New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-17

Adopted.
that the Senate stood adjourned unit
Tuesday, February l6, at Twelve O'Clock n
/ p E. BECHTEL,
Secretary of the Senate.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
| Thirty fourth Days Proceedings.
| HousR OF REPRESENTATIVE,
| New OIlesns. February l6 1875.
The House met pursuant to adjournment
Speaker Hahn in the chair.
The roll was called and the followin
members answered to their names:
Speaker Hahn and Mesns Armstead, But
Ter, Baker, Carville. Crawford. Connaugt
ton, Cousin, Drury, Davidson. Devices, De
| Lacey, Dickinson, Demas, Guichard, Grant
Gracien, Hill of Ascension, Hill of Ouachita
Hubeau. HonOre, Jourdain. johnson o
Caddo. johnson Of De Soto. Jones OF Point
| COupee, Heating, Lane, Lowell, Levisee
| Mathews of Tensas, Martinez, Murrell
Milon, Marie, Parker, Pierson, PoinGextel
Piles, Randall, Raby, Ridgely, Richards
Rochon, Stewart, Sutton, Southland. Snaer
Sartain, Souer, Tyler, Triplet, Thomas
Wilson, Woods, Ward, Wright, Yorke-57
Fifty-seven members present and
quorum.
Prayer by Rev. DR.. Fulton.
The reading of the journal was dispensed
with and it was adopted.
The journal of Thursday, the eleventh
instant was adopted.
PETITIONS, MEMORIALS AND RESOLUTIONS
Mr.. Carville, of Iberville. presented peti
which was referred to the Committee OF
Pensions.
The Speaker announced the appointment
Of Messrs. Demas and Hunsaker as mem.
bers of the Committee on Charitable Insti.
tutions. and Mr.. Ray as a member of the
Committee on Penitentiary.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The following message was received:
SENATE CHAMBER
New Orleans, February l6, 1875.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House Ut Representatives,:
l am directed by the Senate to ask the
concurrence of your honorable body in the
following resolution, viz:
Relative to q donation made the State
of Louisiana to the New Orleans Mechanics
Society, rs provided IN act No. >" ap.
proved March q, 1850.
Very respectfully,
j. A. GREENE.
Assistant Secretary.
Mr.. Heating, of Caddo, in the chair.1
MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
The following veto message was receiv ed
and read:
STATE oP LOUISIANA
Executive Department,
New Orleans, February l6, 1875.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members Of the
House of Representatives,
l herewith return without my approval
to the House, in which it originated, an act
making an appropriation for the payment
OF the mileage and per diem of the men,
bers and salary of the officers and employees
and contingent expenses of the General AS
sembly of the State of Louisiana, for the
regular session Of the year 1875, and pre-
scribed the manner in which the same shall
be paid, and to authorize the negotiation of
loan for that pdrpOse by the pledge Of
State warrants. This act appropriates the
sum of SIS, 600 for the purposes indicated
in the title above quoted.
1t seems to me, from a careful com Duta-
ton OF the mileage and per diem due to the
members of the General Assembly, includ-
ing those who have not yet taken their
seats, that the necessary amount for this
purpose, and for all such clerks, etc, as are
by law, ought not to exceed
1000, even upon the most liberal esti-
mate, thus leaving in the bill before me an
excess of $4,000 to be absorbed in contin-
gent expenses. The appropriationof this sum
for contingent purposes appears to me to be
in amount and improper in form.
needful expenses may have been
incurred in fitting up the halls of the Cen
eral Assembly and the different committee
rooms should, in my judgment, be laid be-
fore the Legislature in detail, and should
be carefully passed upon before any appro-
priation is made for their payment.
There are other objections to this bill of |
! still more serious character.
Section four provides as follows:
That IN case there shall be no cash in the |
State treasury to the credit Of the general |
und the presiding officers of each House,
he State Auditor of Public Accounts, the |
chairman OF the Committee on Contingent |
expenses of the House and the chairman OF
he Committee on Auditing and Supervis-
ng Expenses OF the Senate, or a majority
# them. shall proceed to negotiate a loan
N said warrants at a discount not to ex-
eed five per cent of the loan; tho funds
called from the loan shall be deposited in
he hands of the Fiecal Agent of the State,
nd held by HIM subject to the order of the |
hartman OF the respective committees. ap.
roved by the presiding officers of each
louise.
This section it seems clear to me is un-
and in this opinion am sus-
aimed by the best legal advice have been
Bile to obtain. 1t provides tor the creation
debt in contraventiOn Of article l63 of
1e State constitution, and also conflicts
irectly with the constitutional amend
tents adopted at the recent election. Sec |
on six enacting: THAT no moneys shall
9 paid paid for any warrants, vouchers or
ther evidence of Indebtedness issued prior
January, 1872 is in derogation of section
N, article one of the constitution of the
nlted States, which prohibits the impair
tactical effect would be to repudiate all
le outstanding warrants of the Judges
I'd other constitutional officers of the State |
hlch warrants by express legislative en-
,tment are excluded from the provisions |
the late funding law.
Sections SIX and seven are both objection
lie because they make provisions the OBJ
ct of which is not expressed in the title of
g bill as required by article la of the |
institution.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG,
Governor.
The Speaker put the question, shall the
ouse, on reconsideration, agree to pass
Q bill, the veto of the Governor to the
ntrary notwithstanding
The roll was called, with the following
suit
Yeas-Butler, Carville, Connaughton,
'usin, Davidson, Devices, DeLacey, Hill
Ascension, Honore, johnson of De Soto,
'visee. Martinette, Stewart, Southland,
Ter. YOrke-l6.
Hahn, Armstead, Baker.
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