New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-10

Senator Weber offered tho following
amendment:
Each and every druggist or spothecary
dealing in drugs or medicine shall pay .
license Of $50. No merchant ehall b.
deened Wholesale dealer who sells goods
in original packages or otherwise consumed
The amendment was accepted.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.
The Chief Clerk of the House was an
nounced with the following message:
BorsR OF REPRESENTATIVE. /,
New O. leans, February 9. 1876.
TO the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
/ am directed by the House of Repre-.
aentstives to ask the concurrence of the
Senate in the following House bills, to wit:
House bill No. AZ, entitled an act to re.
peal an act to fix the salaries of the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, approved
February q, 1871.
House bill No. 70, entitled an act
20 amend and reenact section $3.50
of the Revised Statues of the State of
House bill No 81, entitled an act to pro-
vide the mode by which the several funds
in the State treasury shall be disposed.
House bill No. SO, entitled an act to in
corporate the Madison Transportation Com
pany.
peal an act entitled an act authorizing the
muster Of the Metropolitan Police force as
part OF the militia Of the State. etc
EEouse bill No. 1876, entitled an act TO nro.
vide money compensation, in lieu of sta.
!ionery, TO members OF the General AS
sembly, and to provide stationery for the
Secretary o. the Senate, the Chief Clerk of
the House of Representative and the COM
m!ttees OF said houses.
House bill No. l57, entitled an act to in.
corporate the Lewisburg Wharf Company.
House bill No. loo, entitled an act to re-
peal an act entitled an act creating board
the valid outstanding indebtedness of the
parish Of Terrell onne, etc.
House bill No. lt7, entitled an act to con.
fer the power to regulate the compensation
for keeping the prisoners in parish prisons
upon the respective parishes Of the State,
other than the parishes Of Orleans and JET
terson.
House bill No. $50, entitled an act to OK.
tend the corporate limits Of the town of
Homer. parish Of Claiborne; to amend and
re enact sections one, two three, four five,
seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven, and to
repeal sections six and twelve OF act No,
Ill, approved March -, 1850, entitled an
act to incorporate the town Of Homer, in
the parish OF Claiborne, etc.
Also, to ask the Lieutenant Governor and
President of the Senate to sign enrolled bill,
relative to the levyiDg Of a police tax for
the city of Shreveport, etc.
Respectfully. ETC..
PETER j. IRRELEVANT,
Chief Clerk.
Senator Anderson offered the following
amendment: to the amendment of Senator
Weber:
All persons selling drugs or medicines
shall pay druggists license.
Senator Cage moved that all the amend
nents be laid on the table.
Senator Weber called for the yeas and
nays with the following result:
Yeas-Alain, Anderson. Breaux, Cage,
Sypter, 1witchell-ll.
Nays - Alexander. Blunt, Brewster,
Burch, George. Ola, Greene. Harper, Kelso,
Landry. Mascot, Ogden, Pollard, Weber,
White, Whi:ney-l6.
Absent-Blackburn, Chadbourn, Detiege,
Dumon:, Eustis, Herwig, Robertson, Whar-
tor, Young-9.
And the motion to table was not adopted
Senator Burch offered the following pro.
viso to the amendment offered by Senator
Alexander.
Provided, that in any of the cities or
towns in this State, other than New Or
leans, q certificate from the resident prac.
ticing physicians of said city or town, cert.
flying to the competency of any druggiste,
ehall be equivalent to diploma, and fully
authorize said druggist or druggists to dis
pense medicines and fill physicians pre-
scriptiOns.
The provisO was accepted.
Tina: each retail druggist or apothecary
snail pay license of 500, and each whole
sale druggist $500, and that all other mer-
chants dealing in drugs or patent medicines
pay an additional sum OF $50.
Senator Wharton made the point of order
that the whole bill is out of order, because
all bills raising a revenue, by license or
otherwise, mus. originate in the House OF
Representatives.
The President Senator Anderson in the
chair ruled the point well taken.
Senator Blunt took an appeal from the
decision of the Chair.
Senator Alexander called for the yeas and
nays, with the following result:
Yeas-Allain, Breaux, Dumont, George,
Goode, Grover, KelsO, Kelly, Mascot, Og-
den, Stamps, Steven, Sypher, Wharton,
Whitney-l5.
Nays-Alexander, Blunt, Burch, Greene,
Ola. Landry, Pollard, Weber-8.
Atsent-Anderson. Blackburn, Brewster,
Cage, Chadbeurn, Detiege, Eustis, Harper,
Herwig, Robertson, Twitchell, White,
Young-l3
And the Chair was sustained.
Senator Wharton called for the special
order of the day.
Senator Whitney moved that the special
order of the day be postponed until Friday
next at P. NJ.
SENATOR Blunt called for the yeas and
nays with the following result:
Yeas-Allain, Anderson, Breaux, Brew
ster, Burch, Cage, Dumont, George, Ola,
Greene, Harper, Kelso, Landry, Mascot,
Ogden, Stamps, Steven, Sypher, Twitchell,
Weber, Wharton. whitney,
NAYS Blunt, GOOde, Grover, Kelly.
Absen:-Alexander, Blackburn, Chad.
bourn, Detiege, Eustis, Herwig. Pollard,
Robertson, White, Young-lO
And the motion to postpone was adopted.
Senator whitney calIeU uP LILO IoPoAs VI
the Committee on Public Education on Sen.
ate bill No. &c:
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Public Education beg
leave to report that they have had under
consideration Senate bill No. 66, entitled an
act 10 authorize the school board OF the
parish of Tensas to sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, IN said parish; and
report favorably and recommend it's pass