New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-21
THE SENATE YESTERDAY.
Twelfth Days Sessions

| Twelfth Day's Session.
SENATE CHAMBER,s
New Orleans January 3D. 1874.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment,
and was called to order by Hon. G. G. An
tome, Lieutenant Governor of the State
and President of the Senate.
On call of the roll the following Senators
answered to their names:
| Messrs Anderson. Alexander, Black burn
Barber, Belden. Blunt, Burch, Brewster
| Chadbourn, Crawford. Daigle. Greene, Z.
| +. Herwig. Harris, Harper, Ingraham, helsO,
Masicot. Pollard. Rey. Stamps. Twitchell,
Weber, "'hitney--2i.
! The presden: announced a quorum
present.
Prayer by the chaplain. u
The reading of the journal of yesterdays
! proceedings was dispensed with, and the
journal adopted.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
| Mr.. Barber. chairman of the special Com.
! mittee on Unfinished Business, submitted
the following verbal repor. on Senate bill
| No. 81. an act fixing the fees OF clerks of
| district courts:
|
| Committee on Corporations and Parochial
| Affairs.
Also, on House bill No. IS. bill for the
relief OF William B. Philips:
! Recommend the bill be referred to the
! Cctnmitte on Claims.
/ Bv Mr., Anderson. chairman Of the Com
mittee on judiciary:
| On Senate bill No. 23i. an act to amend
and re-enact section 9oc Of the Revised
Statutes Of 1870.
| Repart fayorabiv.
| On Senate bill No. 2i7. an &C. to fix the
terms OF the district courts in the fifteenth
Judic;a! District of the State Of Louisiana.
Report favorablv.
| Com;i.E1E2 %: ENROLMENT AND ENDORSEMENT,
; New Orleans. January 20. 1874.
| To the Honorable pIesiden. and Members of the
| Your Committee ON Enrolment and En-.
gressment beg leave to report as duly en-
crossed:
Senate bill No. 1877 an act to amend an
act entitled an act to amend article Gil of
! the Code OF Practice. approved April %,
| 1872.
| Senate Joint resolution No. 81. relative to
! the one hundredth anniversary of the indie
pendence of the United States in the city Of
| Philadelphia in 1876.
Senate bill No. 202, an act for the relief of
delinquent tax payers in the parish OF
| Caddo.
Senate bill No. 205, All act to incorporate
! the Hope Hook and Ladder Company No.
| |. of Franklin. parish OF st. Mary, and to
| provide for the organization and govern.
ment of the same.
JAMES II. 1NGRAHAM,
| Chairman.
By Mr.. Green, chairman OF Committee
on Retrenchmen. and Reform:
Senate bill No. 70, bill to be entitled an
act closing drinking houses of public resort
! malt liquors on Sundays.
| Reported without action.
! Lies over.
| NOTICES Or BILLS.
By Mr.. Chadbourn:
! An &C. to amend and re-enact sections
IT'S and ll.c of the Revised Statutes.
Also. an act requiring parents and guar.
| dams Of children to give them an opportu-
nifty Of education in public or private
| schools.
By Mr.. Harper:
An act to incorporate the Workingmen's
| Accommodation Bank.
| Also. an act to make Metropolitan checks,
issued by the Metropolitan Board of Police,
receivable for all city taxes due previous to
| the year 1874.
| By Mr.. Weber:
An act to provide for the recording Of
| maps or plots in all sales or transfers of
| lands within this State, not surveyed into
| townships. sections and the subdivisions of
! sections III accordance with the regular
| United States system: Of public land sur.
yeys.
BY Mr.. Brewster:
Of bill for the relief of the New Orleans
Times ana Picayunc.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
| Mr.. Harris. by unanimous consent, intro.
| ducei a bill to be entitled an act to provide
| for the greater security of the public in the
making and issue Of promissory notes secur.
ed by mortgage.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended
| by four-ifths vote. the bill read the
second time and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary.
Mr.. Weber, by unanimous consent, intro
duced bill to be entitled an act to provide
for the recording of maps or plots in all
| sales or transfers of lands within this State
| not surveyed into townships, sections and
| subdivisions of sections, in accordance with
the regular United States system of public
| land surveys.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was Suspended
by a four-ffths vote. the bill read the Sec
| ond time and referred to the Committee
| on Lands and Levees.
! Mr.. Blunt, by unanimous consent, intro