New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-06

statement, showing the amounts issued IN
der acts Nos. 90 and Zoe OF 1870. relative
to elections, which your committee re-
spectively submit for your consideration,
and ask that the same be published, with
this report, communication and resolution,
in the journal Of the Senate.
Your committee took no stepe, nor made
any inquiry in regard to the illegality of
the issue of the warrants enumerated IN
the aforesaid statement. and called for in
the resolution, believing the same belong TO
the province of your Committee on Judi
ciary, and to which your Committee on FL
nance respectfully request that it be refer
red tos that committee to act upon.
p. =. HERWIG. Chairman;
THOMAS G. ANDERSON.
u. II. TWITCHELL.
G. Y. KELSO.
The statement above referred to viii be
| published in the journal o-Borrcv.-sEC-
| RETARI.i
Copy.
! FRANcF CuHsrThB,
December % 1872.
| To Hon. Ctar,ee Clinton. Auditor Of Public Ac-
| counts:
| SlR-Please furnish for the information
| of this committee, st your earliest conVe-
| nience, the date, TO whom issued, amounts,
| for what, and what purposes, and number
| OF warrants issued by the late Auditor OF
| the State in payment for alleged dues, al
/ legged to be incurred for registration and
election purposes, as well as under what
| Law and by whose authority these warrants
| were issued, that this committee may re-
port the facts in accordance with the in
closed copy OF resolution adopted BY the
| Senate
Respectfully your ohedient servant,
P +. HERWIG, Chairman.
SPECIAL ORDER OF HE DAY.
Mr.. lngraham moved that Senate bill No.
I02, bill entitled an act forbidding the
employ ment of special counsel, creating
the office of Assistant Attorney General,
| providing for the appointment OF such Off
Ger, fixing his compensation and regulating
his Duties and imposing certain duties upon
| the district attorneys and district attorneys
pro tempOre, do now finally pass.
Bill passed and the title was adopted.
Mr.. Anderson submitted the following re-
port, BY unanimous consent, as chairman OF
the Committee on Judiciary, on House bill
No. rs, a bill to be entitled an act for the
| relief of all purchasers of real estate sold
! at public auction to satisfy Judgments for
State, parish or municipal taxes, and 70
quiet such purchasers in their possession
and validate their titles thereto:
Reported favorably.
THOMAS'C ANDERSON,
Chairman.
| Mr. Kelso obtained unanimous consent,
and submitted the following report, as
chairman, from Committee Oh Corporations
and parochial Affairs:
CoNn1T-Es or PAaoeE!AL AyrAIn,
March ;, 1873. J
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Corporations and Pa
fochial Affairs, to whom was referred Sen
ate bill No. l29. an act entitled an act to in
corporate the town of Spearsville, in the
parish Of Union, beg leave to report tavora-
| bly,, with the following amendments: Strike
| out IN section three, line twenty one. after
| the word Jurisdiction" to the word ito in
line thirty four, section three, inclusive.
| In section four, lines eight and nine, strike
| out the words tax levied shall not exceed
| one dollar on the hundred and iQser: 1.-TWO
| mills Oh the dollar"
All Of which j. respectfully submitted,
GEORGE Y. KELSO,
! Chairman:
ALLEN GREENE,
WILLIAM HARPER.
Mr.. Biant obtained unanimous consent
to take up Senate bill No. 20, o bill to
be entitled an a:t for the relief 0! Theodule
M0nette.
Mr.. Blunt moved that the Ill, be con4id.
cred engrossed.
Mr.. Wharton moved that she hil. be in.
definitely postponed.
Mr. Chadbo moved to aRenu.
bIr. Blunt moved to table the amend
ment.
Mr.. Barber moved to lay the whole sub
ject matter on the table.
Adopted.
Mr.. Bovee moved to reconsider the vote
AR. Ingraham made the point of order
that the Senator from st. James did not
vote in the affirmative when the bill was
passed.
The Chair sustained the point Of order,
and declared the motion out of order.
MIR. Twitchell obtained unanimous CON-
sent to take up Senate bill No 90, a bill to
be entitled an act to amend and re-snsct
section seven Of an sct entitled an oct to
form a new parish to be called the parish
of Red River.
The bill was considered engrossed.
The constitutional rule was suspended,
the bill read third time and finally adopt
ed with it's title.
Mr.. Ingraham, by unanimous consent,
called up Senate bill No. %. an
act to provide for a full and prompt
payment Of the members. officers and
employees Of the Metropolitan Police.
by authorizing the issuance of add.
tional warrants 10 make up losses which
may hereafter be sustained by members,
officers and employees. by reason of the de-
probation Of Metropolitan Police warrants;
to make such warrants SO TO be issued for
discount, receivable for taxes, by and
chargeable ipro rataj to the general co..
porations of the Metropolitan Police Dis
trict, and TO provide penalty for refusal
to receive the same, and to limit the power
of the Board Of Police Commissioner to
issue such additional warrants.
Mr.. Ingraham moved to concur in the
House anne ndm ent, as follows:
At the end of section four insert, "pto.
vIded that the allowance so issued in excess
of the regular salary OF the officers and
mt nj ers OF the police force shall not ex-
eeeo twenty per cent OF such salary due
The ane 1T Eent was CONQUERED iu.
Mr.. Weber submitted. by unanimous con
sent, a petition of Mr.. George Swaize, claim
ing a seat from the twelfth senatorial dis
trict.
The petition WA received. and read as
follows:
New ORLEANS, March 4, 1879