The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-13

New Orleans. March II. 1878.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
am directed by the House Of Represents
tives to inform your honorable body that The
House has finally passed
House bill No. 90.
eperal expenses Of the State etc.
And ask the concurrence Of the Senate in
the same.
Respectfully, etc,
PEfER j. IRRELEVANT.
Chief Clerk.
Consideration resumed of Senate bill No I.
Mr.. Brea,lx offered the following amend
ment:
In line 81, section 3, strike out the words
"one-half'' and insert In lieu thereof the
words "one-quarter."
amendment
Mr.. Stamps demanded the yeas and nays
The roll being called resulted as follows.
Yeas -Messrs Breaux, Burch Cage,
George, Harper, Richardson, Stamps, Sutton
and YOung-9.
Nays Messrs Alain, Boatner. BRYANT
Ducros, Dumont. Ellis, Garland Goode,
Ogden, Perkins, Robertson, Sandiford, Steven,
Stubs tBi : Texadn, Twitehell, Wheeler, White
Absent Messrs. Demas Ola, Grover. Kelly.
Landry. Mitchell, O'Donnel and WaiIes.-8.
And the amendment was lost
LTbe President Of the Senate in the char
Mr. Texada offered the following amend
ment. which was adopted:
In line 70. section s, strike out the words
'for the Sixth District" and insert In lieu
thereof the words. "for the parishes of Caddo.
Bossier, Red River. Do Soto Natchitoehes.
Grant and Rapides."
In limo Is strike out words ''parisb in
cluded, md insert ''of said parshes."o
Section was adopted rs amended
Section Q was read and adopted.
Section 10 was read and adoptetn
Section II was read and adopted.
Section 12 was read.
Mr.. Tncharie offered the following amend
ment, to become section IL. and moved its,
adoption: O
SEC H. BE- il further t,nrfed. rfc. That
whenever three-quarters "a of the amount
required to close the Bonnet Cntre crevassr.
as estimated by the Board Of State Engineers,
shall hhvtSbcen subscribed or appropriated by
parties or corporations Interested in its clos
ing other than the city of New Orleans. and
including the owners Of lands overiluwed
thereby, the owners Of riparian counties i'm
Mississippi and the New Orleans, st. Louis
and Chicago Railroad, that the Common
Council Of the, city Of New Orleans shall BIO
and are authorized to appropriate the remain
ing quarter, and all this fund shall be depns-
tied IN The hands Of the State Treasurer To be-
expended by the Board Of State Engineers in
closing said crevasse.
Mr.. Kelly demanded the yeas and nays
The roll being called resulted us follows;
Yeas Messrs. Alain, Bryant Burch Cage
Ducros, Ellis, Garland, George. Goodc, Har-
per, ODonnell, Ogden, Richardson. Robert
I.,I,
ell Wales, Wheeler, Young and Iacharie- %
Nays -Messrs. Boatner, Breaux, Kelly. Per
kins. Texada and White-6
Absent Mcsars. Demas, Dumont. Gla, Gro
yer, Landry. Mitchell and Sandiford- T.
And the amendment was adopted aa sec
tion 1921 the bill
Section u became section 10, and was read
and adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Boatner the bilp was
taken as engrossed and passed to its third
reading.
The constitutional rule being suspended by
q four-iifths Affirmative vote of tho Senate
the bill was read the third time and finally
passed.
Mr.. Boatner offered the following amend-
ment to the title, which was adopted:
Add 10 title: "And TO authorize the city of
New Orleans and other persons to close the
Bonnet Carre crevasse by private subsorip-
ton
ThStitle as amended was adopted. and the
bill was finally passed.
Mr.. Boatner moved ttq reconsider the vote
by which the bill was finally passed. and on
his own motion the motion to reconsider was
laid on the table.
On motion Of Mr. George. acting chairman
of the Committee on Railroads. the rules
were suspended to allow him at this time to
submit the following report:
COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS. I
Now Orleans, March II, 1873. !
To the Honorable President and Members oil
the Sarats:
The undersigned, n majority of your Com
mittec on Railroads. to whom was referred
Senate bill No. 10, beg leave to report favor
ably on tho same.
i. g, MTTCHELL, Chairma'h
GA. b. GEORGE,
w. A. ROBERTSON,
e. Fl. ELLIS,
WILL STEVEN,
JAS. II. GROVER
The report was received and lies over unde,
the r,Los.
House bill No. 90 O
can act making appropriations for the gene
raj expenses of the State for the Year ending
the thirty-flrst day of December A. D. eigh
teen hundred and seventy eight
Being privileged bill, was orderetlDto be
taken up by the President and was read the
first time.
The constitutional rule being suspended by
tour-tf,hs affirmative vote of the Senate
the bill was placed on its second reading and
referred to tho Committee on Finance, GpC
tho rommittee were ordered 10 have the bill
printed after being acted upon.
Senate bill MOI,
San act to create special levee district in
the parish of Catahoula; to define the limits
thereof to create Board of Levee Commits
sioners therefor, and to define their duties and
powers to authorize special tax for levee
purposes, etc,
Which had been laid on the table subject tc
call. was taken up and read the second time
On motion of Mr. ROatner the bill taken as