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

the highest order of the day. know of no
order Of the day that can take precedence
over the unfinished business.
The order of the day was postponed.
Mr.. Blackman-I now renew my motion
that the Senate refuse to concur in the re-
port of the committee of conference.
Mr.. RAY second the motion; but would
is not be a more regular parliamentary pro-
ceeding, as we are now acting on the
report of the conference committee,
if we were to reject that report. We could
then call another committee of conference
on the same bill. The House will have re-
fused to concur in the Senate's amend
ments, and the Senate will have refused to
concur in the course Of the House.
The President find, in the Joint rules
OF the the houses of Congress, rule fifteen:
THAT if the houses shall have adhered to
their disagreement the bill shall be lost. v
This also is mentioned in Jetferson's Man
uel, and the opinion of the Chair is that If
the Senate now refuse to adhere to this
proposition coming from the House, after
having agreed to committee OF confer
ence, this bill is lost and you will have to
originate new bill, either in the House or
in the Senate.
MI. Blackman-I do not that would
be the effect in this instance. Our action
will simply be to refuse to adopt the amend
ments offered by the committee OF confer
ence.
The President-The House has already
adopted these amendments and tabled the
motion to reconsider the vote by which they
were adopted
Mr.. Ray-It is not unusual to discharge
one committee on conference and appoint
another one.
Mr.. BIackman moved that the report Of
the committee Of conference be laid on the
table, subject to call, and that the House
be requested to appoint another committee.
Mr.. O'Hara-I rise to point of order.
The committee itself has amended this bill,
which it has no right to do, and in so doing
it has transcribed its powers. The only
authority it had was to recede from the
amendments proposed by the Senate, or to
adhere to them. These amendments bring
the whole question before the Senate. My
point of order is that both the amendments
proposed by the committee and the amend
ments proposed by the Senator from st.
James (Mr. Hunsaker) are out of order.
The President ruled the point OF order
not well taken.
Mr.. Blackman raised tue point of order
that the bill was not before the Senate to be
amended.
The Presdent-The point is well taken.
The Senate is considering the report OF the
committee of conference.
MI. I1uUSdher dSkeu IL NC Aidu d
offer this as substitute for the report.
The President-I do not think SO. We
have bill before us passed By the House,
to which the Senate made some amend
ments, and we refused to agree to those
amendments. Upon that information reach
ing both houses, the House asked for a COM
mittee of conference, which has reported a
pet of amendments, which amendments the
House has adopted. The only thing that
the Senate has to do is to concur in those
amendments. AS far as the bill itself Is
concerned, only so much of it as is referred
to by the report of the committee is before
the Senate properly; but on this ruling | am
not quite sure. and would have the Senate
to determine it.
After further discussion. the President
took the position that either this Senate had
to concur or not concur in the amendments
of the committee.
Mr.. McMllen-It seems to me this ques
ton can be very easily explained. This bill
was House bill. and was received from the
House Of Representatives, and adopted by
the Senate with certain amendments. The
bill as amended was then returned to the
House, and the House refused to concur in
those amendments. The House then asked
for q committee of conference upon the
amended bin. That committee was APP
pointed, and made its report, which was
concurred in by the House Of Representa-
tives, and a bill containing the amendments
agreed upon by the committee was adopted.
That bill is now before the Senate, and it
has either to concur or not concur in the re-
port of the committee OF conference and l
think. after we get through. 1t will be our
duty to inform the House that we have not
been able to concur, and to request another
committee of conference. 1t has been Gus
tonary to make two attempts of this kind
before the question ia lost.
Mr. Sypher called for the order Of the
day.
THE REGISTRATION BILL.
The Senate proceeded with the consdera-
ton Of section three of the registration bill.
Mr.. McMillen asked unanimous consent
to make the election bill the special order
for Monday.
Mr. Blackman moved to make it the
special order as soon as the registration law
was disposed Of
MIR. Todd object to having the election
law brought up. 1t is out of its regular
order.
The President-It requires unanimous
consent.
Mr. McMilen-That is a very queer ruling.
1t is in broad violation of the rules.
The Presdent-The gentleman has his
remedy in an appeal.
Mr.. McMillen-Not in this Senate. The
idea of depriving special order Of its
place seems to me preposterous.
The President quoted rule twentynine.
Mr.. Todd-The gentleman has his rem
edy; let him take it. 1t is not for him to
explain what the rules are.
Mr.. Hunsaker moved to postpone the or
der Of the day in order to settle the cues
ton of the appropriation bill.
The motion to postpone the order OF the
day was lost.
IIr. holland called for executive session.
Mr.. Blackman rose to a point OF order
Executive session could be called but once
during the consideration of question.
The President-The point is well taken.
Mr.. cMillen-What becomes of the cleo
ton law
The Presdent-It is on the calendar for
special day.
On section five of the registration law
Mr.. Blackman said: 1t was understood
that the committee would agree on the pro-
visions of this bill in general way, but it
was also understood that the Senator from
Ouachita (Mr. Ray and myself would offer
a minority report. The section we objected
to was the one just read. now offer sub
stitute for section five, providing that the
police jures of the several parishes shall
appoint the supervisors of registration for
their respective parishes, except the parish
OF Orleans: and that in the parish of Or
leans, the Mayor and Administrators shall
appoint the supervisors. We urge the pas
sage'of this substitute. Why? Because the
police jurors in each parish are presumed to
be representatives of the people; the police
jurors are men who reside in the parish,
and they are competent to select some good
honest man of either party, or irrespec-
tive OF party, to register for the
parish. This is one of the provisions
we deem important, because we