New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-23

Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, kelso, Lewis,
Lynch, McMillen, holland, OHara. Raglan,
Ray, Smith, Swords, Sypher, Thomas,
Thompson, Todd, Twitchell, Whitney, VIII
COx-3l.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes of the previous
days session was dispensed with.
After being corrected they were ap-
proved.
By unanimous consent, Mr.. Todd called
up the following joint report, and the bill
70 which the same relates. as follows:
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Your committee of conference, to whom
was referred House bill No. 2S6, entitled
an act to amend section seven OF an act
entitled "An act to provide revenue,
etc. approved March 3, 1871 (act No "A OF
1871, to authorize the levy and collection
Of tax for the maintenance ana support
Orleans. and to limit the amount OF the tax
70 levied. having had the same under con-
alteration. respectfully report that they re-
commend that the bill do pass without
amendment, as it originally passed the
House.
On the part of the Senate:
NJ. H. TWITCHELL,
A. E. BARBER.
on 'ne part 0' i EMERSON fR BENTLEY,
C. w. RINGGOLD,
P. HARPER,
THOMAS MURRAY,
T. B. STAMPS.
The report was then considered and
adopted.
Mr.. Barber moved that the Senate do now
recede from its amendments.
Mr.. Todd raised the point of order that
the adoption Of the joint report completed
the action of the Senate on the bill.
The President decided the point not well
taken.
Mr.. Blackman then moved that the bill be
laid over until Mr.. McMillen was present,
which motion was ordered to lie on the ia
BILE, on a call of the yeas and nays, by the
following vote:
Yeas-Anderson, Barber, Butler Gallup,
Harris, Hunsaker, jerks, kelso, holland,
O'Hara, Pinchback, Ray, Swords, Sypher,
Todd, Twitchell, Wilcox-H.
Nays-Blackman, Bowman, Daigle, Her
wig, Thomas, Thompson-6.
The Senate, on a call, then proceeded to
Executive session having been raised,
the question required on the motion of Mr..
Barber to recede from the Senate amend
= ments. which motion was adopted, and the
bill passed, on motion of Mr.. jerks, by the
following vote:
Yeas-Anderson, Barber, Blackman,
Bowman, Butler, COPELAND, Harris, Herwig,
Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, Lewis, No
land, O'Hara, Ray, Smith, Swords, Thomp-
son, Todd, Twitchell, WilcOx-2l.
Nays-Daigle, Gallup, Lynch, Thomas
a.
Senate bill No. 3l3, to be entitled an act
to liauidate the Indebtedness of the State
to j. O. Nixon, under his contract of March
q, 1866.
The bill was read it's second time and
considered engrossed for third reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by a four-fifths affirmative vote,
the bill read it's third and last time, and
finally adopted with its title.
MESSAGES TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary presented to the House for
its consideration the following Senate bills,
viz:
No. 296, for the relief of the sufferers by
the fire occurring in the city of Monroe,
Louisiana, December &c. 1871.
No. 294, an act to amend and re-enact
section two of an act entitled can act to
form new parish, to be called the parish
of Red River"
And notified the House that the Senate
had concurred in:
House bill No. 1893, to be entitled an act
to establish the Underwriters Association
of New Orleans.
House bill No. $50, an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Progressive Literary De-
batting Society of New Orleans.
House bill No 1853, to be entitled an act
to fix the terms of the district courts in
the Fourteenth Judicial District, desig-
mating certain weeks of said term for trial
of civil cases and certain weeks for the
trial of criminal cases, and providing for
the drawing and summoning of jurors for
said terms.
House bill No. 4l2, to be entitled an act
to amend the second section of an act en-
titled "An act incorporating the Grand
Lodge of the State of Louisiana, and for
other purposes" approved March Is, 1876
And requested concurrence in the follow
ing Senate bills:
No. $685. to be entitled an act to authorize
Adam O'Neth and Catherine Bethel, his
wife, to change the name of their adopted
child, Anna Betz, to Anna O'Neth.
No. 81, to be entitled an act granting
to Ferdinando Lucheni, for ten years,
the privilege of building a wharf and
establishing steamboat landing at Grand
Ecore, on Red river, in the parish Of Nat
chitoches and State of Louisiana, and pro-
yiding for the amount of wharfage to be
collected from steamboats, and other vessels
landing.
Senate Joint resolution No. "a, memorial
izing Congress to refund the amount of the
cotton tax, etc.
Senate concurrent resolution relating
10 the New Orleans and Northeastern
Railroad.
And requesting the signature OF the
Sneaker to enrolled bill, ITO amend and
re-enact article 1855 Revised Civil Code
HOUSE, or RePKKsENTATIvEs,}
February 81, 1872.
to the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
am directed to ask the concurrence OF
he Senate in the following House bills, |
20 wit:
House bill No. 36l, an act to authorize the