The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-22

year. Including $4,000 appropriated to meet the
deficiency. that being appropriated. TO pay the
as ths ana r ,ps as 1Ts
enough: We are told that thi. bill will abolish
the parish courts saving thereby ,sss oog; grant,
courts. saying here shall be not under thirty
nor over forty i've, and in less than four years
you will have the forty i've courts in the State.
Of course. want one Of the circuit courts In his
parish, because IL would bring two offices there.
fret q Judge, and next a district attorney, which
would leave money in the parish, and that was
one reason ovhy. future, legislatures would
eventually establish such court In each
parish.
" lie would not want better eleetioneerlng
scheme than to tell the people Of his district
Mete ne fandldateI that e w9n IL, get dls
would give n place for Judge at s5ooo wear,
was folly to think even that the district courts
Tonh not b s e orty X and the
the second will and then you have got forty five
under this amendment. You say the salaries Of
than sJo0o. The Judges here in the city are com !.
PEELED to, work eight months In the year, and
YOU could not. therefore. get an honest Judi
eiary al n small or pitiful salary, and say you
Of ability, character and experience, and IN the
city Of New Orleans you cannot hope to do 90
at a LEGS salary than $4,000.
Next. every country member who comes to
the lower house will say to the others that his
district Judge has as much ability as those here
the result would be that the salaries for the dis
triet Judges would be s225,opo
!, That vas not all, You ctea,e ten courts and
the, parish attorneys, and also make really ten
additional district attorneys at $1,000 each. Now
what have you done2 You hare made the Judi
cial system cost the people 1855 900. instead Of
s2o5 900. You cannot commit the next I,egisla-
ture TO this and they will increase the judiciary,
and wheH YOU Increase from f205,onn to s2554o1o
HAT In iI,n s,F. irl 1yAI rf in
isn't tn
That, even, ia not all You would abolish the
pa, ish courts. where parties charged with mis-
demeanors are tried, aud you would say ttothe
people you cared not how small or trivial the
offence they must walt until the district court
meets and the o1ndsf gets Jury hfn IN
and the court holsllpg less than four times
There is hardly parish In the State that does
not average from $500 to f25oD for each term.
and come of the most respectable in wealth,
etc, cost $4,000. Now multiply that by two and
T 5s j. Fl 2 Ts
the RESULT There VII, not be suit in the dis
trict court where the amount is over 800. and
The evidence must be taken In writing for fear
y viii be carried TO, the. circuit court and by
this the expenses to the citizens will beaereater
aud the litigants' costs double when you abolislp
the, parish court and haye IN ts place the. cir
much IA from the parish to the district court.
] had hoped. Mr. President, that when the
we're proposed we would, pass
that we had done something Blu, what have we
done You have GONE here and cut down the
Governors salar1eslooo year and cut down tie
supreme Court. but now you would increase
the judiciary expenses from $2nb 900 to 1856 900,
and | cannot see there where the reform comes
~. except that this is reform In the wrong drec-
This amendment never will beopassed by the
people. and / tell you, city members, who repre-.
M a e sa"s y q ee
that when you think the country will vote for
this, when IT increases their tax. you are mis-
! for one had rather see this General Assembly
adjourn and call constitutional convention.
as ! can never consent 70 this proposition.
Why the result will be. sirs, that we will be
met on the stump from one end of the Slate to
the other, and win be told that while the Judi
cial aystem was expensive we placed 1t In othe
power of the Legislature to make II much more
expensive. l trust, Mr.. President, that the
amendment will not pass.
Mr. George took the floor and urged that the
present system was Ineffective, and the object
should be to get an economic az yell as an ef
fective system. The proposed System. he
thought, would be effective and II would answer
every three month";. and that was sufficient He
hoped the Senate would adopt the amendment
Mr.. Demas-Wa have had debate enough on
this subject. and now move for the previous
On being appealed to by the Democratic side,
he withdrew the call. ,and q vote on The SnIepd
mont~ was taken. Yeas 40, nays 4. and the
amendment suggested by the conf9ence COM
nittese was Adopted.
Ellis arov YER Richardson and Younge 'i''ei .
vote and moved to lay his own motion upon the
table calling the yeas and nays thereon. Yeas
iLieut Gov. Witt in the chair,
Mr.. Allan called up the special order, Senate
bill No. lle, TO remove the seat Of government
aud the bill was read.
Mr. Buroh wanted to know If Senator Steven,
who had ceen present during the morning
hour, was in the building. and some one replied
hat he was not
Mr.. Burch moved the engrossment Of the bill.
Carried. "a
passage of the bill. 90
The yeas and nays were called. the vote being
Yeas -Messrs. Allan. Boatner. Bryant, Burch
Cage. pemas. Ellis, George, ella. Good
Grover. Harper Perkins, Richardson, Stamps
sutton, TeSada, Twitchell. Wakefield. Wheedier
Nays -Meesrs Breaux, Ducros. Dumont, Gar
land, Mitchell, Ogden. Robertson. stubbs and
MOI . we thirds affirmative vote and the no
). In tho frat vote Allain voted no. Breaux veg.
Ola no, Robertson yes, and Yo9fhg no. but each
changed their votes IA shown above,I
Mr.. Robertson gave notice that on some flu
lure day he would move a reconsideration Of
ahe vote Just TAKEN
Mr.. Boatner presented d resolution author
ling the chairman of the committee on audit
ing and supervising the expenses of the Senate
10 reimburse the Senators who were members
,f the Joint committees appointed at thooast
session for any amocnts expended by them in
.he performance of the duties assigned them.
Lies over,
Mr.. Demas called UP the Joint committee
report, Objected to.
Mr.. Demas moved that the report be taken up
and called for the yeas and nays-yeas 16. nays
H. not a four nfths affirmative vote. and the
rules were not suspended to take up the report,
Mr., Goode, from the Judiciary Committee,
substitute Tor Senate bill No. 12l.
relative Is suits to annul tax sales. etc. Re-
,eived
Mr. Stubs introduced an ad authorizing the
-epairlng and rebuilding of certain levees Ia
,orehouse aud Richand parishes. and to make
IN appropriation for the same. Lands and
Levees.
Mr. Mitchell. from the Committee on Penien-
larry. submitted report by substitute on SEN
,te bin No. IL, the substitute being act to pro-
tide for the amicable composition and settle
nent Of the accounts existing between tho State
a I .A,t,