New Orleans Republican., 1868-07-09

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nays 10.
Mr.. Ray moved that the report of the
Committee on Elections be acted upon on
Monday next.
Mr.. Thompson moved a recommittsl of
the report to the committee.
Mr.. Ray withdrew his motion.
Mr.. Thompson-Since the report of the
committee q resolution has passed this
body giving contestants and the committee
the right to send for persons and papers.
Mr. Campbell said the report of the COM
mittee being upon the single question of the
eligibility OF the sitting member, under the
constitution, there was no necessity for
postponement or recommital.
The motion was adopted, division being
called for, by rising vote. 1.
Yeas 22; nays 10.
The report was recommitted.
Mr.. Campbell moved that House bill No.
3 be taken up and read secoud time in
order that it might be engrossed for its third
reading.
Mr.. Blackman objected that the motion
was out of order under the rules, which it
required twothirds vote of the Senate to
suspend.n
The President decided the motion of Mr..
Campbell in order.
The bill was read by its title.
Mr.. Blackman said that it was a bill of
much impol tance, and moved that one
hundred and fifty copies be printed for the
use of the Senate an6-House of Representa-
| tives.
Mr.. Ray moved to lay the motion of Mr..
Blackman ON the table.
The yeas and nays were called for, re-
| sulting as follows
Yeas: Campbell, Coupland, Darrsll,
| FRANCOIS Harris, jerks, Kelso, Lewis,
Lynch, Monette. O'Hara, Packard, Poin-
dexter, Pollard, Ray, smith, Whitney, viii
cox, Williams, Wlttgenstein-20.
Nays Anderson, Bacon, Beares, Black
man, Braughu, Day, Egan, Foute, Futch,
E, l.. Jewell, F. H. Jewell, 0futt, Ogden,
Thompson, Todd, White-l5.
Mr.. Campbell moved that the bill be en-
| crossed for its third reading.
Mr.. FOute-I believe, 1Ir. President, that
this is the proper time for discussing this
| bill have as you, sir, and the Senate are
| aware, consumed scarcely a moment of the
| Sen&tes time since the organization. l am
| here, sir not from any spirit of ambition or
vala.glory, but from sense of duty to those
| who sent me here-the same duty which
/ trust Inspires the heart of every member
of this body; and here / will say that l lis
tened with pleasure to the sentiments ut
tered the other day by the Senator ron
| Carroll, that whatever personal or political
preferences, that he was here to do his duty
| with a sincere purpose of carving out all
advantageous to the people of Louisiana,
| irrespective of race, color, or condition. 1t
| was a just sentiment, and one which | now
invoke. | have been taught, sir, TO revere
| the constitution both State and national
l have been taught under those constitu.
tions to love liberty and law-not
liberty without law, nor law without
| liberty F; but liberty and law, for
| liberty without law would run into
anarchy and licentiousness; without liberty
| law would become tyranny and oppression.
| We are about to take a step in very grave
| legislation. Let US pause and hesitate. Let
not this hasty and oppressive legislation be
forced upon this people. | ask that we
shall reason together. Let us 'do unto
others as we would that others should do
! unto u.s." We ask nothing of the majority
| which we will not cheerfully accord to
them. | would like, sir, to get rid of the
! words ''coloredr and white of the words
/ Democrat and Republican. / would that
we might call ourselves Louisiantans, and
legislate for Louisiana and her benefit.
/ Now, sir, let as look into the history OF this
| body. Born on last Monday week ago,
and undergoing all the labors of childbirth,
it came into the world an incomplete body.
The political medicine men got together
| and concluded they could make whole
being OF it. The Democratic members,
| as they are called, who were impstiently
| if not ruthlessly elected from this
4 UOuN were AIhlly lulOIllt0 ny llGlI UEOLHtE
members that upon sober second thought
they would be admitted, and they were led
to believe that the roll of Senators furnished
by the military commander of the district
| would be read and all whose names ap-
peared upon it admitted. In compliance
| with this proposition we came. But we
| found that there was an exception made as
If there had been q mental reservation
against one of the members who had de-
elared that all he wanted was to be right
fully admitted to the floor and then he
| would resign.
Well, sir, after being qualified under the
constitution there began the rapid intro.
duction of bills-bills of the very greatest
Importance to the State and to the city,
bills the tendency of which is to disturb and
destroy vested and chartered rights of the
leity Of New Orleans, family of bills look.
ing to one purpose. First comes this police
bill which we believe infringes upon the
| chartered rights of the city of New Orleans,
| which is in violation Of the very constitu
tion under which we are acting. Then
4 comes another bill giving to the
| Governor of the State almost imperial
power. Now, sir, have great deal OF
| confidence in the Governor, to whom am
almost stranger. | like his appearance
| and address. Certainly he is one of the
most clever men have met who has been
connected with Radical politics, but l am
| unwilling to give any man such power as is
conferred by that bill, A power greater
than that thaat is welded by the Sultan of
Turkey. However virtuous aud good he
may be, it is impossible for poor human
nature to WELD such power without in some
cases exercising it for personal aggrandize.
ment, and against the best interests of the
State. Sir, it makes the Governor of the
state Of Louisiana, as it were, like the -
of Ariadnes, judge, jury, and hangman-sll
in one. 1t would enable him to say with
Louis XIV, 81 am the State.n
Il Again, there comes into the Senate re.
port from temporary committee on cleo
tlons that Senator White, of Caddo, had
came before the committee, and admitted
his inability to qualify under the
constitution. The honorable Senator rose
IN his seat on the day after that report was
made, and declared the statement of the
committee to be false, and that he did not
even know the members of that committee.
and yet that report was spread upon the
journal Of the Senate, and there remains.
Pending the remarks of Mr.. Futch, the
Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives
appeared, and announced the House bill
No. 9, introduced by Mr.. Carr, relating to dis.
bursements from the treasury of the State,
had passed its third reading July Z, 1868,
and was sent to the Senate for concurrence.
The President said the old Committee on
Elections had been discharged, and all
papers in their hands turned over to the
new committee.
Mr.. Futch-That is true; nevertheless the
report of the old committee went upon the
minutes, wnere, in justice to Senator White,
i | do not think 1t should remain. But no
more of that. We think, Mr.. President,
that the oppressive and hRsty course OF
Regulation had here, and now again resumed