New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-15

D. purchase conueet,E railroads, or to sell
own railroads, a authorizing the corpo
IN, ton to issua = Ids Of the corporation.
The constie.tional rules being suspend
II. BY FOUR shs affirmative vote of the s.
ate. the bill was placed on ;ts seco
reading and referred to the Committee
=. Railrr.ds.
y. Ex-senator Sypher:
snste bill No. las, entitled an act to il
le rove the navigation of Bayou Tech
g above st. Martinsville, and to grant to T.
Pharr the privilege of constructing loci
therein and charge toll for passing sai
locks.
The constitutional rules being suspende
oy four-fifths affirmative vote of the Ser
ate, the bill was placed on its second read
ing and referred to the Committee on Ca
mails, Drainage and Inland Navigation
INTRODUCTION OF JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
BY Senator Goode:
Senate JOINT resolution No. II, entitled
Joint resolution memorializing the national
Congress to discriminate in the tariff against
all imports being the products Of slave
labor.
The constitutional rules being suspended
by four-ffths affirmative vote of the Sen.
ate. the joint resolution was placed on its
second reading.
On motion of Senator Goode the joint
resolution was considered engrossed.
On motion of Senator Go ode the const l.
tutional rules were suspended by . four
ifths affirmative vote of the Senate in order
to place the joint resolution upon ito third
| reading and final passage.
Senator Goode moved that the Joint reso :
luton finally pass.
Senator sypher called for the yeas and
nays, with the following result:
Yeas-Alexander,A ALLAN, Anderson. Black.
burn, Bresux, Brewster, Burch. Chadbourn
Gage, Detiege, Dumont, George, Goode, Ola.
greene, Grover, Harper, Kelso, Kelly, Lam
cry, Mascot, Ogden, Pollard, Robertson,
Stamps, steven, Sypher, Twitchell, Weber,
" Rsra N " aite' whitney. Young-33.
Aesent--Blunt. Eustis, Herwig-3.
The joint resolution was finally passed,
its title adopted and it WAS ordered to be
sent to the House for concurrence.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
When the Senate last adjourned, it had
under consideration the motion of Senator
Robertson to take up House bills on their
first reading.
The motion was adopted.
HOUSE BILLS ON FIRST READING.
House bill No. l5S, entitled an act to pro-
vide an annual pension for the surviving
veterans of the war of 1912 to 1915, who
participated in the siege or battles of New
Orleans in December, 1914. and January,
1915, a. we'll as for the surviving widows of
such veterans; to fix and determine the
mode and cost of ascertaining who shall
received such pension and to repeal all
other laws hitherto enacted on the same
subject matter, was read the first time.
The constitutional rules being suspended
by four-ffths affirmative vote Of the Sen
ate, the bill was placed on its second read
ing and referred to the Committee on
Pensions.
House bill No. 2S6, substitute for House bill
No. 81, entitled an act relative to the Offices
of master and wardens of the port of New
Orleans; to repeal section 22l7 of the Re-
Used Statutes of Louisiana, and to abolish
b ,e charge of So for rendering their SER
e ces to seagoing vessels, was read the first
e he constitutional rules being suspended
e four-ffths affirmative vote of the Sen
% sthe bill was placed on its second read
;. uud referred to the Committee on Com
m, and Manufactures.
Ase bill No 2O6, entitled an act to in
D corate the town of Benton in the parish
d OF Aier; to provide for the election of it's
omc to define their powers and duties.
and rovide for the government of the
" same,s read for the first time.
, Inc stitutional rules being suspended
oy q 1oifths affirmative vote of the Sem
; ste' the was placed on its second read
:. ing ana erred to the Committee on Cor
poration, I'd Parochial Affairs.
!. House No. 243, entitled joint resolu-
u ton favor the passage of the bill now
# before CoI IS to ask aid for the cons true
= ton OF the xas Pacific railway, and ask
3 ing for thebstitution in said bill of the
New orleat acifc Railway Company, in
:, lieu OF the Orleans, Baton Rouge and
9 Vicksburg load Company, Is the
}. agency to ouihe New Orleans branch of
I said Pacific RAJ ", and fixing the terminal
J. points OF said ,w Orleans Pacific Rail
way Company Asew Orleans and Shreve-
; port, was read IL rat time.
The constitute rules being suspended
by four-ifths at,ative vote of the SEN
ate, the bill was led on its second read
, ing and referred ka Committee On Rail-
3 | 70 ads.
House bill No. { entitled an .ct to
> repeal act No. AZ OF %, entitled an vet to
, enforce the payment taxes duo the State,
, providing for the se,re and sale of the
property of delinquentxpayers, and r>gu-
latlng the proceedineagainst them md
their property and tenal, approved Mar.h
ii, 1873, was read the fiji time.
The constitutional ru, being suspended
, by four ffths afirmati, vote of the Sel-
} ate, the bill was placed it's second read
ing and referred to th Committee OF
Judiciary.
House bill No lSs. entitlt an act to fix the
annual salary Of the distric attorney OF the
First Judicial District an regulating the
| modo If pavmant the samoo he in lieu Of