The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-17
FIFTH LEGISLATURE.
EXTRA SESSION or 1875 80 EIGHTH
DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The senate.

The senate.
The Senate was called to order OF IL m. by
Lieut. Gov. Witt; present. twenty-four sena-
tors: quorum MIS- -. r.n,,.s from, Tho corn.
it ne So on pr cssp U Bills None offered
Mr.. Stubbs, from the conference committee NIT, on
the revenue bill, submitted a report with rec
The committee OF conference on House pill
No. IL have The honor to report that they recon-
Trst-That the House concur in that portion
of the first and second Senate amendments
which strikes out the words twelve and one,
w ,"ed thirteen mills be- inserted IN lieu Of
the words twelve and one half mills" where
0i ThirdoThat the House reject the third SEN
ate amendment and insert the words and one
sg a tha wGhe m
the word mills" in the same line, to wit: No
part Of which shall be applied to the payment
=. F S the House concur IN the fourth
Senate amendment 80 far as to strike out all OF
the lines % and "a Of section I. except the word
ton Of said amendment which strikes out lines
10, 20. al and ~ of same section,
Fifth-That the House concur In the nth Sen
ton l. after the word business" the following:
"And all the investments or values Of my kind"
endment including In brackets the words
GLIDING with shareholders" in lines go and GIL.
seventh amendment. which adds at the close of
line So the words Including consolidated State
Eighth-That the House concur In that por-
ton OF The Senate amendment number eight
which strikes out the tenth paragraph OF sec
fss and ana 10
thereof the words excess OF all annuities and
salaries" ETC.. and further. that the Senate re-
e eedg out The Words derived from any
Ninth-That The House concur in the ninth
being lines 49, 144 1A5. LAG and LAT OF section L.,
Tenth-That the House concur In the tenth
Senate amendment striking oat he VOID. VOID ,hir-
Eleventh - That the House concur in the
eleventh Senate amendm n striking out iou r.
teenth" and inserting thirteenth IN line 1es.
teenth Observation-Disclosures the House refused to
concur In and that the Senate recede from Senate
amendments twelve tnlrteen fourteen; hlte en-
whole of section be stricken out; that section
become section 8; that section become Sec
Eghteenth-T the House concur in Senate
amendment eighteen only 80 far as is stricken
IN Ni s the Senate recede from its
| amendments. striking out section z. and that the
following be added to said section: Pr3yided
that this shall not apply to bre weres distilleries
or other factories making malt. spirituous or
other liquors or compounds.
That section become sections.
THWaeSn sy The House ' concur in Senate
amendment. number twenty In line L. seetion
now SECTION G. Inserting Ing, ne words and
section Z: that section 10 become section 8.
Twenty f1rst-That the House concur in SEN
ate amendment twenty-one to line A. section 10,
nov. Sc section 8. striking out for and insert
Twenty. second-That the House concur in
Senate amendment twehty,itWyo adding a the
twenty -three-That the Senate recede from
Its amendment to the title.
Respectfully submitted:
chair M Z ~ Ho 3 s& G2p mi
Chairman Senate Committee.
Mr.; stpbbs explained the report and moved
lcg Enoda ,nouired n the commons on State
bonds were to be taxed under the report.
Mr.. Stubs replied In the negative, stating
that the Senate committee had reeQm n 311
Mr.. Goode desired to be placed ON record as
opposed to any tax ON INCOMES , or any tax upon
made an unjust discrimination against manu-
facturers while The professional man was
would be imperative. and moved the report be
's The d aes ste ana td
adopted. as we're the fourth. fifth. sixth and
The eighth was read, when Mr.. Stubs ex-
plained the recommendati9n which, ne said q.
excess Of $1,000 where the properly from which
the income is derived has already paid q tax.
He explained further that the bill. under the re-;
port, would tax all incomes from professional
sources In excess OF $1,000. exempting, however.
M: Geode vas opposed, to any tax t (. On J., in,
Of the United States laws taxing incomes. He
would not. however. oppose the adoption ofthe
Assembly would remedy that portion Of the
bill. He called attention also to that portion of
the bill which provided that no part OF the reve-
The State-H fund to pay for the st. Louis
Hotel. quoting IN his remarks an act. section s:
Ct 1875. which gives any court in the parish Of
process against the State. and setting apart one
6s payment Of The price q t$s
was opposed to the income tax will Be- in It's
practical operation inquisitorial and exceeding
r Ebp1G nsd t. h s PS law this subject he said
was found to be demoralizing and to great ex-
tent improbable. and was soon repealed:
than the bill under consideration. I cannot.
said he. ascertain whether. under the bill, gross
or net incomes will be taxed. and if net incomes
gross income are not specified.
The bill makes an unjust and singular dis
against merchants
others. In providing that no tax shall be i'm
posed On incomes derived from property. on
which a tax Is collected. while a tax Is levied on
incomes derived from trades, professions and
occupations on which a license has been paid.
This. in my opinion. is against Justice, equity
and public policy.
Mr. Stubbs replied that the committe had thor
oughly canvassed that point and thought that
nothing serious would result.
Mr. Ogden said that the contract made was
| the building was purchased. and in his opinion
the Supreme Court would sustain the contract
a tax and set apart a fund for the payment
named.
The eighth and remaining recommendations
were adopted to the eighteenth.
Mr.. White thought the adoption of this recon-
and. in short, it would prevent as the State Au-
dtor said before the committee. the collection
OF dollar In taxes before December next. New
every parish in the State. and practically under
the existing statutes. not dollar would be col
lected until next December. The Senate he
said, inserted the sections to guard against this