New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-04

Mr.. McMillen offered the following |
amendment: By adding to the end OF INC
section:
Provided, further, that the warrants
heretofore preferred by law shall be paia III
their proper order out OF the taxes as 'noy
are collected.
Adopted.
Mr.. Hunsaker moved to adjourn.
Refused.
Mr.. Gallup offered the following amend
ment:
Provided. however, that no Senator or
Representative shall receive any pay as per
diem for any day such Senator or HepresTn-
tative may have absented himself from the
session Of the General Assembly, at tne
State Capitol, from the commea IN EN- same
the present session to the close OF the saMo'
without leave of absense first obtained; pro-
yided this section shall not apply IN case Oh
the absepse of any Senator or representa-
tive, caused by sickness.
On motion of Mr.. Ingraham, the ameho-
ment of Mr.. Gallup was ordered to lie Oh
the table.
Section thirteen was then adopted as
amended.
Section fourteen was read.
MIR. Campbell in the char.J
MIR. Wilcox moved to adjourn.
Refused.
Mr. Blackman moved to amend by adding
the following: .....
Provided, That no warrant or certin cay
;ssned Drior to the first of December, lo'
shall be paid out of the funds appropriated
in this bill.
Nv unanimous consent, the words "ten
Thousand dollars" in section thirteen, fixing
the amount appropriated for contingent eA-
| nenses of the Senate, were stricken out, ana
..seventeen thousand dollars" inserted IN
lieu thereof. NH,
| Mr.. Harris moved to table MI. BLACK
mans amendment to section fourteen.
Adopted.
Section fourteen was adopted.
| Section fifteen was read.
| Mr. McMillen moved to amend by adding,
after the word "postmaster," the words "oi
| each house."
Adopted.
The section was adopted as amended.
Section sixteen was read.
Mr.. holland moved to lay the section on
the table.
On motion of Mr.. Ray, the motion OF Mr.
holland was ordered to lie on the table.
Section sixteen was adopted.
Onmotion of Mr.. Ray, the bill was adopted
as amended.
On motion of Mr.. Blackman, the amend
ments we're considered engrossed.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-fths affirmative vote, the
| hill read its third and last time, and finally
adopted with its title.
Mr.. Harris moved to declare the office OF
Warrant Clerk vacant.
Messrs. Blackman and COPELAND raised
the point of order that The motion was out
of order.
The Chair held the point not well taken.
Mr.. Ingraham raised the point OF order
that the bill just passed having provided
for the election of Warrant Clerk at each
session, the office was vacant. and the mo-
ton to vacate, therefore, out of order.
The Chair held the point of order not we'll
taken.
Mr.. Lewis moved to adjourn, which the
Senate refused, on a call of the yeas and
nays, by the following vote:
Yeas-Antoine, Blackman, Bowman,
COPELAND, Daigle lngraham, Lewis, Kay,
Smith, Twitchell, Wilcox--ll-
Nays-Barber, Butler, Campbell, Gallup,
Harris, Herwig, Hunsaker, kelso, Lynch,
McMilleu, holland, O'Hara, Ragail-l3.
THE President resumed the chair.]
Mr. Gallup moved that the motion of Mr.
Harris be ordered to lie on the table.
Discussion having arisen Mr.. OH ara
raised the point of order that motion to
table was not debatable, which point the
President held we'll taken.
Mr.. Ingraham renewed his point of order
made above.
The Preside held the point not well
taken.
On call of the yeas and nays the mo-
ton of Mr. Harris was laid on the table by
the following vote:
Yeas-Antoine, Blackman, Bowman, But
Ter, COPELAND, Daigle, Gallup, Herwig,
Ingraham, Kelso. Lewis, holland, O'Hara,
Raglan, Ray, Smith, Twitchell, WilcOx-l8.
Nays-Barber, Campbell, Harris. Lynch,
McMillen-5.
Mr.. O'Hara moved to reconsider the vote
Just taken, which motion the President de
: clared not in order.
Mr.. Lewis moved that the Senate adjourn
until tomorrow, at II NJ.
Adopted.
The President then announced that tn
Senate stood adjourned until Saturday, the
third instant, at II NJ.
CHARLES II. MERRITT,
Secretary of the Senate.
DEBATES IN THE SENATE.
SATURDAY, January q, 1872.