New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-24
PROCEEDINGS
OF TIE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF TIE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.
seventy-Fourth Days Session.

Seventy-FOurth Days Session.
WEDNESDAY, September %, 1868.
The Senate was called to order by the
President at twelve O'Clock N.
The roll was called; the following mem
bers answered to their names:
Anderson, Bacon, Beares, BIackman,
Foute, Jewell, Kelso, Lewis, Lynch, Mo.
nette, offutt, Ogden, 0'Hara, Packard,
Pinchback, Poindexter, Pollard, Randall,
Ray, Smith, Thompson, Whitney, Wilcox,
Williams Wittgenstein-3O
PRAYER by Rev. Mr.. Reed.
On motion of Mr.. OHara the reading of
the minutes was dispensed with.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Darrall, from the Committee on En-.
rollment, reported as duly enrolled Senate
bills Nos. 116 and Ga, and as duly engrossed
House bills Nos. 81 and 134.
The Special Committee appointed to in
vestigate the alterations to Senate bill No.
%, respecting fines and imprisonments re.
ported as follows:
To the Senate of the State of Louisiana:
The undersigned, a special committee ap
pointed to examine into the cause why the
bill entitled an act respecting imprisonments
and fines, as presented to the Governor for
his approval should have been so worded as
to provide that sit shall be discretionary
for such court or judicial officer as was
spoken of in the previous portions Of the
bill ITO remit any portion OF such fine or
Imprisonment and to alter or amend the
sentence, judgment or order whereby such
fine or Imprisonment shall have been ad-
Judged" whereas, said bill as it passed the
hot ohnn mot ha
cretionary for such court or Judicial officer
to remit any portion of such fine or i'm.
prisOnment nor to alter or amend the sem
fence, judgment or order, whereby such
fine or imprisonment shall have been ad-
judged" l
such was the bill as sent to the House and
it was returned by the Clerk of that body as
having passed that branch of the General
Assembly on the fourteenth instant without
amendment.
Your committee have examined the en-
crossed bill as it went to the House and was
returned, and ind that the alterations have
been made in pencil, the negative being
stricken out, There is also fourth section
added in pencil repeating all laws in con-
flict with this which was unnecessary to and
not in the bill as it passed the Senate.
The second section remains unal-
tered.
This shows the intent of the bill fully to
be to prohibit the remission of fines or i'm
prisonments by the Judges, etc., because it
prescribes how they may be SO RENTED
not by the Judge, but by Governor and
Senate, parish Judge and Police Jury, OF
Mayor and Common Council, as the case
may he. ....
The bill has evidently been tampered
with; by whom, your committee thinks it
our duty to push further inquiries, as to
which we ask leave to sit again. Your com
mittee is informed by the Clerk of the House
that when the bill left that body it was
without any alteration or addition in pen
Gil, or otherwise such as has been shown tc
have been made in this bill. 1t was there
fore passed by the House as well as by the
| Senate so as to read sit shall not be com.
petent for such courtto remit" ETC., &C. MOI
| to alter to amend,n ETC., nor was said sup
posed fourth section in it, and your com.
mittee therefore recommend that the Sec
retary be directed to have said bill enrolled
anew in accordance with the statements
herein made, and as it really passed, anG
that the Governor be informed by him that
the bill as it was sent to him for approva
was not such as it passed the General As
sembly.
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