New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-29

new orleans. feDruary 70, 1917
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House OF Representatives:
Your committee beg leave to submit, as a
committee bill, and recommend its passage,
viz An act entitled an act making apprO-
priatiOns for the general expenses OF the
State of Louisiana for the year ending the
thirty-frst December, 1872, prescribing the
mode in which certain appropriations shall
be drawn, and repeating certain acts liking
salaries and compensation for services per
formed for the State, and providing for the
payment of certain outstanding warrants
and vouchers for expense OF the General
Assembly Tor the session of 1871.
THOMAS ONG, Chairman;
CHARLES S. ABEL,
j. w. QUINN,
NJ. CAKR,
c. d. TATMAN,
DAVID YOUNG.
Upon motion of Mr.. Davidson, of Living
ston, the bill was referred to the committee
of the whole.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The Secretary of the Senate was an
nounced with the following message:
SENAT. CHAMBER,
February 20, 1872.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House OF representatives:
l am directed to present Tor your consid-
Grafton the following bills:
Senate bill No. 29S, to incorporate the
Citizens Savings Bank.
Senate bill No 27l, authorizing Albert E.
Davis. of the parish of st. Mary, to sue the
State of Louisiana.
Senate bill No. 33l, making Shrove Tues
day or Mardi Gras legal holiday.
Senate bill No. $50, to incorporate the
Monroe Bridge Company, and authorize the
company to issue its bonds, and to do all
other acts an Incorporated company may
do.
Senate bill No. 266, relative to contri-
buttons to be raised by the Citizens Bank
of Louisiana, etc.
Substitute for Senate bill No. 297, to
amend and re enact sections two, three
four, six, twenty seven, thirty-four, forty
seven, forty weight and tOrty-nine OF an act
to amend and re enact "An act to establish
Metropolitan Police district" etc.
Senate bill No. 33l, to amend article 644
of the Code of Practice
Senate bill No. 392, to authorize the North
Louisiana and Texas Railroad Company to
substitute stock of said company, etc.
And to request the signature of the
Speaker to enrolled bill to authorize the
New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg
Railroad Company to select the point or
points Of their commencement, etc.
CHARLES H. MERRITT,
Secretary OF the Senate.
Senate bill No. 297, an act to amend and
re-enact sections two, three, four, six,
twenty-seven, thirty four, forty-seven. forty
eight and forty-nine of an act to amend and
re-enact AN act to establish Metropolitan
Police district, and to provide for the gov
eminent thereof" approved March 8, 1869,
and provide for the reduction of the ex-
pense of the Metropolitan Police force,
was taken UP.
The first section was read
Mr.. Stamps, Of Jefferson, moved that
further consideration Of the bill be indefi-
nitely postponed.
The Speaker ruled that the motion was
out of order, as the bill was only on it's
first reading.
Mr.. Stamps, of Jefferson, appealed from
the decision of the Chair, upon which the
yeas and nays were called for by Messrs.
II. Lott, of Rapides, and Mr.. Stamps, OF
jefferson, with the following result:
Yeas-Baker. Barker. Barrow, Bickham,
Bryan, Butler, Cochrane, Davidson. Faux
ner. Gartskamp, Hyams. Killen, Meadows,
MOncure, Nelson, Oplatek, Smith, Stlnson,
Thompson. Worrali-20.
Nays-Adolphe, Barrett, Belot, Bentley
Blunt, Bowen. Broussard Crawford, Darby
Darinsburg, Davis, Demas, Devices, Floyd
Gaddis, Gardner, p. Harper, William Har
per- johnson. kenner, La Saliniere, Lau
rent, II. Lott. J. Il. Lott, Mahoney, Marie
Matthews, McCarty, Mcfarland, Morphy
Morris, Murray. Overton. Raby. Riley
Ringgold, Sartain, Stamps. Stanton Tatman
Tounoir, Tureaud, Nerrett. Washington
(Concordia), Waters. f. Williams, H. vii
hams-H.
And the decision of the Chair was moi
sustained, and the motion to indefinitely
postpone prevailed.
Upon motion of Mr.. Stamps, of Jefferson
the vote whereby the bill was indefinitely
postponed was reconsidered, and the mo
ton to reconsider was laid upon the table.
By consent, the Committee on Railroad:
submitted the following report, which was
read:
COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS, I
February rs, 1872.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of TIA,
House of Representatives.
sidered Senate bill No. l6i, an act to iDcor
porate the Nidalia, Red River and Texas
Railroad Company, and to grant State ait
thereto, and your committee would respect
fully report favorably on the same ard re
commend that the act do pass.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN GARSTKAMP.
Chairman:
GEORGE L. SMITH.
RJTrKINGH
Mr. Pond. of East Feliciana, moved t,
lay the report on the table.
On which the yeas and nays were Gale,
for by Messrs. Young, of Concordia, and
j. B. Lott, of Rapides, with the followin;
result:
Yeas-Belot, Blunt Broussard, Bryan
Butler, Cochrane, Floyd, Gardner, Hemp
stead, Laurent, Matthews, McCarty, Nc
Farland, Nelson, Pond, Stanton, Stinson
Thompson, Worrall-l9.
Nays-Abel Adolphe, Antoine, Baker
Barker, Bentley, Bowen, Crawford, Darns
burg, Davidson. Demas, Devices, Ellis
Faulkner, Gaddis, Garstkamp, William Han
per, Huston, Hyams. johnson, Kenner, XII
len, La Saliniere, Laurent, H. Lott, j. Il
Lott, Mahoney, Marie. Marvin, Meadows
Moncure, Moore. Morphy, Ong, Oplatek
Quinn, Raby. Riley, Sartaln, Smith Stamps
Tureaud, Verrett, Washington (Assuml
tom, Washington (Concordia), Waters,
Williams. II. Williams, Yorke, Young-5(
Lost.
The report was adopted.
Senate bill No. l64, referred to in the re
port, was taken up.
Under further suspension of the cor
stitutiOnal rule it was read q third time an
finally passed, its title adopted, and motto