New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-08

BY MIR. CroZler:
OF bill to be entitled an act to exempt
tax payers in the incorporated town of
ThibOdaux, parish of Lafourche, from the
payment of parish taxes and licenses.
Also, of bill to be entitled and act to in
corporate the towns OF LockpOrt and Long
vile, in the parish of Latourche.
Also, of bill to be entitled an act for the
relief of tax payers on overhOwed lands,
comprising the parishes of Assumption,
Lafourche and Terrsbcnne.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Cage: .
Rcsoiped, That committee of three mem.
beIs OF the Senate be appointed by the
President to investigate the affairs of the
Metropolitan Police Board, and report by
bill or otherwise.
Laid over:
1.-THE President in the chair.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS ACCORDING TO PRE-.
vIoUs NOTICE.
By Mr.. Blunt:
Of bill to be entitled an act relative to
persons committing crime In one parish and
arrested in another parish in the State; the
duty of the officer making the arrest; the
jurisdiction of the several district courts
throughout the State, and the municipal
courts in the city of New Orleans; granting
bail for bailable offenses; the residence OF
sureties on bail bonds in such cases.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
a fOur-ffths vote, the bill was read the sec
ond time and ordered to be referred to the
Judiciary Committee when appointed.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The motion of Mr. Weber, as follows,
appoints committee under sections 1910
and lj52 OF Rays Revised Statutes, that
said committee be, and the same is hereby
specially instructed and required to ascer-
tain the amount in cash paid into the State
treasury by the different tax collectors in
the State, or from other sources, during the
years 1873 and 1874, and ascertain what
disposition has been made by the Auditor
and Treasurer of the same, and that said
committee shall report the result of their
investigation in writing to this body within
fifteen days from and after the passage of
this motion.
On motion of Mr. Weber the further
consideration of the motion was postponed
till Saturday at one o'clock.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
On motion of Mr.. Stamps the Senate rules
were suspended and the special order of
the day, to wit: the veto message of the
Governor upon the following bill, to be
entitled an act to incorporate the city of
Donaldson, in the parish of Ascension,
defining its boundaries, providing for the
government of the same and for funding
all legal indebtedness of the corporation of
Donaldsonville, repeating act No. So of 1870,
revising and amending the charter of Don
jacksonville and all other laws in conflict
with this act,
On motion of Mr.. Landry, the further
consideration of the veto message and bill
was postponed until next Tuesday at one
O'clock.
The veto message and following bill was
taken up:
An act to amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the town of st. Francisville, in
the parish of West Feliciana.
On motion of Mr.. Weber the veto mes
sage and bill aforesaid was postponed till
next Tuesday at one o'clock.
The veto message of the Governor and
following bill was taken up:
An act to incorporate the town of Roy
vile, parish of Lafayette.
Mr.. Anderson moved that the question
be taken.
The President put the question: Shall the
bill pass, the Governors veto to the con.
trary Notwithstanding y
On call of the yeas and nays the Senate
refused to pass the bill, two thirds of the
members present not voting in the afirma.
tive.
Yeas-Alexander-1.
Nays-Anderson, Blackburn, Brewster,
Blunt, Bureh, Cage, Chadbourn, Crozier,
Detiege. Dumont, ella, Greene, Harper, Her.
Stamps, Sypher, Twitohen, Weber, Whar'
ton-23
The President declared that the bill had
not passed.
The following was taken up with the veto'
message:
An act providing for change of venue in
cases which may be punished by death, and
homicide cases, and authorizing the grand
jury, in any parish in the State, providing
for the arrest of the persons charged with
such crime, and for paying the expenses of
the prosecution thereof, and repeating seq
tions 1904 and zoos of the Revised Statutes,
and exempting the Governor from issuing
death warrants, and directing the Judge to
issue such warrants.
On call of the yeas and nays the Senate
refused to pass the bill, two-thirds not
voting in the affirmative, as follows:
tMr. Anderson in the chair
Yeas-Eone
Nays-Anderson, Blunt, Bureh. Black
burn, Cage, ChadbouFn, CrOzler, Detiege,
DumOnt, Ola Greene, Harper, Herwig, Ian
dry, Pollard, Stamps, TWitchell, Weber,
Wharton, Houng-20,
Mr.. Anderson, in the chair, declared that
the bin had not passed.