New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-10

LUG ouo0Om0uV u NIX AyuCA, 6HkAIu
out five cents per acre, and inserting to
cents for improved lands and two cents fo
unimproved lands, was read.
Mr.. Campbell: am credibly lnforme
bya gentleman of Tensas parish that unde
the present levee system the tax il ffteeI
cents per acre.
On motion of Mr.. Campbell the amend
ment of Mr.. Lynch was laid on the table
Yeas II, nays9.
Section nine was then adopted a
amended.
Mr.. Bacon offered an original section tt
be section ten, which Mr.. Campbell move,
to lay on the table.
Mr.. Lynch: hope that amendment vii
not be laid on the table. Do the friend
of the bill want to tie the hands of tn,
General Assembly hereafter to protect tn
State and the people in the alluvia
districts?
Mr.. Campbell withdrew his motion t.
table.
Mr.. Lewis: If this bill is worth any
thing, it is worth something as chartered
right to the company. If this amendment
| is adopted, it would be the shortest way
to get rid of the bill, instead of moving ar
/
be more manly to move the indefinite
postponement of the bill.
Mr.. Lewis renewed the motion to lay
the amednment on the table.
Mr.. Campbell seconded it.
Mr.. Blackman: hope that part of that
amendment will prevail.
Mr.. Lewis said the motion to table could
not be adopted.
The President: You did not have the
floor properly when you made that mo-
ton; Mr.. Blackman had the floor.
Mr.. Blackman: I hope the amendment
OF Mr.. Bacon will prevail. There is no
doubt that this bill meets with great objec-
tions. Gentlemen interested in the
reclamation of the overlooked districts,
have approached me, many of them in "a.
vor, and great many against. If this
bill is a good one. and the incorporators
intend to carry out its provisions
and .give the relief to the people of the
State that they demand, after this thing
has been fairly discussed and considered
materially by the people of the section
which it is to benefit, when tteir repre-
sentatives return at the next session of the
General Assembly, as q matter of course,
the next General Assembly will be but
reflex of the constituency they represent.
Therefore, I hope that part of the amend
ment will prevail. I do not wish to annul
the charter, but wish to leave it open,
SO that the people, after refleciing upon
it, find it adequate; if they find the COM
pensation is not onerous, they will return
the representatives and instruct them to
vote for the bill as it stands. But on the
contrary, lift becomes onerous and burden
some. and can not accomplish the purposes
for which intended, people will become
dissatisfied, and they can but speak through
their representation. l think this is but
fair. This company have put themselves
to the trouble of drawing up the bill, and
so long as | am infthe Legislature will
give preference. 10 this over any other
company. But if it does not give satisfac-
ton would be in favor of cutting down
the tolls.
Mr.. Bacon: I think there had better be
a division Of the question.
Mr.. Blackman: If the gentleman will
allow me, would amend it, so that it
would read either to increase or decrease.
Mr.. Campbell: Upon that amendment,
wish to state this !: That if the Senator
wishes to offer an amendment to render
entirely nugatory the provisions of the
bill, it would more surely express the in
ten'ion of the amendment than the words
there used, because it says "upon the
credit given this company" 1t is simply
by their credit and borrowing money that
they can do any thing whatever. In order
to do that they must have contract for
term OF years. This amendment abregates
no uho1o - ,lok
hey could not borrow cent.
Mr.. O'Hara &: wish to withdraw that
portion OF the amendment which offered.
Mr.. Campbell moved to lay the amend
nent on the table.
Mr.. Ray. There is, perhaps, something
n theis amendment, that, properly
worded, might be useful. This company
S to last twenty-one years. If our coun-
Try improves, as we hope it may, and the |
evees are improved, the culture of sugar |
md cotton will be carried on to the extent |
If ten or twenty times which it is under |
he present bill. If that be the case, the !
ak under the present bill would be an |
enormous sum OF money, and the taxes on
ugar, cotton and molasses will have
,rown up to very large sum of money. |
Vow, it strikes me that if we could fix an |
mount beyond which this tax should not |
,e permitted to go, there might be some
advantage in it-say that at the end of five
ears if the tax exceed a certain amount, the
legislature should have the right to re-
luce. For every five years give the Legis.
ature control over this matter as this is
contract between the State and the compa-
~. Unless something is reserved in the
harter by which the Legislature can con-
rol this matter, the income of the
ompany may amount to twenty
we millions Of dollars. The income, 1
elieve, as has been computed, will be
omething over four and half millions of
ollars. But so it only amounts to half
hat now, by the increase of sugar and
otton. it may increase in five or six years
ntil the amount derived by the company
7ould be excessive. Therefore, would
uggest that this section be laid over, as
ection six was laid over, until we get
through. Give US the whole germ of the
ill, for so far as the revenues of the COM
any are concerned, they lie in this bill.
low, the discussion already would indi-
ate that perhaps this section would re-
ound to the future injury of the company;
ut to protect the producers of the State
rom paying an undue amount of money
GREATER for the privileges they enjoy
nder this bill, therefore would postpone
lrther consideration of this section.
Section nine was passed over informally.
Section ten was read.
Mr.. Campbell: have an amendment to
lat section. | move to strike out the
ords "rice and tobacco" which were
lserted by mistake.
Adopted.