New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-08
4 f'zs. THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY g. 1866.

the people IN that section that the canal which h
impeded natural drainage should give an outlet T
for it. The bill was imperfect. had been got up l.
hastily and, perhaps, for personal ends, but with
Mr.. Bailey's amendment, he would vote for it. +
! Mr., Bailey again spoke, IN favor Of his amend
ment. What be proposed would not put the lessee
to an additional expense of q Thousand dollars a
year. .e37 ast' s.. f'JeF ieis II W. @ 't
7, Mr. walker claimed that the canal was the pro
perty Of the State, and should not be looked to as
means Of, drainage. t n was not made fot that +
purpose, but for commerce and navigation. ~
MI. Tucker observed that the charter Of the
Canal and Banking Company required tgte exeat I
Yates draining canal on the upper side of the SHELF
road, but ii had not complied with that condition
Its failure, however, did not take from the people
interested their natural legal right TO the drain
age damned by the canal, and as the work fell tot
the State, 80 did the obligations Of original
proprietor. i&fa4s'' 4'ass<' ah - .ts.rt'
b MrFwaggaman, from a constituency interested
in this matter while admitting the strength of the
arguments against making the canal q receptacle
for drainage, had strong objections to arefasal for
that drainage until another conduit was procured
for If free egress for the waters above the canal
was not allowed, the condition Of the people
would be pitiable after heavy rains. '.'Sas' IN
Mr. Bailey fsaid a draining canal had been
planned, but its execution was stopped by the
war. That canal would be dug, but mot in less
than three or four years. Meantime the new canal
was the only available outlet for drainage. 'E
| Mr.. Walker proposed as a substitute for Mr..
BaiIeys amendment, that all the culverts now on
the canal should be kept open !. Y. WHIT, 4
I" Mr.. Mcconnell offered an amendment tothe SUBJ
situte, requiring that the draining machines should
be placed at such distance from the canal that the
waters drained should have made their deposits
before reaching the canal sg. Z. sna siIae:ar
/ Mr. Seaman held that as the State reaped the
4 advantages of the canal, the obligations Of the
4 company also fell to the State. The right Of
drainage was natural right, and could not be in
A terrupted. The remarks Of the gentleman from
St. Mary (Mr. Tucker were clear and forcible on
this point. Mr.. 8. proposed, as an amendment,
A that the lessee should be required to perform the
A agreement Of the Canal and Banking Company by
lopening draining canal and while that was being
done, furnish drainage through the canal to be
"A leased. q "'.'sasq M L's III =
\ Mr.. Mcconnell said this amendment would be
imperative, because the legislature of 1913 had
released the company from Its obligations to con-
i struct draining canal. ,,s ,tita,t -. Sew j
aIs Mr. walker proposed, as a compromise an
amendment, the exact terms of which we did not
seize as they were read, but which we understood
: as recurring the lessee to have culyerts for the
drainage of the second drainage district; and this
IA substitute wasadopted. y an g5s1t a.rsn 3t''
+ after some debate as to the Fexpediency Of re
curing Che lessee to make the repairs needed By
the she road to nut itin good travelling order tht
eif bilwas ordered to be engrossed by 4 vote Of g.