The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-17

lyn, prayed
1t was very impressive prayer and brough
all the members up standing. lie told tn
Almighty that those before him were the rep
resentatives Of the people, and solicited bless
ings, and then he prayed for everything b
supposed the members were lacking, virtue
wisdom, ETC., and wound up by petitionine
that Providence take charge of affairs in this
State 1.-THE faithful have managed them long
enough.
Mathews rose to privileged question. He
saw in the morning BULLETIN and Picayune
the following in the reports Of proceedings
of "the House"
Pierson (again taking the floor eXcitedly,) l
would like the Chair to seat me.
The Char-If the Speaker seats the gentle
man he will seat him SO that he will not get
up again.
didn't say it. What he did say was that if he
had to seat the gentleman he would not get
up for some time. That was all he said He
then appologized for having said anything at
all.
Pierson then took the floor on question
temper to get the best Of him, but he had
certainly understood the gentleman
(Mathews) to make the remark with which
the BULLETIN had accredited him and that
was what exasperated him. He apologized.
Lowell got up also on a question of privi-
lege He wanted to reply to the article in
the Times headed "Blood Money" He
wanted to submit report as an answer.
The Wing refused to receive the report.
Kellogg's veto of the appropriation bill was
tn en- read as follows ...
STATE OF LOUISIANA, |
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. |
New Orleans, February Is, 1875. |
To the Honorable the Speaker Of the House of |
Representatives
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 members and
salary Of the officers and employees and con-
tingent expenses of the General Assembly Of
the State of Louisiana for the regular session
of the year 1875, and prescribing the manner
in which the same shall be paid, and to au-
thorize the negotiation Of loan for that pur-
pose by the pledge Of State warrants.
This act appropriates the sum of S1S5, 900
for the purposes indicated in the title above
quoted.
1t seems to me from careful computation
OF the mileage and per diem due to the men,
bers Of the General Assembly, including tho e
who have not yet taken their seats that the
necessary amount for this purpose and for all
such debts as are authorized by law, ought
not to exceed one hundred and thirty five
thousand dollars, even upon the most liberal {
thus leaving III the bill before me
IN excess Of forty-iive thousand dollars to be |
absorbed in contingent expenses. The ap- s
preparation of this sum for contingent pur- q
poses appears to me to be excessive in amount
md improper in form. Whatever needful ex-
Denses may have been incurred in fitting up
he halls Of the General Assembly and the
lifferent committee rooms should, in my
Judgment, be laid before the Legislature in
ietail, and should be carefully passed upon
before any Appropriation is made for their
,ayment.
There are other objections to this bill of s
till more serious character. Section four s.
provides as follows a
''That in case there shall be no cash in the 0
tate Treasury to the credit of the general "
und, the presiding officers of each House, c.
he State Auditor of Public Accounts, the il
hairmen Of the Committee on Contingent il
Expenses, of the Committee on Auditing and St
supervising Expenses of the Senate, or ma p
ority of them shall then proceed to negotiate g
loan on said warrants at discount not to it
xceed five per cent of the loan; the funds re- tie
lized from the loan shall be deposited in the sa
ands of the Fiscal Agent of the State, and
ED by him subject to the order Of the chair fll
len OF the respective committees approved VI
y the presiding officers of each House." pl
This section, it seems clear to me, is un- GU
and in this opinion | am sus- en-
I'D Inv Ia h.c oIy I ln,- |
Die to obtain. 1t provides for the creation 60
a debt in contravention of article 1G3 of the da
late Constitution, and also conflicts with the tin
amendments adopted at the re- tiC
mt election. WI
Section SIX enacting 'that no money shall in
paid for any warrants, vouchers or o.hor IN
licences of Indebtedness issued prior to su
Inuary, 1875" is in derogation of section in
n of article one of the Constitution of the w
nited States, which prohibits the imparing to
the obligations of contracts, and its prac- sh
al effect would be to repudate all the out ce
anding warrants Of the judges and other en-
Institutional officers of the State, which war hi
nts, by express legislative enactment, are
cluded from the provisions Of the recent VIII
nding law. DO
VIM, =. KELLOGG, Governor bu
of the message was imme- NJ
stely gone into. fin
Lowell agreed with the message III every no
rticular but one, and that was the objec- tin
n to section six. He thought that ''the me
'vernor was mistaken in this" He moved an,
1t the message be referred to the Commit du
on Judiciary with instructions to report the
the morning. bro
Heating in the chair idc
substitute that the bill pass, the veto to
the contrary notwithstanding, was offered exa
strange to say, it was lost and the mes fan
20 was sustained by a vote of forty-one san
US to sixteen yeas. her
The Committee on Enrolment reported his
It the State-House bill had been enrolled stu
On motion Of Lowell all the veto mes sages /
kellogg were referred to the Committee on bea
dietary. Oui
Lowell then got permission to read his mil
'ort Unanimous consent was given. and ,Ioh
throughout he was constantly interrupted, on
led to order and spoken at by the adher- rem
IS of Clinton, against whom the document mel
rather damaging. l. related to the ex for