New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-26

5, 1866.
what transpires while they are before the jusies.
Referred to Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Walker introduced bill defining the duties
and fixing the compensation of State tax collect.
ors. Referred to Finance Committee.
Mr.. Solomon introduced his bill, which remained
among the unfinished business of the extra ses-
sion, relative to the police of New Orleans and
creating police board, with the Mayor, en-
o6fcso member, in which board the appoint
ment and regulation Of the police is to be vested.
Referred to the city delegation.
Mr.. Montgomery introduced bill for the relief
of Josiah Reed, a. veteran of I8I4'l5. Referred
to Committee on Claims.
Mr.. Kidd introduced a bill appropriatng $4,000
for the expenses of the session. Referred to the
Committee on Contingent Expenses,
Mr.. Green reintroduced his bill, which remained
unacted upon at the extra session, to facilitate the
recovery of strayed, lost or stolen property. Re-
ferred to Judiciary Committee. .
Mr. Elan presented bill, which, the rules hav-
ing been suspended, was passed, to authorize the
election Of an additional Justice of the Peace and
Constable in ward No l, of the parish of DeSoto.
Mr.. Tucker rentroduced a bill. which remained
among the unfinished business of the called SEES
sion for the relief of Benjamin Bloomfield, of New
Orleans. Referred to the Committee on Claims.
Mr.. Thieneman introduced a bill relative to sus-
pensiye appeals; also, bill prohibiting clerks of
courts from exacting payment of costs before the
termination Of suits, when such clerks have Sc
curity for costs Both referred to Judiciary Com
mittee. - r, .5- tH
Mr.. Green introduced bill to punish as q mis-
demeanor the practicing Of medicine without
diploma. Referred to Judiciary Committee.
message was received from the Governor,
transmitting the animal report of the State Treas
urer, which was referred to the Finance Commit
tee, and also transmitting the annual report of the
Board of Administrators of the Deaf and Dumb and
Blind Institution which report was referred to the
Committee on Charitable Institutions.
A communication from Colonel EdmonstoH, com
manding the regiment Of New Orleans militia, in
reference to militia fund, and stating the he ex
pected the Governor would communicate his
views on the subject to the Assembly, was, after
some remarks from Messfs. Elan and Scanlan, as
to the great expense the Colonel was putting the
State to in advertising referred to the Finance
Committee.
THE CONSTITUTION QUESTION.
The House resumed, as the order Of the day,
the resolution of Mr.. Eustis, for the appointment
of a special committee to revise and amend the
Constitution of 1864, and the substitute offered by
Mr.. Jonas to refer all proposed amendments to the
| Standing Committee on Constitutional Amend
ments. '' @'
| The question pending when the House adjourned
| from the consideration of the subject yesterday
| was a motion by Mr. Elan to lay Mr.. Jonas sub
stitute on the table.
Mr. Eusts requested Mr.. ELAN to withdraw his
motion. t- n
| Mr.. Elan did so. ......
| Mr.. Jonas withdrew his substitute.
Mr. Eristis remarked that two distinct votes
taken on this question yesterday had clearly ex
pressed the will of the House, and inasmuch as
his resolution had been construed as a reflection
on the Standing Committee of the House, HI
would, for concaton and harmony, ask leave t
withdraw the resolution. 4, ,. 575
! Mr.. Bailey would vote against the withdrawal
He was in favor of the appointment Of speca
committee, because the standing committee ha'
been appointed in contemplation of a Constitutions
Convention being called, and had committed them
selves on that subject. The purpose of Mr.. Eustis
resolution should not be construed as reflection
Iupon the standing committee, nor, justly viewed
could it be so regarded, for it was common par
1iamentary practice, void of oflense, to modify the
composition of committees, and constitute them in
accord with the views and sentiments of the body
whose measures they were to digest or shape. In
the present circumstances of the country he did
not feel himself bound by any pledges or instruc.
tions on this subject, given at the time Of
the election. His constituents did not send him
there as machine, but to exercise his best judg
ment for their interests and such changes hat
taken place since the election that he should re
gard himself as unfit to be a representative if he
failed to ignore pledge or instruction which hat
in view very different state of affairs from thai
in which Louisiana now found ITSELF or to ac
\ commodate his policy to the requirements of pub
lie interest. ra KILL
Mr.. Scanan said he had been asked, in relation
to his vote yesterday, what he driving at? and
he wished the House to know what it was. One
of the very first things he did in entering upon his
Legislative duties at the called session to intro
duce bill providing for the immediate call of Z
1 constitutional convention and an adjournment Of
the Assembly, upon the passage Of the bill. -Ht
did this in compliance with the platform on whicl
he was elected He regarded the Legislature al
being convened and sitting without constitutions
authority, but when the House passed over thu
constitutional question, and proceeded regularl,
to legislation, and when, had been observed b,
Mr.. Eustis members subscribed to the Constitu
ton of 1861 he thought it fanciful to speak longe
of that Constitution as nonentty. He wa
now therefore, in favor of amending tha
Constitution, and endeavor to adapt it to the re
quirements of the people, SO that they can liv
under it, until more auspicious time arrived 70
q convention. He denied that the conquest Q
Louisiana had taken from her her constitutions
rights. Those rights were only in allegiance tenn
porary. So soon rs the rule Of the sword wa
withdrawn they would be asserted and recognized
But as we were now under the sword, let us max
the best of it, and avail ourselves of w.hateve
was allowed to improve our condition. 1t ha
been imputed to him, he said, that he wante
office from the Governor, but he wanted no oflic
either from Governor or any one else, and in til
votes he had given or would give, should be guide
by no consideration other than sense of publ
duty.
Mr.. McCloskey regretted that his sense of dut
constrained him to differ with his colleagues VIII
represented the same constituency as himself, bu
he could not be induced to touch the Consttutio
of 1864. Having witnessed the vile instrumental
tiles by which that creature of fraud and corrur
ton and violence was brought into existence, n
arguments of expediency, however plausible