New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-13
MI. Gair, of East Feliciana, moved that

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the committee rise.
Carried.
The Speaker resumed the chair.
The chairman of the committee report
ed that the committee had had under con-
sideration House bill No. Sc, and that
pending consideration Of the thirty-eigdth
section, the committee rose, and asked
leave to sit again.
Report received and accepted.
Mr.. Belot, of Orleans, by permission,
called up Senate bill No. 22S, an act rel
alive to cases arising under Che thirteenth
article of the constitution of the State OF
Louisiana.
Bill read a first time. constitutional rule
suspended, and the bill read a second time
by title, and, under a further suspension
Of the constitutional rule, the bill was read
a third time by title.
Upon the final passage Of the bill the
yeas and nays were demanded by Messrs.
Belot and Noble, of New Orleans, with the
following result:
Yeas: Abbott, Alexander, Adolphe, An
tome. Belot, Brewster, Burrel, Collins, Cal
| houn, Cuny, Crawford, Deslonde, Dutresne,
Demaresy, Dupart, Douglass, Evans, Esnard,
| Faulkner, Guigonet, Gair, Garstkamp, Gray,
Gaidry, Hill. Harper, Hutchinson, Hall,
| H~eidenhain, Isabelle, Lowell, Leblanc, Lee
| ROY, Lott, Molliere Mahier, McMlllen, Nc
Vean, Mansion, Morey, Mathews, Pearce,
Reese, Rey, Sterrett, Umphreys, Walsh,
Washington, Yorke-49.
sNays: Degrange, Haskell, Hanlon. LHoste,
May, Noble, Waters, Zoelly-S
Bill finally passed, title adopted, and
| notice of concurrence ordered to be sent to
| the Senate.
/ The Committee on Corporations, through
its chairman, submitted the following re-
port, which was received and accepted.
| To the Honorable Speaker and Member OF the
House of representatives:
Your Committee on Corporations, to whom
was referred the substitute for Senate bill
No. 81, beg leave to report That; upon
| examination, the committee find the Dill
| directs the city of New Orleans to lease the
| City WaterwOrks for q term OF thirty years
to the person who will bid to make the
greatest amount Tor improvements ana
extensions The lessee to pay an annual
rental of one hundred thousand dollars
(Sl0O, O00), and to make extensions to the
value of not less than twenty-five thousand
dollars (S25, 000) a year. Besides, the lessee
is required to furnish pure filtered water
throughout the entire water district, as now
constituted, and the remainder of the city
where the consumption will warrant 1t, at a
pressure sufficient TO deliver the same to
the rooms OF the highest houses. Inc
works, as at present conducted, yield barely
sufficient 10 pay the interest on the wafer
works bonds of 81, 400, 600, ordinary wear
and tear OF the machinery and operating
expenses. Since the city has come into
possession of the works no extension OF
p pc, nc repairs and no improvements nave
been made of 4 consequence or that
could inure TO the benefit OF more than one
half of the city for pure water: Such has
been the case, Notwithstanding the constant
solicitation of the Superintendent now IN
charge of these works, for appropriations.
The city is lot in o financial condition to
make representations for the necessary eX.
penses for outlay incident to the extension
of pipes to that portion of the city still IN
supplied with water. The result OF these
embarrassment5 ls that the rates OF
are double of what they would De
were a. continuous supply OF water
kept up: The expenses of private con
sumers for water facilities are unneceSsarliy
great, and the condition OF the streets ano
public highways imperil the health of these
Water-ridden portions of the metropolis.
The use of filtered water is much to be de-
sired. That which is furnished at present
is dirty, and only fit for street purposes
Filtration has never been resorted to, in the
old management or by the present admins
tration of the works, Notwithstanding thf
old charter of the Commercial Bank re,
uuired pure, filtered water to be furnished
Chief among the Inconvenience OF the us'
Of the river water, as it Is now, consists IN
damage to the valves and machinery OF IN
fire engines, owing to the excess OF rive,
sand in the water, thus requiring colstan
repairs to these engines. Th city needs
full supply of good, pure water, IN suci
Quantities and at such times as Will lnsur'
cleanliness of private aud public dwellings
besides aff0rding to each inhabitant as mucs
good water as needed for the ordinary use
OF life.
New Orleans is remarkably behind ham
in this respect. In the cities of st. Louis
Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and Detrol.
there is laid about a mile of supply pipe t.
every thousand of Inhabitants, while IN GU
own city there is but ffty'seven miles O
main pipe for d population OF two hundre'
and fifty thousand, or about one-htth OF
mile 10 the thousand Of inhabitants.
In providing for the lease OF the WORKS
Lut Jill INV uiICk "~N
incumbent upon the purchaser to extern
the area of the water supply, to furnish n
tered water, to pay 8 large annual rent
} which will at the same time pay the inter
, est upon the bonds, and create 4 sinkin
fund of $50, 600 annually, which if lnyeste
at eight per cent per annum, will yield oYe
So 500, 600 at the expiration OF the lease.
BY this the city will be the gamer IN in
surfing to its people a full supply OF Watel
and yielding a profit besides. The bill az
propriates no money, either of the State q
. the city; asks for no aid except the goo
5 will of those who are to be benefited by To
reconstruction of the works.
For these reasons your committee recon
mend that the bill do pass.
>, Chairman.
. On motion, the constitutional rule We
, suspended, and the bill read a secon
. time, and, under q further suspension {
, the constitutional rule, the bill was read
, third time by it's title.
, Mr.. Lowell, Of Caddo, moved to strik
, out in the third section all after the wor
"Detroit," in the ninth line to the end
the section.
: Upon which the yeas and nays wei
demanded by Messrs. Lowell, Of Cadd>
, and Hanlon, of Orleans, with the follow
: ing result:
i Yeas: Brewster, Crawford, Degrang
Lowell, Lee, L'Hoste, McDlilien, McYear
Morev Nlv Pare Ransn. Waters. Xonlly.