New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16
TIE LEGISLATURES.
Wednesday, March IA, 1877


Wednesday, March IA, 1877
No quorum, thirteen Senators being pres
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr.. Keeting presided at the call to order.
Speaker Hahn in the Chair.
SIxty-two members present at 1890 p. M.
Mr.. Hill introduced resolution citing
that certain members had agreed to take no
mileage for the extra session, and directing
the committee to issue no vouchers and
also one relative to the extra sergeants-at-
arms.
Mr.. Gracien obtained a suspension of the
rules in order to introduce q resolution
resembling the action OF the House in ex-
polling Mr.. Barrett, very few members OBJ
iecting.
Mr.. Heath stated he had been opposed
to the original resolution, and was glad to
see the House ready to rescind it's action.
1t was very proper thing to do, and the
House would sustain the vote he cast
against it, He was satisfied the majority
desired to see the member reinststed.
Mr.. Drury, as chairman of the committee
to whom the resolution of expulsion had
been referred, said he had been animated
by the spirit that pervaded the House at
that time, and he believed the expulsion to
be right. He did not believe the member
should be reinstated after having deserted
the House and used his influence in a revO-
lutiOnaIy body. He should vote against it,
though perhaps his would be the only vote.
Mr.. Dinkgrave commended the position
OF Mr.. Drury. The absence of members at
such q time was a greviOus Otfense, and
they had added to it by joining revolu-
tiOnary body. But judgment should be
rendered with the consideration that all
men were human-all liable to err-and
when it was admitted they had acted
wrong ne was DESTROYS of forgiving them.
He would not merely take step by step to
meet them, not even till they cried peccavi,
but would cross over and take them by the
hand and draw them out of the net they
we're in. he hoped all would vote for the
resolution
Messrs. Dickinson and Brown also spoke
to the resolution.
Mr.. Moore said some members had left
and perhaps thought the Odd Fellows Hall
caucus was the Legislature, but having
been there, they had become dissatisfied,
and he saw a desire to come back satisfied
this was the legal Legislature.
On call of The yeas and nays the resolu-
ton was passed by q vote of 81 TOT.
Mr.. KeetiDg, from the committee on Rp-
preparations, reported the appropriation
and deficiency bills by substitute, and they
we're ordered printed.
Both Senate and House then went into
secret caucus, sdjourning to twelve o'clock
Thursday.
Thursday, March Is, 1877.
SENATE.
No quorum.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Speaker Hahn in the chair
Sixty-three members answered the roll
call at 1920 P. M. ...
Mr.. Hill called up his resolution relative
49,
Mr.. GrAcien made the point of order that
this was out of order at the special session,
and the Speaker so ruled.
On an appeal, Mr.. Jones obtained the
floor to explain his vote, and stating he
did not believe in the efficacy of any such
resolution, expressed his undying conf
denoe in the triumph of republican govern
ment, and faith in the payment of every
body.
The Chair was sustained and the resO-
| luton killed.
Another resolution of Mr.. Hlll's, which
was the cause of some amusement, was
that the Committee on Contingent Ex-
penses should issue no vouchers to those
members who agreed to remit their mileage
and per diem. Twenty seven had voted
| against the suspension of the rules, in
order to introduce the resolution, and Mr..
Hill read their names as salary grabbers.
A motion to table motion to indefinitely
postpone the resolution was lost, and the
resolution would have been defeated if it
had not been discovered that no quorum
was voting.
A motion to adjourn was then carried.
Friday, March is, 1877.
SENATE.
No quorum.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr.. Heating in the chair.
Fifty-three members answered to the first
roll call.
A quorum appeared at twenty-five min.
utes past twelve.
Mr.. DAVIS bill to incorporate the town
of Washington, in the parish of st. Landr y
was passed.
Mr.. DiDkgrave's bill to authorize tax col.
lect0rs of the several parishes to receive
the taxes of 1875, collectible in 1876, with
out penalties until the thirty-frst day of
January, 1877, was passed.
Mr.. Graeien called up the levee bill and
stated that he had an amendment to the
section authorizing the sueing of the State
by the Levee Company, which had been
objected TO. He offered his amendment
that the bill might be referred to the Com
mittee on Lands and Levees
The yeas and nays were called, and the
bill referred by AZ yeas to 10 nays.
Mr.. S0aer introduced bill providing for
the payment of the mileage, per diem and
contingent expenses Of the General Assem-
bly, for the extra session, which, after two
callings of the roll, was referred to the COM
mittee.