The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-11-30

StlIi SuOW ulSlOy oil teHuct1CicS.
McCulloch will send to the Sen
ate, on Monday, in response to the
cotton tax enquiry, commissioner
Welles' report urging it's repeal.
The early repeal seems a foregone
conclusion.
Congress is very tame, and an
impression growing that it will
adjourn Monday to December SEES
sion.
Washington, Nov. 23.-The fol
lowing is Kelly's resolution:
Resolved, That the welfare of
the people and the maintenance of
the faith and the credit of the
Government requires the repeal of
the tax imposed by existing laws
on cotton and the productions of
mechanical and manufacturing
industry.
Montgomery, Nov. 22.-The Re-
construction Convention article OF
constitution on Judiciary, as re-
ported, provides that the Govern
or shall appoint all judges of the
several courts, solicitors and chan
cellors, to be confirmed by the
Senate; magistrates shall be ap-
pointed by the Governor, but the
/. Legislature may change the man
ner of appointing them; the chan
cellor shall appoint registers, and
judges appoint clerks of the sew
eral courts. The term of all these
officers six years. Appointment
OF judicial officers provided in
order to prevent elections being
controlled by colored vOters.-
Black delegates strongly oppose
this policy.
An ordinance was introduced
to assess tax of twenty cents a
gallon on liquors to pay expenses
of the Convention; referred. Or
dinance introduced and referred,
providing that the loan of two
hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars to the Alabama and Tenn
cssee railroad, which was repaid
to the State in Confederate cur
rency during the war, is still I'M
discharged and paid, and the road
is bound to pay the sum now in
good money.
Montgomery, Nov. 23.-Tlte
convention passed an ordinance
imposing an additional tax of ten
per centum on taxes otherwise as
sessed on the taxable property in
this State for the purpose of pay
ing the expenses of the conven-
ton, to be assessed and collected
during the tax year of 1868. :.
The bill of rights Of the consti-
tuition provides, among other
things, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their CREATOR with certain inalien-
able rights-that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness and that all persons
and classes in this State, who are
or may be declared citizens of the
United States, by the Constitution
thereof, are hereby declared citi.
zens Of the State of Alabama,
possessing equal civil and political
rights and public privileges, with,
out distinction of race, color OF
previous condition.
| The section in the bill of rights
defining treason, as passed, says
no one shall be conviction of trea
son except on the testimony OF
| two witnesses to the same overt
act, or upon his own confession in
court. ~
The franchise article provides
that those who SHALL be convicted
of treason shall not exercise the
right of suffrage. 1t is believed
} that all persons who came within
the twenty thousand dollar clause
Of President JohnsOn's amnesty
proclamation, and against whom
proceedings were instituted in thu
United States District Court, who
on being pardoned by the Presi
dent, had to appear in court ant
enter the plea of pardon and gull
ty, are disfranchised by the new
constitution. If this is correct
| thirty or forty, thousand whites
, are disfranchised at one blow il
, the State.
In the evening session of the
/ convention all amendment to thu
} bill of rights was offered, thar
common carriers should not max,
any discrimination ON account o
color between persons travelling
on public conveyances, which
, caused great excitement. Severa
+ black delegates delivered infam
matory harangues, demandin!
entire social equality, and til,
p right to ride in sleeping cars, SC
Two whites favored the amend
, ment, Griffen and Keyffer, makins