New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-23

through its proper officers, be requested to
furnish its annual report within tive days
from date.
Lies over.
ACTION ON REPORTS or COMMITTEES LYING
OVER.
On motion Of Mr.. Cage. Senate bill No.
247, an act to fix the terms Of the district
courts in the Fifteenth Judicial District of
the State OF Louisiana. was taken up.
The bill was read the second time and
considered engrossed.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
! four tifths vote. the bill read the third
time, and the bill finally passed, the title to
stand.
! On motion Of Mr.. Crawford. Senate bill
| No, 23i, an act to amend and fe-enact Sec
| ton $50 Of the Revised Statutes of 1870. re-
ported favsrably January 20. was taken up.
The bill was read the SECOND time and
| considered engrossed.
Mr.. Barber moved to reconsider che vote
| by which the bin was considered engrossed.
On call Of the yeas and nays. the Senate
voted to reconsider the vote by the follow.
ing vote:
Yeas-Aiexander, Barber. Belden. Blunt.
| Boyee Butler, Burch, Brewster, Crawford.
Greene, E. F. Herwig Harper. kelso. Pol
lard, Twitchell, Weber-l6.
| Nays-Anderson, Blackburn. Chadbourp.
| Cage, Daigle, Harris. Ingraham. Stamps.
| Sypher. Thomas-l0.
On motion of Mr.. Barber the following
| amendment vas adopted: Strike out 1.-TWO
! years" and inser: five years."
! The bill was adopted as amended.
The bill was considered engrossed.
J The constitutional rule was suspended by
a four-ffths vote, the bil! read the third
time.
| The bill finally passed, the title 20 stand.
| On motion Of Mr.. Cage. the following re-
| port of the special committee appointed TO
! investigate the riot in the parish OF Terre-
bonnie was taken up and ordered to be
| printed in tho journal tomorrow:
New ORLEANS, January 20. 1874.
| to the Honorable President and Members ST the
I Your special committee appointed on the
/ fourteenth instant to investigate the re-
ported riot in the parish of Terrebonne,
respectfully submit the following as the re-
| suit Of three days careful investigation
| held in the parish:
The alleged disturbance in that parish
seems to have been one of the usual con-
sequences of great depression in business,
and financial panic. In many instances
the laboring class did not receive their
| wages punctually at the stipulated time of
| payment, while large and deserving
number received no pay at all. This natur-
| ally created great dissatisfaction among
| Il IL ial wit
amount of violent and unmeaning talk,
and caused distrust and serious apprehen-
| sion in the minds of employees. lmmedi-
| ately upon the discovery that some of the
| planters refused to pay, while others could
! not pay their employees, the property hold
| ers blindly undertook. through meeting
held by them, to control the price OF man
! ual labor, and discourage and discounte
! nance what the tilers OF the soil believed
| to be a Just right, and one upon which they
| had an undOubted right to insist.
While the property holders insisted upon
/ a lower rate of wages the laboring popHla-
! ton of that parish insisted upon the
! other hand, in receiving the same price
which formerly had been given them. Con-
| seauently a laborers' strike ensued. There.
| fore your committee is Of the opinion that
] in some instances blame and fault Is at
4 tached to both planters and laborers in
| greater OF less degree.
The natural Temperament. and inclination
Of both classes in the parish is on the side
! OF law and order.
I Your committee can not but condemn the
| conduct Of a few lawless characters from
| the adjoining parish of Lafourche. 1mme.
| dately upon the circulation of a report
| that difficulties were unprecedented in the
parish of Terrebonne, and without any
| sanction or warrant in law, and without
having been summoned as a posse by any
officer authorized SO to do, armed them
| selves with warlike weapons and proceeded
| to the parish of TerrebOnne, thus assuming
| and arrogating to themselves the exclusive
1 right of indicating attractions OF the law
| and enforcing civil process, when they were
| ignorant as to whether any competent judi
cial tribunal had issued process for the
| arrest of the alleged offenders or not. This
naturally aggravated matters and, strange
| to saw this lawless expedition was organ
| led planned and commanded by practi-
| toner of the law named GuiOn, sad CON-
| mentary upon the voluntary derilectlon
l OF citizen and lawyer, who, upon
| assuming the robes of a counselor, swore to
1 obey the constitution and laws enacted
| thereunder). No necessity under any con-
/ tingency or circumstances could in legal
/ contemplation Justify this revolutionary
| and reprehensible conduct of Guion and his
confederates and accomplces in theiI I'M
! lawful purpose.
The soil of this State and che ilves OF its
| people are entirely too sacred to need the
| protection OF armed mobs and marauders,
| and had this lawless band kept away there
| is every evidence before this committee
| sustaining the conclusion that nearly all
classes ia the parish OF Terrebonne would
have willingly and efectually co operated
with the sheriff in suppressing riot, tumuls
and violence, and in vindicating the honor
of the State in the parish, and III upholding
the majesty and supremacy of the law and
the sancsity Of life and property.
THOMAS A. CAGE.
J. L. BELDEN.
Mr.. Blunt called up the report OF the
Committee on Judiciary relative TO the
Governors withdrawing the veto message.
The report was adopted.
RESOLUTIONS LYING OVER.
On motion Of Mr.. Thomas the following
concurrent resolution was taken up:
Resolved, by the Senate of the State of
| Louisiana, the House cOncurring, That our
| Senators in Congress be instructed and our
Representatives requested to have an act
passed by Congress re-establi shing United
| States District Court in and for North
| Louisiana, and that the Governor be re-
| quested to forward each member IN Con-
I gress copy of this resolution.
! On motion Of Mr.. Thomas the resolution
was adopted.
| On motion Of Mr.. Anderson the following
! resolution was taken up and adopted:
Resolred, That the President of the Sen.
| ate be authorized to add the name of Sem
! ator Thomas to the Committee on Chari.
| table Institutions.
/! Mr.. Stamps moved 20 take up the uptin.