New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-15
Evening Session.

SENATE CliAHBER, I
Saturday Evening, March u, 1870. {
The Senate met pursuant to adjourn
| ment.
Present: Hon. L. B. jerks, President of
the Senate pro tenn, and MesSrs. Anderson,
Antoine, Bacon, Beares, Blackman, Braughn,
Campbeli, Coupland, DarraN, Day, Egan,
Foute, Futch, jerks, Jewell, kelso. Lewis,
Lynch, Monette, Ogden, O'Aara, Packard,
Plnchback, POindexter, Ray, Smith.
Thompson, Todd, Whitney, Wilcox, VII
liams, WittgeDstein-32.
Mr.. COPELAND raised the point of order
that the Senate was not legally in session.
because therewas not a quorum present
when the Senate took a recess, article
thirty-three Of .he constitution providing
that less than quorum can only adjourn
from day to day.
The Chair decided this point no. well
taken.
Mr. Darrall, from the Enrolment Com
mittee, submitted the following reports:
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF LOUISIANA.
Senate enrolment Room.
New Orleans, March ii, lS70
To the Honorable President and Members of the
GENTLEMEN-Your Committee on Enroll
ment beg leave to report, the following bills
as having been duly engrossed, viz:
Senate bill No. 10, IAN act prohibiting the
granting of writs of mandamus and iDjunc-
tons against certain officers"
Senate bill No; "An act to appropriate
the sum of SIS, 900, or as much thereof as
may be necessary. to pay the mileage andiper
diem of members, officers" etc.
Senate bill No. 253, An act for the relief
OF John Amrein.'
Senate bill No. 242, IAN act to incorporate
tie Crescent City Gas Light Company
And the following as having been duly
enrolled
Senate bill No. 200, "An act to amend and
re-enact sections eight and nine as amended
in section one Of an act entitled an act to
amend an act entitled al act to amend an
act to consolidate the city of New Orleans"
etc.
Respectfully,
c. B. DARRALL,
Chairman.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF LOUISIANA
Senate Enrolment Room
New Orleans, March II, 1870. J
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
GEsTLEMEN-Your Committee on Enroll
ment have the honor to report as having
been duly enrolled the following bill, viz:
Mrs. Mary Carson, widow of Robert E. Car
son, late Parish Judge Of the parish of
st. John the Baptist.
Also, as engrossed, the amendments to
House bill No. 81.
Senate bill No. 230, an act authorizing c.
Ward to sue the State.
Senate bill No. 263. an act removing the
seat Of Justice of the parish of Plaquemines,
etc.
Respectfully,
c. B. DARRALL.
Chairman.
The unfinished business being the mo-
ton to make the Mississippi Valley Levee
bill the special order for this evening at
seven and one-half o'clock.
Mr.. Pinchback moved as substitute to
make the bill the special order OF the day,
Immediately after the reading of the min
utes, on Monday, the fourteenth inst.
Adopted. y
Mr.. Witgenstein, under a suspension of
the rules, called up from second reading
file
Substitute for Senate bill No. 81. "To
establish an additional district court for
the parish of Orleans" etc.
Which was read its second time and
ordered engrossed for third reading.
Mr.. Jewell moved to postpone the bill
until Monday. and make it the special Or
der of that day at 12:45 o'clock P. M.
Which was laid on the table.
Nh. Blackman moved to postpone the
bill until Monday, and make it the special
order of that day in preference to all other
bills.
Which was laid on the table,
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote,
the bill read its third time, and finally
adopted by the following vote:
Yeas: Antoine, Beares, Campbell, Darrall.
kelso, Lewis, Lynch, Monette, O'Hara,