New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-22

the Laborers' Protective, Benevolent and
Mutual Aid Association of New Orleans,
Louisiana.
House bill No. 20, an act to regulate
loans.
House bill No. 1863, an act to incorporate
the Young Mems Christian Association of
New Orleans, and to exempt the property of
the same from taxation.
House bill No. 1873, an act to allow VIII
liam Schaetfer to change his name to Viii
liam Schwan, and authorizing Valentine
Schwan, of st. Mary parish, to adopt him
as son and heir.
House bill No. l49, an act to change and
fix the time for holding the district court of
the parish of West Baton Rouge in the
Fifth Judicial District of the State Of Louis
lana, and for other purposes.
House bill No. 1854, an act to be entitled
an act to change the boundaries of the
parishes of Cameron st. Landry, Calcasieu
and Vermlion: to provide for the election
of police jurors, the transfer of certain
records, and the collection of certain taxes
in said parishes to fix the seat of Justice OF
the parish OF Cameron, and for other pur
poses.
House bill No. 1856, an act to provide the
qualifications and define the duties of retail
dealers in foreign and domestic distilled
spirits, wines malt liquors in the various
parishes Of the State.
Respectfully.
A. c. WHITNEY,
MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS.
Presented by Mr.. Todd
A petition of the Y ion Travellers Asso-
citation praying for relief.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Finance.
Presented by Mr.. McMillen:
The following memorial, which was re-
ceived, ordered printed in the journal, ex
Guiding the signatures, and referred to the
Committee On Education:
To the Honorable General Assembly of the State Of
We, the undersigned citizens of the State
of Louisiana. believing that the public in
terests would be best suhserved by recog
nizing the State University as the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College CT Louisiana,
and by granting to that institution the
whole Of the fund accruing from the sale OF
the lands donated by Congress for the es
tablishing of said college, do hereby most
respectfully petition the honorable the
Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Louisiana in General Assembly
convened, to further our views by an en-
actment to that effect as early as practicable.
Signed by $50 citizens.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported favorably on Senate bill
No. 37l requiring the transfer Of cases in
which the city of New Orleans is interested
from the Sixth District Court for the par
ish of Orleans to other District Courts of
that parish.
Drainage, Canals and Inland Navigation,
reported substitute for Senate bill No.
339, substitute to be entitled an act to au-
therize A. T. Janin, John G. Mclean
Charles Lester, w. C. Scott, c. A. Jones'
Daniel Malone, J. E. Stephens and their
associates and successors to render nav
igable Bayou Saline and its tributaries in
the State of Louisiana.
Mr.. Barber, from the Committee on Mil
tia, reported, with amendments, Senate
bill No. 324 (militia bill).
Mr.. Kelso from the Committee on Edu-
cation, submitted the following reports Oh
Senate bills Nos. 2S3 and 3i4:
To the Honorable President and members of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Public Education beg
leave to report that they have had under
consideration Senate bill No. 2S3, entitled
an act providing for the organization and
maintenance of public schools throughout
the State of louisiana. etc, introduced by
Hon. John Ray, of Ouachita.
Also Senate bill No. 3il, entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section fifty of act
No. 6, entitled IAN act to regulate public
education in the State of Louisiana and the
city of New Orleans" etc, introduced by
Hon. S. NJ. Thomas, of Bossier
In regard to the Grst Of these bills, your
committee report unfavorably The exist
ing school law having been in operation
less than nine months, and having proved
efficient in its operation, and being satisfac-
tory to those intrusted with the educational |
interests of the State, we deem a change at |
this time impolitic and unnecessary.
The bill under consideration would, if |
adopted, abolish the system of superin- |
tendency under which the public schools of |
the State have more than doubled in num-
Der in the space of eight months, and would
substitute a system of the efficiency of
which no previous experience authorizes a
favorable judgment.
In regard to the second of the above |
named bills (No. 344). your committee also
report unfavorably, everything that is pro
posed therein being provided for in the sec
ton to which it relates. The amendment
SIMPLY omlts the last paragraph Of the
original section, in which provision is made
Tor model schools. and the effect of the
adoption of the bill would be to exclude
that class of schools from the system Of pub
lie education in this State
For the reasons thus briefly expressed,
your committe report unfavorably upon the
two bills above named.
GEORGE Y. KELSO.
Chairman.
A. f. BARBER,
c. G. ANTOINE,
4. b. HARRIS
THOMAS G. ANDERSON.
In addition To the rannrt unlimited q hnun |