The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-06

laid on the table.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
The following message was received from
the House:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
New Orleans February 4. 1878. }
TO the Honorable President and Members OF the
senate:
| am directed to inform your honorable
body that the House Of kepresent.n,,tlves mus
concurred in the following Senate bills, VIZ:
Senate bill No. 80.
stAn act TO require all State, district and
parochiaI officers of this State whether elected
or appointed, to take the oath OF office and give
bond. where bond is required. and cause the
same to be fled in the proper Office In the
after the receipt Of their commissions, and TO
declare vacant any office where tho officer
elected or appointed to fill the same shall fail
to comply with the requirements Of this act
within Che limitations therein fixed"
Senate bill No Cd,
Gan act to authorize the institution Of suits
to test the suf1ieiency Of sureties on official
bonds
Also to inform you that the Speaker Of the
House has signed
House enrolled bill No ia,
can act to authorize tho parish OF St. lam
many to levy special tax,
And TO ask that the Lieutenant Governor
and President of the Senate atflx his signature
NeSp'''l PEfjE X. J. IRRELEVANT,
Chief Clerk
Mr.. Young moved that Senate bill No. 81 be
indefinitely postponed, aud demanded the
yeas and nays.
The hour Of 80 o'clock having arrived, the
special order Of tho day was taken up
On motion of Mr.. Allan the special order
I,
Mr. Boatner moved the previous question
on Mr. Young's motion to indefinitely post
pone Senate bill No. 81 I'd
The main question was Srdered.
The roll being called on the main question
resulted as follows:
Yeas Mcssrs. Allan. Bryant. Burch, Cage
Garland, George ella. Goode, Harper, Kelly,
Mitchell. Perkins. Robertson, Stamps, Sutton,
Texada, TwitGhell, Wakefield, wheeler ana
Young 20.
Nays-Messrs Boatner, Ducros, Ellis, Og-
den, Stubbs, White and Iacharie-7.
Absent Messrs. Brcaux, Demas, Dumont,
Grover. Landry. ODonnell Richardson, san
dford and Stevens.
And the motion to indefinitely postpone
the bill prevailed,
Mr.. Allain moved to reconsider the vote
Just taken and on his own motion the motion
to reconsider was laid on the table.
Senate bill No. 90, entitled
"An act in relation to applications for par
dons. and to authorize the Governor to APP
point commissions to inquire into and report
to him in relation to the facts and basis OF such
application" was taken up under the report
of the Committee on the Judiciary
The hour Of 2 o'clock having arrived, the
special order of the day was taken up. being
Senate bill No. 81, entitled
"An act to strengthen the insurance compa-
MES chartered under the laws of this State"
Mr.. Grover moved that the bill be taken as
engrossed and read the third time.
Mr.. White offered the following substitute:
That the bill be referred to the Committee
on Finance, with instructions to report bill
for the better security Of policy holders in
foreign as well as local Insurance. companies.
On motion of Mr.. Kelly the Senate went
into executive session.
Executive session being raised. on call of
the roll the following Senators answered to
their names
Messrs. Allain, Boatner, Bryant, Burch,
Cage, Ducros, Ellis, Garland. George,
Ola, Goode, Grover, Harper, Kelly,
Ogden, Perkins, Robertson, Sandiford
Stamps. Stubbs., Sutton, Texada, Twitchell.
Absent Messrs;,, Breaux Demas, Dunont.
Landry, Mitchell, ODonnell, Richardson,
Steven and Young9.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
The following message was received from
the House:
House OF REPRESENTATIVES, I
New Orleans. February O. 1878. J
TO the Honorable President and Members of
the Senate:
| I am directed to inform your honorable
! body that the House has finally passed the
| following bills, and ask the concurrence OF
the Senate in the same:
House bill No. 50,
can act to authorize and empower the State
Treasurer to pay certain warrants herein de-
scribed'
House bill No. 80.
Gan act to repeal an act exempting the cor
poration of the town of Bastrop from the pay
ment Of parish taxes and to fix the limits OF
taxation for corporation purposes, to the sum
of fifteen hundred dollars per annu1n."
A'e'p''''PE PETER J. IRRELEVANT,
Chief Clerk
Consideration Of Senate bill No. 80 was re-
sumed.
Mr. Allan demanded the yeas and nays OF
Mr.. Whites substitute.
The roll being called resulted as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Burch. Gage, Ducros, George
Harper. Mitchell, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton
Texada, Twitchell, Wakefield, White anc
Young-14
Nays-Messrs Allan, Bryant, Garland
ella, Goode, Grover, Kelly, Perkins anc
| Wheeer-9.
Absent Messrs. Boatner, Breaux Demas
Dumont, Landry, ODonnell, Ogden, Richard
son, Robertson, Sandiford, Steven and Zach
arie-12.
Mr. Ellis, who was present, and would have
voted no. was paired with Mr.. Robertson
who was absent, and would have voted "yes y
And the substitute was adopted, and the bill
was referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Grover moved that the committee be
instructed to report on the bill in three days
Mr.. White moved to lay that motion on the
table.
Mr.. Grover demanded the yeas and nays