New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-28

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the Senate chamber before him, and that he |
fMr. Toddl has been permitted to cast his |
vote, while Senator Anderson has not been |
allowed to do SO.
The President remarked that Senator
Todd should not have voted if he was not
in the Senate chamber when the question
vas put.
The vote was then announced. showing
that the Senate refused to indefinitely, post
pone the bill.
Mr.. Sypher moved to postpone the further
consideration of the bill until Monday
next.
Mr.. Raglan moved to lay the whole sub
ject matter on the table.
Mr.. Blackman: l wish ito make a few
remarks upon the action OF the Senate IN
reference to this bill, and shall do go as briefly
reasons for thinking that this law should be
repealed, and what. in my opinion, is indi-
Gated by the action of certain Senators
upon this floor in moving to postpone this
bill until Monday and to postpone it indefi-
nitely. 1t is well known that the people of
the State, regardless of party, are clamor-
Gus for the repeal or amendment of
the present printing law, and the Senators
who make these motions for the
purpose Of defeating one of the most inn
pOrtant measures that is now before the
General Assembly, are creating for them
selves an unenviable record to go before
their constituents. Permit me to say, be-
fore l proceed further with my remarks,
that the great fight to be made in the next
campaign is on the question whether
or not the people of the State are
to be taxed for the support of lot Of inn
pecuniOus adventures, who have no claims
upon them. That is the great question
which must eventually agitate the minds of
the people of the State of Louisiana, regard
less of party. wish now to reply to some
remarks which have fallen from the honor
able Senator from Tensas [Mr. Harris]. He
says that the laws and proceedings Of the
General Assembly should be published in the
various official journals throughout the State
in order that the people may be enlightened
in reference to the acts and dOings of their
representatives in the General Assembly. l
presume he would like to have them pub
lished az they were in the parish of Madi-
son at one time. A certain gentleman was
given the right to publish the official journal
for that parish, in order that he might make
fifteen or twenty thousand dollars out of
the State. He did publish it for some two
or three days, and had One-half Of it printed
by the ticksburg Times and the other half
by the New Orleans REPUBLICAN,. At the
same time that he was the official journalist
of the State he resided in the State Of Mis-
sissippi. and was a Representative in the
e.
The only objection that any Senator can have
to the repeal Of the present obnoxious print
ing law is that he desires that few private
individuals may grow rich at the expense of
the State, without comforting any benefit
upon the people. So far as l am personally
concerned. l was opposed to the present
printing law from the beginning; and so
long as | occupy a seat upon this floor;
although am with hopeless minority,
shall not allow an opportunity to pass to let
the people know what their representatives
in the Senate are doing in order that they
| may hold them to a strict accountability for
their acts. l repeat that these motions to
postpone until next Monday. and to post
pone indefinitely, are made for no other pur-
pose whatever than to defeat this bill; and
why do they wish to defeat IT l can not
imagine why the representatives OF the
people, who have been sent here by
their constituents for the purpose not
| only of protecting and preserving
their rights and liberties, but of taking
care of their pecuniarv interests also.
should foster and maintain by their
votes monopoly which is disgraceful to
the Republican party. disgraceful to the
age in which We live, and which has been
tOstered by corruption alone. l am g lad to
see that two Republican Senators on this
floor who properly represent their cOnstit
uents. are sustaining this amendatory act to
the printing law. l refer to the honorable
Senators from Carroll [Mr. Lynch and Mr..
McMillcnl. understand that Senator
McMillen has frankly confessed that the
only vote he was ever ashamed of was the
vote he cast FOR he adoption of the original
printing law: and now he comes mantullv
forward in con JUNCTION with his colleague,
ami manitests his willingness to undo the
past by aiding IN the repeal of that obnox-
ious law. These are Republican Senators
who truly and faithfully represent the con-
stitutncv that elected them. Now sir, it has
been stated by gentleman on this floor
that all tie opposition to the present print
Ing law came from two newspapers in the
city of New Orleans. suppose he referred
to the Times and Picayune, or perhaps to
the Bulctin-may be to all three of them.
| say to that gentleman now. "GO home to
your constituents and say to them you men
who labor in the field tor livelihood; you
people that have cast your votes for me;
you that earn your bread by the sweat of
your brow; you, who are hardly able to sus-
tain life by your daily labor, was I right in
keeping this burden of taxation upon YOU p
and have no doubt that his constituents,
in their honest Indignation, would cry out,
as withone voice, No: such was not our in
tention when we sent you to the Legislature;
you have wofully wronged us in allowing this
obnoxious law to remain on the statute books,
and have grossly misrepresenteu our true
interests. The repeal of this law is de-
manded By the whole people Of the State,
both Democrats and Republicans, with the
exception of the few Adventures who are
interested in the maintenance of this wick
ed monopoly upon the people. When a
mans property is seized in any o. the cOun
try parishes, lie ia obliged to go to one of
these wild cap papers to have it advertised
for sale, and is compelled to pay one dollar
per square for that advertisement. which is
perhaps never seen and read by single
man who has means enough to purchase
the property. In the parish of De Soto.
the official journal is published thirty miles
from the county seat, and the same is the
case in the parishes of Bossier and Natchi-
toches The idea of all the sheriff sales
| and judicial advertisements being published
thirty miles from the courthouse Of the
parish! Such a thing was never done
in the State of Louisiana before,
and hope this unfortunate country
will never be again cursed with such state
of affairs as at present exists. The people
are compelled to advertise the sale Of their
property seized under judicial process in a
paper which has. perhaps, not thirty sub
scribers. probably part of it being printed
in the city Of New Orleans and part of it in
the State of Mississippi, and which the peo-
pie of the State are forced to maintain by
the payment of taxes l repeat, gentlemen
of the Senate, that the people demand Of
you the repeal of the present act and the en-
actment Of some wise printing law in its
stead. That you will give the public print
ing to your party, we. of course, expect.
We are perfectly willing that it should be
so, and will be satisfied to give them a rea-
sonable, yes liberal, compensation for their