New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-15

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! P. E. BECHTEL.
Secretary of the Senate,
! House OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Thirsy-lirst Days PROCEEDINGS.
House. OF REPRESENTATIVES,. 3,
New Orleans, February a. 1874.
The House met pursuant to adjournment
Speaker Charles w. Lowell in the chair.
On call of the roll the following members
answered to their names:
Speaker Lowell and Messre. Antoine
! Bryant, Boyd, Boatner, Butler, Carey, Carr
Cockerham, Demas, Davidson, Desarzant,
Decker, Devezin, Dejoie, Devices, Estilette,
Elliot, Fernandez, Fontelieu, Greene, Grant,
Gair, Guichard. Harris, Heffner, Humble,
Hubeau, Hill, Hahn, Heath, P. Jones, M.
V. o. King, Lewis, Langles, Lawes. Lam
dry, Little, Marvin, Moreland, Mahoney,
| Mayo, Marie, Mathews, Montaldo, Nichols,
Norris, Price. Peyton, Page, Prescott, Paris,
Raby, Rodrigues, Souer, Sawyer, Stewart,
Sartain, Snaer. Simms, Southland, Smith,
Sewell, Sutton, Smart, Thomas, Tureaud,
Thompson, Williams, j. P. Wilson, d. Will
son, Worthy. Ward. Wands. Washing.
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| Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Merrett.
/ On motion of Mr.. Hill, of Ouachita, the
| reading of the journal in detail was dis.
pensed with.
On motion, the journal of the twenty.
ninth days proceedings was approved.
The Speaker announced the following
| members to fill vacancies on the Committee
on Apportionment, viz: James S. Mathews,
of Tensas; John Gair, of East Feliciana.
On motion of Mr.. Hahn, of St. Charles,
the documents accompanying the Cover.
nors messages, which appear in the jour.
nal of the thirtieth days proceedings, were
ordered printed in pamphlet form, together
with the messages.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
Mr.. Hahn, of st. Charles, presented the
following memorial, from graduates and
ex.cadets of the Louisiana State Univer.
sity. which was referred to the Committee
on Education:
To the Honorable the Senate and House Of Repre-.
sentatves of the State OF Louisiana. in Gen.
eral Assembly convened
Your memorialists, the undersigned, gradu-
dltS anu tA-CduCtS VI UuC AOulsldud SUdIc
University, have learned that in the effort
which is now being made to concentrate
all the resources OF Louisiana for higher
education into one institution, and more
especially in the proposition to unite the
State University at Baton Rouge with the
Agricultural and Mechanical College, there
is probability that our cherished institu.
ton will be absorbed into the Agricul.
tural and Mechanical College, and
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do, therefore, not merely for ourselves.
but for the hundreds of our fellow excadets
throughout Louisiana and the Southwest,
beg leave to petition your honorable body
to preserve, as far as may be cOmpatibles
with the public interest, the organization
and name of our Alma Mater. To destroy
its identity is to destroy in a great measure
the work Of education in Louisiana for
many years past, and to those Of us who
know best the great good which the State
University has done Louisiana, and the
very serious disadvantages under which it
has existed, it would be a source of deep
regret to know that our dear old school was
no longer in existence. The trials through
which it has passed have only endeared it
the more to US.
We would not wish to be understood as
being in any way opposed to what we re-
gard as wise and effective movement
the unity of all Louisianas resources Tor
higher education into one university.
We would also express it as our cohvic.
ton that the State University and the Agri.
cultural and Mechanical College had bet
ter be united and permanently located at
Baton Rouge. We only ask that in the very
laudabie and wise effort of the Legislature
to give more efficiency to the higher institu.
tions of learning in Louisiana, that our
Alma Mater be preserved and our feelings
and affections not done the violence which
would naturally result from our being cut
Oft from all personal identity with the grow.
ing educational movement Of our beloved
State.
We beg you not TO snap the cord that now
binds us SO firmly in sympathy with our
native State.
Your petitioners would, therefore, re.
specially ask that the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College be attached to and become
a part of the Louisiana State University.
New Orleans, February 5, 1874.