New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-10
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS ACCORDING N
PREVIOUS NOTICE.
Nv Senator Breaux:


By Senator Breaux:
Senator bill No. 126, entitled an act max.
ing it an offense punishable with fine and
imprisonment for stores selling liquors by
the wholesale or retail throughout the State
to keep open and sell on Sundays, except
ing the parish of Orleans
The constitutional rules being suspended
by four-fifths affirmative vote of the SEN
ate, the bill was placed on its second
reading, and referred to the Committee on
Judiciary.
Senator Burch offered tho following
amendment and asked that it be referred
to the committee along with the bill. 1t
was 80 referred:
Strike out the words Except the parish
of Orleans"
RESOLUTION.
By Senator Ogden:
CHAMBER OF CoNMsRcR
New Orleans. February :, 1876. )
AT meeting of the Chamber held this
date. the following resolution was adopted:
Resolued. That this Chamber, after ma
ture elaboration, approved the premium
bond plan" as proposed Dy the City Ad-
mlnistration, ana commend 1t TO the 1avor.
able action of the Legislature as the best
measure calculated to relieve az interests
invoIved-tsxpsyers and b0ndholders.
Extracted from the minutes
WILLIAM NJ. BURWELL,
Secretary.
INTRODUCTION OF BILL By UNANIMOUS CON
SENT.
By Senator White:
Senate bill No. l27, an act to authorize
the incorporation Of mutual saving, fund.
loan or building associations, and confer
ring on said associations the powers and
immunities of corporations and bodies pc
little in law, and to confirm the charters Of
such associations as have been organized
nnder the provisions of the statutes of this
State relative to the organization Of cor
porations.
The constitutional rules being suspende-
nv a four-ffths affirmative vote of the Sen.
ate the bill was placed on its second read
ing and referred to the Committee on Cor
porations.
By Senator White:
Senate bill No. l2s, entitled an act giving
intervenors the right to bond property at
tached, sequesterea or Professionally seized.
and prescribing the character of sach bonds
The constitutional rules being suspended
bv q four-fifths affirmative vote Of the Sen
ate, the bill was placed on its second
reading and referred to the Committee on
Judiciary.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The subject matter pending at the time
the Senate adjourned was the amendment
offered by Senator Burch to Senate bill
No. II.
Senator Burch withdrew his amendment.
Senator Wharton moved that section two
of the original bill be striker out.
Adopted.
Senator Wharton moved that the first
section of his substitute be the second sec
ton of the bill, etc.
Senator Stamps offered the following
amendment:
To insert after the words Sixth District
COLLECTORS of Seventh District. 5000
Adopted.
On motion of Senator Wharton the bill
was considered engrossed.
Senator Robertson moved to suspend the
constitutional rules in order to put the bill
upon its third reading and final passage.
Senator Burch called for the yeas and
nays, with the following result:
Yeas-Alexander, Allan. George. Goode.
Greene Grover, Harper, Kelly, Ogden. Rob
erteOn, Steven, White, YOung-l3.
Nays - Anderson, Blackburn, Blunt,
Breaux, Brewster, Burch, Cage. Chadbourn,
Gla Herwig, Kelso. Landry. Mascot. Pol
lard, Stamps, SJpher, Weber. Wharton
Whitney-l9.
Absent Detiege, Dumont, Eusts, Twitch-
ell.
And the Senate refused to suspend the
rules.
ACTION ON REPORTS OF COMMITTEES LYING
OVER.
Senator Breaux called up the following
COMMITTEE on CANALS, DRAINAGE AsD)
Inland Navigation Z
New Orleans, February9, 1876.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Canals. Drainage and
Inland Navigation beg leave to report with
out action, on Senate bill No. IS, entitled an
act to remit the collection Of State and par
ish taxes on lands situated in the parish Of
Pointe Coupee and subject to yearly inun-
dalton from the Grand Levee crevasse.
Respectfully submitted:
WILLIAM HARPER,
Ell. WHITNEY, ~
T. B. STAMPS.
Senator Breaux moved that the bill bs
considered engrossed.
Adopted.
Senator Goode moved the pos:ponement
of the bill until Friday week, and that it
be printed and made the special order Of
the day for that day.
Adopted.
Senator Blunt called up the following re
port from the Committee on Finance on
Senate bill No. 40:
COMMITTEE ON FISAScsl
New Orleans, February 4. 1876.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Finance, to whom
was referred the following bills, beg leave
to report them with the amendments "a is
herein added:
Senate bill No. 40, by Mr.. Blunt an act
to amend paragraph ten of license law of
act No. ID of session of 1872; amend by in
serting after the word ''liquor," in line
seventeen, the words ''except by the
glass;
A. j. SYPHER, Chairman.
After the report was read, the special Or
der of the day was called.
1t was Senate bill No. As, entitled an act
to abolish the office of parish attorney and
district attorney DrO tenn