The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-31
THE GENERAL APPROPRIA.
TION BILL.
A Few Unsatisfactory Amendments
A Howl from the Camp of the
Faithful.

Inc SeneIdl SuppOSltlOn was that the littl
difference between the faithful had been &C
Justed, and that the General Appropriate
bill had been arranged to the satisfaction I
all, but the PRONUNCIATION of the bill AZ dc
veloped the fact that this supposition was no
correct.
The trouble has brok IN out again.
Early yesterday morning it was reporte,
ABOUT the State-House that the bill promul
gated differed in several respects from tn,
bill turned into Kellogg, approved by boil
presiding officers of the Crowd for hi.
signature.
This report, later in the day, found con
hrmatlon in communication, Of which the
following is copy addressed to the Secretary
of State:
New ORLEANS, La, March &c. 1876.
Hon Z. G. Deslonde, Secretary Of State:
Str-We have carefully read Act No. H..
Purportlng to be a General Appropriation
OIL approved by the Governor on the 9th
INST, and cially promulgated by you in the
New Orleans Republican of to-day, purportipp
to be signed by us in our respective off cial
capacities. We have carefully compared the
published bill with the one sent to yOur office
hy the Governor and find that it agrees with
the latter; but we avail ourselves of this op-
PoI'unlty and manner to notify you that the
OH as deposited in your Office is a gross, I'M
warrantable and criminal act of forgery and
Is not the act certified aud signed by us.
liz Is true our signatures to the last page are
correct and genuine, but serious and criminal
changes have been made in the other parts Of
the bill. f'N@' =
For instance, various alterations are made
IN 80 much OF the original bill as remains,
ana out OF the seventeen pages which now
make up the bill, pages 2, 1, 6, Z, 8, 10, IL,
~, -. IA and ID are entirely new and have
been thrust into the bill, and substituted for
others since we certified the original bill.
we submit to you that this is too serious
matter to be overlooked or submitted to:
and we therefore request You to revoke and
annul your PRONUNCIATION of said act, and we
request you, land through you the Attorney
Teneral, to take steps to find out who the |
guilty p .rties are, and have them prosecuted
with the utmost rlgor OF the law.
Very respectfully, etc.,
G. G. ANTOINE
Lieut.. Governor and President of the Senate. |
MICHAEL HAHN,
Speaker OF the House Of Representatives |
The service of this document on Deslonde |
was witnessed by VIM. Vigers, P. E. Bechtel,
VIM. Randall and W. w. Wharton, and by
them certified to-
Accompanying it was statement specify
ing the changes, attached to which was the
certificate OF W. ". Wharton, setting forth
that he had carefully examined and COM
pared the General Appropriation bill as pub
Iished in the New Orleans Republican, of this
date, with the bill as it finally passed both
Houses, and with the bill as signed by the
Speaker and President of the Senate, and
that it is correct record Of the changes and {
alterations made in the bill so far as figures
and amounts are concerned.
The statement showed the following
either entirely cut out or reduced: