The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-24
ton OF the bill was postponed for fifteen

pended In order to allow him to submit at this
time the report Of the committee Of confer.
ence, appointed by the Senate and House ol
Representatives on the amendments to The
constitution of tho State as proposed by tht
Senate.
The report was as follows:
Rooms COMMITTEES ON CONFERENCE. |
New Orleans, February Il. 1878.
To tho Honorable President Of the Senate and
Speaker Of the House and Members OF the
General Assembly:
Your Committee on Conference as to the
disagreement between the two houses on the
subject of the amendments proposed by the
House to the constitutional amendments
adopted by the Senate, report as follows:
On amendment to amendment two, now
amendment three, that the House adhere to
It's amendment and the Senate accept the
amendment of the House. -
On amendment to amendment nine, that
the House adhere and therefore that the
Senate accept the amendment proposed by
the House
On amendment eleven. that further
action be deferred. The object of tho last re-
commentator is based on the conclusion that
o new amendment. to be proposed In tho
SSlate, when IT comes to the House, will set
tlS all the difference on the subject matter,
which amendment will be conceived as follows
'rrhe General Assembly shall divide tho
State into judicial districts. which shall re-
main unchanged for four years, and for each
district one Judge, learned in the law, slhalpbe
elected by u plurality of qualified electors
thereof. For each district there shall be one
in which the General Assembly may establish
as many district courts as the public interest
may require, not to exceed the number now
authorized by existing laws, except by two
branches Of the General Assembly. Until
otherwise provided by law the district courts
now existing in the parish of Orleans shall
have the jurisdiction at present conferred, by
law; no redistriGting or change shall
be made 50 as to take effect feet
The number Of districts In the State shall
not be less than thirty nor more than forty
five. The General Assembly shall provide by
law for at least four terms annually OF the
Assembly shall have power to create circuit
courts. to be constituted by grouping the dis
trlct judges into circuits. and composing the
circuit court of the Judges Of the district
courts within such circuits. To direct the
place or places. OF meeting OF said dc. circuit WI
circuit courts SO created such jurisdiction
and power within the circuit as may be
deemed expedient, and to vest said circuit
courts with appellate Jurisdiction from the
district courts within the circuit where the
amount involved exceeds one hundred dollars
tS10O) exclusive of interest, and does not ex-
coed five hundred dollars $500 exclusive Of In
terest. Q
'The General Assembly shall have power by
a two thirds vote Of oil the members elected TO
both houses to restrict the appellate jurisdic
ton OF the Supreme Court to causes where
the amount involved exceeds one thousand
$4,000 dollars, exclusive q onterest, and In
case of such restriction tile circuit courts SO
to be created shall have appellate jurisdiction
Of the class Of cases thus excluded from the
appellate jurisdiction Of the Supreme Court.
The clerks of the district court shall be
elected by the qualified voters Of their re-
spective parishes, and shall hold their Office
for four years"
Strike out article 49,
J.. D. WHITE,
p. LANDRY,
"a b. LYONS,
II G. WARMOTH, a
O Ct. l.. HASKINS,
ID. A. BREARD, JR., "A
HENRY l.. GARLAND
On motion of Mr.. White the propositions
in the report were taken up sepa-
rately.
Mr. White moved that the Senate agree to
the proposition Of the Conference Cougnittee
to agree to the following amendment offered
by tho House to amendment two, as proposed
by the Senate:
To adopt amendment two Ts amendment
three with the following amendment: Insert
IN line 4, after the word hundred the word
dollars"
Making the amendment as amended read
us follows
AMENDMENT THREE:
The members Of the General Assembly shall
be paid o salary Of five hundred dollars $4,000
per session and actual travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route not to exceed
fifty dollars $3.50 for any one member; pro-
hnf III tyyn n hnIH in fhn
same year they shall receive for the second
session in that year a salary Of only two hun
bred and fifty dollars $3.50 and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practicable route
member. The regular biennial session shall
not exceed ninety days in duration, unless
by vote OF two-thirds Of the members elected
to each house Of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article 39.) O
The President directed the Secretary to call
The roll on the adoption of amendment three
The roll being called resulted as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allan, Boatner, Burch. Bry-
ant. Cage, Demas, Ducros. Dnmont Ellis
5arland, George, ella, Goode, Harper, Mitch
sags steven stnbbs s1tton Tazs2n
rwitchell, Wakefield, Wheeler, White, Young
md Zacharie-30.
Nays-None.
Absent y Messrs. Breaux Grover Kelly,
y, " DOHu6ll itlll
Two-thirds of the Senators elected having
voted in the affirmative, the President de-
,iared the amendment adopted as amendment
three. @
Mr.. Robertson moved that amendment
two as adopted by the House, be now
taken up. @
The President ruled the motion out Of
)rdfx, for the reason that the Senate was now
considering the Sport of the Committee on
Conference.
The hour of 80 o'clock having arrived, the
special order Of the day was taken up, being
Senate bill No. 11G, Q
'An act to remove the seat of government
rom the city o6 New Orleans, and to estab-
ish the same in the city of Baton Rouge, and
20 appropriate the sum of ten Thousand dol
ars to remove the furniture archives, records
and papers belonging to the General Assem-
Oily and to the several offices required by law
to be kept at the seat Of government, and to
provide suitable buildings therefor"
On mStiOn of Mr., Demas, further consider