New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-02
Evening Session,
THE PRINTING BILL.
MONDAY, February

MONDAY, February 20, 1871.
The printing bill having come up as untin
ished business
Mr 1ngraham said: l hope this bill viii
be referred again to the Committee OF
| Printing. That some new bill is needed a,
a substitute to this. no sane man vii
doubt. L now move the recommital of this
| matter to the Committee on Printing. and
call for the previous question.
Mr.. BIackman rose TO the point of order
that the previous question could not be or
dered until the motion was put
The President ruled that the point of or
| der was not well taken, from which decision
Mr.. Blackman appealed.
| The Chair was sustained.
Mr.. Blackman called for executive ses-
sion, seconded by Mr.. Thomas.
The Chair decided the cali out of order.
executive session having already been had
once on the same bill.
Mr.. Blackman then moved to adjourn
The President ruled the motion out of
order, as the previous question had been
called for
Mr.. Blacllman appealed from the decision
of the Chair
The President having proceeded to put
the question, Shall the main question be
ordered ~ without seeming to notice the
call for an appeal from his decision
Mr.. Blackman remarked: l wish the Presi-
dent OF the Senate, and the Senate itself. TO
understand that nave certain rights as a
member of this body, and that | intend to
maintain them at all hazards If / am ont
of order let the President say So but the
indignity which he has thrown upon me by
dIsregarding my call for an appeal from his
decision, | will not submit to-
The President: The Chair will inform tbe
Senator that he has been told repeatedly.
he is out of order. | refuse to recognize
the call for an appeal l will further inform
the Senator that the Chair has rights also.
which he will endeavOr 10 maintain.
The motion to recOmmit was then
adopted
REORGANIZATION OF THE STATE LAND
OFFICE.
The bill to amend and re enact an act en-
utica "an act to re0rganize the State Land
Ottice, and to provide for the disposition of
public lands, and for the survey of unslir- |
veyed approved swamp lands, and to make |
appropriation therefor" being under con- |
Mr.. Blackman moved to change the price
from twenty-five cents to one dollar and |
twenty-five cents per acre.
MIR. Campbell explained that the third
section of the bill allowed the Register of
he Land Office to charge one dollar and
wenty five cents per acre to all persons
'ther than actual settlers, the latter to be
harged only twenty-five cents
Mr. Blackman: If you sell the land at
twenty-five cents per acre, it will 90 into
he hands OF spectators at last. This sys
EN- OF putting down the price of land for
he purpose OF allowing poor people to Sc
ure homesteads IS all humbug. There
WI not be one hundred persons in the
mole State OF Louisiana who will make
ctuai settlements upon the land thus sold |
MI Todd relnai ked that one-fourth of
ne people IN the parish of Claiborne had
Inferred the lands they now occupy under
ne law of 1856. At least ten thousand ,
cres of arabic land belonging to the State
Louisiana had been entered in that way
the district OF the Senator from Claiborne | I
ir. Biackmanl. The very Legislature of |
hich the honorable Senator (Mr. Black :
AM was member had passed just such {
III as the one before the Senate. That +
legislature had fixed the price at twelve |
I'd half and twenty-five cents, ACCORDING i
the time allowed for payment, tie biqbesf 4
ice being seventy-ive cents. Y
Mr.. Campbell said that the object of tbe +
IL was to make the present law uniform in t
operation. Under this bill it was pro o
'sed TO allow any actual settler to buy t
M al twenty-five cents while the snacn- | r
tors would be obliged to pay one dollar a
ID twenty five cents. +
Mr.. Thomas: Nine-tenths of the oood r
amp land OF the State has been taken IN "
ready: There is very little of it left, I ri
I familiar with the condition of the swami
ads III Polnte Coupee, Avoyelles, BOssier
d several other parishes of the State. and
peak knowingly and confidently when 7 It
tie that Senator Campbell and the friends
tins bill will certainly fail in accomplish W
: the object which they have in view bv IL
reduction OF the price of such lands III
twenty-five cents per acre. | would NJ
lrtIiy cooperate with the gentleman IN
r. Campbellj in the advocacy and M
'sage Of such an act, could I to
convinced that it would tend toward a
uring homesteads and homes to the col ID
ii portion of our population Whenever az
bic improvements are carried out in L
Ter to develop and reclaim these lands, m
make them fit to live upon, they are IL
nedIately taken possession of by specu- OF
33rS instead Of actual settlers. When such OF
he case, l see no reason why the State eX
uld be made to lose money by the sale of to
sc lands at twenty-five cents an acre when In
good can accrue of the sacrifice. If an
We're to donate these lands gratutously MI
he peor people of the State l would have hu
objection to II, but | can not comprehend Lie
any good can be derived from the pass su
OF the bill in its present shape.
IL. Lynch: There are. in the State of
llslana, about five and half million he;
Is OF swamp land, much of which is shi
laDie. know some of them and l shi
know something of the desire of the Ian
I, people OF the State to secure home VIII
os on that Land. have taken pains to to