New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-10

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| ton.
Mr. Blackman: move to lay the -resolu-
| tion on the table.
The President ordered the yeas and nays
to be called.
Yeas: Anderson, Blackman, Day, Egan,
Foute, FRANCOIS. Kelso, Pinchback, Todd,
Wilcox-l0.
Nays: Campbell, Coupland, Monette,
0'Hara, Packard, Poindexter, Ray, Thomp-
son, Whitney-9.
The motion was laid on the table.
Senate bill No. 60, an act to amend article
354 of the Civil Code was read.
Mr.. Ray: l move to lay the bill on the
table subject to call.
Adopted.
Senate bill No. 100 an act to amend article
ninety-nine of the constitution VIZ r ad
Mr.. Ray: move that the bill be made ,e
special order of the day on Tuesday next.
Adopted.
Senate bill No. l19, substitute from Judi
ciary Committee, an act to limit and control
the assessment of parish and municipal
taxes in the State.
Mr.. Day: move that the bill be made the
special order of the day on Friday.
Senate bill No. 1O7, an act granting the
exclusive right to William j. Taylor and NJ.
c. Cromer to erect platform scales for
weighing, and to reduce the price of weigh.
ing was read.
Mr.. Day: move that the bill be made the
special order of the day on Tuesday next.
Adopted.
The Senate went into executive session.
The executive session having been raised,
A communication from his Excellency the
Governor was read, informing the Senate
that he has approved and signed:
An act to enable lessees to bond property
under seizure.
An act relative to the division of the
Eleventh Ward of the parish of Terrebonne.
An act relative to delinquent lists of tax
collectors.
An act relative to public roads.
An act to amend an act entitled an act
relative to the adoption of children.
An act ito authorize the Police Jury of the
parish of St. James to remove the court
house and other public buildings.
An act giving jurisdiction to the Third
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Courts O.
the city of New Orleans in certain cases.
Joint resolution respecting tie statue oi
Washington. ..-
An act removing the seat of justice of the
parish of Madison from the town Of Rich
mond, and fixing it at Delta in said parish
An act relative to the inspection Of weights
and measures for the portion of the parish
of Orleans on the right bank of the rivel
Mississippi, and
An act granting the right to provisional
seizures in other cases than those now al
lowed by law.
The Senate adjourned.
In the Senate, Monday, September I.
Senate bill No. 1874, an act to incorporate
the New Orleans and Ship Island Cana
Company, being under consideration.
Mr.. Bacon moved to amend by striking
out the word 'perpetuap in the seventeenth
line.
Mr.. Bacon said: have not chartered
railroad or any other public work as ye
with perpetual succession, ! think it yer,
strange if we give them perpetual success
sion with no limit whatever upon thei
tolls. My first amendment is to strike ou
the word ''perpetual,n ~ and as to the limit
let that be decided upon as TO whether i
shall be twenty-five, thirty, or fifty years.
Mr.. Wilcox: l move to lay the amendmen
on the table. Mr.. President, l ain yer,
sure no one will come here to build cana
with prospect of its being taken from
them in a few years.
Mr.. Braughn: Mr.. President, I neve
heard of the Incorporation of an institution
7vit hpinO ou fha init r,
the duration of the monopoly; and whel
Senators move to lay such an amendmen
on the table they display remarkable ig
7 norance of the laws governing such sub
iects as this
Mr.. O'Hara: | would move an amendmen
to grant them one hundred wears.
Mr.. Bacon: 1 think fifty years, perhaps
would be fair. l have said twenty-five il
my amendment; but l think fifty year
would be also far.
The President: The Chair does not con
! ceive that anything is before the Senate, a
they moved to lay the amendment On th
table and violated it by making remarks o.
it afterwards.
J Mr.. Wilcox: l move to lay all amend
ments on the table.
Mr.. Braughn: l move to lay the Who'll
bill on the table.
Mr.. Campbell: That motion is improper
You can't amend motion to lay on thl
table.
The President: The Char is of opinion
that precedents have been made here tina
authorize Senator Braughn's amendment t
lay the whole subject on the table.
MIR. Campbell: 1t is utterly incompetent
The motion to lay on the table cannot b
superseded except by one motion, and tina
is by motion to adjourn.
The President: The Chair is not of tn
same opinion.
Mr.. Braughn Mr.. President, if the gen
tleman's motion is in order to amend al
amendment to that amendment, my motion
is necessarily in order; and as the Chair ha
very properly remarked the House has de
cided not to lay one portion Of an amend
ment on the table when motion has beer
made to lay the whole subject on the table
Mr.. Campbell: then, in order to determine
the matter, will make an appeal 1t is no
in the nature of an amendment to al
amendment. The motion to lay ON thC
table is only applicable to the subject in-
mediately under the consideration of tht
Senate at the time the motion is made.
You can not include more kthan one DIS
tinct motion In it. am borne out in this
by all the books upon the subject O
| parliamentary rules. This is the point
make. A motion to lay on the table can not
be amended but it must be first acted upon
An appeal being taken the Chair was mo-
| sustained.
The amendment OF senator bacon was
then laid on the table.
Mr. Braughn; now Mr.. President, will
simply say that / made my motion ir
no cautious spirit. As / remarked
the other day, sir, this Is perhaps the most
important measure to the city of New Or
leans that has come before the Senate during
the present session, and /, for one, desire tI
act upon it understandingly. The majority
OF the Senate agreeing, when this measure
was up before, its further consideration wa: