New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-22
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determine not to create that Office. In
most of the States there are three financial
officers. Treasurer, Auditor and Controller.
This Commissioner of Revenue was only
meant to correspond with that OF Control
,er in other States, and / feel certain If the
committee understood this matter fully,
there would be no objection to this Sec
| ton at all.
The motion to refer it back to the Com
1nittee of Ways and Means prevailed.
Mr.. Garstkamp: move we now take up
and consider the appropriation Dill.
| Carried.
| After considering this bill at some
| length, it was referred back to we CoLo-
nittee on Ways and Means.
| After the transaction OF some otner
business, on which there was no debate,
! the House adjourned.
THURSDAY, March 10, 1870.
| The House met at eleven O'Clock A. NJ,
pursuant to adjournment
Speaker Carr in the chair.
| The Speaker: The first business 10
| order is 70 consider. in Committee OF the
| Whole. House bill No. 237 an act making
appropriations for the general expenses OF
| the State for the year ending the thirty
first day of December, 1870.
mr. Devices: oppose going into Com
mittee of the Whole.
TIE Speaker: The House must 60 into
| Committee of the Whole. This bib was
pending when the House adjourned, and
under the Governors proclamation and
rule o. the House, is one OF the bIiI5
which takes precedence.
The House Weht into Committee OF the
Whole to continue consideration OF the
bill Mr. Heidenhain, of Orleans, called
TO the chair.
The item first in order was that pro-
viding for State printing and advertising.
Mr. Gar skamp: Mr.. speaker, | offer the
following amendment, and move il be re-
commended to the House for adoption:
Strike out the two hundred and nifty fIst
| and two hundred and tifty-second lines, and
insert For printing and advertising, one
hundred and ten thousand dollars (Sl10, O00),
provided, that no newspaper having the
| benefit Of this appropriation snail receive
any pay unless printed and published 10 the
parish where the work is contracted tor;
provided, that the act effecting revision of
The Statutes, passed during the session OF
1870, shall not be published at the charge OF
The State in any newspaper, and tor printing
| the Revised Statutes under act No. Isl, OF
1869, five thousand and eighty eight dollars
S50SS); for printing the Civil Code, under
act No. 131, of 1869, TWENTY-FIVE hundred
and torly-eight dollars (S224S); for printing
the Code Of Practice, under act No. l3i. OF
1869 nine hundred and twenty dollars
lS92O.)
Mr. Lee: hope the amendment Of the
gentleman from Jefferson will be favor.
ably considered. Tor without some such
proviso the revision of the statutes and
printing the codes will cost the State at
least one million of dollars.
The amendment of Mr.. Garstkamp was
recommended for adoption.
Mr.. Garstkamp: Mr.. Chairman, /
move to strike out the item ap-,
propriating the sum of six thou
sand four hundred dollars to pay the
interest on the bonds authorized to be is
sued in favor Of the Boeuf and Crocodile
Navigation Company, under act No. l46
Of 1870. | do not think money ough. to
be appropriated 10 meet the interest on
bonds which have not yet been issued and
are no. in the market
Speaker Carr. Mr.. Chairman, ] trust
the proposition Of the gentleman will not
prevail. These bonds have been author
lied to be issued by an act of the General
Assembly, and the interest provided for
will will 1an due this year. Under such
Circumstances, it IS the duty of the Legis-
lature to make provision to meet this
interest. It is bad grace to authorize the
issuance OF interest-bearirg bonds, and
not appropriate the necessary funds 20
pay the interest when it falls due. ! hope,
therefore, the motion OF the gentleman
will not prevail.
The motion OF Mr.. Garstkamp did not
prevail.
Speaker Carr: Mr.. Chairman, I move
that the item making an appropriation for
the support Of The Charity Hospital il New
Orleans be go amended as to make the
amount 100000 instead of SS5, 900. do
SO because isis noble institution is in need
of the additional amount propose to give.
1t may not be generally known that all
those patients which were at the Marine
Hospital when the Freedmen's Bureau was
abolished were transferred to the Charity
Hospital, which, as matter of course, in
creased the expenses. The sum OF one
hundred thousand dollars is not a cent too
much. There are now in the Charity Hos
pital upwards of nine hundred patients.
Besides this, the appropriation given last
year was paid in large warrants, and had
10 be sold at q heavy discount. The testi-
mony adduced before the High Court of
Wicklife, relative to the efforts to obtain
smaller warrants. and the peculiar fleeing
that was then perpetrated, is familiar to
this House and the public. The Hospital
is also N deb. at present to the amount of
S25 coo.
The amendment of Speaker Carr pre-
vailed.
Mr.. Brewster: Mr., Chairman I send no
an amendment by way of an additional
item, aporopriating the sum of $1,000 in
aid Of the Public School Association of
Monroe, Ouachita parish, and hope il will
meet with the favorable consideration of
the committee
Mr.. Nurrell I am opposed, Mr.. Chair
man, to the adoption OF any such amend
ment as the one proposed by the member
from Ouachita. In the first place, the pub
lie schools are already provided for in the
education bill; in the second D ace. this.
school association does not need the
money, and if | am not mistaken the gen.
tleInan himself is interested in, or is one of
the incorporates of this association. Be-
sides, Sir, / remember when the gentleman
was opposed to mixed schools. Le. the
amendment be rejected
Mr.. Brewster: The member is mistaken
when ne says l am one of the incorpora-
tors IN The bill incorporating this Public
School Association, and l am interested in
it only as friend of education. / am not
opposed to mixed schools, as the member
asserts, and / will venture the assertion
that l have done more to advance the
cause of education in behalf of the col