New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-11
the House resolve itself into Committee

of the Whole.
Carried.
COMMITTEE OF THE wHoLE.
Mr.. Gray. of st. James, in the chai
House bill No. &c under consideration
t Pending consideration Of the elevent
= section
On motion of Mr.. Harper, the bill wa
. recommended to be recommitted to tn
Committee on Ways and Means with in
structions to strike out all in the bill rela
tive to the Commissioner of Revenue.
6 House bill No. 237 was then taken u!
and considered item by item, and pendin;
consideration of the item relative to print
ing, on motion of Mr.. Sterrett the com
mittee rose and the Speaker resumed tn,
chair.
| The Chairman of the committee re-
ported that the committee had recon-
mended that House bill No. &C be recon-
mitted to the Committee on Ways and
Means, with instructions to strike out al
in the bill relative to the Commissioner o.
Revenue, and that pending consideration
of House bill No. 237 the committee
arose.
Report received and adopted.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives:
| am directed by the Senate to ask the con-
currence Of the House in the following Sen.
ate bills:
| No. 2lS, to incorporate the town of Wash.
| ington. in the parish of st. Landry, etc.
| Senate bill No. 20, to authorize the Gov.
| ernor, in certain cases, to issue warrants,
| etc.
Senate bill No. 254, to incorporate the
Alexandria, Homer and Fulton Railroad
Company. etc.
Farmers and Manufacturers Aid Associa-
ton.
B.P. BLANCHARD.
Assistant Secretary OF the Senate.
MESSAGE FROM THB GOVERNOR.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Executive Department, )
New Orleans, March 9, 1870.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members Of the
House of Representatives:
return to the House of Representatives
an act entitled, an act granting ferry priv
ileges to Mark Schonberg and VIM. Murrel,
their heirs or assigns, across Bayou La
fourche, at DOnaldsonville, Louisiana, for
the following reason: 1t is in violation of
article lis of the Constitution, which says
taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State" ETC.; and section
third of this act proposes to limit the parish
tax to seventy-ive dollars per annum, re.
gardless of its equality or uniformity with
other taxation in the parish.
(Signed) H. c. WARMOTH,
Governor of Louisiana.
On motion the message was laid on the
table subject to call.
Mr.. Lott, of Rapides, by permission in
troduced House bill No. 2S4, an act
amendatory of an act entitled an act re-
lative to extra sessions of the General
Assembly, and defining the duties Of the
Governor in reference thereto.
Which passed its first reading.
Mr.. Lott, of Rapides. moved to suspend
the constitutional rule to put the bill upon
its second reading.
Upon which the yeas and nays were de-
manded by Messrs. McSillen, of Carroll,
and Lee, of St. Bernard, with the follow
ing result:
Yeas: Abbott, Alexander, Antoine, Burrel,
Collins, Calhoun, Cuny, Crawford, Deslonde,
Dufresne, Demarest, Douglass. Faulkner,
Guigonet. Garstkamp, Gray, Gaidry, Hutch
lnson. Hall, Isabelle. Leblanc, Leroy, Lott,
Morris. Mollere, McVean, Murrell, Pearce,
Pierce, Simms, Sterrett, Taylor, Umphreys, !
II. Williams, Yorke-35.
Nays: Belot. Brewster, Curell, Devices,
Dupart. Harper. Hedenhain, Lee, McCul- |
len, Mahier, McMllen, Mansion, Morey,
Page, Prescott, Rey, Slaton, Walsh, Wren, |
Witt, Zoelly-21.
Rules not suspended, and bill calen.
dared for its second reading.
Mr.. Devices, Of Bienville, moved to sus-
pend the rules, to take up House bill No.
2S2.
Rules suspended.
House bill No. 282, an act to authorize
The sale of the stock in the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
Company, held by the State of Louisiana
and the city of New Orleans.
On motion of Mr.. Devices, of Bienville,
he bill was considered as engrossed,
he constitutional rule suspended, and the
Dill read third time by its title.
Upon the final passage of the bill, the
7eas and nays were demanded by Messrs.
lowell, of Caddo, and Wilt, of Orleans,
With the following result:
Yeas: Abbott, Alexander, Antoine,
Adolphe. BelOt, Burrel, Collins, Calhoun,
juny, Deslonde, Devices, Dufresne, Dema-
ri Uni |
iarstkamp, Gray, Gaidry, Haskell, Hanlon,
Harper, Hutchinson, Hall, Heidenhain, Isa-
'elis, Leblanc, Leroy, Lott Morris, Mol
ere, Mahier, McMillen, McVean, Murrell,
dansion, Morey, Morand, Pearce, Page,
Pierce, Reese, Rey, Rengstorf, Simms,
terrett, Taylor, Tournoir, Umphreys,
Walsh, Washington, Wren, b. Williams,
yorke, Zoelly-56.
Nays: Curell, Lowell, McCullen, May,
toble, Prescott, Waters, Willis.
Bill finally passed.
Mr.. Devices, of Bienville, moved to re-
onsider the vote just taken, and to lay
hat motion on the table.
Carried.
Title adopted and bill ordered to be sent
D the Senate for concurrence.
Mr.. Lott, of Rapides, moved to suspend
be rules, to take up bills on their second
nd third reading.
Carried.
House bill No. 252, an act to aid and
ssist the Louisiana Petroleum and Sui
hur Mine Company. ,
Bill read a third time.