New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-24
TEE SENATE YESTERDAY.
Fifteenth Days Sessions

answered to their names
! Messrs, Barber, Blackburn, Blunt, Butler,
| Burch, Bre wster, Cage, Harris. r T. Her
| wig. e. f. Herwig, Harper. 1Dgraham'
Keiso. Pollard. Sypher. Stamps, ywltchell.
| Weber, Wharton-19.
The President Of the Senate announced .
| quorum present.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes o: yesterdays
proceedings ~as dispensed with, and the
President announced that the journal stood
approved, the same having been corrected.
REPORTS 0P COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Anderson. chairman Of the Comm It.
tee on judiciary. reported favorably on the
following bills, viz:
House bill No Il, an act to fix the terms
of tt e Third Judicial District Court OF The
State of Louisiana.
Senate bill No. AZ, bill - be entitled an
act to provide for and regulate the clerical
force in the Auditors office, to fix their sal
| aries, and to provide for the manner and
conditions under which the chief clerk can
act as Auditor, and for other purposes.
Mr.. Sypher asked unanimous consent 70
take up House bill No. IA, reported fs
vorably.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
q four-tifths affirmative vote, and the bill
passed second reading.
Under further suspension Of the consti-
tutional rule, the bill passed a third reading,
and finally adopted with its title.
Mr.. Kelso. chairman of the Committee on
Corporations and Parochial Affairs, sub
mitted the following report on Senate bill
No g.:
To the Honorable President and Members % the
Senate:
Your Committee on Corporations, 20
whom wss referred Senate bill No. IS, an
act to amend and re-enact an act entitled
| an act to incorporate the Crescent City Gas
light Company, etc, beg leave 60 report
favorably, with the following amendments:
Ia line seven Of title. written bill, strike
out the vords "reduce their capital stock
and;' also. in lines tfteeB. sixteen, sever
| teen, eighteen. nineteen and twenty strike
out that said company are hereby author
| ICED 70 reduce the capital stock of said corpo-
ration 80 one million dollars, with privilege
| to increase the same to four millions of dol
| lars, the stock to b. divided into shares of
| one hundred dollars each" Also. in line
twenty seven, after the word president"
insers land vice president" and in line
twenty-sight, after the word "body." insert
! the word "anG:" ana in ths same line
strike out Che word "vice PRESIDENT and
! in line sixty one, after the word thereto"
insert provided shat nothing in thi. act
shall effect the charter heretofore granted
60 the Jefferson ity Gaslic lit Company"
Aud your committee further recommend
| mat the title be amended so as to strike ont
the words 'tH seduce ihsiy capital stock
and"
With Che above amendments We respect.
fully recommend the passage of the bill.
e. Z. KELSO, Chairman:
THOMAS c. ANDERSON,
ALLEN GREENE,
n. II TWIFCHELk
WILLIAM HARPER.
~ unanimous consent, tho bill and re.
port. with amendments submitted, were or
dered printed. and fixed as the special OF
dere3 for Monday. twenty seventh instant.
at p N.
The Committee Op Enrichment subuitcsi
the following:
EsssossxENr AYR sNRoiINnSr COMMITTEE
January 70, 1873 :
To The Honorable President: and Membess OF the
Senate:
Your Committee on Enrolment have the
honor to report as having been duly en-
gIo-sed:
EsSenate bill Nc. -, JOINT resolution ask.
ing Congress to give its material assistance
in the suppression Of slavery in the island
Of Cuba.
Respectfully.
J. HENRI BURCR,
Chairmano
mr. Brewster. chairman Of the Committee
! on Public Education. submitted the follow.
ing report on Senate joint resolution No. 6,
asking the Congress- of the United States to
pass an act appropriaiiug the proceeds of
all public lands hereafter sold toy support
OF free common schools.
Favorably, and recommend its Immediate
passage.
On motion of Mr.. Brewster, the constitu-
tional rule was suspended by a four fifths
affirmative vote, the resolution passed sec
ond reading, was considered engrossed, and,
under further suspension Of the constitu-
tional rule, passed third reading. and finally
adopted with its title.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS LYING OVER.
Mr.. Blackburn called up the following
joint resolution:
BE it resolved BY che Senate ana ffous.
Of Representatives of the State OF Louisiana
in Grn"ral Assembly convened, That the
sum of $1,000 be and the same is hereby
appropriated out OF any money in the State
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be
paid to A. P. Field, Attorney General, on
his own warrant, to pay for Office rooms for
1873, in which to transact the business of
the State.
The resolution was read the second time
in regular order, and referred to the Com
mittee on Finance.
Mr.. Burch called up the following Joint
resolution:
Creating joint special committee 10 be
known as the Committee on Apportion
ment, to report what NAV be necessary to
carry into effect ar ice twenty of the State
constitution relative to apportionment
The resolution was read a second time,
and on motion of Mr.. Burch, ordered to lie
on the table subject to call
RESOLUTIONS CALLED Up.
Mr.. Sypher called up the following reso-
luton:
WHEREAS, The New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas Railroad Company, corporation of
the State of Alabama, has received from
this State aid t. the extent Of - millions
of dollars; therefore be it
Resotued, That for the purpose OF pro
tectmg the interest of the State tho Com
mittee on Railroads and Internal Improve.
me"is of the Scn.:. b. a',. they are hereby
directed to investigate into the affairs of
SAID company. with e view 10 ascertain il
the said company complied with their char.
ter and obligations % the State. and Z, re-.
port tc this Senate the result o! their ;nve..
'igstion by bill. resolution or otherwise.
and Il. fully carry out she spirit and intent
OF thi. resolution. the committee be and