New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-03


repeal all laws in conflict with this act
House bill No. 81, an act to incorporate
the Union Benevolent Association, OF Jack
Gon, Louisiana
And House bill No 48, an act for the re
lief of William b. Philips.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN GAIR, Chairman.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
Senate bill No. 24l, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section thirty of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the Citizens
Bank of Louisiana, approved April l, 1888,
10 extend the charter of said bank, and to
authorize the extension of the State bonds
and interest warrants falling due after the
passage of this act
Mr.. Barrow, Of Orleans. moved to
POSTPONE further consideration Of the bill
Sntil tomorrow at three o'clock.
Carried.
The next special order was the general
appropriation bill.
Mr.. Gair Of East Feliciana, moved that
she House resolve itself into committee OF
the WHOLE
Lost.
Mr.. Ward, of Grant, moved to postpone
further consideration of the bill tor one
hour.
Carried.
Mr.. Devices, of Red River, chairman of
the Committee on Lands and Levees, re-
ported favorably on House bill No. $780, en-
titled an act to provide for the resuryey of
certain lands in the parish of East Baton
Rouge, and for other purposes.
Passed it's several readings under suspen.
sion of the constitutional rules, and finally
passed. title adopted, and ordered sent to
the Senate for concurrence.
Mr.. Gair, Of East Feliciana, moved to re-
consider the vote by which Senate bill No.
1913, an act to amend and re-enact section
six, and to repeal section ten of an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact An act
entitled act to establish a Metropolitan Po-
lice District, and to provide for the govern
ment thereof, approved March 8, 1869, and
TO authorize the Board of Metropolitan Po-
lice Commissioners to reduce the expendi-
lures, and to reorganize and reduce the Me-
tropolitan Police force, and also to reorgan-
ize the Board of Police Commissioners by
the Governor, was passed.
Mr. Demas, of st. John the Baptist,
moved to lay that motion on the table.
On which the yeas and nays were de-
manded by Messrs Gair, of East Feliciana,
and Dejoie OF Orleans, resulting as follows:
Yeas-Armstead, Bowman, Bryant, Boyd,
Baker, Blackstone, Bickham, Barrow, Carr,
Carey, Connaughton. Cousin, Demas, ID. G.
Davis, X. r. Davis, Decker, Deioie, Elliot,
Estilette, Fontelieu, Grant, Guichard, Hetf-
ner, Humble, Hill, nj. Jones, Heating, ID.
King, Keys, V. o. King, Lewis, Landry,
Lawes, Moreland, MurreIl of Lafourche,
Murrell of Madison, Mahoney, Mayo, Mar
tinet, Marie, Mathews, Montaldo, Nichols,
Norris, Price, Peyton, Page, Prescott, Raby,
Iochon, Souer, Simms, Southland. Smith,
Sutton, Sewell, Traban. Thomas, Tureaud,
Thompson, Williams, Washington, Wands.
Ward-64.
Nays-Dewees, Fernandez. Forstall, Gair,
Greene, Heath, 2. Jones, Kirkman, Kern,
Little, Marvin, Stewart, Sartain-l3.
The motion to lay on the table prevailed.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
.Mr. Harris, of Pointe Coupee, presented
petition from citizens of the parish of
gofnte Coupee, asking permission to rec
sneye their courthouse and jail, which was
sefeyred to the Committee Oh Parochial AT.
sairs.
Mr.. Southland, of Ouachita, presented the
following memorial, which was ordered
PRINTED in the Journal:
New ORLEANS. February 81. 1874.
Sot'e Honorable Senate and House of Representa-
S.ves of the State OF LOUISIANA an GeieeraS Az
semby convened:
Sour memoria,ist respectfully invites your
attention to the following remal ks of j. A
McWhOrter, ESD, superlnt endent OF the Lou
isiana Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
AZ published in the minutes of the House OF
Representatives Monday last February %
1874:
In an extract from the annual report, as
laid before the Senate, February Is, state
that sit 1.-THE University has been com
PEELED, in order to make it's temporary quar-
ters suitable for its necessary purposes, to
repair and improve this asylum deaf and
Dumb building at considerable cost
In reply to this Mr.. McWhorter says:
mot dollar has been expended by the
the University that has enhanced the value
Of the building for the purpose as designed
by the State; but the $4,000 claimed tC
have been expended on the building has
really injured it,
How much truth there may be in this as
sertion, let the following statements tell:
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, I
February %, 1874. !
The following is list of the alterations
made in the building Of the Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb by the authorities of this
university, sluCe INC VI INC dSt VI
1871 (No. SS), giving the use OF portion o.
that building to the University until other
wise provided for:
l. Clearing out the cellars of both wing:
for storage and servants rooms.
,. Removing one brick partition from eacf
wing and o cumbrous dumb waiter, which
was not in use, and the walls of which were
two feet thick. In each of these cases two
small chambersEere united into one vel
yroportioned recitation room.
3. Board partitions were put across somt
large upper rooms to increase their con
veuience as sleeping rooms.
4. Brick floors were removed from three
eooms, where their weight had caused som'
settling, and boards substituted.
.. A leakv tank IN the fifth story wa
Il repaired, and then removed. as II Still
leaked.
Z g. Above 500 was spent in repairing tn
4 roof, large amounts in withdrawing, clean
ing and repaintng the rooms, and the yar'
Il was graded for use during the commence
ment exercises,
WILLIAM NJ. VAN PELT.
BATON ROUGE. February "a. 1874.
4 slee. the undersigned. who have serve,
snon the board of trustees OF the Asylum
eSr the Deaf and Dumb, being asked t.
express our opinion as to whether tn,
alterations made in the asylum building b,
order of Colonel ID. +. Boyd were bon;
tide improvements in that building. would
i state that they were improvements, an(
that the building is better fitted for it
original purpose now than 1T was before thu
University occupied it.