New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-27
honor to submit my report to your hon.
orable body.
am, with respect. your obedient servant,
j. PINCKNEY SMITH, .

Mr.. McMillen offered, as substitute, that
the report be referred to the special COM
mttee appointed last session.
Mr.. Lewis moved to table the substitute,
which the Senate refused, on division, by
q vote of thirteen yeas to fourteen nays.
On call of the yeas and nays, the substl-
tute of Mr.. McMillen was adopted by the
following vote
Yeas-Anderson, Barber, Butler: Gallup,
Harris, Hunsaker, Kelso, Lynch McMlnem'
holland, Raglan, Swords, Thomas, Twltehel'
Whitney-l5.
Nays-Antoine, Blackman, Bowman
COPELAND. Herwig, !ngrahams Lewis
| OHara. Ray, Smith, Sypher, Ihompson'
| Todd, Wilcox-'4.
Mr.. Hunsaker moved to fill the vacancy
in the committee by the appointing mt OF MIR
| Blackman.
Adopted.
| MESSAGE TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary asked the concurrence OF
the House in Senate bill No. 277, to be en-
titled an act to amend an act entitled IAN
act to incorporate the City Of Carrollton."
| approved March II, 1859, and acts supple
mentary thereto.
| NOTICES OF JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
| BY Mr.. Barber
Of joint resolution requesting Congress
to pass Senator Summers supplemental
civil rights bill.
By Mr.. Lewis:
OF Joint resolution granting to Ferdl-
nando Luchini, for ten years, the privilege
of building a wharf and establishing
steamboat landing at Grand Ecore, on Red
river, in this State, and providing for the
amount of wharfage fees to be collected
from steamboats, landing at said wharf.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Ray:
| Resolred, That the Governor be requested
| to furnish the Senate with a detailed &C
| count of the items of expenditure of the
| fund appropriated by act No. ~, of 1871,
| being items "fOr the arming, equipment and
unfOrming of the State militia, $1,000, and
for expenses of the State militia in case of
necessity. $4,000, to be paid out under d.
rection of the Governor Of the State
! Laid over.
By Mr.. Ingraham:
Resolred, That a committee of three
members of the Senate be appointed by the
President of the Senate, for the purpose of
| investigating the action of the board of
| liquidators constituted under the second
section of act No. So of the extra session of
1870, and of the first section of the act
amendatory thereto, No. 43, Of 1861, and
particularly to ascertain whether said board
of Iiguidators under said acts paid any
claims against the State not authorized by
| said acts or which had not been sanctioned
by law, or the payment of which were pro-
hibited by the constitution, and to ascer-
tain to whom any such claims have been
paid, and who was the owner of the claim
at the time OF payment, and any other IN
| formation which may be serviceable to the
State; and that said committee be and are
hereby authorized to send for any and all
vouchers, books, papers or other evidence
| necessary for their investigation. and for all
| persons and witnesses they may deem nee.
essary, and to report by bill or otherwise.
Laid over.
NOTICES OF BILLS.
BY Mr. McMillen:
OF a bill to be entitled an act to define and
punish bribery.
By Mr. McMillen:
OF bill to be entitled an act to grant to
S. NJ. S. Barlow and Samuel Simpson, their
associates, successors and assigns, an exclu-
sive right to lay cables for purposes of tele-
graphing from this State to one or more
places on the European continent or to
Great Britain.
By Mr.. Ray:
OF bills to be entitled as follows:
A bill to pay off and fund the floating
deb. of the State.
bill recognizing the public schools of
the State.
A bill to punish bribery.
A bill charter,ng the Monroe, Bastrop and
Arkansas Railroad Company.
A bill chartering the Munroe Bridge Com
pany.
A bill to repeal act No. 93 entitled an
act to reimburse certain taxes illegally i'm
posed and collected under act No. So, of
1865.
A bill to amend and re-enact section 629
of the Revised Statutes, relativeto the com
munity of acquests and gains.
bill relative to services of subpe-
mas, interrogations, motions and interlocu-
tory ORDERS etc.
By Mr.. Ingraham:
OF a bill to be entitled an act for the
relief of Francis C. Mahan.
By Mr.. Kelso:
Of a bill to be entitled an act to repeal
act No. II, to create the parish of Yer
non, approved March 30, 1871
BY Mr.. Raglan:
Of bill to be entitled an act to allow
the parishes of st. James and East Baton
Rouge to retire their floating indebtedness,
and to issue bonds therefor.
BY Mr.. Twitchell:
OF bill to be entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section two of an act entitled
Gan act to form new parish, to be called
the parish of Red River" approved March
9, 1871.
BY Mr.. Hunsaker:
OF bill to be entitled an act to repeal
act No. 81 of the session of 1871, entitled
AN act creating commission to locate
the site for State House, in the city of
New Orleans. to purchase the necessary
grounds therefor, and making an appropria-
ton to pay for such grounds and to build
State House and other buildings necessary
for State purposes, and improving the same"
BY Mr.. Hunsaker:
Of bill to be entitled an act to promote
the cultivation of the ramie plant, and for
other purposes.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bills were introduced ac
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