The New Orleans crescent., 1868-07-23

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The clerk Of the House announced that tn,
, | to is nays.
, A message from the governor was announced
MT. bsson's bill relative to arrests and conhne
| ments, was taken up on its second reading.
. 1he hour to take - the order of the day having
peen reached, Mr.. Campbell moved that the
printing Dill be considered engrossed and put
upon Its third reading
Mr.. Bacon moved that the Senate resolve itself
into committee Of the whole to take up the
bill section by section.
Mr.. J. B. Lewis objected; the bill had been
long enough before the Senate.
Mr.. Bacon cOntended that the bill was upon its
second reading. IL was sent to the committee
mat they might give their opinion upon it, and
comes pack ON It's second reading, otherwise
what would be the necessity of referring il
WITHOUT discussing its merits.
hr. r. L. Jewell said that the bill came M on is
second Isadmg, and subject 70 amendment The
n a. ~ ssslts' could not pass today without
The chair, in snsWer 10 Mr.. Campbell. said he
enierialned ibe motion Of Mr.. Bacon 10 read the
blll section by section.
MI. Bacon said that his experience had not
been brief IN political matters nor ia this matter
lhe chef object Of the senators who support the
biil would not be attained. The bill proposes, as
Tie minofiy report says, 20 mOnopolize the print
ing ~ The whole State. He PROPOSES to reduce
The charges In section 10. He also proposed 70
require bond Of the printer for the faithful per.
foi nance OF his duties. He would propose that
th. forfeiture be 900 instead Of go. That the
publication OF The journal Of the House shall be
Tor one time only sId 10 solid type That The
price should be 81 FOR the frat insertion and fty
cents Tor subsequent ones.
The proprietor Of paper had done the work
| atl"en'y cents per square and made tl5 900.
The city printing was new being done at forty
| cents, whereas this bill proposed TO pay one dol
| lar per square.
He bad been told by competent and reliable
| persons thatif all the sheriff. and courts, nriot
ing were included they would do the printing at
| twenty hVe cents per square and make money.
ne was told that II was party necessity II the
RADICALS mat the bill should pass. Ii would ruin
the paper who had the printing. II Won make
| men rich by giving them this printing you do not
beneht your party. The same thing had raised
such cry against the Louisiana Courier in for.
| mer years, that the proprietor had to ask bis
| friends TO drop and abandon the BILL
Mr.. f. Il. Jewell referred to the class legisla
ton OF the Roman Empire, and compared that of
9 ihls legislature 10 1t. IL was apparent that the
dominant party was attempting TO gain control
over rything. He knew that 10 the yictors he.
long the spois, as Mr.. Lynch had remarked on a
previous occasion (as far spos are legitimate.
that privilege.
The clerk OF the House announced concurrence
id the Dill TO request the governor to ask the as.
sisance of the military to restore order in EranL
lin and other parishes.
Mr.. L. l.. Jewen-The charges in this bill were
greater than ever before known in this or |
any other State. The charges were based on the |
Instead q hei
decreased with the value of gold had been In. |
creased from fifteen TO twenty per cent Yet be |
would be willing even to concede this point. but |
the bill exceeds all bounds of propriety, and an |
horlzes me ulumVlrate to contract with such per.
sons as they may deem necessary for the public
printing. They may enumerate two, three four
nVe or six, or any number of papers besides the |
state printer: have made estimates said he,
beng practical printer and knowing the bns
ness thoroughly. that the bill will cost $500 O00
and $40 600 will be paid to each of the FORTY eight
parish papers, making 81 900 900 taken out of the
treasury to support radical papers, and drive out
from every parish all the Democratic and conserya.
tive papers. How do men feel who are thus broken
up would these measures be great inducements
TO those men to join the Republican partv3 |
know the feeling that it will create, and that is
Why speak as do on the subject. bill had |
Jailed in The late legislature to monopolize all the
Judicial printing in this parish and that bill allied
ior only 90 cents square. This bill calls for 81 |
have done the city printing, according 10 the |
city ordinances of 1865 at 20 cents peT sonara |
nonpareil for six seven months, and | made |
money. ln 1866 the printing was fixed at 40 cents |
per square. This bill provides TO pay 81. This
bill increases also the expenditure by the differ
ence in type. The supporters of the bill saw that
there is no money in it. From what he had heard
mere might not he TO individuals. To you, as A |
member of the triumvirate, (sddressinC the lien.
tenant governor will say that | will do the
WORK at one bali the rates, and pay into the State
treasury $50 900 In gold annually.
Mr. U hara said be could show how the State
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create laughter, but he thought be could show in
his sii provides for the printing in the English
sDgusge only, saving the expense of printing in
me french language. The question of economy
Vas all buncombe; the opposition was simply 20 }
1estroy, the Republican. The sooner that the h
state sball have forty-eight radical papers the
better Will II be for its agricultural prosperitv
mo Ior us enlightenment. The State wants t
PAPER IN every parish, to teach the people to re.
pect the laws. 1t was the bounden duty eff every ! {
republican senator to vote for the bill. When {
ne 1orty-elght papers were established, we would
ave no more kilograms of murders being com.
nited. Looking at it in the light that II was 70
urport the Republican party, he would give it 9
lis vote. u
Mr.. Pondexter, colOred, could not help saying a
omethlng about the bill. He was opposed to the |
iOuse bill in every measure. Ii takes from one | v
undred and thirty'seven men their right to Sc
'ct thelr paper, to give it to three men, He 90. II
oseo II as poor man, on account of its great d.
urden upon the tax paying people, No such a |
III had ever been brought before any legislature Of
Louisiana. He was as good a Republican as al
le gentleman who had presented it, bat he couId sc
@ ot @support lbe infamous measure. The bill, If CT
assed, would cause the land, which is worth five
Dilars per acre. TO be worth eight dollars The | =
entleman who brought the bill up Committed a
act. The Republican could support |
sell as well as other papers. without this bill Sc
q the top side of the earth no such bill was ever
esented to enlightened people. he was not en-
shtened, but bad sound common sense The
,or people only suffered from taxation. Rich
u l
ess poor people. He stated that the Compress
the United States had stigmatized the legisls. TIL
re OF 1864 as scsndalizing affair. He was not IA
democrat because he spoke thus, but he was
honest man, and opposed to outrages of the aft
ture of the bill. opl
Mr.. W. +. Blackman-The bill was the most ini
ltous that had ever been brought before any Ba
slsature. Even in days gone by, when political J
citement was at Its height, no such thing was =
er attempted. Was it correct that the legisla.
ure should oppress the people by doing that
ilch Ihe people DO not wish should be done
e bill would benefit only a few men, The radi. 8
Is had majority, and, therefore, a perfect age
'ht 10 elect theiHprinter; give him the fees and NJ.
loluments that are necessary to support him TH
do not trample upon the rights and liberties of Of
EN- en-. The law hitherto existing in thus State and
res man (if done within three days) the right T75
publish bis Judicial advertisements in the paper Sl9
his choice This bill by taking this right from Ss5
American citizen commits a violence upon the 1907
ople. The right given to the man whose prop. 4O47
IS seized to select his paper, is in order that l567
can have il done to the best oa .nd 80 1877