New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

: The section was then adopted as amend
ed, to be section fifteen.
Section fourteen was then adopted as
section sixteen.
Section fifteen was then read and adopted
as section seventeen.
Section sixteen was then read and adopt
ed as section eighteen.
On motion, it was ordered that the Sec
rotary commence with section seventeen OF
the printed BILL and read through the entire
bill.
The bill having been read through, Sec
ton forty-one was amended by striking out
the words ''and Jefferson in lines four and
five.
Section fifteen, which had been adopted
as section seventeen, was then, on motion
of Mr.. McMillen, stricken out
The following additional section, pre-
viously offered by Mr.. Campbell as section
three was then taken under consideration:
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, ETC..
That in such canvass and compilation the
returning officers shall observe the follow
ing order: They shall compile first the
statements from all polls or voting places at
which there shall have been fair, free and
peaceable registration and election. When
ever, from any poll or voting place, there
shall be received the statement of any SUI
| pervisor of registration or commissioner OF
| election, in form as required by section -
| Of this act, of any riot, tumult, acts of VIC
| lence, intimidation or armed disturbance,
| which prevented or tended to prevent a fair
| and free and peaceable vote of all qualified
| electors entitled to vote at such polls or
voting places, such returning officers shall
not canvass, count or compile the statement
of votes from such poll or voting place I'M
| til the statement from all other polls or vot-
| ing places shall have been canvassed and
| compiled. The returning officers shall then
| proceed to investigate the statements of
| riot tumult, acts OF violence, intimidation
! or armed disturbance at any such poll or
voting place; and if, from the evidence of
such statement, they shall be convinced
that such riot tnmult, acts of violence, in
| timidation or armed disturbance did not
| materially interfere with the purity and
! freedom of the election at such poll OF
voting place, or did not prevent sufficient
number Of qualified voters thereat from
| registering or voting to materially change
| the result of the election, then, and not
| otherwise, said returning officers shall can
vass and compile the vote of such poll or
| voting place with the previously canvassed
and compiled but if said returning Off
GERS shall not be fully satisfied thereof
it shall then be their duty to forth
with send all the papers, statements
| and affiadavits to the -, which court
shall summarily try and examine the ques
ton, and send for witnesses, as in any other
causes and all such causes shall have pref
erence over all other causes on the docket
of said court If on such trial the court
| shall find that the riot, tumult, acts of VIC
4 ,ct,, ,ha rod Il
| occur, and that such number of the legal
voters entitled to be registered and vote at
such poll or voting place were deferred
| from registering or voting at such election
| SO as there was not a fair and full expires
sion of the will of the legal voters secured
at such election, the court may order the
| returning officers not to canvass or compile
the statement of the votes of such poll OIL
voting place, and upon such order and judg
ment the returning officers shall not SO can
vass or compile such votes, but shall exclude
| them from the returns.
Mr.. Smith moved that the Senate take a
which the Senate refused.
On motion of Mr. Campbell, the blank il
the foregoing section was filed by inserting
the following words:
District court of the parish in which thu
| otfenses charged occur, or If in the parlsl
OF Orleans, to any district court.
Mr.. Hunsaker, by unanimous consent
called up Senate bill No. JAG, relative to thu
| New Orleans, Latourche and Terrebonn
Railroad Company, which was made tn
special order for tomorrow evening, atte
| the roll call
On motion Of Mr.. Harris, the Senate tool
| a recess until Z. VI.