New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-16
1872, and the extra session of the Senate

adopted as amended.
Section two was read and adopted.
Section three was read and adopted.
Section four was read and adopted.
Section five was read and adopted.
Section six was read and adopted.
Mr. Ray moved to amend by adding as
follows to the end of the section:
And that there shall be one messenger
for each House who shall receive 81 per
day from the commencement of each SEES
sion until ten DAYS after the close thereof.
The section was adopted as amended.
Section seven was read and adopted.
Section eight was read and adopted.
Mr. Gallup moved TO amend by adding
the Committee on Railroads TO those com
lnittees entitled to clerk.
Adopted.
The section was adopted as amended.
Section ten was read.
Pending consideration Of this section, the
order of the day was called.
On motion OF Mr.. Lynch, the order of the
day was postponed half an hour.
Mr. Barber in the chair.l
Section ten was adopted.
Section eleven was read and adopted
Section twelve was read and adopted.
Section thirteen was read
Mr. Blackman moved to amend by
striking out that portion Of the section au-
thorizing the Governor and State Treasurer
to designate the funds from which the ap-
propriation shall be drawn.
Adopted.
Mr. Ray moved 10 amend by providing
that $4,000 of this appropriation be set
apart to pay the expenses of the Senate for
the extra session of the Senate held De-
cember and 7, 1871, and for the regular
session of 1872 and that the remaining
100000 be set apart to pay the expenses
Of the House of Representatives for the
session of 1872, and striking out that por-
ton of the section relating to setting sums
apart for contingent expenses.
Adopted.
The section was adopted as amended.
Section fifteen was read.
Mr. McMillen moved to amend by strik-
ing out all that portion of the section rela-
tive to a Warrant Clerk.
[The President in the Chair,
The order of the day was called, and, on
motion OF Mr.. Blackman, was successfully
postponed until two and half-past two
o'clock.
Mr. jerks in the chair.
On motion of Mr.. O'Hara. and on a call
of the yeas and nays. the motion of Mr..
McMillen was ordered to lie on the table
by the following vote
Yeas-Antoine, Blackman. Bowman.
Butler, Campbell, Daigle, Gallup Herwig,
Hunsaker. OIiara, Raglan, Thompson,
Twitchell, WilcoX-ii.
Nays-Anderson, Barber, COPELAND, Har-
ris, Ingraham, jerks. Lynch McMillen,
Ray, Smith, Swords. SyPher, Thomas-l3.
Mr.. Lynch moved to amend by adding to
the section the following proviso:
Provided, that nothing in this act shall be
SO construed as to continue the office OF W ar
rant Clerk beyond the close of the present
session Of the General Assembly.
Adopted
The section was adopted as amended.
Mr.. Lynch offered the following as an
additional section, TO be known as section
sixteen, ana moved its adoption:
SEC. Is. Be it further enacted. etc.
That act No. y, of 1869. entitled "A joint
resolution instructlng the Warrant Clerks
of both Houses Of the General Assembly to
draw warrants on the Treasurer. and sell
the same at their highest marketable value
and pay the mileage and Der diem of MEN,
berS and the salaries OF officers and EN-
ployes in currency, and instructing them to
allow twenty per cent to each member.
officer and employe who have already re-
ceived their mileage or per diem in war
rants, under supervision of the Committees
ON Contingent Expenses of both Houses,
be and the same is hereby repealed.
Adopted
Section sixteen was read as section seven
teen.
Mr. Sypher offered the following as a sub
stitute for the section. ard moved its adop-
ton
Be it further enacted, etc, That we, the
members of this General Assembly. do here
by-give, donate and transfer to the State
AL claims that We may have against the
State for mileage and per diem.
Mr. Campbell raised the point of order
that the motion was frivolous, as the Senate
had no power to deprive individual mem
bers of their per diem.
The President held the point well taken.
Mr.. Lynch moved that section sixteen he
adopted as section seventeen.
Adopted.
On motion OF Mr. Lynch: the substitute
was adopted as a whole.
The substitute was then considered en-
crossed.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
a four-tfths affirmative vote, and the bill
read its third and last time.
On motion of Mr.. Lynch, the title was
amended by adding thereto the words land
to repeal act No 81 Of 1862
Adopted.
Phe title was then adopted as amended.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
Substitute for Senate bill No. 273, to be
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec
tons five, six, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen, twenty-one, twenty-five, twenty
eight, twenty nine, thirty-tive, thirty six,
thrtv-nne, forty-one, fifty three, fifty
sixty, sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-o one, sew
enty-three, eighty two and to repeal sec
tons twenty-three, twenty seven, tifty-one,
fifty-two, fifty-four, ffty-fve and tifty-seven
of an act entitled IAN act to regulate the
conduct and to maintain the freedom and
purity of elections; to prescribe the mode
of making, and designate the officers who
shall make the returns thereof; to pre-
vent fraud, violence, intimidation, riot,
tumnlt, bribery or corruption at cleo
tians. or at any registration or re-
vision of registration; to limit the powers
and duties of the Sherifs of the parishes of