New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-26

powered also to locate pubic PARK or
parks. The bill gives these ceaae, issioners
. discretionary power to put to work in the
park or on tie bridges and canals con-
nected with T., all males over the age
of twenty oae,years who may have been
sentenced to the Workhouse or tashe Par
ish Prison for burglary, larceney, robbery,
| or perjury. There is another clause IN
relation to making tutors of alinors,
guardians Of interdicted persons ETC.,
competent to act in giving proper titles
to property OF their wards, should such
property be needed for the purposes OF
this contemplated park.
An act to change the nature Of the
State subsidy to the Chattanooga railroad
was finally passed The act ex in
cuisines the Obligation Of the State ten
.dorse second mortgage bonds, and sub
stitutes State subscription of twenty
five thousand shares Of the capital stock.
etc.
The Senate also passed the bill author
izipg Eugene Mccarthy to sue the State
We suppose that this bill will also pass the
House, and receive the Governors sigma
ture, as it gives Mr.. Mccurthy nothing
but what he can gain npon 4 fair showing
in the Law courts.
The Senate held no evening session,
but adjourned until tomorrow, twelve
o'clock
The great and almost the sole business
of the morning session in the House, was
the consideration OF the Slaughterhou,e
matter.
This bill 10 forfeit the charteS of the
Crescent City Slaughterhouse Company,
had passed both Houses with celebrity
almost sufficient to take away ones breath.
The veto Of the governor promptly fol-
lowed and that was the subject which
came up for consideration.
In the veto message the constitutionaiity
of the question was treated, and the Gov
ernor took the ground that the act OF the
Legislature was in the nature OF a Judicial
function. Some legal decisions were also
quoted, and the subject Of the bill was
treated with the perspicnous ability and
legal acumen that characterizes the Gov
ornors messages.
A lengthy debate ensued. in which DR..
Worrall and Mr.. Carr We're the principal
advocates for sustaining the veto, while
Messrs. Harper and Thompson argued for
passing the bill over the veto. Speaker
Carter took the same side, giving the
chair to Mr. Moncnre. Mr.. Carter con-
tended that there was no vested right in
the case, the bill chartering the slaughter
house being merely a sanitary measure:
that the butchers were prepared to OBJ
serve all laws and ordinances enacted for
the preservation of the public health, and
the necessity for an exclusive corporation
no longer existed.
Mr.. Worrall took the ground that the
pledged faith Of the State was no light
thing: that the franchises given to the
Slaughterhouse Company had become
vested rights, and in. passing the act of
incorporation the Legislature pledged, as
it were. the faith of the State for their
maintenance: that State securities would
never command public confidence We're
laws passed one session leading people to
invest large sums Of money, and then
those laws be repealed as soon as the cap
ital was irTetrievably invested. We do
not give the exact words of the gentlemen
who took part in the debate. All the
speeches We're able. but it was evident
that the advocates for sustaining the veto
had the best Of it. The question
WAS put on sustaining the veto. and the
yeas and nays being called, thee We're
titty-eigLt votes in favor of sustaining,
and thirty-seven for passing the bill over
the veto, so the veto was sustained.
We noticed that Mr.. Buchanan, Of
Algiers voted to sustain the veto, as he
considered the interest of the place he
represents involved in the continu-
ance Of the Slaughterhouse. so
SO the Crescent slaughterhouse remains,
and the only recourse Of its opponents is
in the courts. We believe a time will
come when this slaughterhouse will be
viewed with complacency by all classes as
combining means for an ample supply of
meat, with the absence of anything
deleterious to public health.
There was but one other important
matter before the House, the report of
the special committee appointed to inves-
tigate the affairs Of the gas company.
The report says in effect that the charter
Of the company is forfeited, as it did not
comply with the condition whereby IF
teen miles Of main pipe were to be laid
three years after the first of July, 1860.
A resolution accompanies the report which
if carried into effect will terminate the
charter of the company in the year 1873.
The House adjourned until twelve clock
tomorrow.
PARIS AND WICKEDNESS.