New Orleans Republican., 1868-09-16
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
PROCEEDINGS
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.


bers present:
Anderson. Bacon. Beares. Blackman.
Braughn, Campbell, Coupland, Darrall,
Egan, Foute, Fran qois, Jewell, Kelso, Lewis,
| Lynch, O'Hara, Packard, Pinchback, Poin-
dexter, Pollard, Raw, Smith, Todd, White,
Whitney, Wilcox and Williams-27.
Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Mr.. Turner.
On motion of Mr.. Ray the reading of the
minutes was dispensed with.
Mr.. Whitney have the honor to pre-.
sent to the Senate the credentials of John
Randall, Senator elect from the Fifteenth
Senatorial District of Louisiana, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the election OF
the Hon. J. H. Harris to the United States
Senate.
The credentials were read as follows:
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Once of Secretary of State,
New Orleans, September Il, 1868.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
have the honor to inform you that re.
turns have been received from the Sherffs
OF the parishes Of Avoyelles and Concordia,
showing that at an election held in the
! former parish on the twenty-ninth day of
August, 1868, and at an election held in the
parish Of Concordia on the eighteenth day
of August, 1868, the following votes were
cast TOR State Senator, to fill the vacancy
occasloned by the resignation of the Honor.
able John S. Harris:
Avoyelles: Fielding Edwards, IT'S; John
Randall, none.
Concordia Fielding Edwards, s; John
Randall, lisa.
Total for Fielding Edwards, 1873; for John
Randall llSl.
Respectfully,
GEO. f. BovEE.
Secretary Of State.
Mr.. Whitney: move that Mr.. Randall
be sworn in.
Adopted.
Mr.. Randall was sworn il by the President
and took his seat.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Ray, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported favorably upon House Joint reso-
luton No. 2O9, providing for the payment of
members and employees and prohibiting
speculation in warrants for the payment OF
contingent expenses, etc.
Mr.. Smith, from the Committee on Elec-
tiOns and Returns, reported progress.
The Clerk of the House of Representa-.
tives appeared witt a message from that
body, and asked concurrence of the Senate
in the following bills:
House bill No. 1872, an act supplementary
to an act to incorporate the New Orleans
Mechanics Society, passed February II,
1921.
House bill No. 16s. an act to incorporate
and establish the New Orleans News Asso.
citation.
House bill No. IA, al act to prevent the
issue of false receipts or bills of lading, and
topunish fraudulent transfers of property
by cotton presses, wharingers and others.
House bill No. ISL, al act to amend and
re-enact the fourth section of an act relative
to judicial and other sales made at public
auction, approved March II, lSj5.
House bill les, an act repeating an act
supplementary to the several acts relating
to the town of Franklin, in the parish of st.
Mary, and fixing the salary and compensa-
ton of the Mayor and Councilmen of said
town.
House bill No. 176, an act to fix and de.
termine the salaries OF the Board of Police
Commissioners of the city of New Orleans;
establishing Board of Police Commission
ers for the city of New Orleans, approved
July 0, 1865.
House bill No. Isl, an act to authorize the
closing of Benoit's Bayou, in the parish of
Bossier.
House bill No. 125, an act for the relief of
the office of Attorney General of the State
of Louisiana.
House bill No. As, an act relating to State
and Parish Tax Collectors; and
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the Bayou Rapides Navigation Company.
Also that the House had concurred in
the following:
Senate bill No. 81, an act to amend article
1870 of the Civil Code.
Senate bill No. %, an act respecting i'm
prisonments and fines.
Senate bill No. 81, an act to amend an act
entitled an act to incorporate the Louisiana
Central Stem of the Mississippi and Pacific
Railroad Company.
Senate bill No. no. an act defining the
duties and powers of the Police Jury in that
part of theparish of Orleans situated upon
the right bank of the river Mississippi.
Senate bill No. ll6, an act to amend an |
act entitled an act to incorporate the town
of New iberia, in the parish of St. Martin,
and for other purposes, approved March 10,
1899, and the act amehdatory thereof, ap.
proved March A. 1855.
Senate bill No. 9s, an act to amend and
re-enact article 800 of the Code of Practice;
and tt# FTE
Senate bill No. 103, an act to amend the
frst section of az act entitled an act to in.
corporate the town of Monroe, in the parish
Of ouachita, and to provide for the govern.
ment of the same, etc, and Senate bill l2O,
with amendment to title.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Packard, from the special committee
on slaughter'houses, reported as follows.
To the hoaorable President aud Members of tss
senate: - '-'
Your special committee, to whom was re-.
ferred the bill entitled an act to provide for
the inspection OF live stock aud to prevent /
the sale Of diseased meats in the parishes
OF orleans and Jefferson, have had the same
anaer consideration and report unfavorably
thereon for the following reasons:
tue oili IN its general features lacks very
macy points of protection to the public,
v Wnicn are essential to bills Of this charac-
es ser. II as carefully taken care to protect
-nT .hspsctor against any prosecution for
-, -.-...- 1-S1s dAu says uG snail re-
eelVe ten cents Tor cattle and five cents for
hogs, sheep and goata. aud fails TO provide
any pona LOT saio inspector to give for the
faithful performance Of his duties but con-.
ters upon MIN the arbitrary control Of the
entire slaughtering bnsihess of ire afnre. 4
said parishes. Your Committee Are of tba
opiRion that the enactment of this Inv WonId
endanger more lives by starvation than II
would save from eating diseased meata.
The bill proposes to confer upon one ain.