New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-09

bonds in violation Of the restsictions Of tn
coneolidated act of 1852; and
where's, Taxpayer in said city requirl
temporary relief, and that it would be un
iust to unnecessarily compel them by oneroul
taxation Of doubtful legality to provide fol
the interest ON said bonds until the VALIDITY
or invalidity of sAid bonds shall have beef
finally determined by competent authority
SECTION l. Be it enacted BY the Senate enc
House Of Representatives of the State of Lon
;sisns in General Assembly convened. Ths,
the city Of New Orleans be and IL hereby
relieved from the obligation of levying and
collecting any tax for the purpose of pay
ing the interest on any of said b nds issued
since 1852; that all laws relative to the lew
and collection of such taxes for such our
poses be suspended until the validity or in
validity of the said bonds shall have been
finally adjudicated upon.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.. That
the Governor, Attorney General, Mayor
City Attorney, or either Of them, or any five
taxpayers owning property in ssid city and
paying taxes thereon, shall have the right
to cOnteet the validity of the said bonds by
proceedings before any court of competent
jurisdiction, and that proceedings to that
end shall be tried by preference over all
other cases.
Reported favOrably.
The motion prevailed, and the Senate
rules were suspended.
On motion Of Senator Cage the report
of the committee was adopted.
Senator White gave notice that he would
submit, at some future time, minority re-
port upon the bill.
Senator Wharton offered % IN amend
menr to the bill the following additional
section:
SEC g. That this act shall take effect from
and after its passage, and At all laws and
parts of laws in conflict with this act be
and are hereby repealed.
While the amendment was pending SEN
ator Twitchell asked and obtained unani-
nous consent to offer ut this time the fol-
lowing motion:
move that the Secretary of the Senate
be instructed to communicate to the House
OF Representatives the final order of &C.
quittal adopted by the High Court of I'm
parchment, sitting for the trial Of William
final action of the Senate in the matter of
the impeachment of said William p. Kel-
logg, Governor.
Senator Twitchell moved that the motion
be adopted.
Senator Whitney called for the previous
question.
Senator Twitchen called for the yeas
and nays, with the following result:
Yeas Alexander, Allan, Anderson,
Blackburn, Blunt. Brewster, Burch. Cage,
Harper, Kelso, Landry, Pollard, Stamps
sypher, TwitehelI. Weber, Wharton, Whit
ney, You9gMis: . o 49,
Absent-Breaux. Chadbourn, Eustis, Ola,
Greene, Grover, Herwig, Masicot-a.
And the main question was ordered.
Robertson called fo- the yeas and nays,
with the following result:
Yeas - Alexander, Allan, Anderson,
Blackburn, Blunt, Breaux, Brewster, Burch,
Cage, Dumont, Ola, Harper, Kelso, Landry,
Masicot, Pollard, Stamps, Sypher. Twitchell,
Weber, Wharton. Whitney, YOung-23.
Nsys-Detlege. George. Goode, Kelly,
Ogden, Robertson, Steven, Whites.
Absent-Chad bourn, Eustis, Greene,
Grover, Herwig-5.
And the motion was adopted.
The question required on Senator Whar-
toms amendment to Senate bill No III.
Senator White offered the following sub
stitute to the bill and amendment:
Strike out and insert in lieu of preamble
to section two:
WHEREAS, The city of New Orleans has
become involved in debt 60 as to render it
impossible to levy by taxation q sum ade-
luate to the payment of the interest on her
outstanding debt;
Whereas, It is charged that q large pcr
ton of the debt of New Orleans is legal, and
that it is necessary to have the legality Of
ali the debt determined by judicial author
ity; therefore
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Assembly con- |
rected and is hereby authorized not to levy |
any interest tax for the purpose of paying |
debt.
Sec. 3 The city of New Orleans shall not |
be required to levy or collect any tax for . |
sinking fund for the purpose of redeemipg
bonds until the time of the annual levy Of |
city taxes for the year 1881.
Senator Whitney moved to lay the sub |
stitute on the table, and called for the yeas |
and nays, with the following result:
Yeas-Alexander, Anderson, Blackburn,
Blunt, Brewster, Cage, Pollard. Sypher, |
Wharton, Whitney-ll.
Nsys-Allsin, Bresux, Burch, Chadbourn,
Detiege, Dumont, Eustis, George, Goode,
Ola, Greene, Grover, Harper, Kelso. Kelly,
Landry, Masicot, Ogden. Robertson. Stamps,
Steven, Weber, White, Young-A.
Absent-Herwig-l.
And the Senate refused to lay the substi-
tute on the table.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
Senator Wharton called for the special
order Of the day.
The President ruled that the special
order could not be called until the journal
was read, as it was fixed for immediately
after the reading of the journal.
SPECIAL ORDER RESUMED.
Senator Eustis offered the following pro-
viso to Senator Whites substitute to SEN
ate bill No. III:
Provided, that NO interest tax shall be
levied by the city of New Orleans for q
period Of five years, unless some compro-
mise is made between the city and her
Senator White accepted the proviso.
Senator Allan moved to have the bill
printed in the journal. and to make it the
special order of the day for tomorrow at
| p. NJ, and called for the previous eues-
ion.
The main question was ordered.
The motion was adopted. |
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Senator Masicot, from the Committee on
EurolImant on6 EnOrOsamant NADIA tho |