New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-03
pnnawEs OF TEE SENATE.
THURSDAY, March 3, 1870.
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Che rules to offer simple resolution:
Resolved, That the Secretary OF the |
Senate be authorized 10 continue the |
Journal Clerk during the interval be- |
tween this and the extra session to be paid |
out of the contingent fund of the Senate.
The rules were suspended, and the reso-
ton was adopted.
Mr.. Braughp: / ask suspension OF the
rules to introduce resolution; in the vaca-
ton between the first sessions OF 1868 and
1859, there was a joint committee on the
city charter which bad a great deal OF
business: they had batch Of bills from
which they reported one. / have been IN
formed that one of the, drafts which was
of considerable importance to the Com
mittee on City Charter, was prepared by
Mr.. w. Ii. Whitaker. l have no personal
knowledge of the facts. But the
Speaker of the House Of Representa-
tives aud Mr.. Coupland, informed me
it is so; if so, most probably he is entitled to
the compensation which he asks. $3.50, and
offer the resolution to that effect.
The resolution was read.
Mr.. Campbell: move to amend by
adding the names of all persons who have
drafted bills for the present Legislature,
that they may be paid that amount
Mr. Anderson: move to lay the whole
subject matter on the table. Adopted.
MIR. Wittgenstein: / rise for lntorma-
ton. ] wish to know If we do not act on
the veto bills of the Governor tonight,
whether we can take them up III the extra
session.
The President: The Chair is OF the
opinion that you can not, as the house
has already acted upon them this session.
Several resolutions were adopted, undef
a suspension of the rules, without debate.
On motion of MIR. Wi.tgenstein the mes
sage of the Governor vetoing ''An act ior
the relief of the officers and members OF
the Metropolitan police was taken up
and read.
Mr.. Campbell: Upon that wish to say
that the Governors reasoning seems 10
be entirely lame and unsatisfactory. We
have appropriated four or i've hundred
thousand dollars, increasing the salaries
of Judges of the Supreme Court and other
civil officers, and we have granted them
relief because of the deprecated value OF
the warrants. But when we come to the
officers of the police force, with their
small salaries, amounting to only ABOUT
eighty dollars month and that in war
rants which they had to sell at about
sixty cents on the dollar, and upon which
they have been starving for the last two
wears, the Governor says to US, Tor
sooth, that their contracts were for SO
much, and that they should receive no
more? That reasoning would apply 10
all others. Beside that, the contracts
were ior money, and not for deprecated
warrants. | therefore second the motion
that the bill become law, the Governors
veto notwithstanding. 81
Mr.. Bacon: only wish to reply to tnat'
that we have no right to assess upon these
parishes an additional burden to that
which has been already levied for the
maintenance of the Metropolitan Police.
Mr.. Pinckback: l can not let this opoor-
tunity pass without adding to what has
been said-that the Senate, especially
that portion which has voted money Tor
the relief of z. j. Kennedy, Murphy end
Frizell, Angamar and lizard, sums ranging
from $4,000 to $120,0O0-can very well
90 back now upon these poor men VINO
simply ask for thirty per cent upon the
same principle.
Mr.. Braughn: 1 rise to question OF
privilege.
Mr.. Pinchback: The Senator from Or
leans (Mr. Braughn) voted for every one
of the bills I have mentioned, and | con-
slider that this bill Is equally just and
proper
MIR. Braughn: was just going ID ask you
if you did not vote for the other bills
Mr.. Piuchback: did.
MIR. Braughn: And Go you not vote for
this bill upon the same principle that you
voted for them?
Mr.. Pinchback: Go.
The President: The Governor is mis-
taken in his veto message. There is not a
police officer that got seventy cents for his
warrants. For a short period warrants
were up to eighty-five and ninety cents,
but then they were in the hands of brok.
ers and not in the hands of the police al
all.
The yeas and nays were ordered:
Mr.. Blackman: | wish TO explain my
vote. l have, as is known to every Seua-
tor present, opposed all the bills referred
to by the Senator from New Orleans (Mr
Pinchback), for the relief of Messrs. Ken
nedy, Murphy and Frizell, and Others,
because I do not believe them just and
proper. But shall vote for the relief OF
these poor policemen. If the Legislature
of Louisiana will pass obnoxious and bad
laws, and they call upon poor men, living
leans to execute those laws, and protect
them from robbers and assassins, it is not
their fault. They may be Republicans or
they may be Democrats, but they are poor
and honest men, who discharge their duty
night and day to obtain q pitiful sum 10
support their families Believing in this
one instance that it is right and proper
that we should make up to them the tull
amount of their small salaries, and the
losses they have sustained in disposing OF
their warrants, shall vote for this bill
Applause in the Hobbies.
The bill was passed. Yeas, 26; NAYS. 5.
Yhe next veto message OF the Governor,
returning without his signature au act In
cooperating tue Arkansas and Red Rive!
Railroad Company, and granting aid tc
the same, was taken up.
Mr. Raw: This proposed railroad ls II
The section OF the State where | live.
think the Governors objections are 10;
well grounded, ind that he has made saY-
eral mistakes in his statement Of facts
He Gays the distance from point equidis.
tant between the Ouachita and Missis
sippi rivers is nowhere greater than twenty
miles. Whereas the average distance l.
really over sixty miles.
The Governor evidently Is not &C
quainted with the topography OF that par
OF the State. D
This railroad, if completed, will be o
great interest to the State as well as Ar
kansas, and the Governor has becom
satisfied since he wrote his Veto message
r,nnn a full Investigation of this subisci