New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-21

Committee on enrollment-No re-
port.
Committee on contingent expenses.
No report.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Tho special committee, to which
was referred the report. of the COM
mittee on contingent expenses, re-
ported progress.
Mr.. Cooley called attention to an
error in the journal of the 9th of
January, in the yeas and nays upon
Mr.. Cranes amendment, which was
ordered to be corrected, by trans
ferring the names of Messrs. Bonnie
foi, Cooley, Crawford, Ludeling, and
Lynch from the affirmative to the mega
tive, and that of Mr.. Crane from the
negative to the affirmative.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The amendment of Mr.. Ludeling
being under consideration,
Was adopted.
Article seventy-two, majority report
as amended, and reading as follows:
ART. "a. The supreme court, except
in cases hereinafter provided, shall
have appellate jurisdiction only;
which jurisdiction shall extend to all
cases when the matter in dispute shall
exceed FIVE hundred dollars; and TO all
cases in which the constitutionality or
legality of any tax, toll, or impost of
any kind or nature whatsoever, or any
fine, forfeiture, or penalty imposed bY
a municipal corporation shall be in
condensation, whatever be the amount
thereof; and in such cases the appeal
shall be direct from the court in which
the case originated to the supreme
court; and in criminal cases, on cues
tons Of law only, whenever the pun
ishment Of death or imprisonment at
hard labor or fine exceeding three
hundred dollars is imposed,
Was adopted.
Mr.. Oliver moved to adopt article
seventy-three, majority report.
Mr. Crane moved to amend by strik-
ing out all from the word appointed, :"
eleventh line, to "they," in the thir-
teenth line, and inserting "shall be
elected for the term of six years by a
plurality Of the qualified electors of
the whole state, at the same time and
places of the elections of members to
the general assembly next preceding
the expiration Of the term Of each Of
said judges respectively"
Mr. Meadows moved to lay the
amendment on the table.
Adopted.
Yeas 50, nays 32-as follows
Yeas Antoine, Baker, Barrel. Bel
den, Blandin, Cooley, Crane. Craw-
ford Quincy, bearing, Douglass, Du-
Plessis, Edwards, Fuller, Ferguson.
Gair. Hampstead, Ingraham Kelso,
Landers, Leroy, D. B. Lewis. r
Lewis Ludeling, Meadows, Mcmillan.
Muxrel, Myers, Nswsham, Packard.
Pinchback, Reagan, Reese. Scott. gni-
der, Steele, Twitehell, Vandereriff,
Waples-35.
Nays: Bonnefoi, Brown, Crane.
Cromwell. Depassenu, P. @. Deslonde'
y. Dupart, Esnard, Francois, Gerdi-
nef, r. ii. Isabelle, Thos. isabelle.
jackson, Marie, Morris. Martin.
Vases, Mushaway, Oliver, Pierce.
bolnee4ter, Pollard, Riard, Riggs.
Aodriguez. Snaer. Tinchanf, ValfFoit,
tidal' Miekliffe, Williams. Wilson-a2.
hr Iinehnnt vas excused from az
tendance o. the ground Of sickness.
by II. Blandin, article seventy |
three majority Eepost.
hE. Hampstead moved % amend by
adains
Provided. That the present sunrame
Judges shall remain IL olIfos anisi ~
expiration Of theit commissions 90
the tarm 70 which they vera appoiniod 4.
xhe amendment vas adopted.
~ Mcmillan moved e amend IS
.illAiae out Ga after and ii u
oasisanlh Inc, % ihs word sappdins.