New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-05


Assistant Secretary of the Senate.
SENATE CHAnHRR,
New Orleans, February a. 1876.
TO the Honorable Speaker and Members OF the
House of Representatives,:
am directed to ask the concurrence OF
your honorable body to the following Sen
ate bills. viz:
Senate bill No. los, substitute for House
pill No. AS, an act to regulate the
conduct and manner of holding elections
and to maintain the freedom and purity
hereof the manner and mode OF holding
elections and determining the result there
Of: to prevent fraud, violence, intimidation,
riot. tnmult or bribery at and before e!ec-
lions: TO correct fraudulent registration,
and 30 prevent corruption at eiectlons, or
at any registration or revision OF the regis
tration of voters to define the duties OF
certain State, parish and other officers with
regard 10 elections; to establish and 0ehne
,ht. powers and duties OF officers charged
with the duty of conducting elections and
determining the result thereof; to provide
returning officers for all elections and pre-
scrihipg their powers and duties to define
the duties of officers charged with the duty of
maintaining peace and quiet, ana suppress
sing violence, fraud and intimidation on
and before the day of any election, ana
during the RI registration or revision OF the
registration OF voters. and the counting,
canvass and return of votes cast at cleo
tions: to pre- scribe the manner IN which tho
votes cast M elections shall be canvassed,
ascertained and returned, and the result
thereof ascertained and made known. and
evidence OF TIE result thereof preserved; TO
prescribe the mode of entering on the rolls
of the Senate and House of Representatives
The names of the members elected to serve
therein: and to provide the mode OF or
ganizat;on Of the Senate and House of
Repres eatatives: to provide the punish
{,r i-,-, .y,,ln V$ NJ an q
relating to elections, ana the disturbance
of the pnblic peace during any registration,
revision OF regis tration or election, for crlln-
nal or fraudulent acts, or criminal neglect
of cticers charged in any manner with the
conduct Of elections, or the count and re-
.urn Of the result thereof, or with the pres
eryation OF public order and peace during
registration, revision of registration, or on
the day Of election, and the return Of votes
cas-. at elections to define, declare and
provide for the punishment Of crimes relat-
ing to, or affecting elections, and the regis
.ration or revision of the registration OF
voters: to repeal ali acts and laws of the
State in conflict with or inconsistent with
the provisions Of this act. and to enforce
article one hundred aaG three OF the consti-
tuition OF the Safe.
Senate bill No. So an ACT to provide the
manner of proceedings to obtain judicial
authority for change OF names.
senate Dil ANU ~. al aSU OAtAtA1A o. 81
20 further define and extend the jurisdic
,.on of TIE parish courts OF this State.
p. E. BECHTEL,
Secretary of the Senate.
The Speaker appointed MIR. Koontz a;
chairman of the select committee to exam
ne into certain charges against officials IL
he parishes of East and West Felciana
East Baton Rouge and st. Helena, in tia
n.ace OF Mr.. Scales, who is prevented by
sickness from attending TO the duties O.
sad committee.
RESOLUTION.
Dir. Kidd offered the following resou
Ton. seconded by Mr. Young OF Claiborne
WHEREAS, The House of Representative;
of the State of Louisiana, actuated by 6
sincere desire to have all future elections II
his State conducted peaceably and witt
he utmost fairness to all parties. has passe q
at the present session an election bill WHICH
N it's main and essential features can DC Cd
5scted 10 By no enc desiring tie ma'nten
l,re Of tie purity OF the ballOt-box. o.
navinr the peace of the State at heart; AND
whereas, The Senate Of the State has
nasseG :. substitute for that BIZ, containin 6
most od;ous features OF most octois He
-1rn,Dr Board and provisions ant-Tepub
1iran in their character and which tend tt
destroy tie EXPIRE s5ed Will or the people al
.ha halo. box-provisions which are II
.ultipp to the common sense and decency
nj eypr- intelligent citizen OF Louisiana
aud which in any free and inuepencen,
State OF this Union would not be tolerated
COR enc moment, and which, II adopted
mere, would inevitably produce civil STRIFE
Cisrupt society and destroy the reHihah. u
-nar;fy. and
whereas The STATE of Louisiana has
been ,inoried in shame and disgrace by the
scandalaus and outrageous conduct OF the
present Returning Board, whose powers are
net SO great as those with Whlcn this
Senate substitute lnVests us ptoposSu Ao
turning Board; and
Whereas, This House is unalterabiy, and
I7non princip!e opposed to the adoption o.
any law providing for Returning boaTt
81 any description whatever, even thougt
this House, under its provisions, should Dt
entitled to select all OF its mem bers; ana
Whereas, Under the compact established
pv the Wheeler adjustment, the executive
OF the State, and the members OF the Gen
eral Assembly committed themselves to Z
governmental policy to be marked by re
form and reformat0ry measures OF which
ILi4 SeLata substitute 10 not one; therefore
Res0iped, That it il with exceeding regre
hat this Heuse has knowledge OF the pas
sage by the Senate of this substitute oil!
and sincerely trusts that it may reconsider
ms determination to send said bill to thu
Houae fer its concurrence; and that 1t is th'
eense Of this House that a persistence on tn'
part Of any department or branch OF th'
yoyernueut IT, adopt this substitute, Dill o.
any bill providing for a returning board
will be violative of the spirit and true in
rerest OF the Wheeler adjustment; and thi:
Hou.e will consequently be absolved iron
Ill Obligations hereunder, and, in the III
rnr,. SHOULD conduct lts proceedings &C
ccrlingiy: that it is the sincere and arden
y-;eb 81 the members OF this House to SCI
the next and all future elections IN TIM
E+.tr conducted fairly, peaceably, and will
rcrf,rf consideration for the rights an;
Gniniona CT all men, and at all times IT;
Wiling to sincerely guarantee their as
tistapce to carry out this desire, but thd
they can never Weld their assent to an cleo
ZION law which would again invite arbitTa
FORA from other Slater, which again wouit
urcCucc the ridiculous aspect OF settle
3nent OF a Louisiana election IN the city o
New Yor,,. and which again would chea
the will Of the people ss expressed al tn
pallo. box, and would inevitably lead t
civil cummotior. strife, ana even Dioooshe'
and c!ual. out the last remaining nope 10
!. coming prosperity to Our moso uAlo'
lunaJs and impoverished State.
The same member moved to suspend u
rules in order TO take up the resolution.
Upon which NJ. Demas called for the yea
and nays, which resulted as follows, 10 WI
ysas-Speaker Estlettc, Adige, Bootl
Rene, Bcrkhar.it Bayley, Blafer, Bowel
srssl4v. Blliu. Brice, Collins Carloss, ID
pre, De Baac, Dugas, DUR, Delhomme