The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-15

personal property liable to taxation except in
case nj n foreign Invasion OF o domestic IN.
suiteetiun, and IN that event any additional
taxation shall only be for the Immediate puf-
pose ~ repeltig invasion or snpptesstg III
stlrrection
The city Of New Orleans shall not levy or
| tim taxation, on tile aet1a cash value Of all
| the real and personal property liable to taxa
| tion within its limits.
No parish or municipal corporation, except
| the city Of New Orleans. shall levy OF collect
| In any one year more than one per ctstltun
| taxation upon the aetuat cash value Of all the
| reel and personal property liable tp taxation
within It's limits.
The General Assembly shall not have The
power 10 issue any bond or pledge the faith
Of the Stats for any purpose, nor shall it NJ
| thQrlze any parish or municipal corporation
| TO iss1e any bond or create any debt, pro
rtHed that this shall not prohibit tho Issue ct
| new bonds in exchange for old bonds. where
the debt OF rate Of interest Is not Increased.
Mr. Warmuth moved that the amendment
proposed by Mr. Leeds. and all other amend
tnents. except those now under consideration
from the t.enate be- referred TO the Committed
on the Constitution. except such as may be in
amendment Of the amendments from the
Senate under consideration.
Mr. Kidd moved 10 amend the motion Of Mr.
Warmoth by adding at the end thereof the
words. "No final action shall he had on any
amendment until said COMMITTEES shall have
| reported upon amendments referred to It,"
Mr.. Bfidger moved that the motion Of Mr..
Warnoth. and the amendment thereto OF Mr..
Kidd, be laid upon the table.
The motion to table prevailed by a rising
vote Of 70 yeas TO "a nays.
Mr.. Hill. of Orleans, moved to adopt the
amendment proposed by Mr.. Leeds, and the
motion TO adopt was seconded by Mr.. Nc
Gehee.
Mr.. Hill, Of Orleans, moved the previous
question. which motion was seconded by the
House BY q rising vote Of 80 yeas to 8 nays.
The main question being stated to be on The
adoption of ths proposed amendment number
two. the yeas and nays were ordered
Pending the call Of the roll Mr.. Warmoth,
when his name was called, asked to be OK
ollsed from voting for the reason that he did
moi understand the question before the House.
On motion. and by u rising vote of GO yeas
to "a nays. he was excused.
The roll eall was completed with the fol-
lowing result:
Yeas Hon. Louis Bnsh,. speaker and
Berry, bell, Brear1, Briggs, Bridger, Bllllel,
| BROOKS, Bbwden, Brown, Boslgy, Buck, Bur
| ton. ChrlDss. Cafvills, Greasy Como, Cole, Da-
| wilson. D'Avy. DaYries, Deioie. Delayigns.
| Detege. Drew. Dickinson, Dinkgrave, Duke.
| burden. Duptee lDrnry, Estoopinal. ,Fitzpat-
rick. Fobb, Foerstsr, CAN'T, Curry. Gashins,
Robert Johnson Kelly of VIM, Kelly Of Or
leans, keeting, Kennedy, Kern, Lamare Lea,
| Leeds. Leonard Of Caddo, Leonhard OF Orleans.
Lewis Lyons. Magloire, Martin, Means "a, Nj
| Porter Haby Randolph, Richardson. Role,
Romero, Rylnnd Shakespeare, Smart. snasr,
| Self, Seers, Steele. Stm,ns, Singleton Souer,
Tayl2r 1 I, Ioler Iollly Wy,a ve W,
| ians Wise, Wood, md Young Of Claiborns
| tOg I'
Nays Messrs. DeLaey, Hill Of Ascension,
Stewart and Walker.
| heSpenlssr announced that more than twoa
thirds Of oil the members elected to the House
having voted in the affirmative. tho amend
ment to The constitution was adopted
\ Mr.. HILL Of Orleans, moved toreconsider the
| vote just taken. and on his own motion the
motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
On the motion of Mr.. Hill. of Orleans. it
| vas ordered that the amendment be- sent to
| tho Senats.
Mr. Leonard Of Caddo. offered the follow
| amendment No. O.. .ue
No monopoly shall BIO created by the CEN
| ernl Assembly. and Hll uonouoliss existing In
this State be and are hereby abolished.
! On Mr.. Leonatt's motion to adopt the
amendment, the yeas and nays were called
| for. with the following result. the namss of
absentses being recorded on the motion Of
Mr.. Tremoulet: Sd
Yeas-Hon. Louis Bush, Speaker, and
Messrs. Aldige, Aycock, Berry, Bell. Breard,
Brown, Buck, burton Carloss, Glossy Dela.'
f prdsn ' bprse es agstopna Fitspar e
Forester, Gary Gaskllqs, Gaaast drasesisn,
Gillespie. Hammond Hill Of Orleans, Hun.
vim. Kelly Of Orleans, Kennedy. Kidd, La
mare, Lea. Leeds, Leonard of Caddo, Leon
hard of Orleans. Lyons, Martin, Means. Nc
Gehee Mewsoma, Nunez ~, Pt i Porter Ben y,
shakspeare, Smart, Self, Sellers Steele Sin.
gleton, Taylor, Tremoulet, Toer, Vance,
| Voorhies. Washburn, Williams, Wise and
Wood-73
| Nays Messrs. Barron, Brooks Bosley, Car
Drew, Dickinson, Fobb, Can't, Hill Of Asesu-
sion, Holt, II. M. Johnson Kern, Lewis, Ma
gloire, Million, Raby, Stewart, Sentnes, souer,
Warmoth Washington, Watson and Young Of
|
Absent Messrs Barrett Brady, D'Avy,
Deamarais Drury, Hahn. Jonas, Keetfhg,
McMllen, Peralta, Routon, Snaer, Stage,
spiller, Tollver, Walker, Wilde and Young OIL
East Baton Rouge-t8.
The Speaker announced that two-thirds Oh
all the members elected to the House OF Rep
iesentatives not having voted for the pro-
posed amendment. it was not adopted.
Before the announcement Of the vote,
Messrs Snaer and Peralta, who were not
within the bar Of the House when their
names were called, asked permission to vote,
which the House refused.
Messrs Leonard and Warmoth gave notice
that tomorrow they would move to recon
slider the vote just taken.
On motion of Mr.. Robert johnson the
House adjourned until tomorrow at IL m.
PETER J. TREZEVANT,