New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-19
THE LEGISLATURE YEsTERDXH.


| the roll, and announced nineteen members
present anu seventeen absent. There being
| quorum the business OF the Senate was
| opened with prayer by the chaplain.
The President announced the standing
committees. ~
Senator Detiege introduced bill to pro-
vide for the taking of the census of the
State in accordance with article twenty of
the constitution, the apportionment of Off
GERS, and the mode of taking the census,
and making an appropriation to defray the
expenses chat may be incurred, and the
manner of the disbursement of the same,
and for other purposes. The bill, under a
suspension of the rules, was read first and
second time, and referred to the Appor'
tiOnment Committee.
Senator Cage introduced bill to repeal
act No. 60 of 1873, entitled an act relative
| to fees and emOluments of the Auditor OF
Public Accounts, and to repeal section three
of act No. q of 1872 and for other pur-
poses. The bill, under suspension of the
rules, was read first and second time and
referred to the Committee on RetreDchment
and Reform.
Senator Whitney introduced a resolution
authorizing the appointment of special
committee of three, to be appointed by the
President of the Senate, to proceed to an
| immediate investigation of the affairs of the
board of levee commissioners and Louis.
lana Levee Company. The resolution gives
the committee power to send for persons
and papers, and requires it to report by bill
| or otherwise. The investigation is to be made
without expense to the State. The resolu.
ton was taken up by unanimous consent
and adopted.
The Governors veto of bill entitled an
act authorizing the police jury of the par
ish of Iberville to purchase the dyke across
the Bayou Plaquemine, and to make the
same a public highway, and to issue its
bonds in payment thereof, cane up as un
| finished business.
Senator Whitney moved that the bill
pass, the Governors veto to the contrary
Notwithstanding. A vote was then taken,
and the veto sustained, twenty-five Sena,
tors voting against the bill and two for it.
The Governors veto of an act incorporate
| the Alexandria, Midland and Camden
Railway Company, and to authorize the
parishes, cities and towns on or near the
line of said company's railway to aid in the
construction thereof, next came up and, on
motion of Senator Whitney, the further
consideration of the veto and bill was post
pOned until next Wednesday, Immediately
after the reading of the minutes.
The Governors veto of the bill to iucor-
porate the city of Donaldsonville was taken
up, and the bill finally defeated, the Senate
refusing to pass it over the veto by a vote
of two yeas to twenty-five nays.
The Governors veto of bill to incor
porate the Bayou Lafourche Railway Com,
pany was taken up, and on motion of Sena'
tor Cage the further consideration of the
bill and veto was postponed until next
Monday at one o'clock.
A call for executive session being made,
the Senate was cleared of all but members.
Nothing was done after executive session
but to call the roll and adjourn until this
morning at twelve o'clock.
House of Representatives.
The House met at the usual hour. Speaker
Hahn ordered the clerk to call the roll, and
| ffty-fve members answered to their names.
Prayer was offered by the chaplain. The
reading of Saturdays minutes was dis.
pensed with.
Mr.. Grant rose to a privileged question
He saw in the Pieay,ne a statement that
the Auditor had said that he did not recog
nize this House as a legally organized body.
| He pronounced this statement false.
Speaker Hahn said he had not seen the
statement in the Picayune referred to, but
the Auditor had recognized the House by
officially addressing the body through a
written communication, which had been
spread on the minutes
The standing committees were then an
nounced, which will be found in the official
journal of the House, in another portion Of
today's REPUBLICAN.
Mr.. Devices offered a resolution providing
that each and every member of the House
returned by the Returning Board and legal
ly sworn in be confirmed in their seats, Laid
over for one day.
MIR. Souer in the chair.
Mr.. Demas gave notice of his intention at
some future day to introduce bill to amend
and re-enact section 2O45 of the Revised
Statutes relative to justices of the peace.
Also, of bill exempting the residents of
the Overfowed district of st. John the
Baptist parish from taxation in 1874.
Mr.. Thomas gave notice of bill to repeal
an act to increase the salary of the district
attorney of the tenth judicial district
Mr.. Matthews, of Tensas, introduced
House bill No. Ia, to fix the compensation
of tax collectors in the parish of Orleans.
The bill fixes compensation for collection Of
of Licenses, as follows: First and Second
Districts, five per cent; Third and Fourth
Districts, seven and One-haf per cent;
Fifth and Sixth Districts, ten per cent. For
collections on current taxes, First District,
one and one-half per cent; Second District,
two per cent; Third and Fourth Districts, five
per cent; Fifth and Sixth Districts, eight
per cent. The bill passed its first and sec-
Ond readings, and was fxed as special
order for next Thursday at ! P. NJ.
Mr.. POindexter introduced House bill
No. Is, joint resolution declaring vacant
the office of clerk of court of the Fifteenth
Judicial District in aud for the parish Of
Assumption, which passed its first reading
after which Mr. POindexter moved that the
bill be considered engrossed.
Mr. Taviaaa ohiacted This 1onked tn him