The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-24

resolution at this time
Mr.. Burch moved it's adoption.
The motion was lost.
On motion of Mr.. White the Senate agreed
to the request OF the House for committee
OF conference on House bill No. IL.
The President appointed Messrs. White,
George and Stamps as members Of the COM
mittee on The part of the Senate.
On motion Of Mr.. Demas the rules were sus-
pended in order to take up at this time
House bill No. 50,
"An act making an appropriation to pay the
per diem OF the members OF the General AS
sembly Of the State of Louisiana, the salaries
OF the State officers and employees, and the
contingent expenses thereof, for the extra $685.
sion, commencing March 8, 1878, to be obtained
and disbursed as hereinafter provided, and
providing that any deficiency that may exist
in the appropriation for the expenses of the
General Assembly for the regular session of
1878 shall be supplied out of the appropriation
made In this act
The bill was taken up under the favorable
report Of the Finance Committee, with the
following amendments offered by the COM
mittee:
In line 18, page 3, after the word thereon"
insert the words together with such interest
as may accrue to the Fiscal Agent, upon the
warrants cashed by said Fiscal Agent, In ac-
cordance with section /, OF act No. 81, regular
session Ut 1873, approved March IL. 1878"
In line 10. Same page. strike out zone" and
insert Five"
Mr.. Stubs, by consent of the Senate, SUBJ
mitted the following views of the minority OF
the committee on the BILL
To the Honorable President and Members of
the Senpe:
portion Of your Committee on Finance,
whose names are appended hereto, being
said committee In their conclusions upon
House bill No. 3d. making appropriations for
the extra session. etc, present the following
!to them) insurmountable objections to said
bill:
The rate of taxation for the current year has
been fixed at "a mills for the general fund
this is reduction OF the rate Of 3711l per cent
The taxable property of the State, as shown
by the Auditors report, is Si77,277 CT. At the
rate fixed this would produce gross result
of $444,000; from this should be taken the or
binary and reasonable reduction OF % per
cent for delinquency and expense OF collect
ing Sill 600; with tax on property "a mills Of
general fund, 1888, 900; to which add probable
revenue from licenses on trades, etc, $500, 900
this estimate being $4,000 more than was
total revenues available for general fund
$7330 900.
Appropriations have already been made OK
ceeding this revenue by the sum Of S20,873, as
follows:
Total appropriations as per state
ment herewith presented 49,. .$756,873 16
Total estimated revenue. .......... $4,000 90
Excess Observation-Disclosures. $23,s73 16
The bill before US proposes yet further to
increase the appropriation by $4,000 making
total in excess Of revenue OF $58873 16.
OF 1874, provides that: "No. 8. The revenue
Of each year derived from taxation upon real,
personal and mixed property, or from licenses,
shall be devoted solely to the expenses OF said
year for which 1t shall be raised, excepting
any surplus remain, which shall be directed
to sinking the public debt; or appropriations
and claims in excess OF revenue shall be null
and void, and the State in no manner provide
for their payment"
In our Judgment this prohibits us from
making any further appropriations out OF
legislative depart1 Ut of the government
should fail to observe this wholesome check
in the constitution, it would clearly be the
duty Of the coordinate department to enforce
the provisions Of the constitution. In our
priation would work manifest injustice to
many IL not all our constitutional and other
officers whose salaries are paid quarterly.
In the natural order OF things the whole Of
the appropriations made by this bill will be
drawn and used In a very few days, and thus
the revenue would be exhausted before the
last quarter was reached, when salaries of
officers and the appropriations for charity,
which are payable quarterly, could not be
paid, and those obligations Of the State of the
. manifest wrong would be done. We are I'M
wiling to recommend this course.
A constitutional obligation stands as a bar
rier which we cannot surmount.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK P. STUBBS.
EDWARD D. WHITE.
MADE DURING THE REGU-
LAR SESSION OF 1873.
House bill No. "a, Fruit Growers
Association. ................... $500 90
Mileage, per diem and contingent
expenses OF General Assembly,
etc, regular session ..,..... 10000 90
House bill No. 73. levee commission 500 90
EXTRA SESSION.
General appropriation bill ... 519,873 16
Salaries OF constitutional officers,
first quarter, 1878 concurrence. 10000 90
Proposed mileage, per diem and
contingent expenses GeneralAs-
sembly, extra session. ........ $4,000 90
On motion OF Mr.. Robertson the amend
nents offered by the Finance Committee to
House bill No. SO were adopted.
Mr. Robertson moved that the bill be passed
o its third reading.
Mr.. Goode demanded the previous question
The main question was ordered.
Mr.. Stubs demanded the yeas and nays on
he motion to pass the bill to it's third read
ng.
The roll being called resulted as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bryant, Cage, Demas, Du-
mont, Garland, George, ella, Goode, Grover,
Harper, Landry, Mitchell, O'Donnell, Rob
,rtson, Sandiford, Stamps, Sutton, Twitchell,
Wheeler, Young and Zacharie-21.
Nays-Me ssrs. Burch, Ducros, Perkins,
'tubbs and Texada-5.
Absent-Messrs. Allan, Boatner, Breaux,
ellis, Kelly Ogden, Richardson, Steven,
Wales and White-10.
And the bill was passed to it's third read
ng.
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