The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-13

| whole expense of said police force and Fire
| Alarm Telegraph shall not exceed and is hereby
| limited to the sum of three hundred thousand
| dollars per annum."
| Amendments to title: After the word city in
| the nth line, TO add the words. land to assume
control of the Fire Alarm Telegraph" And to
add after the last word In the last line t2O) the
| words 'hnd to limit the annual expense of the
same
| Under suspension Of the rules the foregoing
| amendments were seYerally adopted, and the
| bill was ordered to be taken as engrossed.
| On the motion Of Mr.. Jonas the House. by
rising vote Of 50 ayes to nays, granted further
| suspension of the rules in order to put the bill
| upon its third reading
| JOINT SESSION.
| At IL o'clock IN. the Senate entered the Hall of
| Representatives, Hon. Louis A. Wils. Lieuten-
| ant Governor, presiding, for the purpose of
uniting with the House in joint session Of The
| General Assembly with q view to further ballot
ing for Senator to represent the State of Lou
siana in the Senate of the United StHtcs for the
term beginning March 4. 1877.
| On % call Of tho roll the following Senators
| answered to their names:
Messrs. Brcaux, Demas, Ducros. Ellis, Eustis.
Garland, George, Go9de, Grover. ely, Mitchell
| ford. Steven, Stubbs Texada, Wheeler, White,
| md Hanharia-22.
And q quorum of the Senate
On q call of the roll of the House the 70 low
Ting members answered to their names:
| Hon. L. Bush, Speaker: and Messrs Aldige,
Aycock Harbin.- Brdger. Breard, Bowden.
Barrett. Brady Berry, Bell. Billieu. Carloss,
Or9ssKz. Deasigne, Duke, Dupreg; Iitzpat
Hill of Orleans. jonas. Kelly Of VIM, Kelly Of
Orleans, Kernochon, Lyons, Leeds, Lamare.
Lea, Le9nhard Of Orleans: Martin Means , Nc
sS1 1" Fdsee 1y sR%kspsae s0 S sa
S ocSs ssSFs S T Wd" Wd Ws Nss
Young of Claiborne and Young Of East Baton
| Rouge.
Sixty-three members and Il quorum of the
| House.
The purpose of this joint session was an
nounced by the presiding officer. and the nomi-
nations were read as follows:
| Messrs. Jonas. Gibson. Wickliffe, Egan. Rob-
ertson and White.
| There being no further nominations, the roll
| of the Senate was called with the following re-
| suit:
| Senators Ellis, Stubbs, Ogden and Steven
voted for tho Hon b. +. JONAS.
Senators Robertson and White voted for Hon.
Senators Perkins, Richardson and Texada
| voted for Hon. Il. G. Wickiffe-3.
senators Grover and George voted for the
Senators Breaux. Ducros. Garland Goode,
Kelly, Mitchell and Zacharie voted for Hon. w.
A. Robsrtson-7,
senay Jrs Demas, Eusts, sandiford and
Wheeler voted for Hon. E. d. White-4.
| The roll of the House was called when the
| following members voted for the Hon. E. D.
| White
Messrs. Tremou ct and Taylor.
The following members voted for the Hon.
| B. f. Jonas:
Messrs. Aycock, Bridger, Breard,, Bowdep,
Brady, Berry. Caross, Cressy. Deayigne.
| Ieonhard. Newsom. hole. Shakespeare, Bilieu.
| stagg. Steele, Ridgley and Young of Claiborne
| The following members voted for the Hon.
| Randall L. Gibson:
Messrs Adidge. Barrett. Boil, Fitzpatrick.
Kelly of Orleans. Lamare, kernochdn, and Self
The following members voted for the Hon. r..
| G. Wickliffe:
Messrs, Dupree, Lyons. Porter. ,Peralta.. Ry-
aGd Bar6n Tplller y3 cor pao w2od wide
| The following members voted for the Hon. W.
| B. Fgan:
| Speaker Bush and Messrs. Duke, Jonas,
| eeds. Means. McGehee, Pitts, Randolph, Smart,
| Taylor and Washburne-l1
| The following members voted for the Hon: W.
| A. Robertson: Messrs Gillespie, Kelly. of VIM.
Martin. Nunez, Richardson and Sellers.
Total vote unnecessary to choice AZ.
No one candidate having received a majority
of all the votes cast. the presiding officer de-
clared that there had been no election.
Mr.. Grover. of the Senate. suggested that
| next Monday was q national holiday and Tues
| day dies non under State laws.
| Mr.. Kelly, of the Senate. moved that the joint
assembly do now adjourn until Wednesday next
at IL o'clock m.
Mr. VOORHEES,. of the House, made the point OF
order that the only motion now in order was
motion to adjourn and for the Senate to with
| draw.
The Chair decided the point of order well
| taken.
On motion of Mr.. Kelly. the Senate withdrew
| to its chamber.
SPECIAL ORDER OF TIE DAY.
| The House resolved itself into a Committee of
| the Whole House in pursuance of leave granted
| February g. for the further consideration of
House bill No. "a. the General Revenue bill.
| Mr.. Lyons in the chair.
The committee on rising reported progress
and asked leave to sit again on the next regular
day of the session at o'clock D. m.
The report was received and leave to sit again
| as asked was granted.
| Mr.. Ryland without previous notice, given by
consent of the House. introduced bill entitled:
| House bill No. 49, An act to exclude certain
landS from drainage llInltS as heretofore eStab-
! lshed. to cancel liens on judgments on said
| lands. and to repeal certain acts relative to
drainage in the parishes of Orleans and Jeffer-
son.
Under suspension Of the rules the bill was
passed to its second reading. placed upon the
calendar and referred to the Committee ON
Canals and Drainage:
MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
The following message was received from his
Excellency the Governor:
EXECUTIVE DEPA RTMENr, J
State of louisiana
New Orleans. February 10, 1877. J
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House Of Representatives of the State of
louisiana
Gentlemen-T am directed by his Excelleney
the Governor to return to the House of Repre-
snnl atiues In which IL nrioinntad. Honse hill