New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-01

Adopted; and item adOptcu as aMchueo'
Also.. to striks out the word tive in limo
I forty five, and insert the word "seven. and
to strike out the words five hundred. IN
line forty-six, so that the item will read
.'$27 900
Amendment adopted; and the item as
amended adopted.
Also. make the date 1870 read Obi,
! in line fifty-two.
Adopted; and item adopted as amended
| Mr. Todd moved to postpone the further
consideration of tile bill till tomorrow:
On motion OF Mr.. Lynch the motion was
! laid on the table.
On motion of Mr. Todd the words III
lines tifty-cight. fifty mine and sixty were
stricken out.
| Mr.. Hunsaker moved 10 strike out the
word eleven" in line 100, and insert the
word .'seven," which, on call of the yeas
and NAYS. was laid on the table by the fol-
lowing vote:
| COPELAND, Fish, Harris, Herwig, lngra-
| ham. Lynch, McMillen, holland, zO'Hara.
Pierce. Piuchback, Raglan, Wilcox-l6.
Nays: Bowman, Daigle, Futch, Hun
saker. Raw, Smith, Swords, Thomas,
Thompson. Todd, Whitney-n.
| mr. Antoine in the chair.
Mr.. McMillen moved to insert the follow
ing at the end Of line one hundred and
| twelve:
For the salary of one porter and ono
night Waterman for each house OF the Gcn-
er.l Assembly. at nine hundred and sixty
dollars (s96O) year each. amounting In all
to thirty eight hundred and forty dollars.
The amendment was adopted.
Mr.. McMillen moved to postpone the fur
Their consideration Of this bill until to-nor-
row at one o'clock r. NJ.
Mr. Thompson moved to lay that motion
on the table.
On "A call OF the yeas and nays the Senate
refused to table the motion by the following
vote:
Yeas: Anderson Campbell. COPELAND.
Fish, Lynch, McMillen, Pierce, Pinchback.
Thomas, ThOmpsOn-lO.
Nays: Antoine, Barber, Butler. Daigle,
Futch, Harris, Herwig, Hunsaker, lngra-
ham, holland, O'Hara, Raglan, Ray, Smith
Swords. Sypher, Todd, Twitchen, VII
cOX-l9.
BY consent, Mr. McMillen withdrew his
motion to postpone.
Mr.. Raglan moved to strike out. in lines
l27 and l2s the word ''six," and insert in
lieu thereof the word nine"
Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. O'Hara, the further
consideration of the bill was postponed
until tomorrow and made the special order
Immediately after the reading of the
minutes.
The following message was received from
the House:
| HorsE RKPRKsEN rArrv rs }
| Office of Chief Clerk.
| New Orleans, February q, 1871.
To the Honorable President and Members OF the
| Senate
GENrLEMEN-I am directed by the House
to ask the concurrence OF the Senate in the
following House bills. viz:
House bill No. 27l. joint resolution
granting a leave OF absence to the Hon.
Charles beaumont, Judge Of the Fifth Dis
trict Court OF the parish Of Orleans.
WILLIAM vIGERs,
CHIEF Clerk.
By unanimous consent. Mr.. Todd. from
the Committee Oh Libraries. submitted the
following report, which was ordered printed
in the journal:
| COMMITTEE on LIBRARY, I
New Orleans, February %, 1871. :
To the Honorable President and Members of the
GENTLEMEN-YOur Committee on Library
/ respectfully submit the following report:
, We find the State Library occupying the
second and third stories OF the building al
the corner of Common and Dryades street.
The rooms themselves are cOlnmOdiOus
| MI nuI vra11 <iffoA for tl,a 81.
jects OF the library. They are, however
almost utterly destitute OF furniture and
i, the bare floors and scarcity of chairs. desks
l and other c0nveniences are an unpleasant,
commentary upon the lack Of interest man
ifested by the General Assembly in the
needs of the library. We would recon-
mend that tit and ample appropriation bs
1 made for the purpose Of furnishing the
rooms and rendering them a pleasant re
sort for our citizens. The estimated ex
!, pense Of properly fitting up the library i:
two thousand dollars.
No provision has heretofore been mad.
for a porter for the library. The necessity
for one is absolute, and the expense of on,
has heretofore been paid from the limitet
e contingent fund Of the library and OF thu
/ Secretary Of State, jointly. An apprOpria
ton of $500 should be made for that pur
\ pose. The usual annual appropriation o
$1,000 for the contingent expenses of thu
u library has been found barely sufficient TO
q the purposes designed, but has preciudet
the possibility Of purchase Of new and val
= liable treaties upon scientific and historical
. subjects which should and must be procured
in order to render our library such repos
itory of useful learning as it was intended
to be.
A thousand dollars annually would proba
; bly, be sufficient appropriation for the pnr
I pose above intimated, but owing to tn
t | want Of such appropriation during the las
| decade aud to the further fact that vas
. loss Of public records and other VALUABLE
treatises was sustained by the library dur
8 ing the recent war, and destruction of tn
capitol buildings, and the constant remOv
, ais to which it has been subjected. a NOR
ample appropriation will be at present re
n quisite in order to supply the broken set
now existing, and to purchase works o
merit which have been published since 1860
We would respectfully suggest that an al
preparation of at least $4,000 be made 70
that purpose
We cannot urge too forcibly upon you
attention. the policy Of caring for tn
wants. and using every means for increas
|. ing the usefulness Of our State library
While nearly every other State in the L MO
has adopted the policy Of making liberia
i annual appropriations for the purchase o
;; books, we have done absolutely nothing il
: that direction for years; and while on
y library has been depleted by confla grafton
and war, we have taken NO steps even +
restore it to its former excellence. Especi
J. ally is the absence Of complete sets of lega
y reports to be lamented, failure OccasiOne,