New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-02
DEBATES OF THE SENATE.
Morning Session.
MOND4v, February 90. 1871.

Iuef Senate uHutr CODsIuefaIlO
Senate bill No. 20l, incorporating the Mi
sissippi Valley Packet Company, and gran
ing State aid thereto
Mr.. Pinchback SAID: suppose it is neces
gary for me to say few words in explana
sion of this measure. The bill asks tn
General Assembly to authorize the Governo
TO subscribe for twenty-five hundred share
of the capital stock OF the company whicl
it incorporates. We feel that we are lust
fedin making this request by the action o
the Legislature III some of its previous SEES
sions. 1t will be remembered that the Gen
eral Assembly has authorized the State t,
subscribe to the stock of a company here t.
the amount of hundred thousand dol
FAIRS, and some few DAYS ago a bill known
as the Louisiana Warehouse bill" wa.
passed. pledging the credit of the State t.
the amount of three hundred thousand dol
lars. L believe. | might name many more
measures by which State aid has been
granted to private enterprises | have con.
suited with several Senators on this sub
lect and they seem to regard the introduc-
ton OF such bill as this as inopportune at
the present time. basing their objection
upon the unfavorable financial condition OF
the State. They also object to it ON the
ground that it is aiding a strictly private
enterprise. Now, | admit that the latter
assertion is true in the main. but it seems
to me that the character of the enterprise
forming large proportion of our popula-
ton are to be benefited by it warrant such
a request. 1t is well known to every SEN
atOr on this floor that the class of people this
appropriation is intended to benefit meet
with great deal of opposition and are put to
much inconvenience III coming from the
coast parishes to this CITY ms order TO dis
pose Of their produce and buy any mer-
chandise they may need. 1t is to avoid all
thSs that we come in and ask for this aid
fronl the State. Ii Senators will take the
trouble to examine the bill they will find
Shat the list of incorporates embraces some
OF the best men among that class OF people
Il Will state that it is our purpose to buy
out the interest of the State in the enter
prise at the earliest practicable moment. l
believe can safely pledge the faith of the
company that the State will not own one
single dollars worth of interest in the
stock of the corporation in two wears
form this date. The only difficulty
rs In getting the enterprise started.
against men who attempt to- carry on an
enterprise upon the principle that this is to
be commenced; that capitalists stand back
7aghast. They admit that the project will
pay, but they are not willing to subject
themselves to the odium that will attach
20 their names if they engage in it. We
can not begin to start the enterprise with |
corporation have gone around in this city |
something aid from private individuals | |
2Iave made herculean efforts to get the |
scheme started, because | knew that it only |
required start to become paving enter |
prise, but | could not succeed, for the rea- |
sons that have stated. | believe the bill |
WILL meet with the approval of the Senate. |
and, therefore, do not deem it necessary to |
make an elaborate argument on it's merits. |
we merely ask for a little help in develop
eng the resources of the State, and in pro
Fldlng means for our people to come here
as comfortably as other people do. 1t will
be observed that the State is amply pro-
1ected in every way. l now move that the
bid be considered as engrossed.
The bill finally passed.
THE PRINTING BILL.
The first section of the printing bill HAY
Ang been adopted, Mr.. O'Hara moved to in
sert the following as an amendment to sec
tion nine:
THAT the Senators and members of the
House of Representatives of each senatorial
district are hereby constituted committees.
whose duty 1t shall be to contract with some
newspaper published in such district to pub
lish all laws OF general character, except
the parish of Orleans, TO be paid for at such
rates as are provided for in section eleven of
5lIis act
Mr.. Blaclunan: hope the amendmentnow
offered will not be adopted. 1t is clause
mat viii be entirely imperative if it is in
serted in the bill. 1t is simply ridiculous TO
pass q. law providing that paper edited in {
one parish in each judicial district, shall
rave the monopoly of all judicial advertise j
aents OF sales OF property, under judicial l
recess, the orders OF court, etc. Take, for I
Instance, my Judicial district, which !
composed of the parishes of Clai S
'orne, Jackson, and Union Now, in t
which of those parishes would it be b
'roper 10 have the judicial advertisements il
ubiishedF If you have them published in b
ne parish of Claiborne at the parish seat. S
is over sixty miles to the courthouse of o
he parish of Bossier. and almost t'' forty G.
1lies to the courthouse of the parish of Ii
II you obtain judgment of the II
ourt IN BlenVIlle parish, you must come | W
ne whole distance to the parish of Clai- M
orne, to the town Of Homer, doubtless in To
rder TO have it published in the official L
,nrnai, SO that you can legally execute it. II
hat interest have the people of Claiborne I'll
| a piece of property to be sold in BEN IN
Tile, and rice cerSa2 | state that this is Va
ne OF the features OF the printing law which al
particularly Objectionable. Whv not give a W
an the right to say where his property shall re
advertised for sale? Why not allow him JG
go to the proprietor of each paper pub of
'ned IN the district, in order that he may pr
= IL done the cheapest he CAM WHY not eX
low him to publish it in the paper having OF
e largest circulation! The object of such o.
lVertlsements is to give notice to the peo- llg
enaJ such and such property is for sale: ca
ereIore, the party interested wants to have Vi
G property advertised in the paper having sh;
{ largest circulation; he wants everybody | ge,
know that his property is to be sold and &c
order that that object NAV be attained he | TIL
ints to advertise i'll that paDer that everv- Re
dy subscrlbes to and reads. | hone the Sta
presented by the Senator from the
rrebonne Mr.. O'Hara), will not prevail. an,
Dir. OHara: | contend, as a country /
'mber OF the Legislature, that this Cen did
Il Assembly has no right to make any ecu
1stitnents subscribe to a city paper in VIII
Ter that they may know what the laws frs
:: The only reason that | have been on Sen
sing the printing bill all along is because it Rel
ces the people of the country, who wish trio
be informed what the Legislature are in
ing, to send their money to the city of Sta
" Orleans 10 get some newspaper pRb- | th
ned beTe, thereby enriching a man who Coy
% fortunate as 10 live in the capital of OF
State. In regard to the judicial print sele
:, am wiling that the parties interested dow
'uld have control of it themselves: but is
the same time | wish to give to some thru
1er published III my district the nut
hoIity to publish all enactments | al
the General Assembly. This. | think. is on
more than a fair concession to the conn giv'
people. IL is something that must sele
urally meet with the approval of every trio
nber of this body from the rural districts pow
he section which have offered does not Rep
t entirely with the appreciation of the not
ate, | am willing that it should be lical
anded. a ri.
he proposed additional section. ON pub
of H.