New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-09
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aFFICIAl JOURNAL Of THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
OFFICIAL. JOURN AL
OF THE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
SECOND SESSION
OF THE
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF TIE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
SECOND SESSION
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Thirty.third Days Session.


Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, KelsO, Lewis,
Lynch, McMillen, holland, O'Hara: Raglan,
Raw, Smith, Swords, Sypher, Thomas,
Thompson, Todd, Twitchell, Wilcox-32
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes of the previous
days session was dispensed with.
Corrections made at suggestion Of Secre-
tary, and minutes adopted as corrected
The President announced the appointment
on behalf of the Senate Of the following
Senators as members of the joint committee
authorized by section 1913 of the Revised
Statutes, relative to Investigating the affairs
of certain banks:
Messrs. Harris Todd and Blackman.
MESSAGE TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary presented to the House for
its consideration Senate bill No 299, to be
entitled an act to change the name OF
Thomas Holloway Lewis to Thomas HOllo-
way Lewis Belden; and informed the House
that the Senate had concurred in House
bill No. ITO, for the relief of William Bendell;
also, with amendments in House bill No.
$50, to amend section seven of an act to pro-
vide revenue, etc., approved March 8,
lSl--act No. AZ, 1871, to authorize the levy
and collection of tax for the maintenance
and support of, the free public schools in the
city of New Orleans, ETC.; and presented to
the House the concurrent resolution pro-
yidirg for joint committee under article
I543 Revised Statutes; also Senate bill No.
a9l, to incorporate the town of Coushatta in
the parish Of Red River; and requested the
signature of the Speaker to enrolled bill
appropriating to Mrs. Ellen b. Dunn,
widow of the late Lieutenant Governor O.
J. Dursn, the balance of the salary that
would nave been due him, etc.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Attorney Generals Office.
New Orleans February :, 1872.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
senate:
have the honor to submit herewith my
annual report for the year 1871.
Respectfully,
s. BELDEN, Attorney General.
On motion of Mr.. Hunsaker, the report
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
BY Mr.. Ray:
A petition of 206 citizens of Richland and
adjoining parishes, praying for the crea-
ton of levee district west of the Bayou
Macon and east of the Ouachita river.
Laid over.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on
Judiciary, reported, without action, on
Senate joint resolution No. p, to be en-
"a 20, fba
tuition of the State of Louisiana.
Unfavorably on Senate bill No. 3l9, to be
entitled an act for the relief of the Female
Orphan Society, to cancel and annul all
taxes and tax assessments upon all the
property thereof, and to exempt the same
from taxation. Also, Senate bill No. 3O2,
to be entitled an act relative to continu-
ances in the trial Of criminal causes in the
courts of this State.
And also submitted the following report:
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY,
February :, 1872,
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate
The Committee on Judiciary direct me to
report back Senate bill No 2oO. entitled
AN act to appOrtion the State into Sena-
torial Districts" etc, and to state that, after
a careful examination of the constitution
of the State. they are of the opinion that
said bill is unconstitutional, III this that the
General Assembly, at its session in 1871.
passed, in accordance with article twenty
one OF the constitution, a bill to apportlOn
the State into Senatorial districts, etc.
Article thirty of the constitution provides:
After an enumeration has been made as
directed in the twentieth article, the Gen
eral Assembly shall not pass any law till
an apportionment of representatives in
both houses of the General Assembly be
made The committee are of the opinion
that the General Assembly are prohibited
by the constitution from passing any appor-
tiOnment bill until after the census of 1875
has been taken, in accordance with article
twenty Of the constitution. The cammittee
are of the opinion that the passage of this
bill would in effect declare that the Legis-
lature failed to pass any law on the subject,
as required by article thirty of the cOnsti-
tuition, and thereby declare all laws passed
at the session of 1871 and of the present
session null. They, therefore, recommend
that the bill do not pass.
OSCAR +. HUNSAKER, Chairman.
Mr.. Lynch, from the Committee on Fl:
nance, reported back without action Senate
bill No 293 to be entitled an act for the
relief of the officers and members of the
Metropolitan Police, and submitted the fol
lowing resolution:
Resosred, That the committees on Charita-
bic Institutions, Public Lands and Levees,
Pensions, Health and Quarantine, Election
and Registration, Printing, Public Educa-
ton, and Militie, are hereby directed to
furnish, at as early q day as possible, the
Finance Committee with estimates for APP
preparations necessary to meet the Opllga-
lions of the State the current year for the
different objects assigned to those commit
tees respectively.
The resolution was taken up by unani-
NOUS consent, and, on motion Of Mr.. Todd,
was adopted.
Mr.. Barber, On behalf of a majority of
the Committee on Militia, reported favor
ably on Senate bill No. 26S, to be entitled
an act to provide for the expenses Of the
State militia.
On request of Mr.. Daigle, further time
vas Granted him to submit a minority re-
port respecting said bill.
COMMITTEE on ENRoLLMEsT,}
February Z, 1872.
IT. Al, rr,,,,r.i,1a President and Members of the
Your Committee on Enrolment and En-
rrossment beg leave to report as duly en-
rolled and engrossed the following plils, 10
wit: A.,
Senate bill No. 3O4 appropriating to Mrs.
Ellen i. Dunn, widow of the late Lieuten
ant Governor Oscar j. Dunn, the Dalance
of the salary that would have been due INN
had he lived to the end of his term OF SER
vice.
Senate bill No. 29l, an act to incorporate
the town Of Coushatta, in the parish OF Red