The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-03
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session fur United Hfate8 Benator.
Joint SESSION
II The Joint session was called ID order BY lib
Hon. Louis a. Witt. Lieutenant Governor AM
President Of the Senate.
onacall Of the roll, the following Senators
answered to their names!
~ Messrg B9ataer. Demas, pucros. Ellis, Ens
Mitchell. ogden, Perkins, Richardson, Robert
swgn, . sandiford steven. Texada, Wheeser
On call Of the roll OF the House the follow
ing members answered To their names:
dige. Aycoek, BaEbin, Brfdgef. Brcard. BoTdsn,
Bsa .a, Barrett Brady. guck. Berry. Bell,
BI ,1eg b., Billiea carogs, cressy De,ayigne.
daskins. Gillespie. Huntington. Hammond. Hill
81 q, orleans, Jonas. Kennedy. Kelly Of Orleans,
81 osaa LyosMs Lsds ass Lea
s EgI9pe ssI hgIaad Eidgley hoe haksDsare,
Trsmoaist Yosr vooriss S@sba nhs
nmliliams. Young OF Claiborne. Young Of East
Baton Rouge-G5.
The President declared quorum present In
both houses and that the Joint Assembly would
now proceed to ballot for United States Sena-
tor for the term commencing March next.
The Secretary OF the Senate read the names
OF the candidates. to wit:
Hon. b. 3. Jonas Of Orleans; Hon. Randall L.
Gibson Of Orleans; Hon. r. G. Wiekliffe. OF
West Feliciana; Hon. W. D. Egan of eaddo;
Hon. W. A. Robertson Of st. Landry.
The rolls Of the respective branches of the
General Assembly we're then called. with the
following result:
Senator'S Boatner. Grover. Ogden and Steven,
and Representatives Aycock, Bridger. Breard.
Bowden, Brady. Buck, Berry Forester. 9askins
Huntington. Hammond. Kennedy. Kidd. Lyons.
stagg. Steele. Smart and VOORHEES, voted for Hon.
Senators Robertson. sandiford and White.
Delayigne, Estopinai, Fitzpatrick. Hill Of Or
leans, Kelly OF Orleans. Lamare. Kernochan
Role and Self voted for the Hon. u. L. Gibson
senators Ducros. Perkins and Richardson,
and REPRESENTATIVES, Bell, Robertson. Dupree.
porter Ps a,a j kyliand Barbin spler IRE.
Baton as Rouge voted for the Hon. Il. 9. Wiekliffe
arie. and Representatives Carloss. Duke, Jonas,
Leeds. Means, McGehee. Pitts. TAYLOR and
Washburne voted for the Hon. W. b. Egan-1s
Senators Demas, Ellisa Eust,s. George. Gar
~, sf.y and Mitchell. and kspf
Bush. Barron. Briggs. Gillespie. Nunez. kieh"
ardson. Billieu. Sellers and Yousg OF CLAIBORNE
voted for tho Hon. w. A. kosersson--f6 votes.
Total number OF votes cast So. necessary to q
\
The President declared that as neither candi-
date had received majority OF the votes cast In
Joint assembly, there was no election.
On motion OF Mr.. Robertson. the joint assem-
bly, adjourned until tomorrow. at IL o'clock M.
and the Senate withdrew TO It's own chamber.
The Senate was called to order by Lieutenant
Governor Witt. President Of the Senate
On call of the roll the following Senators an
swered to their names;
Messrs Boainer, Demas, Ellis. Garland,
George, Goode. Grover, Mitchell. Ogden, fer-
| kins Richardson, Robertson, Sandiford, Steven
| Texada, Wheeler, Zaeharie-H.
Absent : Messrs. Allain. Breaux. BRYANT
| Burch. Cage. pucres. Dumont. tustis. Ola
| Harper, Kelly, Landry. Stamps. Sutton. Twitch-
| ell. Wakefield. White. Young--fs.
| On motion of Mr.. Grover the Senate adjourn.
| ed until 10 o'clock m. February ID. 1877.
| JOHN CLEGG,
| Secretary Of the Senate.