New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-20

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cnarges exhibited in his protest against the
hon. II. IL. Day, and that the said Day ia
clearly and unmistakably entitled to his
seat in your honorable body.
Respectfully submitted,
| W. L. THOMPSON.
Mr.. Lynch, from the Finance Committee
reported back the following bills with the
recommendation that they be indefinitely
postponed:
Senate bill No. Sc, an act extending the
collection of the Convention tax and pro.
viding for the final settlement thereof
Senate bill No. 259, an act to require State
Tax Collectors to receive certain State war.
rants in payment of taxes due the State, and
authorizing them to take up said warrants.
House bill No. los, an act to provide
means for the relief of the treasury of the
State.
House bill No. 2O9, joint resolution pro-
viding for the payment of members and
employees. and prohibiting speculation in
warrants for the payment of the contingent
| expenses, etc.
House bill No. 244 an act to make the
warrants of the General Assembly of 1868
receivable for State lands.
| House bill No. l63, an act authorizing the
Tax Collectors to receive the warrants of
members and employees of the General As.
sembly in payment of State taxes by prefer
| ence.
| Mr. Lynch: ask for suspension of the
rules to take up the report just made by the
Finance Committee.
Rules suspended, report adopted, and the
bills indefinitely postponed.
~ MIR. O'Hara, from the Committee on
Claims, reported unfsvorably upon the petit
tion of D. H. Haynes and the petition of J.
Madison Wells, both asking for relief.
Mr.. Lynch: ask for suspension of the
rules to introduce bill to be entitled an
act to supply deficiency of appropriations
for the year ending December 81, 1868.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
| Mr.. Lynch: / ask for a suspension of the
rules to put the bill upon its second reading.
Rules suspended and the bill read
The billwas considered engrossed.
Under suspension of the rules the bill
was read a third time and finally adopted
with its title.
Mr. Darrall: I ask for suspension of the
rules to introduce bill to be entitled an act
| appropriattng the sum of ten thousand
dollars for the arrest of the assassins
of H. H. Pope and Valentine Chase, of St.
| Mary parish.
Rules suspended and the bill read
MIR. Darrall: ask for a suspension of the
rules to put the bill on its second reading.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
The bill was considered engrossed.
Under further suspension of the rules
the bill was read a third time and finally
adopted with its title.
Mr.. Bacon, from the special Joint COM
mittee to inquire into the unauthorized al.
terations to Senate bill No. %, presented the
following report:
New Orleans October 70, 1853
| To the Honorable the Senate of the State of Lou.
IsiaAa:
Your committee appointed to examine
| into and inquire as to how the alterations
which were not agreed to by either House,
were made in the engrossed COPY of the
| Senate bill No. %, which passed into an act,
| respecting imprisonments and fines, and as
| to the person or persons by whom they were
made, beg leave to report, that they have
| examined the Secretary aud the Assistant
Secretary of the Senate, and the Chief En-
| rolling Clerk thereof, and the chairman of
the Judiciary Committee and Chief Clerk
| of the House.
All agree that the bill was engrossed as it
passed the Senate, containing the words re-
specting the powers of recorders and other
magistrates and courts that it '' shall not be
competent for them to remit fines or i'm
| prisonments, and that the words "be dis.
| cretionary," found in lieu thereof being in
terlined in pencil, and the other words
| erased, were not in it when it went to the
House. but the latter were found in it when
/ the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate undertook
| nrst to enroll ii, ami the former words were
| erased. The same is reported to US as to
the word "nor" In the eighteenth line.
| The supposed fourth section was also sup
piled in pencil after the bill left the Senate.
The House referred the bill to its Judiciary
Committee, and that committee reported
| it back with the Endorsement, "Favorably.n
| in, pencil, and as thus reported il passed.
The Clerk of the House has formally and
officially reported to US by Endorsement on
the bill, by the direction of the House, "that
| the House concurred without amendments ="
and that the words mot be competent
were not stricken out by the House, nor the
words ''nor to- in the eighteenth line, and
that the additional section was not added
| by the House.
The Hon. Peter Harper, chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, declares to the best of
| his recollection the Judiciary Committee of
the House reported the bill back favorably,
| and without amendments.
Your committee have had an opportunity
of observing very reprehensible practice,
which may have been practiced heretofore
in both Houses, but which should be
abandoned-thst of making scratches and
alterations of bills sent by one House to
another, when it desired to amend them.
A bill which originated in and passed the
Senate to be entitled an act relative to at
tachment, was returned to the Senate by the
Clerk of the House as having been concur
red in witt out amendment, but was found
to have an important clause stricken out
with pencil, and this it was afterWar found
the House intended to have stricken ont
but which should have been done by
separate amendment to that effect, to have
been engrossed on another piece of paper,
to be sent back to the Senate with their bill
unmutilated.
In the case of the bill respecting which
your committee has been directed to in
quire, it seems to be uudoubted, for the |
HouEe has formally so decided that the bill |
was passed by that body as it passed the
Senate, unaltered, and has now been cor
5rectly enrolled and approved by the Gov
ernor and become law; but we have much
doubt on our minds whether there was not
some inchoate attempt In the Judiciary
Committee of the House to have 1t Changed,
but this never took shape by the action OF |
the House itself, which adopted the bill as |
it went from the Senate.
Your committee have found il vain to at |
tempt to find out who added the matter in |
pencil, or struck out the words which were |
tinctness that they were placed there after |
ti,,oi action IN tha hill M ono eaaynad ~, |