New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-06
sage of the bill, Mr.. Sypher called for tho

sage of the bill, Mr. Sypher called 1or 1no
previous question.
The main question was ordered.
On the final passage Senator Sypher
called for the yeas and nays. with the fol-
lowing result:
Yeas-AlIain, Anderson, Blunt, Breanx I,
Brewster, Burch, Chadbourn, Dumont, Gro
yer, Harper, Herwig, Kelso, Mascot, Pol
lard, Robertson, Stamps, Sypher' Iwitcheil'
Weber, WhartOn-2O.
Navs-Alexander, Blackburn, george,
Greene, Kelly, Ogden, Young:
Absent-Cage, Detiege, Eustis, Goode,
Ola, Landry, Steven, White, Whitney,
During the calling of the roll, while Sen
ator Alexander was explaining his vote,
Senator Allan made the point of order that
the previous question has been ordered, and
that as it is not debatable an explanation
| is out of order.
The President ruled the point not well
taken. on the ground that although the
previous question cuts off debate the real
question was upon the final passage of the
bill, which is a debatable question. and that
therefore a Senator can explain his vote
| under the rule, allowing an explanation on
| all questions in their nature debatable.
| And the bill was finally passed.
On motion of Senator Sypher the title
was amnded by striking out fifty thou
sand" and inserting forty thousand" and
the title as amended was ordered to stand,
and the bill was ordered sent to the House
| for concurrence.
| RESOLUTION.
Senator Burch called up the following
resolution:
| Resolred, That the President of the Sen
| ate appoint a special committee OF three,
whose duties shall be to inquire into the
IL ase of the wharves of the city of New Or
leans, and into the legality of the wharf i'm
provement bonds, for whose liquidation
said wharves were leased; and that said
special committee shall have power to send
for persons and papers, and to administer
Oaths.
| Senator Burch moved that the resolution
be adopted.
| Adopted.
Senator Ogden, by unanimous consent,
| presented a memorial from the Admins
traitors of the city of New Orleans relative
to city affairs.
nmotion Of Senator Wharton the further
reading of the memorial was dispensed
with, and the different subjects we're re-
ferred to appropriate committees.
Senator Wharton, from the Committee on
Railroads, asked and obtained unanimous
consent to call up the following report at
| this time:
COMMITTEES ON RAILROADS,
New Orleans, February 5, 1876.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Your Committee on Railroads, to whom
was referred Senate bill No. 80, an act
relative to the street railroads in the city of
| New Orleans, and other purposes, beg leave
to report favorably, with the following
| amendments:
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted. ETC.. That
any officer, employe or agent OF said rail
roads who may in any manner violate
any of the provisions of this act shall be
| liable to fine of not less than one hundred
| dollars, nor more than three hundred dol
| lars, and shall be subjected on conviction,
to imprisonment for q period of not less
| than three months, nor more than six
months, at the discretion of the court. ALI
| criminal prosecutions for violating the pro-
visions of this act, shall be brought in the
| Superior Criminal Court of New Orleans:
| and it is hereby made the duty of ths dis
| trict attorney to prosecute by information
and indictment all such ottenses brought
to his knowledge.
SEC. 1. Be it further enacted. ETC., That
any street railroad company violating the
provisions of this act. through the actions
of any of its officers, agents or employees,
shall render said company liable to the for
FIXTURE of it's charter; and the Attorney
General of the State of Louisiana, upon evi-
dence of such violation. is hereby author
lied and ms tructed to institute judicial pro-
ceedings before any court of competent
jurisdiction for the forfeiture Of said char
ter.
Make section three section five.
Respectfully,
w. w. WHARTON, Chairman
A. j. SYPHER,
r H. CHADBOURE,
E. F. HERWIG.
JAMES H. GROVER.
On motion of Senator Wharton the re-
port was adopted, and the bill was made
the special order of the day for Thursday
next, at l P. NJ.
BY unanimous consent Senator Harper
called up House bill No. l46, entitled an
act to annex certain territory of the
son; to provide for the redivision of
Jackson parish into police jury wards; to
dispose of certain suits pending in the
courts of Lincoln parish, and to permit GER
tain persons to select the parish of their
domicile.
The bill was read the first time
Senator Harper moved to suspend the
constitutional rules to place the bill on it's
second reading.
The constitutional rules were suspended
by tour-fifths affirmative vote Of the SEN
ate, and the bill was placed on its second
reading.
Senator Harper moved to adopt the bill
on its second reading.
Senator Blunt moved to refer the bill to
the Committee on Corporations.
Senator Sypher rose to q question of
privilege relative to an article in the New
Orleans Democrat, as follows:
Mr.. President-I rise to a question of
privilege, and ask the Clerk to read the fol-
lowing article which appeared in the DEM
ocrot, entitled, Radical Artillery"
The Clerk read the following:
RADICAL ARTILLERY.
"a. j. Sypher, one of the rotten borough
Senators with whom this State is cursed,
and who bribed the notorious Jacques to
forge atfidavits for the benefit Of his broth
or, said in the Senate that the Returning
Board is the artillery of the Republican
party. We shall see what that artillery
will amount to when opposed by the Krupp