The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-11
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1878


VIZ Reaol,'ag further, That committee Of FIVE
he anpointed to subdivide the subjects re-
ferred to In the message, with view OF refer Ter
ence to the appropriate coulHltuoos VI the
House.
On which committee the Speaker named
the following members:
Messrs. Bridger, Warmoth, Bowden, Lewis
and Randolph.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
On motion of Mr.. Hill, OF Orleans, the
House proceeded to elect officers for the
regular session OF 1878:
For Chief Clerk Mr.. Hill, Of Orleans,
nominated Peter J. Trezevant.
There being no other nominations the
House voted as follows.
The following named members voted for
Mr.. Trezevant:
Speaker Bush, and Messrs. Aldlge, Aycock,
Bridger, Breard Burton, Bowden l., Brown ,n,l.
Bell, Briggs, Brice, Carloss Carville, ,Cressy
Como, Detiege, burden, Dayries, Delavigne,
Drew De Lacy, Dickinson, Dinkgrave, Des-
marais, DAvy Deioie, Duke, Dupre, Esto-
pnal Fobb Fitzpatriek, Forester, Gary !, Gas e s.
Orleans, Holt, Huntington, FL. M. johnson,
Robert johnson, Jonas, Kennedy, Keeting,
Kelly of Vim, Kelly Of Orleans, Kern, Kidd
Lyons, Leeds, Leonard of Caddo, Leonhard OF
tin, Means, Million, ,Newsom, Porter, Peralt,a,
Pitts, Richardson Ryland, Routon, Randolph,
Romero, Role, Raby, Souer Shakespeare,
Singleton, Self, Snaer, Seveignnes, spiller,
Semmes, Stage, Stewart Sellers, Smart, Tay-
Tor, Tolliver, Tremoulet, Toler, .voorliiess.
Washington, Watson, Washburn, Warmoth,
Walker, Wood, Wilde, Williams, Young of
Claiborne, Young of East Baton Rouge-1O4.
The following member voted blank:
Mr.. Davidson.
Mr.. Irrelevant having received q majority
of the votes was declared by the Speaker to
be duly elected.
Mr.. Huntington offered the following reso-
luton:
Resolued, That Jules r. Pecot be and he is
hereby chosen Assistant Clerk of the House
| of Representatives OF the State OF LOUISIANA
| for the session of 1878.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Hill, of Orleans, offered the following
| resolution:
RESOLVED. That the following officers be
elected for the session of 1873 i. w. Halsey,
Minute Clerk. B. r. Coleman, Assistant Min
ute Clerk; Edward Flood, Sergeant-at-Arm
Charles MacMurdo, Chief Enrolling Clerk OF
the House; P j. Kelly, Assistant Sergeant-at-
!.
The resolution was unanimously adopted
under a suspension OF the rules.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The following message was received from
the Senate:
SENATE CHAMBER, |
New Orleans, January 8. 1878.
| To the Honorable the Speaker and Members oil
the House OF Representatives:
l am directed to inform your honorable
| body that the Senate has this day passed
ate joint com mittee, composed OF nine mem
bers of the Senate and thirteen from the
House, to mature and report amendments tc
| the constitution within twenty days, II not
sooner" and to request your concurrence
| therein.
Respectfully, JOHN CLE5G,
| Secretary Of the Senate
On motion of Mr. Young, of Claiborne, The
rules of the House as adopted for the last SEES
sion were adopted for the present session
J PETITIONS. MEMORIALS AND RESOLUTIONS.
| Mr.. Young presented the following resolu
ton, which, under suspension of the rules
was adopted:
| Resolped, That the Committee on Contin
| gent Expenses be authorized to employ {
clerk.
| Mr.. Lewis, of Natchitoches. presented a pc
tition of citizens of his parish, asking thu
privilege of killing deer at all times during
the year in order to prevent depredations Oh
crops.
Which was referred to the Committee OF
Agriculture, Immigration and Commerce.
Mr.. Ryland submitted the following resou
ton, which was ordered to lie over under thu
rules on motion Of Mr.. Bowden:
With view Of giving effect to the pledges
solemnly made by both political parties at thu
last general election, pledges embodied il
their respective platforms, promising econ
omy, retrenehment and reform, and a dminu
ton of the Legislative expenditures, it is now
resolved and ordered by the House Of Repre-
sentatives of the State of Louisiana, and the
| Committee on Contingent Expenses are here
BY directed and ordered to conform thereto, as
| follows, viz:
That act No. II, approved January 2, 1872
the law by which the per diem and mileage
OF the members and the salaries OF the EN-
ployes of the House are fixed, be so modified
and changed for this and all subsequent SEES
sions of this Legislature that the per diem
and mileage of members and the salaries o.
the employees shall be paid according to the
following schedule, and not according to sale
statute No. II, viz
| /. That the mileage specified in section
of said act No. II shall not be allowed or paic
to any member, but that each member shall
be allowed and paid his per diem for going tt
and returning from the sessions Of the Gen
eral Assembly in conformity to the rating o.
distances contained In said section 1 of act
No. ii, for instance: Theparish of Ascension
eighty miles, equal to three days. going anc
three days returning from the session, and Sc
on for each parish, and no more, and tha
the per diem thus allowed for travelling ex
penses, and the per diem for the sixty days
Of the regular session shall be allowed ant
computed and paid at the rate Of five dollars
per day, so that this session of the ,Legisla
ture may conform as near as possible to thu
allowance made in the constitution Of 1872
section nineteen, act No. 81, four dollars
1916, article twenty-six, four dollars; and 1852
article twenty-five, four dollars.
2. That the Chief Clerk, the Assistant Clerk
the Minute Clerk and the Assistant Minute
Clerk shall be allowed and paid as follows
viz:
i I. The Chief Clerk at the rate OF seven hun
dred and fifty dollars per annum, payable a.
provided in section 2 OF said act No. IL.
II. The Assistant Clerk at the rate OF sE
dollars per day.
LII. The Minute Clerk at the rate Of six dol
IarS per day