New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-08

SANisASu az aOt W dutuoIlHe planters ana
farmers to furnish their freedmen and other
employees with articles of merchandise with
out incurring the penalty of retail mer-
chants, approved March 81, 1866.
House bill No. 1917, an act providing for
the administration of public schools in the
city of New Orleans.
House bill No. 124, an act entitled al act
in relation to the trial of contested election
cases in the parish of Orleans. @"H
House bill No. 1884, an act to regulate and
define the duties, and to stipulate the jurls-a
diction and emoluments Of Coroner.
House substitute for Senate bill No. 1O4,
an act to provide pensions for the veterans
Of 1914 and 1915, or their widows, according
to the requirements of article l24 of the con.
stitution of 1868.
The same officer also transmitted sealed
message from the House to the Senate.
A message from the Governor was re-
ceived. ls.1f
Action on Senate bill No. 1874 was resumed.
Mr. Wittgenstein: l move to strike out
the word perpetual in the seventeenth
line, and insert in the eighteenth line, after
the word " succession the words for fifty
years ....-. .t,. ..
Adopted.
Mr.. Todd: move that the bill be referred
to committee of five, to be selected from
the Representatives of the parishes of st.
Bernard and Jefferson and the city Of New
| Orleans.
Mr.. Wittgenstein: move to lay the motion
on the table. . "a.r5
Mr.. Todd: call for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, resulting:
| Yeas: Couplaud, Darrall, Francois, Kelso,
O'Hara, Ray, Whitney, Wilcox, Williams,
| Wittgenstein-10. '- F
Nays Anderson, Bacon, BIackman,
Braughn. Day, Egan, Foute, Lewis, 0'Hara,
Pinchback, Poindexter, Pollard, Todd-13
The Senate refused to lay the motion on
the table. I n-..
Mr.. Coupland: move to substitute seven
| instead of five as the number of the COM
mittee. .r--- D..
Mr.. Todd: acceptthe substitute.
Mr.. Anderson: | move to reconsider the
vote by which the first amendment to sec.
ton third, allowing only one commissioner
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bank of the Mississippi river, was con-
CURED in. .......
Mr. Smith; move to lay the motion on
the table.
Mr.. Anderson: call for the yeas and
nays. r.. ...
The yeas and nays were ordered, result
ing;
| g. rN-.,ll poo1-ord poindax,tor uol
lard, Smith, Wittgenstein-6.
Nays: Campbell, Coupland, Darrall, Day,
Egan, Foute, FRANCOIS, Kelso. Lewis,
OiHara, Ray, Whitney, Wilcox, Will
| liams, Anderson-1j. EsesJsfs
The Senate refused TO lay the motion on
the table.
Mr.. Coupland: I call for the yeas and
nays on the motion to reconsider.
The yeas and nays were ordered:
Yeas: Bacon, Campbell. Coupland, Day,
Foute, FRANCOIS, Lewis, Ogden, Todd--9.
Mr.. Braughn: l call for the previous
question.
The main question was ordered.
The yeas and nays being called ON the
adoption Of Mr.. Todds motion, resulted:
Yeas Anderson, Bacon, Blackman,
Braughn, Coupland, Darrall, Day, Egan,
Foute, Lewis 20 'Hara, Packard, P0indexter,
Pollard, Smith, Todd-lG.
Nays Beares, Campbell, Francois, Kelso,
Pinchback, Ray, Whitney, Wilcox, viii
liams, Wittgenstein-10.
The motion was adopted and the bill
referred.
Mr.. Ray: ask for suspension of the
rules to take up bill.
Rules suspended.
Senate bill No. 10, an act to establish
Board of Public Works for the State Of
Louisiana, and to define the duties of the
same. Returned from the House will
amendments.
The amendments were read and con
CURED in. ..4
Nays: Anderson, Besres. Darrall, Egan
O'Esra, Packard, Pinchback, Poindexter
Pollard, Ray, Whitney, Wilcox, Williams
Wittgenstein-l4.
The Senate refused to reconsider the
vote. ... ..
A communication from the House wa
read, informing the Senate that Messrs
Carr, Evans, and Morey had been appointed
on the part of the House on the committee
of conference on the Metropolitan Police
bill.
Mr.. Ray: move that the President ap
point the committee on the part of th'
Senate. i
Adopted.
Mr.. Ray: ask for suspension of the
rules to take up bill.
Rules suspended.
Senate bill No. III, an act to provide for
the improvement OF the navigation of Bed
river. Returned from the House with an
amendment. ..-4--
The amendment, substituting the names
of William J. Mudgett, Charles W. Keeting
and N. H. Growell, for those of Reuben
White, L. E. Carter and J. G. Eston, as a
Board Of Commissioners. was read.
Mr.. Ray: I move concurrence in the
amendment. -
hr. Todd: call for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, resulting;
Yeas; Anderson, Bacon, Beares, Camp
bell, Coupland, Darrall, Day, Francois, Kel'
| SO, Lewis, 0Hara, Packard, Pinchback,
Poindexter, Pollard, Ray, Whitney, Wilcox,
Williams, wittgeustein-2O.
Nays; Egan, FOute, Ogden, Todd.
The amendment was conourred in.
The President announced the following
special committees:
Committee of Conference on the Metro
politan Police Bill-Messrs. Ray, Campbell,
and Bacon.
! Committee on the New Orleans and Ship
Island Company Bill--Messrs. Todd, Pack
ard, Braughn, Pinchback, Bacon, and Foute.