New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-06
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

NoTEs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the House, yesterday, afr. Noble, of Or
leans, pronounced as absurd bill to con-
vey children on their way to and from
school free of charge on all public ferries.
Mr. McMillen, Of Carroll, said: The bill
has been carefully examined by the Com
mittee on Corporations, and the gentleman
is parliamentary in declaring the bill alb
surd. In thus characterizing the bill the
gentleman certainly shows his ignorance of
the subject. /, therefore, hope the bill will
be read for his information.
Mr.. Noble: That is precisely what l am
always wanting. want this bill read.
The bill was read.
MIR. Noble: The bill is all right, and shall
support it. ! object to the title as not in.
dicatlng the objects of the bill.
A bill for the appointment of Board of
Administrators of the Public Schools of the
city New Orleans, aud defining the du-
Ties Of the Board being under considera-
ton, Mr.. Noble said:
The corporation of the city of New Or
leans has vestedlright in the school build
ings. By anne nding the charter the object
OF this bill can be reached, but il never can
be done in this manner. No law can be en-.
forced except, first, it is in accordance with
the reconstruction acts, and, second, in &c
cordance with the Constitution ofthe United
States. The scheme proposed is illegal, and
against the law.
Mr.. Carr, of Orleans: How did the city
obtain the vested right the gentleman
speaks of?
Mr.. Noble: The city has a vested right in
their school buildings because they bought
them under their charter. repeat, the OBJ.
ject of the bill can be accomplished only by
amending the charter, and not by an indie
pendent act.
Mr.. Carr: We mean to control these
schools by a written law of the land, which
will be passed in this House to-day. We
propose to have loyal school directors and
loyal school teachers, under whose iirec-
tions pupils will be taught to respect the
Government of the United States. We pro-
pose to teach the young idea how to shoot.
Mr.. McMillen: / call the gentleman to Or
der. 1t is incendiary to talk about shoot
ing. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Murrel, of Lsfourche: The gentleman
from Orleans talks about vested rights. We
will make laws, and we will try to enforce
them. We are the dominant party in the
Legislature, and our laws must be obeyed.
Mr.. Isabelle, of Orleans: 1 call the atten-
ton of the gentleman who asserts that the
corporation of the city of New Orleans
has vested rights in the school build
ings, to the city charter. The city
was chartered in the name of the white
inhabitants only. The constitution pro-
vides that all laws not inconsistent with the
provisions thereof, shall continue in force
This discriminatory charter is inconsistent
with the constitution of the State.
The body that created that charter was
the same as this, with this difference: that
this Legislature represents the whole peo-
pie, while that Legislature represented only
portion of the people.
The schools supported by the taxes of the
whole people should be open to the children
of the whole people. The colored people
were taxed to pay for the education of por-
ton of the children in the city, and they
were taxed to build the school houses in this
city.
Mr.. Noble: did not defend the charter
of New Orleans. / say that you can amend
it, ibut you cannot reach this by an indie.
pendent law.
The bill relating to a railroad from Mon
roe to Shreveport being before the House,
Mr.. Noble read what he termed q statement
in reference to some legal action, but which
he afterwards said was copy of the bill in
chancery in the United States Circuit Court
alleging collision between the Sheriff OF
0uachita and Messrs. Ludeling, Ray and
others Of the railroad corporation.
Mr.. Morey, of 0uachlta: The parties
brought suit in the local court and lost their
case. They appealed to the Supreme Court,
the highest tribunal in the State, which
The present action is frivolous in its nature.
Mr. Carr, of Orleans, objected to that
section in the bill authorizing the issuance
by the State OF bonds to the amount of six
thousand dollars per mile for every mile
after the first five miles are built. These
bonds are to be issued on the affidavit of the
engineer that the rails are laid without the
declaration of the fact OF construction by
any State officer. The bill was postponed.
In the House, on Friday, on the bill to
repeal the act authorizing planters to sell
goods to their hands without license, Mr..
Murrel, Of Lafourche, advocated its repeal;
he said: plantation hands are now COM
PEELED to buy rotten pork and sanded
sugar. The plantation store is nothing but
8 thieving pen, where poor stuff is sold
for good stuff, and where the purchaser
gets fifty cents worth and pays dollar and
half for it.
Mr.. Faulkner, of Caldwell: It is sur
prising when any measure comes up in this
House, affecting the material interests of
the people, what strange notions some
gentlemen get up. You might lust as well
impose license on the planter for his own
family supplies, as upon him for the supplies
he furnishes his hands. III Caldwell parish,
the plantation hands will tell you not to
SUIT on a license.
II gentlemen in these little dirty holes in
Lafourche and on the Mississippi river
sWlndle their hands, we do not do it in
Caldwell. But l expect there are
little places within the precincts of Lou
isiana where planters turn Shylocks. II
planters do not buy the supplies, their
hands will go to the sharp dealers in the
villages, and they will get taken in by them.
If the planters went there, they would get
taken in also. If you repeal this act, you
will cripple the energies Of the people.
Mr.. Gray. of st. James / happen to
know that Mr.. Faulkner has store on his
plantation. and he is not the man to sell
goods to his hands at cost prices.
Mr.. Kent, of st. Helena, opposed the bill
to repeal, and hoped the act of 1866 would
not be repealed.
The bill to create Board of Public Works
being under consideration, Mr.. Heidenhain,
of Orleans, moved to amend by giving the
Chief Engineer three thousand Instead of
five thousand dollars per annum.
Mr.. Tureaud, of st. James; | move TO lay
the amendment on the table.
Mr.. Heidenhain, sternly: What do you
know about it?
Mr.. Tureaud, mirthfully: know as much
about it as you do.
The amendment was not adopted.
TENTH WARD CLUB.-The Tenth Ward