The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-30


HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES, |
New Orleans, La, Thursday, April 20,
House was called to order at II o'clock A. H.
Present
Avsoak. Bridger. Breard Burton. Dowaan,
Br9wn Of Jefferson Barrett, Bosey. Brady, Buck
Como ra J. Cole. burden. Drew. Do Lacy, Dickinson
Dinkgrave. Detiege, peioie. Duke, nupree Fobe'
Eoerster. Claude Gary, Gil espie Graeiies,ni,
of Orleans, Keeting. Kelly of Winn. Kelly OF
Orleans. Kid, Lyons. Leeds. Lam'are, Lea.
q s 2s"n s Meef' Na atn h fofss
ksaSsph EsnYIs Ksby 4l}s sssa a%ss'
Washington. Watson, Washburn. Walker. Wood.
Williams Young OF Claiborne. ana Young OF
East Baton Rouge.
sevepty eight members and quorum.
Prayer was offered by the Right Reverend
Bishop Wilmer.
The journal of April a5 was corrected and ap-
proved.
RESOLUTIONS PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
The following resolution was presented by
Mr.. Ay .ock of Orleans:
| Be il resolred the House Of Representatives..
That the thanks Of this House are hereby ten
dered to the officers and members OF the Har.
| mony Club for. the unallpyed hospitality ana
courtesy manifested by them in favor Of the
this n hYuss ansa a tf Hose II
| isiana. and that the Speaker be requested TO
convey TO the Harmony .plub, together with 9
esteem a. in Nv, which they are held by u.s.
| Under u suspension of tho rules the resolu-
| ton was adopted.
Mr.. Hammond offered the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved bv The House Of Representatives., That
| tha ch nirmnn ~ the Clommittee on Contingent
| Lvr bo ai tn isgua his nartifrn to
n. Il. Wilson, of the parish OF Ascension, con-
tesant of the seat Of b. Fobb. for the mileage
| and per diem of the regular session ana per
| diem of the extra session.
The resolution was ordered to lie over under
the rules.
Mr. Kennedy offered the following resolution
RESOLVED. That the sum of 800 be and the same
Is hereby appropriated as ratitieation TO eacf
Of the W. tb 9 repo re
porter OF the Bee the reporter II the German
Gazette and the reporter OF the DEMOCRAT, wht
have reported the proceedings Of the House
and that the same be paid out of the contingent
fund of the House of representatives,.
Mr.. Kennedy moved that the rules be sus
pended in order to consider the resolution.
On the motion to suspend, the yeas and nay'
we're called for. with the following result
Yeas-Messrs. Aycoek. ,Bridger, Barrett
, Forester, Kennedy, Keeting, Kelly Of W Viz
Kelly Of Orleans kdd Ley ksWs se Lea
Young Yourmse q Ciaib o . " ' ~ w
; Nays--Hon. l.. Bush. Speaker and Messrs
Aidige, Breard, Burton. Bowden, Brown OF Jef
Cole, Davidson. Dayries. Drew. Lacy Lacy, piek kh,
Gary Gillespie. Gracien. Hill OF Ascension
Hughes. Holt Hammond. Hill of Orleans
I Martin Means, Million, NJ Gehee. Newsom, POI
ter, Pitts. Ryland Randolph. Romero, Rab!
: spiller Steele, Smart, Thomas Taylor, Tolive
, Toler, Washington, Watson. Walker. William
: and Young of East Baton Rouge 80.
t The motion to suspend was lost and the rest
luton lies over under the rules.
Mr. Hahn in the chair.
Mr. Young chairman of Committee on Cor
S tingent Expenses. presented the following II
port and resolution:
The majority of the Committee on Contingel
l. Expenses to whom was referred the resoIutio
!, to uay Mr. u, Jacobs. porter OF the EnrolllI
Ii COMMITTEES the sun of three dollars and fff
cents per day for his services as Sueh peg leh'
to report that they recon mend ne De PAID w
@ dollars day. !,
.. be paid U. Jacobs for services as porter OF u
ID enrolment room from January l, 1871 Till ADJ
rs, 1877. the same to he paid out OF the Hou
a contingent fund.
y On the motion of Mr.. Young. Of Claiborne.
, rising vote of 81 yeas to Is nays, the rules we
suspended. and the resolution was taken up
~ On the adoption of the resolution the ye
- and nays were called for by Mr.. Brldger, WI
the following result:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldige. Aycock, Brown OF ga "a
do, Burton, Bowden. Brown OF JEFFERSON, ~
l. reit, Bosley, Brady. Brooks, Buck. Berry, ID
Briggs, Carloss. Carville. Cressy. ooie. Dru