New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-17
THE LEGISLATURE YESTERDAY.

| 1hh LEG1SLATURE YESTERDAY
Senate.
| On motion of Mr.. Butler, Senate bill NJ
327, an act to authorize the police jury q
the parish of Plaquemines to issue bond
and to provide for the redemption thereof
was taken up and finally passed.
Mr.. Ingraham gave notice that he woul
introduce at future day an act to amen
the law.establishing Board oflMetropolita
Police, so as to give the board authority t,
reOrganize and reduce the force of tn
same. 1t was read twice and referred t
the Metropolitan Police Committee.
Mr.. Wharton asked for suspension Q
the rules, in order to take up and conside
at that time, the supplemental funding bill
recently introduced by him. The Senat
refused to suspend the rules, and the bill
still in It's incipient state.
Mr. Whitney called up an act to defn
the duties and fix the pay of sheriffs, clerk
of courts and other parish officers in all tn
parishes of the State except the parish o
Orleans. The bill was read twice and re
A resolution presented by Mr.. Brewster
passed the Senate requiring that body t
meet during the balance of the session a
ii A. M.
Mr.. Barber called up House bill No. Sc
an act to regulate the private markets o
New Orleans, and moved that it be placed
upon it's second reading.
Mr.. Wharton asked for reading Of tn
bill in full.
The bill was read.
Mr.. Brewster asked for the reading o
the minority report, which is unfsvorabl'
to the passage of the bill and is signed BY
Isaac Fl. Crawford, member of the Judi
ciary Committee. The majority report wal
favorable to the passage of the bill.
The Secretary twas reading the minority
report when Mr.. Harris moved to dispense
with its further reading. The Senate sus
tanned this motion by vote Of % yeas tt
10 nays.
Mr.. Brewster then moved to lay the whole
subject matter upon the table. The Sen
ate refused to do this by the very decisive
vote % nays to 8 yeas.
On motion of Mr.. Harris the bill then
passed its second reading, and was made
the special order of the day for Wednesday
next, Immediately after the reading Of the
journal.
Mr.. Weber made several attempts to
obtain the floor for the purpose of opposing
the bill, and each time was declared out OF
order. The object seemed to be to cut off all
discussion until next Wednesday, when a
free discussion of the bill will doubtless be
had.
Mr.. Weber called up the bill making
the fourth of Masch holiday. The bill was
read q second time.
Mr.. Brewster wanted it amended so as
not to include towns with less population
than five thousand. He was willing to
make it holiday in New Orleans where the
fire department was large and the popula.
ton took great interest in the day, but he
did not zee the necessity or propriety Of
making it holiday all over the State.
Mr.. Bovee said the committee to which
the bills had been referred, reported un-
favorably upon it because they could not
see the propriety of making the fourth of
March day of rest, except in the city of
New Orleans. Since the report had been
made he had been waited upon by large
number of fremen and others who had
manifested an earnest interest in the pas
sage Of the act: and for that reason he
would vote for it.
The Senate refused to adopt Mr.. Brews-
ter's amendment, and then, under q suspen-
sion of the rules, finally passed the bill.
Mr.. Burch made an earnest effort to have
the report of the Committee on Peniten-
tiary taken up and considered. He said
there had been much clamOring in the past
upon the part of members of the Senate to
have the Committee on Penitentary make
a report and now that the work had been
done in full and submitted to the Senate
for it's action, he was surprised to ind
disposition on the part of the Senate to
shirk the consideration of the same. He
said the report of the committee had been
made the special order of the day for to.
day, and he would move to take it up.
This was not his first attempt to have the
report acted upon by the Senate, and he
would therefore press his motion to take up
the special order of the day.
A vote of the Senate refused to adopt Mr..
Burch's motion.
Mr.. Anderson called up House bill No.
a3s, an act making an appropriation for the
payment of mileage, per diem and contln-
gent expenses due for the extra session OF
1872. the sessions of 1873 and 1874.
On motion of Mr.. Stamps this bill was
as to strike out that portion which
makes legislative warrants receivable for
axes and licenses.
Under a suspension of the rules tho bill
hen finally passed the Senate.
Mr.. Butler made an effort to call up House
bill No. 4S, an act for the relief Of w. b.
Phillips, but failed to get it before The
senate.
The Senate then adjourned until Wednes-
lay (to-morrow) at II A. M.
House.
Mr.. Davidson, of Livingston, rising to a
privileged question, called tie attention OF
he House to the fact that an act OF Con-
,ress had donated to the State of Louisiana
ertain lands for an agricultural college,
nd that the time for the acceptance OF the
rant had nearly expired. He desired that
he Committee on Public Education should
eport bill Immediately to carry out the
onditions of the grant.
On the call for reports of committees Mr..
Iathews objected to any suspension OF the
ules for the passage of any bills; that all
eported by the committees should 60 on
he calendar,