New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-30
of the New Orleans, Florida and Havana
Steamship Company
Adopted.

Adopted.
The Waferworks.
Mr.. Lewis moved to adjourn.
Mr.. Shaw said, he wished the Mayor dis
tinctly to understand he had business to
bring before the Council before be put the
motion to adjourn
The Mayor remarked that a motion to adj
lourn was always in order and must first be
disposed Of
| MT. Lewis withdrew his motion.
MT. Shaw: The official journal contains
an ordinance purportingto have been adop-
eeo az our last meeting, which in my opinion
was not adopted.
Mr.. Bonzano: The gentleman is out of
order; there is nothing before the house.
The Mayor: That is technically correct.
| but if the Administrator makes a motion.
| he can then go on with his remarks.
Mr.. Shaw I will before / get off NV
| feet.
Mr., Cockrem moved that the gentleman
be permitted to address the Council.
Agreed to.
Mr.. Shaw: viii move to reconsider
the ordinance purporting to have been
adopted at the last meeting of the Council
Notice OF this motion was then given by the
Administrator of Police, who has just made
a motion to adjourn. look upon such q
notice, when once given, as opening the way
for any member to move reconsideration
at the next meeting, in case the person
giving the notice fails to do SO. Otherwise
we should all seven have to give notice for
fear the others should fail to bring the sub
ject forward.
The Mayor: Did you vote in the afirma-
tive on the passage of the ordinancel
Mr.. Shaw: I Twas absent; but now take
up the motion of the Administrator of Po-
lice, which he can not withdraw.
The Mayor: rule you can not take up a.
motion to reconsider which was laid on the
table.
Mr. Remfck: No motion to reconsider was
made.
The Mayor: Then it must be made by
somebody that voted IN the affirmative.
Mr.. Shaw: Then / will ask the Admins
traitor of Police, as matter of courtesy, to
make the motion of which he gave notice.
Courtesy and parliamentary usage require
that he should do So
Mr.. Lewis: The journal says gave notice
that at the next meeting / should move a
reconsideration of the ordinance. The ordi-
nance was before this Council, and had
been discussed. 1t was open for any amend
ments that might be suggested by members
of this Council. The Administrator of Ac-
counts condemned the ordinance in toto,
and the Council adopted it. / would move,
for reconsideration if had any idea that
the desire of gentlemen was to amend the
ordinance, but l have heard not single
amendment suggested. No consultation
meeting has been called on the subject, and
I see no reason for moving reconsideration
at this time
Mr.. Shaw: understood from the Admin
istrator he was going to call this ordinance
up for reconsideration to-day. He stated to
the Council he intended to do so.
The Mayor: Did you hear him say so
Mr.. Shaw: / see it in the journal He
low says he would call it up, if any one had.
amendments to make to it, l have amend
ments to make, and would have had them
ready last Tuesday, if the ordinance had
not been sprung upon US.
The Mayor: rule you are out of order
There is no motion before the Council
Mr.. Shaw The Mayor is very anxious to
cry me out of order l did make motion.
The Mayor :, Your motion is out of order.
Mr.. Bonzano said he much desired to be
enlightened as to what had happened
while be was away, and he hoped the gen
tleman be allowed to speak
The Mayor said he was quite willing
Mr.. Shaw This ordinance has been on
the books for months A member of the
Council goes away and Immediately it is
called up and passed. How passed9 Three
voting for it and one against. The Admin
istrator of Police then. declared he would
move to have it reconsidered, and hold he
is bound in good faith to do so. He says
he wants amendments / have, amend
ments.
Mr.. Remick asked, for information, if
there was not an amendment to the rules
recently passed. at the instance of Mr.. Bon
zano, which required that the Secretary of
the Council, in case members of the Council
giving notice of reconstruction, failed to do
so, should bring the matter up.
The Mayor: The Secretary's function is
simply to bring the matter before the Coun-
ell, and it is before the Council. under
stood the motion to be to reconsider, and
that that motion was laid upon the table,
and so declared it, no one Directing. After
that declaration / regarded the ordinance
as finally adopted, and l signed and pro-
mulgated it. hold that it can be repealed,
but can not now be reconsidered.
Mr.. Remick: If your Honor remembers
some time back the attitude you assumed
in the case of the Charles Morgan ordi-
nance, when there was motion to recon
slider, which was not called up, yet you de-
layed the PRONUNCIATION of the ordinance
during the week, and held that it was in
order for any member subsequently to call
it up.
The Mayor: But was overruled by the
Council in that very matter. Z
Mr.. Remick: You decided then the ordi-
nance could not be considered passed until
the next meeting. In view Of that ruline
think to have been consistent you sgNq&
not have promulgated this watery "
ordinance until you had seen the re- swo
this motion to reconsider to-day. ensibsuit
The Mayor: declared the motio-y, pr'
consider laid on the table, and mob - - 10
ected. X3ody o.