The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-04

i Smart. D. H., Of vsrnaIni.
Il Taylor ]. o., Of Ouaehita.
Trs.noulet H., OF Orleans, Seventh Represent.
| Toler. r. H., of Htehland. ...
,yoorhies. Albert, Of orleansi5ixth Represent.
Washburn, W, W, Of Morehouse.
a., Wide ~ \ H., Of Orleans, Second Represents
williams J. NJ, OF Fast Baton Rouge.
Young John, OF Claiborne.
Young. III. o.. Of East Baton Rouge.
Sixty-sevoh members and u quorum Of the
House.
The Speaker announced to the House that the
Assistant Clerk, Minute Clerk and Sergeant at
Arms had rendered their services TO the House
until an organization should be effected and
their successors appointed.
Mr. Kidd offered The following resolution:
! Resolted bv Me House Of Representatives, That
the otgan isatiOn Of the House Of Representa-.
tiyes IT the regular session shall remain 40 ths
nrganl7atl9n o. the Hguse for the extra session.
| suspension Of the rules being ashed for and
granted he moved the resolution be- adopted.
| The rules requiring biea roce vote the roll
was called with the following result
,Y Yeas L; Bush. Speaker, and Messrs.
hags hys9Sss ga,be gl Be gtdss5
Duke bugres, Eytoginal, Flt4patrgk, F9srstep..
kereoshaa Ksfly d VIM. Rely ii Of + 0rssns
Kidd. Lyons. Leeds, lamare, Len. Leohhprd Of
gr cans. Martin. Mte.aehgye Newsom. ,N4nez.
Randolph, Holle Hoborts9n. Hidgley, shaks.
penre, Singleton SELF spiIler; .btagg, steele,
sG a Ws ssr ay Witt IoTf vooa
| Claiborne. Young Of East Baton Rouge-G5.
| Nhys-nons.
| The resolution WINS adopted and the House
| was declared duly organized.
| Mr.. Young Of Claiborne moved that q com
| mites be appointed to inform the Senate and
| his Ekcelsncy the Governor that the House Of
| Representatives isduly organized and ready 10
proceed to business.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The following message was received from the
Senate;
SENATE CHAMBER STATE or Lou1stANA.
New Orleans. March .. 1877. T.
TO Ire Honorable the Speaker and Members of
bite House Of Representatives:
Geittlencn-I an directed by the Ssnh' @ to in
| form your honorable body thnt tho senate Is
now organized aud ready to procesd with bust
ness and that II committee Of three Senator'S,
have been appointed to wait upon his ESesllen-
| ey. tho Governor. m inform him Of the organ
laalPn OF ne y, sII9nats and to REQUEST the ap
orhbe body for similar purpose.
Worry Respectfully. elcn
Secretary Of the Senate.
The House, on motion. acceeded to the re-
quest Of the Senate, and Messrs Young OF Clai-
borne, Kidd and VOORHEES, were appointed on
| said Joint COMMITTEES on the part of the House.
The speaker announced that the standing
| committees Of the House Us appointed for the
| regular session would remain unchanged ex
tept by filing vacancies.
On the motion of Mr. Aldige. the rules Of tho
| House as adopted ut the regular session were
| readopted for this special session.
JOINT SESSION.
A Joint session Of tho General Assembly WINS
held for the purpose Of further balloting for
Senator 10 represent tho State Of Louisiana in
the Senate Of the United States for The term be.
ginning March 4, 1877. Hon. LOUIS A.. Witt,
Lieutenant Governor. and President of the Sem
hte presiding.
The roll Of the Senate was called. whom the
following Senators answered TO their names:
Messrs. Brenus Ducros, Ellis 'Et1stia. Cur
land. George, Goode. Hrover Kelly. Mitchell,
Ogden Perkins Richardson. RC b5rson. sand-
ford, Steven. Stubbs Texada. Wheeler. White
and Hacharie.
Twenty Senators and quorum Of tho Senate
Tha roll Of the House being called. the fol-
lowing members answered to their names:
Hon. H. Bush, Speaker. and, Measrs. Aldige.
Ayeoek. Bridger. Breard. Bowden, Barbin. Bar
ron. Brady. Berry. Bell, Briggs. gillieu, Cocker
y,
Estopinal. Fitzpatrick, Forester. Gaskins, Gil
lespie. Hammond, hll Of .,,rleans. Kelly of
Vim. ,koly Of Orleans Kidd. kerpoehan,
leans, Martin, McGehee. Newsom. Nunez r, r.
ter ,Perata, Pltts, Richardson. Byland, Ron
s2P S s spsr ss so Sess sSsrs
Smart, Taylor. Tremoulet. Toler. VOORHEES,
Washburne. Williams. Young of Claiborne and
Young Of East Baton Rouge.
sixty-four members and Il quorum Of tho
House.
The presiding officer announced that the
General Assembly of the State of Louisiana had
mot in his joint session. rs required by law.
for the purpose Of balotina for Senator TO
represent the State Of Louisiana in the Senate
Of tho United States for the term begin ming
March 4, 1877.
Nominations being In order were made as fol-
lows
Mr.. Berry of the House. nominated the Hon.
b. i. Jonas. Of Orleans.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick. Of the House. nominated the
Hon. II. L. G bson, of Otleans.
Mr.. Mitchell. Of the Senate, nominated the
Hon. J. G. Egan. Of Claiborne.
Mr.. Grover, Of the Senate nom mated the Hon.
W. A. Robertson. Of st. Landry.
There being no further nominations, the roll
Of the Senate was called, with the following re-
suit:
5enHJOT OtuDDS VOtGu lOT inc hon. ID. r. OnI3
i vote
Senators Kelly and Ogden voted for Hon. r.
L. Gibson-2 votes.
Senators Breauk, Eustis, Garland Grover,
Richardson Steven and Texada voted for Hon.
w. A. Robertson-7 votes.
Senators Ducros, Ellis. George. Goode,
Mitchell. Perkins. Robertson. Sandiford
Wheeler and Iacharie voted for Hon. J. @.
Egan-10 votes.
The roll of the House was called, when the
following members voted for the Hon. b. f.
Jonas:
Messrs Aycock, Bowden, Brady. Berry. Della |
vigne. Robertson, Dupree. Forester. Hammond. |
Lyons Lea, Lombard Ne rsom. Peralta, Ky- |
land Randolph. Barbin, Singleton. Bilieu, |
spller. Ridgley. Toler and Young Of East Baton |
Rouge-2j. |
Tho following members voted for the Hon. |
Randall l.. Gibson:
Messrs. Bell, Esfop'nal. Fitzpatrick. Aldige, |
Hill Of Orleans, Kelly Of Orleans. Lamare. Ker-