the desired result could
be arrived at. That committee had prepared bill
which had received the assent Of all the members,
with the exception Of one or two. 1t was not pro-
per to speak of what were the doings in the other
house, but 1t was hoped that the committee would
be accepted as best adapted to the recaiming of
the lands, perhaps with the joint cooperation Of
the other House. The plan proposed was to divide
the inundated regions into districts, and provide
the necessary regulations for theirprotection. He
suggested that it would therefore, be better that
the committees should remain as they were.
Mr.. Gibson begged leave to correct the gentle
man. The bill to which be had alluded had come
from the Committee on Public Works, Lands and
Levees No bill whatever had ever come from
the Committee on Inundatiop.
8 Mr. Palfrey asked the gentleman if any report
had ever been submitted to the Senate on the
authority of the Committee on Inundation. He
supposed it must have been swept away by the
foundations. Qaughter) 49,.
Mr.. Munday explained that he had been under
npistake as to the committee which had acted on
subject.
Mr. Gibson, with Difference, thought that one OF
the two committees was superfuous, and he there
fore moved that the Committee on Inundation be
abolished.
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The question was put, and Mr.. Gibson's motion
was unanimously carried.
Mr. Foute said he found he had been placed on
five committees, and as he was unable to attend to
the duties of all of them he would ask to be re-
lieved from sitting on one of them--the Enrolling
Committee. 43
On the question being put, the gentleman was
relieved according to his request.
The President appointed Mr.. Wilcoxon to the
place thus vacated.
A message was laid before the Senate, with the
report of the State Treasurer, showing the cond
ton of the Treasury and its operations from the
lst of October 1864, to the 3lst of December 1865
The assets on hand and receipts amounted tc
$1,5l9,442; the expenditures TO s92t,7l4 OF the
balance s462, ,513 was in Confederate notes. The
report was received and referred to the Committee
on Finance
Z The annual report of the Board of Currency was
laid before the Senate and referred to the Commit
tee on Banks and Banking. 1850
Mr.. Palfrey presented resolution that the Com
mittee on Pubic Works, Lands and Levees,
should be instructed to inquire and report upor
the propriety of repeating the act entitled al
act to enable certain persons hereinafter named tt
construct a steamboat canal from Vermi!lion Bay
to the Sabine river, at a point near the mouth o
Neches river, in Texas" approved April A, 1865
BY the first section the parties named are Duncan
Smith, H. T. Burgess and r. W. Jones, of Louisi
ana; W. @. Phillips, NJ. A. Southworth and JOIN
Hancock Of Texas. The canal to be four fee
deep and forty feet wide. The right of way, witt
one hundred feet of land on each side of the canal
and the right to take any material belonging to thu
State for its construction, is granted them. By thu
second clause vessels using 1t were to pay no
more than 81 per ton, or fifty cents for less than
fifty miles; the owners of the canal to have th
right to detain the vessels in default of such pay
ment, and the vessels to carry State or Nationa
troops free of TOLL By the third section all lands be
tween the canal and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
the islands in the lakes, and the land for twent.
miles on the other or north side of the canal wer
to be granted to the parties named at twenty-five
cents per acre. they to commence the canal With
four months after the termination of the war, an
r complete it within three years, and to pay tn
price of the land within ten years. BY the fonrt
section they are required to deposit maps of tn
route; on their completing twenty-five miles OF II
the Governor was to issue titles for one.fitth Q
the land granted which they may sell, both the
and the purchaser remaining liable for the price
if not paid. By the fifth section they are at
thorized to use, but not to sell, any of the lant
timber other material it till the price be full
paid; they to pay all expenses. By the sixth SCI
tion, If they completed half of the canal in th
time specified, they we're to forfeit all their right
if the other half were not completed within 6y
years thereafter. By the seventh section, all til
granted lands not sold were to be free from taXt
tion for TIE ten years. By the eighth section, ate
Efty'years, the canal, with one hundred feet of tn
Iaad on each side, with all improvements, etc
we've to revert to the State. The motion of til
gentleman was unanimously adopted
Mr.. Kenner nayed that bill No. 80, entitled " a
act for the organization of corporations to engag
/ in q factorage and commission business" be take
up. read frat time, the rules suspended, and til
bill read second time, with view to its referenc
1 TO the Judiciary Committee in aecordaneewith TIL
resolution Of Monday making it the order for to
d.v The bill, he said, had already been befor
,ba ,7enate, and acted upon by committee at til