New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-20

| &Ao COlloCC30n OF all C0xeo.
The bill was read the FIRST time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
. four-dfths vote. the bill read the second
time and referred to the Committee on
judiciary.
Mr.. Whitney, according to previous
notice, introduced Senate bill No. q, to be
entitled an act to relieve the delinquent
taxpayers from the payment of penalties in
certain cases.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
a four tifths vote, the bill was read the
second time and referred to tho Committee
on Finance.
Mr.. Anderson, according to previous
notice, introduced the following entitled
Senate bill, No. 49, to be entitled an act to
provide for melting the obligations assumed
by the State in accepting the donation from
the United States granted for the purpose
of establishing college in the interest of
agriculture and mechanical arts.
| The bill was read the first time.
| The constitutional rule was suspended by
. four-6fths vote, the bill was read the
second time and referred to the Committee
| on Education.
| Mr.. White, by unanimous consent, intro i;
duced Senate bill No. %, to be entitled an
act relative to drainage in the parishes of
Orleans aud Jefferson, and providing for
| contracts for such work. for the manage
nient Of the drainage tax and the payment of
the bonds issued and debts incurred for
| drainage.
| The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
a tour-fths vote, the bill was read the
second time and referred to the Committee
| on Canals and Drainage and Inland Nayi
| CATION.
! Mr.. Eustis made the following points of
! order, that legally there were no commit
| tees Of the Senate till appointed, and no
officers and employees legally acting till the
same are elected according to the rules as
| adopted by the Senate.
The President decided the point not we'll
| taken. as under the constitution and laws
| of the.State. and the rules of the Senate,
| officers and committees are required to
serve till their successors are elected and
qualified.
The Senate adopted the rules with the
| committees and officers acting from last ses-
sion.
Mr.. Grover introduced, by unanimous
| consent, Senate bill No. 80. entitled an act
to protect the rights and privileges of the
citizens and inhabitants of towns and cities,
and to prevent the obstruction and mis- use
Of public places by railroad companies, and
to provide penalties, etc.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
four, ffths vote, and the bill was read the
second time and referred to the Committee
on Railroads.
Mr.. Kelly moved to suspend the Senate
rules, to introduce bill of which previous
notice had not been given.
On call Of the yeas and nays, the Senate
voted TO suspend the rules by the following
vote:
Yeas - Alexander, Allan, Anderson,
Blackburn, Blunt, Breaux, Cage, Chad.
bourn, D-tiese, Eustis, George, Ola, Greene,
Grover Kelly, Kelso, Landry. Ogden, Pol
lard, Robertson, Stamps, Steven. Sypher,
Weber, Wharton, White, Whitney, Young
%
Nays-Burch, Harper.
Absent and not votiug-Brewster, Dn-
mont, Goode, Herwig, Mascot, Twitchell-6.
Senate bill No. 81 to be entitled an act
relative to security on appeals from .jadg-
ment, was then introduced by Mr.. Kelly.
The DILL was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by a
fouc.ffths vote, the bill was read the second
time and referred to the Committee on
judiciary.
MIR. Wharton moved that the Secretary be
directed to furnish the reporters of all news.
papers with copy of each bill as the same
is printed, when called for by said re.
porters.
Adopted by unanimous consent.
Special order of the day was called and
on motion postponed for five minutes.
BILLS FOR SECOND READING.
Mr.. Greene called up the following bill,
by unanimous consent, for second reading:
Senate bill No. ., bill to be entitled an
act providing for assessing and collecting
the taxes of the parish of Orleans, the city
of New Orleans; also for the parishes of the
State of Louisiana; and making the thirty
first day of March the end of the fiscal
year after the year 1876; providing penal
ties for failure of duty of officers, etc.
The bill was read a second time.
Mr.. Greene moved that the bill be referred
to the Committee on Retren chment and
Reform. Seconded.
Mr. Wharton made the point of order
that the rules required all bills to be re-
terred to their appropriate commit tees, and
that the appropriate committee was the
Finance Committee.
Mr.. Anderson, in the chair, sustained the
point of order. that it would require sus-
pension of the rules to refer to the Commit
tee on Retrenchment and Reform.
The bill was then referred to the Com. |
mittee on Finance,
The President in the chair
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
The special order of the day, as follows, |
was taken up:
STATE OF LOUISIANA |
Executive Department. , |
New Orleans, Aprll III, 1857 |
To the Honorable President and Membe rs of the |
Senave:
veto an act originating in the Senate,
entitled an act to legalize the indebted ness
and the Insane Asylum at Jackson. Tt seems
to ME extraordinary and unnecess ary to
pass an act to legalize legal debt. The
claims of the Charity HosDjtai and the |