The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-27
THE WEEKS WORK IN LEGIsLATION

The calendar Of the Louisiana House OF
Representatives includes bills in various
stages, numbering about five hundred and
twenty or thirty. No calendar has been
nFinted, and without investigation, for which
xe have no spare time, we could not attempt
3 ny in what stage of legislative progress
tho principal portion OF these bills may be.
During the'last week, being the only remain
ing full week of tho session, large number
OF matured bills have been passed and sent to
. fhe Senate. We are informed that the officers
OF the House have been much occupied
with abe engfossment of bills, the largest
and most insignificant Of which are for the
incorporation Of towns and cities or in
amendment of existing charters. Thus far
. But few bills have been passed by both houses,
lnd among these few there are none that We
now aemembeP calculated for the relief of tax
payers except % bill on the subject Of city
dAinage which suspends for period the tax
CON the lands of portion of the city, intro
duced by Hon. L. A. WlItz in the House, and
urged to its Anal passage in She Senate with
the authors characteristic energy and perse-
versnce. II the approval of this bill by Gov.
Kellogg relieves property from the drainage
tax for term of years, the holders of prop
erty subject to this tax will be under great OBJ
legations to the vigilnnt, active, resolute and
influential representative from the Ninth Dis
tsict
The House has no. acted upon the Senate's j
bill reduc ng the excessive emoluments Of the
Civil Sheriff Of the parish Of Orleans, nor has
any bill of tho House been passed for that
purpose The reticence of the House is ma
taEally construed by the Radicals as resolve |
that the salaries of Democratic oficials will
not be reduced by consent Of Democrats.
And the result, as long since foreseen. is a re-
solve Of the Radicals to reduce no salaries or
1ess Of Offices Of which Radicals are incum-
bsnts
With this, and few other less important
exceptions. the bills of the House looking to-
reforms have been passed and sent to the
6onyle for the concurrence which few expect.
The House, speaking generally, may be
rid 20 have done, with the above mentioned
exceptions, all that it could do in the dirsc-
eion Of reform. With q Senate Of similar
spirit and temper and without Executive oppo- {
sition. al tho reform measures matured in The
House would have become laws. 1t is due to
the House to say that the action Of repressn-
tGtives was necessarily modified BY the fac:
that the bills OF the House were obliged to
90 before an unfriendly tribunal. Ths men,
bars of the House who have advocated bills
which, ought to pass have labored
nnders the serious drawback of the
knowlsdge that their action was to 60
before an unfriendly. partial and inimical tri-
bunal The result Is that they were anxious
toso modify their action that it might be
e6setive, and to 90 shape their bills as 10 BE-
= little Questionable as possible. while .ac.
tho purpose in view. We regret
lhat % little has been done. We can not say
sAas tho Radical Senate would have done
aay better If the House reform bills had all
bean before them twenty days ago; neverthe.
less the House would have been in better atti-
tide II its action had been more timely and
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