New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-16

STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Thirty.seventh Days Proceedings.
HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES,
Thueday, February Is, 1872 )
The House met at twelve o'clock, pur-
suant to adjournment.
Speaker Brewster in the chair.
The roll was called and the following
members answered to their names:
Speaker Brewster. and Messrs. Abel,
| Baker, Barrow, Belot, Bentley, Bowen,
| BroUssard, Brown, Bryan, Butler, Cha
chere, Cochrane, Crawford Darby, Darins
burg, Davidson, Davis, Demas, Devices,
Deslonde, Faulkner, Floyd, Fopte'ieu,
| Gaddis, Garstkamp, I. Harper. William
| Harper, Huston, IIyams, johnson, kenner,
| killen. kinsella, La Saliniere, Laurent,
Llambias, H. Lott, j. b. Lott, Maboney,
| Marie. Marvin. Matthews, McCarty, Mead
| ows. Moncure, Moore. Morphy, Morris, Muir
ray, Nelson, Ong. Oplatek. Overton, Pond,
Quinn, Raby, Riley, Kinggold, Sartain,
Smith. Souer, Tatman, Tureaud. Eerrett,
Washington (AssumptiOn). Washington
| (Concordia), Waters, E. Williams, II. Will
liams, Worrall, Yorke, Young-13.
Quorum present
prayer ny inc CHdpldlH.
Upon motion of Mr.. Ringgold, of Or
leans. the reading of the minutes was dis
pensed with and the journal was adopted.
By consent Mr. Bentley, of St. Mary,
called up House bill No. $50, the school
bill, and moved that the House do refuse
to concur in the Senate amendments, and
also moved that committee of conference
be appointed.
Carried.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS
Mr.. Faulkner, of Caldwell, submitted
report from the engineers Of the Upper
Red River Raft Company, which was or
dered to be printed in pamphlet form.
Mr.. Marvin, of Catahoula, submitted the
following memorial, which was referred to
the Committee on Judiciary
memorial from the sureties on the bond
of the late William Jones, deceased. late
assessor and collector of the parish of
Catahoula.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Claims, through its
chairman, submitted the following report,
which was adopted, to the committee of the
whole
COMMITTEE on CLAIMS, !
February l5 1872.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House OF Representatives.:
Your committee. to whom was referred
the petition of a. Ealsin Martin, of Lafay
cite parish. tor relief, having carefully CON
sidered the testimony bearing on the case,
beg leave to report favorable and recon-
mend the passage of the act herewith trans
United, providing for the appropriation Oh
two thousand dollars. the sum claimed by
said Martain, which claim We deem just and
valid.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
GEO. L. SMITH, Chairman.
w. II. WATERS,
?. DARINSBURG
w G. JOHNSON,
d. A. COCHRANE,
H. RILEY.
The Committee ON Judiciary submitted
the following report, which was read:
CMMITTTEE ON JUDICIARY,
February 10, 1872.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House OF Representatives,:
The Committee on Judiciary beg leave to
report that they have had under consdera-
ton House bill No. 395 entitled an act re-
pealng the constabulary BILL known as act
No. "A, approved March 9, 1870 session of
1870. Report iavOrably, and that the bill
do pass.
T. G. DAVIDSON, Chairman.
The report was adopted.
The bill referred to in the report was
taken up and considered as engrossed.
Under suspension of the constitutional
rule the bill was placed upon its third
reading and final passage.
The bill was finally passed, its title
adopted, and it was ordered to be sent to
the Senate for concurrence.
Mr.. Davidson, of Livingston. moved TO
reconsider the vote passing the bill, and
also moved to lay that motion on the table.
Carried.
The Speaker announced the appointment
of the following committee of conference
on school bill House bill No. 2S6) on the
part of the House-E. Bentley, of st. Mary;
P Harper, of st. Charles; T. B. Stamps, of
jefferson; Thomas Murray, of Orleans; c.
w. Ringgold, of Orleans.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The Secretary of the Senate was an
nounced with the following message:
SENATE CHAMBER,
February Is, 1872. s
House of Representatives,
am directed to present for your con-
sideration Senate bill No. 357, to be entitled
an act defining the distances from the
domiciles of members of the General AS
sembly to the State House, ETC.. and to re-
peal act No. 81 of 1869, which has been sub
stituted by the Senate for House bill No.
39l.
And to inform you that the President of
the Senate has signed enrolled bill for the
relief of Mrs. Mary Barlow, etc.
And to request concurrence in Senate
bill No. l64, to incorporate the Vidalia, Red
River and Texas Railroad Company.
CHARLES H. MERRITT,
- Secretary of Senate.
The Committee on Judiciary submitted
the following report, which was acted upon
as follows:
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY,
February 10, 1872. 5
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives:
The Committee on Judiciary report thai
they have had under consideration House
bill No. 1894, an act authorizing Julius
Werner and Helena Werner, his wife, to
adopt Mary Day as their heir and child, etc.
Report on said bill favOrably and that it do
pass.
Also, House bill No 1896, an act fixing re-
turn day for appeals from TangipahOa. Re-
port favOrably, and that the bill do pass.
Also, House bill No. 1893, an act to estab-
lish the Underwriters, Association of New