The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-18

Jewell. keso. Lynch, Ray. Thompson. Whitney
The amendment was adopted.
The first section was adopted - amsnded.
The second section was read and adopted.
The resolution was adopted as whole.
The resolution was considered engrossed.
| Mr. Raw ask for suspension of the rules Il
put the resolution on its third reading.
Rules suspended by rising vote Of IL yeas to
The bill was read and finally adopted with it,
title.
MI Lynch, from the finance committee, reported
favorably upon Senate bill No. 284. an act to Sc
cure the collection of the taxes of the city Of Ne
Orleans for the year 1867.
Mr.. Lynch ask for suspension of the rules
to take up the bill.
The yeas and nays were ordered with the fol
Yess-Anderson, Antoine, Bacon, Campbell
Day, Francois, Futch, Jewell, KsIso, Lewis
Lynch. Monette, O'Hara, Packard. PinchbAck,
Pollard, Ray, Thompson, Wilcox wittgenstein-
Nays PoiDdexter, Smith and whitney-3.
The rules were suspended and the bill read.
Mr. Rsy-l move that this bill be considered en-
crossed.
Adopted.
Under further suspension of the rules, the bill
was read third time and finally adopted with its
\ title. - ~ -. =,
Mr.. Poindexter. from the enrolment committee,
reported as duly enrolled Senate bills Nos. 2sl,
1872, Isl. s.f4
Mr.. Campbell, from the committee of the city
delegation, presented the following, repors:
SENATE CHAMBER,
New Orleans. Oct IL, 1868.
To the Honorable the President Members Of
The undersigned senators from the parishes of
| Orleans and Jefferson, and to whom was referred
the bill entitled On act to aid in the construction
OF the New Orleans and Ship Island Canal, for the
| purpose of more effeetually leveeing. draining
and recsiming swamp land in the rear of the city
of New Orleans" beg leave to submit the follow
| ing report thereon
The proposed canal follows natural depression
Of the surface to the Bayou GENTLY, aud thence
to the Rgolets, and il is the most comprehensive
and practicable route whereby the drainage of
the city can be efficiently and economically &C.
| complsbed.
1he present drainage system is unscientiic, i'm.
| practicable and expensive. and 80 far promises
nothing but an indefinite succession of enormous
taxes with no benefits resulting therefrom. The
proposed canal will drain the whole area from the
river to the lake as it can never be done other
wise, at no greater expense to the city than its
| present useless system, while the aid thus
| given to II will be reimbursed by an
expenditure of millions Of foreign capital and by
| large congressional appropriations which we have
| reasonable assurances will be given to an i'm
provement Of such great national importance.
The reclamation Of the swamp lands of the city,
immense addition to It's wharf and shipping 'front.'
the increased facilities for the reshipment of
Western produce, and the diminuton of the
present injurious charges upon ses-going vessels
to be Effected by this great enterprise afford ar.
gun ents for the bill which are self evident. The
achievement Of these great results will constitute
New Orleans for the first time, in fact, what she
was destined by nature. to be the great CONNER
cial and financial center Of the Mississippi valley,
and the distributing point for all that magnificent
territory of European commerce.
When, to the foreg going consideration is added
the fact that no part Of the revenues appropi-
ated BY the bill can be received by thu company
until their enterprise is an accomplished fact. and
the canal as to the purposes of drainage, entirely
completed, the undersigned believe that no rea-
sonabie or valid objection to the bill can be urged
and they. therefore, recommend its passage.
All OF which is respectfully submitted.
HUGH J. CAMPBELL,
A. B. BACON,
7. v. CoUPLAND,
G. G. PACKARD
p. B. PNcHBAcK,
SAM. III. TODD,
J. j. MoNErTB,
MORTIMER F. Smith,
u. II. BRAUGHH.
Mr.. Witteenstein--I ask for suspension of the
rules to receive the report. Rules suspended by
a rising vote Of Is yeas, l nay.
MIR. Bacon-I move that the bill be printed.
Lost.
Mr.. Campbell ask for suspension Of the
rules TO take up the bill. Rules suspended and
the bill read. The bill was taken up section by
section.
Inc nfst Sectl0n was read.
Mr.. RAY move that the bill be referred to the
committees on internal improvements and of the
city delegation jointly. Adopted.
Mr.. Wicox-I move that the bill be printed.
Adopted.
Mr.. -, from the enrolment committee, re.
ported as duly engrossed House bill No. 283,
senate bill No. 279, and Senate joint resolution
No. "a.
Mr.. Smith, from the committee on elections and
returns presented the following report:
A majority Of your committee, after q careful
revision of the evidence herewith submitted
taken in the case of George W. Raglan. who con.
tests the seat of r. H. Day, respectfully submit
the following as the conclusion arrived at, and
ask that your honorable body adopt the resolu.
ton appended to this report. II appears from
the official report of Major Gen. Buchanan, then
commanding this military district, that R. Fl. Day
received two thousand and sixty-four (2064)
votes, and that George W. Raglan received thir-
teen hundred and ffty-seven Q35D votes and
that Il II. Day was elected by seven hundred and
seven 600 msjority. IL also appears by the Off.
cial returns taken from the books at headquarters
of this military district that eighteen (lS) white
and thirteen hundred and thirty three 1889 col
ored voted for the Constitution, and that twelve
hundred and sixty.nine Q269) white and eight
hundred and forty-fve (845) colored voted against
the Constitution, and that the majority against the
Constitution was seven hundred and sixty three
(763.)
1t also appears by the evidence that the number
OF registered voters In the parish of East Baton
Rouge, we're three thousand 10000 colored and
m~en hundred (l50Ol white. Total registered
voters forty five hundred (4500). Total votes
cast thirty -four hundred and sixtyfvs (3465).
This therefore shows that ten hundred and thirty.
five (l035) registered voters, who had right to
vote, did not vote in the election on the seven
teenth and eighteenth days Of April last at which
the two candidates were voted for. II is also
shown that George W. Raglan received six more
votes than the Constitution. and any pretence that
be was an unpopular candidate is refuted by the
vote above. given for the Constitution, and that
be even run ahead of his ticket.
Your committee cannot resist the conclusion
that, had fair election been held and no utimi.
dstion or violence been used, and the coored vot-
ers been allowed fair chance to 90 to the polls
and vote as they desired, that George W. Raglan
would have been elected senator from the parish
OF East Baton Rouge.
Resolced. That the Hon. r. Fl. Day Is not en-
titled TO his seat in this body by reason of the
Maud and violence used at the election on the
seventeenth and eighteenth days Of April last,
ard that the contestant. George w. Raglan, be and
hereby is declared entitled to take his seat as
senator from the thirteenth senatorial district,
State of Louisiana, and that he be sworn TO fulfil
the duties of The above named office.