New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-19

Mr.. Smith, from the Committee on Elec-
tions and Returns, presented the following
report:
A majority of your committee, after care
full revision of the evidence herewith sub
mitted, taken in the case of George W.
Ragan, who contests the seat of r. H. Day,
respectfully submit the following as the
conclusion arrived at, and ask that your
honorable body adopt the resolution ap-
pended to this report. 1t appears from
the official report of Major General Buchan-
an, then commanding this military district,
that r. H. Day received two tnhusand and
sixty-four t206D votes, and that George W.
Ragan received thirteen hundred and fifty.
seven Q357) votes, and that r. H. Day was
elected by seven hundred ard seven GOD
majority. 1t also appears by the official
quarters of this military district, that
eighteen (lS) white and thirteen hundred
and thirty three Q393) colored voted for
the Constitution, and that twelve hundred
and sixty.nine (l269) white and eight hun
dred and forty-five (s45) colored voted
against the Constitution, and that the ma
,or.y agysinst the Constitution was seven
hu dred and sixty-three (7G3.)
1t a. appears by the evidence that the
number Of registered voters in the parish of
East Baton Rouge, were three thousand
$4,000 colored and fifteen hundred Q500)
white. Total registered voters forty.f
hundred (4500). Total votes cast, thirty
four hundred and sixty y-fve 1868. This
therefore shows that ten hundred and thir-
ty-five (l035) registered voters, who had
right to vote, did not vote in the election on
the seventeenth and eighteenth days OF April
last, at which the two candidates were voted
for. 1t is also shown that George W. Ragan
received six more votes than the Constitu-
ton, and any pretence that he was an un'
popular candidate is refuted by the vote
above, given for the Constitution, and that
| he even run ahead of his ticket.
Your Committee cannot resist the con-
clusion that, had fair election been held
and no intimidation or violence been used,
| and the colored voters been allowed fair
| chance to go to the polls and vote as they
desired, that George W. Ragan would have
| been elected Senator from the parish of East
\ Baton Rouge.
ResoLUed, That the Hon. R. H. Day is not
| entitled to his seat in this body by reason
of the fraud and violence used at the elec
| ton on the seventeenth and eighteenth days
of April last and that the contestant,
George W. Ragan, be and he is hereby de-
| clared entitled to take his seat as Senator
| from the Thirteenth Senatorial District,
State ofLouisiana, and that he be sworn to
| fulfil the duties of the above named office.
MORTIMER F. SMITH,
GEORGE Y. KELSO,
ROBERT POINDEXTER,
| JAMES B. LEWIS.
Mr. Thompson: ask for time to make a
minority report in the same case.
| Time granted.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Lynch:
WHEREAS, The pages of the Senate receive
| only two dollars per pay, and owing to the
large discount they have TO pay to get their
warrants cashed; therefore be it
ResolUed, That the pages of the Senate : e.
extra compensation.
Mr.. Lynch: l move the adoption of the
| resolution.
Adopted.
By Mr.. jerks:
ResolUed, That the special committee tc
examine into the expenditures of the late
Board Of Registration be authorized to sit
during the vacation between this and the
next session, in order to complete their in
vestigations, and that they be required tC
report the result of their Investigations in
print to the next session of the Legislature
within one week from the meeting thereof
and that said committee be paid their per
| diem during the time they are so employed,
to be paid on the warrant of the chairman
of the committee and the Warrant Clerk Of
| the Senate.
Mr.. jerks: move the adoption of the
resolution.
Mr.. Pinchbeck: call for the yeas and
nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, result
ing:
Yeas: Anderson, Antoine, Bacon, Day,
| FRANCOIS, Futch jerks, Jewell, Lewis,
Monette, Packard. Poindexter Pollard, Ray,
Smith, Todd, Whitney, Wilcox, Wittgen-
| stein--l9.
Nays: Coupland Kelso, Lynch, Pinch
back and Thompson-5.
| The resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Pinchback: l ask for suspension of
| the rules to introduce memorial from
Eugene Mccarthy, Justice of the Peace, Or
leans, right bank.
Rules suspended and the memorial read.
Mr.. Pinchback y I1nove that the bill be
referred to the special. committee appointed
to investigate the report of the Grand Jury
in relation to Eugene Mccarthy.
Adopted.
The President appointed Messrs. Packard
and Foute on the said committee of inyesti-
cation.
Mr. Lewis: ask for a suspension of the
rules to present favorable report from the
Committee on Health upon House bill No.
56, an act regulating quarantine.
Rules suspended End the report received.
Mr. Kelso: ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce bill to be entitled an act
for the relief of James R. Andrews, late Sheriff
and Tax Collector of the parish of Rapides.
Rules suspended. H'
Under further suspension of the rules, the
bill was read second time, considered en-
crossed, and under suspension of rules
read third time, and finally adopted with
its title.
Mr.. Smith: ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce the following:
Resol1ed, That in view of the great dis
count upon State warrants, the porters of
this Senate be allowed the sum Of eighty
dollars each as extra compensation.
Rules suspended and the resolution lies
over.
Mr.. Lynch was called to the chair by the
President,
Mr.. Ray; I ask for suspension of the
rules to take up Senate bill No. 1856, an act
to exempt the Mutual Aid and Benevolent
Life Insurance Association of Louisiana
from taxation, which is now ready for its
third reading.
Rnles suspended and the bill read.
Mr.. Ray: l move that the bill be now
finally passed. F,bsii1o o5
Adopted. rr --
The bill was adopted by its title.
Mr.. Packard ask for asuspension of