New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-21

The remaining Senate amendment to the
revenue bill was concurred in.
House bill for the relief of George W. Sizer.
Passed.
Senate amendments to bill making State
warrants and all other redeemable State
paper receivable for State taxes. One of
| the amendments strikes out the clause in
| the bill which forbids the speculation in
warrants by tax collectors; and another
| gives the tax collectors till the twentieth
December, 1865, for final settlement.
All the amendments concurred in.
| Senate amendments to the bill appropriat.
ing 100000 for registration purposes.
Amendments concurred in.
House joint resolution authorizing the
| Joint "peace and order committee to sit
from now to the second Monday in next
January. Passed.
Senate act supplementary to act of inco-.
| poration OF Amite City. Finally passed.
Senate bill relative to collection of taxes
due the city ofNew Orleans for 1867. Final
| ly passed.
Senate bill for the relief of William G..
Bell, of st. Landry parish. Finally passed.
Senate bill giving to District and Parish
Courts the right to try mandamuses in
chambers during the recess of such courts.
| Finally passed.
Senate bill appropriating $500 to repair the
| books and records in the office of the Re
corder of Conveyances of the parish of Or.
| leans. This bill makes the city OF New
Orleans pay the expense. Finally passed.
| A resolution giving to the two Radical
| contestants of the seats OF Messrs Bergeron
and Briout, members elected from St. Mar.
tin parish, whose cases have not yet been
decided, mileage and per diem for the whole
session. Adopted.
The House went into Committee Of the
Whole, Mr.. Harper, of St. Charles in the
chair.
uha a oc,,. ,;ttoo tool- ,,, A. 1.;,4 r.. a, !
relief of Messrs. Huger & Jones, present
lessees of the Penitentiary.
The House resumed its regular session and
the bill was passed.
The Speaker then announced the following
committee to proceed to Bayou Manchac to
investigate the practicable of opening it:
Messes, Pierce, ofLiyingston, and Demarest,
of st. Mary; and committee to notify the
Governor Of the adjournment of the House
sine die: Messrs. Crawford, of Franklin,
Kent, of st. Helena, and Rey, of Orleans.
Mr.. McMillen here moved a reconsidera.
tion of the vote by which the House had
Just passed the bill relative to the lease of
the State Penitentiary. -f4.
Mr.. Faulkner moved to lay on tie table,
Carried by 81 to 20.
A resolution giving the Clerk of the Ways
and Means Committee $500 extra.
Adopted.
Mr.. Carr introduced a resolution ordering
the printing of two thousand copies of the
"Peace and Order Committee report for the
use of the House.
Adopted.
A resolution declaring that all business be
suspended, and ordering the election by
viva yoce vote, of Speaker pro tenn, and
the appointment of q committee of five to
conduct the Speaker pro TEN. to his chair
Pending the adoption OF this resolution.
Mr.. Kent, of the committee appointed for
that purpose, announced that tho Governor
had no further messages to lay before the
House.
Some sparring here followed on the Chair
man pro TEN. resolution. Messrs. Heiden.
hahn, Hall and Murrell were each entered,
the choice falling upon MIR. Heidenhsin.
A scene here followed. Everybody
shouted. yelled, laughed, introduced
funny resolutions, shouted some more,
made more funny remarks, badgered Mr..
Heidenhain nearly to death, ana satired
every member of the. House. This scene
of confusion over, the Speaker took the
chair. esr
The House took up the Senate resolution
ordering the appointing of q committee to
negotiate for the leese of State House,
and to sit after adjournment. Passed
finally. 7' As
Mr.. De Grange, of Orleans. Democrat, in
troduced a resolution rendering to the
Speaker Of the House, Colonel G. w. Lowell,
vote OF thanks for the manner in which
ne nas discharged his duties as Speaker.
MI. Noble seconded the resolution, and it.
was unanimously adopted. In reply Colonel
Loweii thanked the House for their kind.
ness aud ior the invariable courtesy with
which ne mad been treated by every mem.
Der. The Clerk was then sent to announce
to the Senate that the House was ready to
adjourn. 4liifHH z iifEfn8h
Avote ofthanks w,aslthent rendered to the
Chief Clerk of the House, his assistants- the
sergeant-atArms, his assistants, the news
paper reporters, the porters and assistant
porters, the doorkeeper aad the pages.