New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-29
SENATE.
Eixbteenth Days Sessions


President of the Senate.
On call of the roll the following Senators
answered TO their names:
Messrs. Anderson, Alexander Barber
Belden, Blackburn, Blunt Bovee, Butler
Burch. Brewster, Cage, Chadbourn, Craw
ford Daigie, Greene, f. +. Herwig, Harper
Ingraham, Pollard Rey, Swaizie, Sypher
Stamps, Twitchell, Weber, Wharton, Whit
ney-N
The President announced quorum pres
ent.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The reading of the journal of yesterdays
proceedings was dispensed WITH and the
journal corrected and adopted.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.
HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES, I
New Orleans, La, January 81. 1874.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
am directed by the House TO inform
your honorable body that the House has
concurred ia the following Senate bills, VIZ:
Senate bill No. "a, entitled an act TO
amend and re-enact sections two and three
of an act to incorporate the Louisiana
Workingmen's Association, approved April
%, 1872.
Also, Senate bill No. 5, entitled an act for
the relief of Francis Noel, Of the parish OF
Orleans.
Very respectfully, etc,
JOHN w. ROXBOROUGH,
Assistant Clerk.
Mr. Burch moved to reconsider the vote
by which the following motion was adopted
yesterday:
That the action of the Senate on Friday
last in taking up House bill No. -. known
as the funding bill, from the Committee on
Finance, was not intended to reflect dis
credit upon the chairman of the committee,
or in any manner accuse him of neglect of
duty or opposition to the reform measures
contained in said bill
Mr.. Wharton moved that the motion to
reconsider be laid on the table.
On call of the yeas and nays the motion
to reconsider was laid on the table by the
the following vote:
Yeas-Alexander Blackburn, Blunt, But
Ter, Bovee, Brewster, Crawford, Daigle,
Greene, f. +. Herwig, Harper, Keso, Pol
lard, Sypher. Swaze, Thomas, Wharton,
Weber, Whitney-I9.
Nays-Barber, Bclden, Burclf, Chadbourn,
Harris, Ingraham, Mascot, Rey, Stamps-9.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS
Mr.. Wharton presented a memorial of
Amelia Richard, wife of Victor Laurent, of
the parish of Iberville, asking for REIN
bursement for property purchased at tax
sale, the title of which was set aside by
decree of the Fifth Judicial District Court.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Mr. Anderson, chairman of the Commit
tee on Judiciary, submitted the following
report:
Senate bill No. 279, entitled an act appro-
priatlng to Mrs. Alice A. Crawford, widow Of
the late Judge r. s. Crawford, and to Mrs.
S. +. Harris, widow of the late District At
tOrney A. H. Harris, the balance of the sal
AIRY that would have been due each of them
had they lived to the end of their term OF
service
Favorably.
Senate bill No. 26i. entitled an act rela-
tive to Attorney General, district attorneys
and district attorneys pro tempore, swearing
witnesses and compelling their attendance.
Bv substitute.
Mr.. Bovee, chairman of the Committee
on Charitable Institutions, reported favora-
bly, upon the following:
Resolred, That the Committee on Char
at an early day to visit the Insane Asylum
at jackson, to examine the books and rec
Ords thereof relating thereto in the Office OF
the State Treasurer or elsewhere, and gen
eral management of said asylum. with
power to send for papers and persons, and
report to this body the result of their in
vestigation by bill or otherwise.
Mr.. Butler, chairman of the Committee on
Claims, submitted the following:
COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS
New Orleans January "a 1874
To the Honorable President and Members of the ]
Senate: 7
Your Committee on Claims, to which was
referred Senate bill No. 255, respectfully I
report unfayorablv on the same.
E. BUTLER. Chairman.
Mr.. Brewster chairman of the Committee :
on Education, submitted the following;
COMMITTEE ON EprCAT1oN
New Orleans January II, 1874. : |
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Education have the
honor to report that they have had under
Senate bill No. 259. and beg
leave to report in favor of its passage, with
the following amendments: Strike ont all
of section one after the word five, in line
twenty-five, and insert mot to exceed
twenty-five dollars Also, to strike out all
of section two, and insert:
BE il further enacted. etc, That all acts
and parts of acts in conflict with this act
be and the same are hereby repealed, and
that this act shall take effect from and after
January |. 1873.
Respectfully,
q. IL. BREWSTER, Chairman. !
NOTICES OF BILLS.
BY Mr.. Weber:
OF an act for the relief Of John Hancock. 1
BY Mr.. Wharton:
OF an act 10 amend an act entitled an act !
to establish an insane asylum and to regu- 4
late the same approved March ID, 1853,
OF JOINT resolution proposing to strike !
put article l3a of the constitution of the
State of Louisiana.
OF an act for the relief of Mrs. Amelia l
Richard, of the parish of Iberviile. L
Of an act TO amend and re enact section I
l79 Of Rays Revised Statutes.
BY Mr.. Crawford
An act to change the venue in certain
criminal prosecutions now pending in the d
twelfth District Court, parish of Franklin {
BY Mr.. Bovee: c
That on to morrow he will move to change
ule forty-three, increasing the Committee
n Charitable Institutions from five to seven
,embers. ,
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS,
BY Mr.. Crawford: t
An act to amend and re-enact article 23l5
the Civil Code OF the State OF Louisiana.
BY Mr.. Weber:
An net IN amend article 3O42 of the Civil | i,