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

| SENATE CHAMBER
New Orleans, February 8, 1876
| The Senate met pursuant to adjourn
ment at twelve o'clock NJ, the Hon. c.
| Antoine, Lieutenant Governor and Presi
dent of the Senate. in the chair.
On call of the roll, the following Sena
tors answered to their names:
Present-Messrs. Alexander, Anderson
Allan. Blunt, Breaux. Brewster, Burch
Cage. Chadbourn. ella, Greene, Grover
Harper, Kelso, Kelly, Landry, Pollard
Robertson, Stamps, Steven. Twitchell, Whar
ton, White, Whitney-24:
Absent-Messrs. Blackburn, Detiege, Du
mont, Euatis, George, Goode. Herwig
Mascot, Ogden, Sypher, Weber, Young-l2
PRAYER was offered by the Rev. Mr.. Bry
ant.
The journal was read, corrected and ap
proved.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
Senator Burch presented petition from
the central committee of the Mechanics
and Workingmen's Association, relative to
bills lying over from extra session of 1875
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Senator Anderson from the Committee on
Judiciary, made the following report:
COMMITTEE on JUDICIARY !
New Orleans, February 9, 1876. {
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Judiciary respectful
ly report that Senate joint resolution No. 4,
entitled Joint resolution declaring the lease
Of the State Penitentiary forfeited, instruct
ing the Attorney General TO enforce the
provisions Of act No. y, approved March 81
1875, granting certain powers to the Gov.
ernor and for other purposes, be referred to
your Committee on the Penitentiary, and
therefore is hereby returned without action.
On House bill No. 81, favorably, entitled
an act to legitimate Louise Celina Duvig-
neaud, Joseph CASTOR Duvigneaud, Marie
Tnerese Julia Duvigneaud, Louise Duvig-
neaud, Pierre Duvigneaud and Marie Julia
Oderte Duvigneaui. children of Joseph
Duv;ynesud and his wife, Marie Julia
Freid.
On Joint resolution No. :. report favor
ably. Hon. E. L. Whitney dissenting, in
structing the Senators and requesting the
Representatives of Louisiana in Congress
to secure the passage By the national legis-
lature Of an act granting appropriate pen
sjons to tne veterans of the war with Mex
leo. their widows and minor orphans.
On joint resolution No. 6, report favor
abiy-E. D. White, Observation-Disclosures
the Senators and requesting the Represen-
tatives Of louisiana in Congress to secure.
if possible. the passage of an act by the
national legislature appropriating the pro-
ceeds of the cotton tax collected in the
States of Missouri. Tennessee, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Louisiana. to the cOnstruc-
ton Of levees upon the Mississippi river and
its tributaries, to be constructed and main.
tanned under national supervision and con-
troll.
On House bill No. III, report favorably,
an act relative to the days Of demand, pay
ment and protest of promissory notes, bills
of exchange and commercial paper maturing
on holidays.
On House bill No. 2os. report unfavor-
ably. an act to change the name of Caroline
Toll to Caroline Mott.
On House bill No. l44, report favorably-
Hon. j. Henri Burch dissenting-an act to
determine the qualification of jurors in the
parishes of Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, St.
Martin Cameron and Calcasieu.
On House bill No. l45, report favorably
White, and unfavorably by j. Henri Burch
an act entitled an act to amend and re-en-
act section 1921 of the Revised Statutes Of
Louisiana.
On House bill No. 81. report favorably by
Hon. Thomas c. Anderson and E. D.
White, and unfavorsbly by Hon. E. L.
Whitney and ]. Henry Burch.
THOMAS c. ANDERSON,
Chairman;
j. BURCH,
EDWARD D. WHITE,
f. L. WHITNEY.
Senator Harper, from the Committee on
Canals, Drainage and Inland Navigation,
made the following report:
COMMITTEES ON CANALS DRAINAGE AND
Inland Navigation. :
New Orleans, February 9, 1876.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Your Committee on Canals, Drainage and
Inland Navigation beg leave to report with
out action on Senate bill No. IS, entitled an
parish taxes on lands situated in the parish
of Pointe Coupee. and subject to yearly in
undatlOn from the Grand Levee crevasse.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM HARPER,
Chairman;
E. L. WHITNEY,
T. B. STAMPS.
Senator Twitchell, from the Committee
on Corporations and Parochlal Affairs, made
the following report:
COMMITTEE on CORPORATIONS ANpl
ParOchIal Affairs, February 9, 1876
To the Honorable President and Mt nlbers of the
Your Committee on Corporations and
Parochial Affairs report favorably on House
bill No Isl, an act to amend and re-enact
section thirteen of act No. 9, of 1871; to
provide for supplying the loss of public
records and other papers consumed BY the
burning of the courthouse in the parish of
Morehouse on the sixteenth of March. 1870.
Also, Senate bill No. ll2, an act to incor-
porate the st. James Methodist Episcopal
Church Association, Of Shreveport, Lou.
ieiana, with the following amend1nent: In
line twenty-one, section two, strike out the
word ''Otherwise.'
NJ. H. TW1TCHELL, Chairman.
NOTICES OF BILLS.
The following Senator'S gave notice that
at some future day they will introduce the
following bills:
By Senator Burch:
Ut bill to be entitled an act for the bet.
ter protection of labor and capital.
Also of bill for the encouragement and
protection of mechanics and artisans.
Also Of a bill to be entitled an act to com.
pei children to attend the schools,
By Senator Greene:
Of . bill to be entitled an act to regulate
and define the parish line dividing the
parishes of jackson and Lincoln. adjusting
the present indebtedness Of said parishes,
and for other purposes.