New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF The UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
0FFICIALJ OURN AL
OF THE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
SECOND SESSION
OF THE
SECOND GENERAL ASSEGbA1
OF TIE
STATE OF LOUISIANA
For,y.first Days Session.

For,y.iirst Days Session.
SESArE CHAMBKR,}
Saturday February II, l8'2
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment
Presentation. P.B. S. Pinchback, Lieu
tenant Governor and President of the Sen
atc. and Messrs. Anderson, Antoine, Barber,
Rlackmau, Bowman, Butler, Campbell,
Coupland, Daigle, Gallup, Harris, Herwi!g,
Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, kelsO, Lewis,
lynch. McMillen, holland, OHara, Raglan,
Raw, Smith, Swords, Sypher, Thomas,
Thompson, Todd, Twitchell, Wilcox-32.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes of the previous
days session was dispensed with.
No corrections.
Adopted.
MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR.
The following communication from the
Governor was received:
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department. I
New Orleans, February 10. l8'2)
To the Honorable President and Members OF the
1 have the honor to submit for considera-
ton Of your honorable body copy OF
resolution passed by the General Assembly
Of the State of Georgia, in compliance with
the request of his excellency the Governor
of said State. nc. WARMOTH,
Governor of Louisiana.
A resolution in relation to refunding the
tax on raw cotton, collected during tne
wears 1865, 1866 and 1867, under the reve-
nue. laws of the United States.
WHEREAS, 1t is the deliberate conviction
nd h01
be that of the entire people of the cotton
producing States, that the acts of Congress
imposing a specific tax on all raw cotton
grown in the United States, to the exclu-
sion of all other agricultural products,
from which much larger amount of reve-
nue. might have been realized, were une-
DUAL, unjust and unconstitutional, and that
said tax was imposed and collected at a
time when the Southern people were pros
trated and impoverished by war; and
Whereas, 1t is believed that such acts
we're the result of excitement, engendered
by the late unfortunate war between the
States, considered as a necessary means of
paying the debt incurred by its prosecu-
ton, and proper mode of meeting retri-
button upon the vanquished; and
Whereas, 1t is now earnestly hoped that
time has softened those asperities, so that
the voice of Justice will be heard with pa
thence and lnagnanimity, and that Congress
will promptly and generously yield to an
appeal to reason and their sense of consti-
tutional obligation when respectfully made
by those, from whom in their poverty and
ruin, such tax has been exacted and col
lected; and
Whereas, 1t is the true policy of the gen
eral government to foster and encourage
rather than burden agriculture, the produc-
lions of which have been uniformly, and
should continue to be, exempt from taxa
ton; and
Whereas, 1t is matter of the first mag
nitude that fraternal feelings between the
two lately belligerent sections OF the Union
should be restored as speedily as possible,
to which contamination so devOutly to be
wished, nothing can contribute so much as
striking exhibitions Of justice and mag
nanimity by the federal government
Be it resolved by the Senate and House OF
Representatives Of the State of Georgia in
General Assembly met, That the Congress
of the United States is hereby respectfully
requested to provide by law for refunding
to those who have paid the same the
amount of tax collected on raw cotton I'M
der the revenue laws of the United States
during the years 1860, 1866 and 1857. =.
Be it further resolved by the authority
aforesaid, That joint committee, consisting
of two members of the Senate and three
from the House of Representatives, be ap-
pointed by the respective presiding officers
thereof to prepare memorial to the Con
gress of the United States setting forth the
inequality, injustice and uncOnstitutionality
of the aforesaid tax on cotton; and that
they lay the same, together with a copy OF
this preamble and resolutions, before the
Congress at its next session, appealing to
Al. of a n
Georgia for its favorable and considerate
action in the premises; and
Be it further resolred, That his excellency
the Governor be requested to transmit a
copy of this preamble and resolutions to the
Governors of each of the cotton growing
States, accompanied by the request that he
submit the same for favorable consldera
ton to the Legislature Of the State over
which he presides
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
L. n. TRAMMELL,
President of the Senate.
Approved November 49, 1871.
BENJAMIN CONLEY,
Governor.
SECRETARY OF STATES OFFICE
Atlanta, Ga, December Z, 1911
A true copy of the original resolution OF
file in this office.
DAVID G. COTIlNG,
Secretary of State.
On motion of Mr.. Blackman, his Excel
lency the Governor was requested to trans
NIT to the Governor and Legislature of tn
State of Georgia copy of the joint resoIu
ton on the same subject matter adopte
by the General Assembly of this State.
The following communication from hi
Excellency the Governor, together with at
eompanying papers, were, on motion of Nj
Wilcox, ordered printed in the journal:
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Executive Department,
Now Orleans. February l6, 1872.
70 the Honorable President and Members OF II
have the honor to submit herewith tt
repOrt Of the commissioners on agriculture
cofIege scrip also, q copy of the contra'
of sale and transfer of the scrip by the con
,o;ss;on He WARMOTH.
Governor OF Louisiana.
To the General Assembly OF the State of Louisian
The commission appointed under provi
ions of act No. 62, acts OF 1869, to recelt
from the United States the land SCH
donated to the State of Louisiana, by az
of Congress approved July z, A. ID. loo
and to dispose of same according TO Ia
intent of said act, submit the foliowln
report: co,
By the act above referred TO, Congres
donated to the States respectively Ian
scrip to the amount Of 10000 acres Tor eac
member in Congress. This would entitl
Touisiaua to 100000 acres. 1t was provide
in the act making the grant that the scri
should be issued in denominations OF lC
acres: so the Commissioner OF the Gcnera
land Office at Washington refused to issu
FOR the fractional eighty acres due tn
State, and for the sale of which your con
mission had contracted, pending the COZ
respondence on the subject with the author
lies at Washington. The amount OF scn
,hen actually received was 2O992o acres.
49, 1871 the wa