New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-24

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
E,orfv.6nh Days Session.

Thursday, February ~, lbiA }
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Presentation. =. Il. s.. Pinchback, Lieu
tenant Governor and President OF the sen
ate. and Messrs. Anderson, Antoine, baroei,
Blacklnan, Bowman, Butler, Campbell,
COPELAND, Daigle, Gallup. Harris, Herwig'
Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, Neiso, Lewis
S1ith. Swords, Sypher, Thomas, Thompson,
Todd, Twitchell, Whitney, Wilcox-32.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes OF the previous
davis session was dispensed with. for the
time being, they not having been received
from the State Printer.
Mr.. COPELAND moved that, inasmuch as
this was Washington's birthday, the Senate
do now adjourn until tomorrow at II NJ.
Which the Senate refused, on a call OF the
yeas and nays, by the following vote:
Yeas-Antoine, COupland, Herwig, Sy-
pher, Swords, Whitney-6.
Nays-Barber, Blackman, Daigle, Gallup,
Ingraham, Keiso, McMillen, O'Hara. Ray,
Thomas, Thompson, Todd, Twitchell, VIII
cOx-l4.
MORNING BusINEss-REPoRTs OF COMMIT
TEES.
Mr.. Gallup, from the Committee ON Rail
roads, reported favorably on Senate bill
No. 1873, to compel the New Orleans and
Carro]lton Railroad Company to lower the
present track Of their road to establish the
Grade of the road, and to authorize and
regulate certain judicial proceedings in re-
lation thereto.
COMMITTEE ON ENROLMENT,
February ~, 1917.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Enrolment and En-
grossment beg leave to report as duly en-
crossed Senate bill No. 3i8, an act to
amend an act entitled .'An act to incor-
porate the Pontchartrain Railroad Com
pany, ".approyed on the twentieth January,
1880. and the several acts ~amendatOry
thereof: also, to enable the said POntchar-
train Railroad Company to sell to Charles
Morgan, his heirs, successors and assigns,
that portion of said Pontchartrain railroad,
with its tracks, depots, appurtenances and
franchises, lying between GlrOd street and
Elysian Fields, and to authorize said
Charles Morgan to incorporate the same
with the road now. known as Morgan's Lou
isiana and Texas railroad, formerly known
as the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great
Western railroad, and for the purpose Tot
providing continuous and unbroken COM
municatiOn between the same by ferry
THOMAS II. holland,
Chairman.
COMMITTEE on ENROLMENT,
February ~, 1879.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Your Committee ON Enrolment and En-
grossment beg leave to report as uly en-
crossed Senate bill No. 3l3, an act to liquid
ate the indebtedness of the State TOD, o:
Nixon under his contract of March y, lobb.
JOHN r. GALLUP,
Acting Chairman.
NOTICES OF BILLS.
By Mr.. jerks:
OF a bill to be entitled an act to ALL
thorize the North Louisiana and Texas
Railroad Company to substitute stock OF
said company instead of second mortgage
in favor of the State, and to release the
said company from other liabilities to the
State.
BY Mr.. Thompson:
OF a bill to inco1 porate the John Cough
Temperance Society, st. Helena parish,
Louisiana.
BY Mr.. Twitchell:
OF a bill for the relief of H. C. Myers,
register United States land Office at
Natchitoches.
BY Mr.. Thomas:
OF a bill for the relief Of L. c. Rasp-
berry.
BY Mr.. Gallup:
Of a bill for the relief of the heirs of
John Lardlaw.
RODUCrIo OF BILLS ACCORDING TO
NnTJrE
By Mr.. McMiIlen:
A bill (No. 1866 to be entitled an act to
create the parish of Macon, defining the
boundaries thereof, and providing the
method Of filing the various offices of said
parish.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then Sis
pended by a four-tfths affirmative vote, the
bill put on it's second reading, and referred
to the Committee or Corporations and
P~arochial Affairs. .
By Mr.. Todd:
A bill mo. 1877 to be entitled an act
amending an act re organizing the police
iuries of this State, prescribing the number
thereof and the mode of election, and fixing
GOelH uutIcS anu OhpChSbtA
Passed it's first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by a four-ffths affirmative vote, the
bill nut on it's second reading and referred
to the Committee on Judiciary.
By Mr.. Ray:
A bill mo. 1881 to be entitled and act for
for the relief of j. j. Monette.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by a four-ffths affirmative vote, the
bill put on its second reading.
By Mr.. Ingraham:
A bill mo. 1891 to be entitled an act to
incorporate the Dunn Monumental and
Tomb Association of Louisiana.
Passed it's first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by a four-itths affirmative vote, the
bill read it's second time, and considered en-
crossed for it's third reading.
The constitutional rule was further sus-
pended by a four-fifths affirmative vote,
the hill read it's third and last time, and
finally adopted with its title.
By Mr.. O'Hara:
A bill mo. 1901 to be entitled an act pro-
hibiting the sale Of spirituous and malt
liouors on the Sabbath, and providing pen
alties for the violation of the same.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by a four-tifths affirmative vote, the
bill put on its second reading, and consia-