New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-22

of the day on Wednesday next at one
o'clock. 5....
Adopted. ~
Senate bill No. lO1, en- act to incorporate
the Loan and Pledge Association was
read
Mr. Campbell: Imove to strike out the
fifth item of the bill.
Adopted. ..I
Mr.. Campbell: move to insert the fol.
lowing additional section as section two;
Be it further enacted, etc., That this
act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Adopted.
The bill was considered engrossed.
Mr.. Campbell: I ask for suspension of
the rules to put the bill on its third reading.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
The bill was finally adopted with its
title.
Senate joint resolution No. 100, substitute,
to amend article ninety-nine of The consti.
tuition was read.
Mr.. Ray: ask for call Of the Hp Sc.
The President ordered the call, tue fol-
lowing Senators answered to their names;
Bacon, Campbell, Coupand, Darrall
Day Egan, Foute, Kelso, Lynch. Monette
Packard, Pinchback, Pollard, Randall
Ray, Todd, Whitney, Wilcox, Williams
Wittgenstein-20.
Mr.. Ray: The consent of twenty.four
Senators, or two.thirds of the whole mum.
Der, being necessary to the adoption of the
amendment and that number not being
present, move to postpone consideration
of the bill until tomorrow, for which time
it shall be made the special order of the
day.
Adopted. " .
Mr.. Lynch: 1 ask for a suspension of the
rules to present report from the State
Treasurer and Senate Warrant Clerk on the
act authorizing the negotiation of $500 900
of State warrants.
Rules suspended and the report re-
ceived.
Mr.. Lynch: ask for further suspension
of the rules to take up the report.
The report was read.
Mr.. Lynch: move that the report be re-
ferred to the Finance Committee.
Adopted.
Mr.. Lynch: I ask for suspension of the
rules to take up Senate bill No. substi
tute for House bill No. 215, an act tor the
relief of the State Treasury.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mr.. Lynch: move that the bill be re-
committed to the Finance Committee.
Adopted.
House bill No. 16s, an act to incorporate
and establish the New Orleans News Asso-
citation, was read.
Mr.. Bacon: move that the bill be con-
sidered engrossed for third reading.
Adopted.
Under suspension of the rules the bill
was read third time and finally adopted
with its title.
Mr.. Ray: ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce a resolution.
Rules suspended and the following read:
ResolUed, That a committee of five be ap.
pointed to ascertain and report as soon as
possible the best way and means to raise
funds sufficient to pay off the per diem.
mileage and expenses of the Legislature.
Mr.. Ray: move the adoption of the res
olution.
The resolution was adopted.
The President appointed Messrs. Ray,
Lynch, Bacon, Blackman, and Foute on the
committee called for by the resolution.
Mr.. Ray; I ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
Rules suspended.
An act to authorize the erection of neces-
sary buildings and the procuring the neces-
sary machinery for the State Penitentiary,
employment of an engineer, and to superin-
tend the erection of the same, and to
provide means for the same, was read.
Mr., Ray: l ask for suspension of the
rules to put the bill on its second reading.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mr.. Ray: move that the bill be printed
aud made the special order of the day on
Wednesday next.
Adopted,
A communication from the House was
read informing the Senate that that body
had postponed indefinitely an act for the
relief of J. ]. Edmonston.
Mr.. Packard; l ask for suspension of
the rules to take up the report of the COM
mittee appointed to inquire into the amount
of labor performed by the employees of
the Committee on the Conduct Of the Late
Election.
Rules suspended and the report read.
Mr. Packard: move that the report be
adopted.
The yeas and nays were ordered; result
ing:
Yeas Campbell, COPELAND, Packard,
Nays: Darrall Day, Jewell, Kelso, Lewis,
Lynch, Ogden, Ray, Williams and Wittgen-
stein-l0.
The motion to adopt the report was lost.
Mr.. Campbell; ask for suspension of
the rules to take up bill.
Rules suspended. st3 f0 t'F
Senate bill No. 12l, an act to incorporate
he New Orleans Slaughter House Company
was read. sD
Mr. Campbell: | move that the bill be
made the special order of the day on Thurs
lay next. f
A message from the Governor was read.
The following communication from the
Governor was read;
ExEcUrvE DEPARTMENT, |
State Of Louisiana New Orleans Sept q, 1868. !
70 the Honorable President and Members OF the
Senate:
l return to the Senate "AA act respecting
and fines without my sig
nature, for the following reasons, to wit:
First-The Constitution, article titty.eight,
invests the Governor, with the consent of
he Senate, with the power to grant pardons,
emit fines and torteitures after conviction.
SecoDd-The Constitution, article eighty