New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-21
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, FRBRUARY a. 1875
for the disbursement of the amount appro.

for the disbursement of the amount appro
priated.
And report the following amendment
and recommend it's passage ss amended:
Strike ont section two and insert the fol
lowing as substitute:
SEC: 2. Be it further enacted, etc, Tha
1t shall be the duty of the Committee OF
Auditing and Supervising the Expenses O
the Senate and the Committee on Contin
gent Expenses of the House of Representa-
tives to issue, when demanded, and upor
presentation of the proper evidence, a Ger
tifcate certifying the amount due to eacl
member of their respective houses for hi
mileage and per diem, and to each Of tn.
officers and employees of their respective
houses his salary, which certificate
thus issued shall be approved OF
siding 1offcer, and on the part of thu
House of Representatives by the Speaker
thereof; and the Auditor of Public Ac
counts shall and is hereby directed and 70
quired to issue his warrants for the amour,
OF said certificates on the Treasurer, anC
the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the
said warrants, and the Committee on Con
tlngent Expenses of the House and the
Committee on Auditing and Supervising
Accounts of the Senate shall issue no Ger
tifcate in excess Of the amount appropri
| ated by this act, and that no warrants
legislative vouchers, or other evidences OF
indebtedness issued prior to January |
1875, shall be paid out of the appropriation
made in this act.
| Strike out section three, and insert the
following as a substitute:
| SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC., Thai
the chairman of the Committee or
Contingent Expenses of the House
and the chairman of the Commit
| tee on Auditing and Supervising Ac-
counts of the Senate shall draw certificate
| in their own favor, approved by the presid
| ing officers Of each house, on the Auditor
| of Public Accounts, for the amount of the
| appropriation made in section one of this
act for contingent expenses, and the Audi
the respective chairmen shall indicate, and
| the chairmen Of said committees shall issue
certificate to each contingent creditor,
which shall be approved by the presiding
/ officers of Senate and House, and the said
chairmen will then pay such certificate out
Of the contingent funds in their hands; and
be it further enacted, that the. warrants
issued in accordance with section two of
this act are hereby made receivable for all
licenses due the State during the year 1875,
and the several tax collectors throughout
the State are hereby directed to receive the
same in settlement for licenses, and the
State Treasurer shall receive the said war
rants as cash in making settlement with tax
collectors.
Insert the following as section five:
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That
at the next session of the General Assembly
the Auditor Of Public Accounts shall pre-
sent to the said General Assembly de-
tailed, itemized account Of every warrant
issued by him for the mileage, per diem and
salary OF the officers of the present General
Assembly, and the Committee on Auditing
and Supervising the Accounts of the Sen
penses of the House, shall, at the next
session OF the General Assembly, present to
their respective houses a detailed, itemized
account of each and every voucher issued
by them respectively-the number, amount,
in whose favor drawn, and the person draw
ing said Wonderland that said itemized
accounts, after said presentation, shall be
compared with the books of the Auditor of
Public Accounts, and of said committees,
and reported back to both branches of the
General Assembly.
Also, original section five" to become
"sectiOn six"
The Chair declared the point not well
taken, in accordance with the rules Of the
Senate.
Mr.. Wharton moved that the report of
the committee of the whole, and the bill,
be referred to the appropriate standing
committee.
Mr.. Allan made the point Of order that
the motion Of Mr.. Wharton was out of
order. as the committee Of the whole su
perceded all other committees.
Tho previous question was moved, the
main question ordered on call of the yeas
and nays, by the following vote:
Yeas-Anderson, Allan, Blunt, Brewster,
Cage, Crozier, Greene, Harper, Herwig,
Kelso, Masicot, Sypher, Twitchell, Wharton,
Nays-Breaux, Burch, Chaibourn, Ola,
Landry, Pollard, Stamps, Weber, YOung-9.
Acknowledgements, Blackburn, Detiege,
Dumout, Eustis, George, Grover, Kelly,
Ogden, Robertson, Steven, White-l2.
The motion to refer the bill to its appro-
pirate committee and the report Of the COM
mittee of the whole was then adopted on
call Of the yeas and nays by the following
vote:
Yeas-Anderson, Allan, Breaux, Brew
ster, Cage, Crozier, Harper, Herwig, MASH
cot, Pollard: Sypher. Twitchell, Wharton,
Nays-Blunt, Burch, Chadbourn. ella,
Greene, Kelso, Landry, Stamps, Weber,
YOung-10.
Acknowledgements Blackburn, Detiege,
Dumont. Eustis, George, Grover. Kelly,
Ogden, Robertson, Steven, White-l2.
The bill and report were then referred to
the Committee on Finance.
On call of two Senators the Senate went
into executive session.
Executive session having been raised the
Senators answered to their names:
Present-Messrs. Anderson, Allan, Blunt,
Breaux, Brewster, Burch, Cage, Chadbourn,
Crozier, Detiege, Ola, Greene, Harper, Her
wig, Kelso, Landry, Masicot, Pollard,
Stamps, Sypher. Twitchell, Weber. Whar
ton, Whitney, Young-25.
Absent-Messrs. Alexander, Blackburn,
Dumont, Eustis, George, Grover, Kelly,
Ogden, Robertson, Steven, White-l1.
On motion of Mr.. Crozier, the Senate
voted to adjourn.
The President, in the chair. then an
nounced that the Senate stood adjourned
TO meet at twelve o'clock NJ, Saturday,
February 20.
p. E. BECHTEL,
Secretary of the Senate.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Thirfv.eiuhth DAVIS Proceedings.