New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-26
DEBATES OF TIE SENATE,
EVENING SESSION.

House resolution ana accompany Ing
papers, in regard to S. n. Burbank.
House bill No. 245, was taken up, being
@ Joint resolution requesting the Governor
to remove from Office S. n. Burbank, Com
missioner Of Metropolitan Police.
Mr.. Todd Mr.. President, ! move a
farther suspension Of the rules, to put the
Dill On its second reading.
The Senate refused by avote Of fourteen
yeas to six nays, TO suspend the rales, four
Eifths not voting 10 the Affirmative
The President: Does the Senate propose
50 go on with the regular morning business
ill about eight o'clock?
Mr.. Packard Mr.. President, l move
Shat we proceed with the morning bust.
ness.
Mr. Ray: move then, Mr.. President,
that the special order be taken up at eight
O'Clock.
This motion was adopted.
Mr.. jerks: Mr.. President. ask a sus-
pension of the rules to call up a bill re-
ported on by the Judiciary Committee.
have been waiting four or five days for an
opportunity. 1t is an act authorizing C.
Ward to sue the State.
The rules were suspended and the bill
taken up.
Mr.. jerks: move the adoption of the
bill on its second reading. Ii isl for con-
tract for building levees made with the
former Board of Levee Commissioners,
and the present board, when it came into
office, had no power to settle with Mr..
Ward. 1t is a matter of record that this
work was performed.
The bill was finally passed.
Mr.. Piuchback: Mr.. President, | would
ask a suspension of the rules to call up
House bill No. Ill, something about the
thirteenth article of the constitution.
House bill No. Ill was taken up, be-
ing an act forbidding discrimination on
account OF race or color, and providing
means for enforcing the same; and the bill
passed its first and second readings.
Mr.. Pinckback: / ask further suspen-
sion of the rules for the purpose of putting
the bill on It's third reading and final pas
sage.
Mr.. Braughn: | object.
The Senate refused to suspend the rules,
fcur-ffths not voting in the affirmative.
Mr. Wittgenstein: Mr.. President, would
ask a suspension of the rules to call I'D a
resolution that | introduced yesterday, in
structiDg the chairman of the Committee
on Lands and Levees to report back imme-
diately the bill incorporating the Missis-
sippi Valley Navigation Company.
The Senate, by vote of 10 yeas to II
mays, refused to suspend the rules.
Mr.. Smith: Mr.. president, L move sps-
pension OF the rules to take up House bill
I26. 1t is in reference to the opening Of
the passes at the mouth of the Mississippi
The rules were suspended and the bill
taken up, being 'An act to incorporate
the Louisiana Dredging Company, etc.
Section one was read.
Mr.. Lynch: Mr.. President, I would call
attention to the fact that there is such
confusion in the hall and lobby that We
can not hear anything. / hope the Ser
geant-at-Arms will preserve order.
Mr.. Pinchback: | would suggest that
the chairs be moved on one side. I do not
want to exclude the visitors, but would
like to have better order preserved.
The chairs were moved.
MIR. Lewis: Mr.. President, this bill. as I
understand it, looks TO benefting aud in
creaslng the commerce of the city of New
Orleans; and. sir, as New Orleans is the
commercial city OF Louisiana, and I might
say OF the entire South anything, sir, that |
will increase and add to the commerce of
New Orleans does add to and benefit the |
entire State Of Louisiana, and | might say |
the entire South.
Situated, sir, as she is, at the mouth Of |
the Mississippi river, the great Father |
of Waters, nature itself having said that |
New Orleans is the natural outlet and the |
natural emporium Of the commerce of the |
West, and, Notwithstanding the fact that |
New Orleans IS now nearly two hundred |
years old, the mouth of the Mis-
slsslppi river is to-day shallower
than when New Orleans was first
located on the Mississippi river; the nat
ural settlement of the sediments has
filed up the mouth of this river, and, in
stead OF the outlet being improved and
benefiting commerce, it is oday shallow
er than 1T was in the beginning.
Now, sir, it is very natural that all new
enterprises meet with censure. When
- declared that he could make steam
serve the purposes of commerce he was
looked upon as a maniac; but, sir, he car
rled out his theory; it proved a success.
and is now considered the greatest bene-
faction OF the human family, and now
railroad lines extend the whole length and
breadth of our land-both in this country
and in Europe. Yes, sir; when the pro-
Ject was in its incipient state that great
master was looked upon as a maniac
Now, sir, Mr.. M'Clintock, who is a man
OF science, has patent from the United |
States government for his apparatus: it
has been examined by scientific men. and
they have decided that 1t is in accordance
with the privileges Of science, and that it
lis practicable; the United States govern
ment has granted him patent for this
very thing. Now, sir, when we ask for
Che opening of the Mississippi river. when
We ask for the deepening OF that channel,
so that ships of the largest size, the great
est ships of the world may enter this port
we are seeking to increase in the ratio of
Jd1e hundred per cent the commerce OF the
city of New Orleans. Why is it, sir, that
New Orleans is the most expensive port in
the entire United States and Europe?
Why is it that you can pass coffee from
one TO one and half per cent cheaper to :
Nav York, when it is we'll known that the
ships from Rio .Janerio pass close by New
Orleans to go to New York?
Mr.. Lynch: Mr. President, I am very
much interested in the remarks of the
Sc nator, but the hour for the special order
Of the day has arrived. Twill be glad TO
listen TO the Senator afterward, but now
claim the floor. The special order takes
precedence, and the bills relative to the
measures incorporated in the Governors :
message have been made special orders, !
and doubt whether under the resolution !
which we have adopted, we can suspend
ne rules to take up any other business. ;
Mr.. Wittgenstein: | move to postpone {
he hour for the order OF the day. | call i
or the reading of the resolution regulating i