New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-31
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL. JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
OF TIE
SECOND SESSION
OF THE
THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE
RTATfC OF LOUISIANA
Twentieth Days Session.

tome, Lieutenant Governor of the Stat
and President Of the Senate.
On call of the roll the following Senator
answered to their names:
Messrs. Anderson, Alexander, Barber
Belden, Blunt, BOvee, Bptler. Burch, Brews
ter, Cage. Cha0 bOurn, Daigle, Greene, L.
Herwig, Harris, Harper, Ingrahan, Pollard
Rey, Swaizie, Sypher, Thomas, Twitchell
Weber, Wharton, Whitney-26
The President announced quorum
present.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
The reading of the journal of yesterday
proceedings was dispensed with, and tn,
journal corrected and adopted.
The President submitted the following
communication:
STATR AUDITORS OppICR. /
New Orleans, La, January 26, 1874.
To the Honorable Members of the General As
senbly:
Under your recent legislation; supple
mented as have no doubt it will be, by a
judiciOus economy in your general appro-
priation bill, there is no reasonable doubt
that the financial affairs of the State will,
during the ensuing fiscal year, be conducted
on q cash basis. In view of this well
founded expectation as well as to further
90 desirable result, l would respectfully
call your attention TO the following impor-
tant matters and. ask your favorable con-
sideratiOn and action on them at an early
day.
|. Pensions to veterans of the war of
lSl4-l5, heretofore paid on a basis of
duplicated warrants, will involve this year,
If continued at the old rate $50 per month j,
q cash expenditure of more than $50, OOO
which is more than the State can now
I'd A 1or H.. -
have been added to the veteran list under
your act of last year, and the rate, to COR
respond with our means should be reduced
to 80 per month, payable semi-annually in
cash, this being the rate and manner of
payment adopted by the United States
government.
?. The compensation of registrars of cleo
tions and their clerks involves an expendi-
ture of more than $l00, 900 per annum. The
compensation of these officers should be
reduced from 81 and S. per day to SO SO per
day to registrars AMI So 80 per day to their
clerks. In many cases no clerks are neces-
sary, and the whole expense should be paid
by the parishes instead of the State.
8. Parish judges are exclusively parish
officers, and should be paid by the parishes
in which they exercise their functions
This would save the State an expense of
about $4,000. Perhaps 1t would be pro-
per, in order to make such law of equal
application throughout the State, to pro-
vide that district judges in the parish of
Orleans shall be paid by the said parish
A. For some time past the judges of the
Supreme Court have received extra COM
pensation on account of the depreciation of
warrants. The necessity Of this extra ex-
pense will no longer exist, and the law
should be changed so as to correspond with
the constitution and new state of affairs.
3. The law should also provide that no
person shall be entitled to have claims
against the State audited or paid, SO long
rs he owes the State for taxes, licenses, or
any other account. This will reach a con-
siderable class of persons who resist the law
and refuse to pay what they owe, and vet
are prompt to present and demand payment |
Of claims they may happen to have against
the State.
7. In all suits concerning taxes, licenses.
etc, tax collectors should be allowed to |
take appeal direct to the Supreme Court, |
whenever in session, without giving bond. |
They represent the interest of the State
only, and certainly the State should not re-
quire bond from its own representative in
such cases. This would Obviate DELAYS
which are often vexatious, and injurious to
the public interest
Z. Some measure should be adopted
which will do away with the enormous bills
OF costs in tax suits, now paid to clerks.
sheriffs, etc., without any adequate results.
The costs demanded in these cases in the
parish OF Orleans are greater than the whole
amount of taxes collected by the sheriff.
CHARLES CLINTON, Auditor.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.
HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES,, |
New Orleans January 20, 1874. ! |
TO the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
am directed by the House to inform
FOUR honorable body that they have con.
'urred in the following Senate bill, viz:
Senate bill No. III, entitled an act ceding
and conveying title to all State
ands required for the construction of the
proposed Fort st. Philip canal to the United
states.
Respectfully.
JOHN w. ROXBOROUGH.
Assistant Clerk.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Mr. Anderson, chairman of the Commit
30 on Judiciary, submitted the following
eport:
Senate bill No. 80, an act for the
reater security Of the public in the max
g and issue of promissory notes secured
y mortgage.
FavOrably, with the following amend
tents, to wit: On line fifteen strike out the
ords 1.-The same" and insert the word "a"
I'd add after the word ''fee" the words s'of
fty cents On line 81 xteen strike out the
ords las for certificate Of mortgage"
MIR. Iwitchell, chairman of the Commit
70 on Finance, submitted the following re.
,rt: s
D the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Finance. to whom
as referred Senate bill No. 235, introduced
senator whitney, having carefully ex- a
hined the same, beg leave to report ia i h'
'raoiy and recommend the passage Of the ~
me. u
NH. TwIrcHELL. p
Chairman. II
ny Mr. lngraham, chairman of the Com III
ttee on Enrolment and Engrossment: IN
the Honorable President and Members of the Ii
Senate " NJ
Your Committee on Enrolment and En-. Nj
osfmeut beg leave to report as dulv en- Pr
He'd the following bills, viz: Sa
Senate bill No. "a, entitled an act tn to-
lend and re-enact sections two and three III
an act entitled an act to incorporate the w
uisiana WOrkingmen's Homestead Asso-
tion, approved April %, 1872
Also. Senate bill No. 5, entitled an act for
relief of Francis Noel, of New Orleans.
Also, concurrent resolution relative TO re,
establishing of United States District ma
nrt in and for North louisiana
cry respectfully,
JAMES H. INGRAHAM. wa
Chairman
~ Mr.. Brewster chairman Committee no
Education: nm
the Honorable President and Members Of the a.
Senate "
our Committee on Education, to whom
referred joint resolution No. %, report nal
we nave mad the Same under consider ma