The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-03-16

Was taken up on It's second reading under
the favorable report of the Committee on
Claims.
Mr.. Martin moved an indefinite postpone
ment of the bill,
The motion to postpone was lost.
Under suspension Of the rules the bill was
held as engrossed. read third time and
passed.
The title was adopted
Mr.. Keeting moved reconsi deration, and
on his own motion the motion to reconsider
was laid upon the table.
House bill No. 40,
''An act to locate the seat of justice in and
for the parish of Livingston, in the State OF
Louisiana"
Was taken up on second reading under a
favorable report of the Committee on Paro-
chial Affairs.
Under a suspension of tho rules the bill was
taken as engrossed, read third time and
passed.
The title was adopted.
motion to reconsider was laid upon the
table.
On the motion of Mr.. Jonas,
House bill No. 15,
can act reapportioning the State into Sena-
torial and Representative Districts, and
amending and re-enacting section 1 of act
No. 1, approved January 81. 1876"
Was taken up on its third reading.
On the final passage of the bill the yeas
and nays were called for with the following
result:
=, Yeas-H9n; Yeas, 1;, Louis , Bush, 81 Speaker; pea and
Berry, Bell, Breard, Briggs, Bridger, Bill
leu Bowden, Buck, Carloss, Cressy, Della
vigne, Duke, Dupree Fitzpatrick, Gaskins,
Jonas, Kelly of Winn, Kelly Of Orleans, La
mare, Lea Leeds, Ieonhard of Orleans,
Lyons, Means, McGehee, Newsom, Peralta
Pitts. Porter, Randolph Richardson, Role,
Ryand, Sartain, Shakespeare, Smart, Stagg,
lor, Tremonlet, Vance, Voorhies, Washburn,
Wilde, Williams. Wise, Wood and Young of
East Baton Rouge
Nays Mess, Messrs ;,,,1 Barron Barrett Brooks mSs
tiege, Drew, Dickinson, Dinkgrave. Drury.
Estopinal CAN'T, Gary. Gracien, Hill OF As
censfon, Holt. Jones, FL. M. johnson, Robert
Keeting, Kern, Leonard of Caddo,
Lewis, Magloire, Milon, Raby, Romero Rou-
moth, Walker, Washington and Watson-43.
The bill was passed and the title was
adopted.
Mr.. Jonas moved to reconsider the vote just
taken on final passage. and on his own motion
the motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The following message was received from
the Senate:
SENATE CHAMBER,
New Orleans. March Is. 1873 !
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives:
| am directed to inform your honorable
body that the Senate has passed and requests
your concurrence in
Senate bill No 1,
San act to create Board of State En-
gineers, to define their powers and duties; to
levy q tax OF one mill for levee and public inn
purposes; to divide the State into
levee districts, etc.
Respectfully,
JOHN CLEGG,
Secretary OF the Senate.
The Speaker called the attention of the
House to q message received from the Senate
March 9, 1878, by which the following resou-
tion of that body was communicated to the
House, to-wit:
Resolued, That the Secretary of the Senate
be instructed to request the House of Repre-
through its Speaker to cause to be
to the Senate all Senate bills of the
regular session of 1878, now i'm the possession
of the House of Representatives, and not
finally acted upon.
On motion it was ordered that the request
Of the Senate be complied with.
House bill No, 10,
''An act to provide revenues for the State
from licenses on occupations of dealers in and
sellers of vines spirituous and malt liquors,
and keepers of bar-rooms, and from o
tax on the said wines and liquors
by the drink; to provide for the ascertain
ment and collection of said tax; to prescribe
the use of the register; to define and punish
5undry Offenses; to prescribe the duties of
the Auditor and the tax collectors under this
net, and the disposition of the proceeds OF
licenses and taxes collected hereunder
Being the special order of the day for this
dayat o'clock was taken up on it's second
reading.
On the motion of Mr.. Keetng the House
resolved itself into a committee of the whole
for the consideration of this bill.
Mr. Lyons In the chair.
On rising the committee reported through
Its chairman that it had considered the bill
section by section as far as the eighth sec
ton, had agreed upon amendments, and
do recommend that the bill be passed by the
House as amended.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick moved that the enactng
clause of the bill be stricken out, which mo-
ton was ruled to be not in order beforsS acting
on the report of the committee of the whole
House.
Mr.. Leeds moved to amend the report of
the committee of the whole. as follows:
After the word "effect" in line 2, section 20,
strike out the words, "from and after it's pas
sage and insert, "when the general fund tax
shall be reduced to two mills ad valorem."
On this amendment the yeas and nays were
called for, with the following result;
yeasmMessrs. AIdige Barbin,, Brady, Ber-
vigne, Duke, Fitzpatrick, Hill of Orleans,
Huntington, Kelly Of Orleans, cans, Kidd, Lamare,
Cphpa NewSOm Pitts ROl1e Sartajn Smart