The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-13

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Roberts. favor. mountaineering and enjoinins
Gayarre from dtsposing Of his warrants In an,
paving them. The memorial did not, Mr.; Gar
land remarked. question the legality Of the ae
ton of the court In the least. but he thought 1
rather strange, as he actually did the work. ant
under the law the present incumbent would re-
ceive his pay up to the very last day Of his
The bill was indefinitely postponed by {
senate bill No 1s7, authorizing the police iur,
Of the parish Of Iberia to levy tax not to ex
coed $4,000 In The aggregate to build jail, was
finally passed
fLieut Coy. Wilt In the chair
HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING.
House bi No. >, for the relief of Norbert
Louaue. OF the parish OF st john was taken up
the biltauihors ng the Auditor to cancel sale
Of property. sold for taxes, and owned by Mr.
Louuue. and relieving him also from future tax,
| alton.
| Mr. Demaa moved to refer the bill to the Judi.
| ciary Committee.
Mr. White. as substitute moved the bill be
one Of great hardship; that tho plantation of
Mr.. Iouuue was immediately under the Bonnet
Carrie crevasse. and had been ruined by that
| having been swept OUT of existence. compel ling
Mr., Lonaue and his family to take refuge here
| In the city.
subsequently tho property was seized and
sold for taxes. and what he wanted now was to
b., relieved of that sale,
| Mr. Denas withdrew his M ton to refer and
| moved 1t be made the special order for to- day
| after the reading of the journal. remarking
that there were scores OF poor people In the
same condition, and rather than pass on one
4 case 1t would be better to frame bill for gen
eral relief among those who suffered from
Mr.. Garland opposed the passage Of the bill.
| He did not desire to exempt any one from taxa
| tion in the future.
beng referred to COMMITTEES
Mr. Demas withdrew his molten to postpone
anu moved the reference Of the bill to the Com
| uitee on Claims. Carried.
| House bill No. ass, fixing the mileage and per
| diem Of members of the General Assembly.
compensation, Of employees ctc, was taken upv.
| the consider alton being resumed ut the seventh
| section.
MIR. Go de amended the section making one
assistant sergeant farms for the Senate.
Section 8. providing one doorkeeper for each
h?sass was ad ppooVdng for the employment Of
four pages IN the Senate and ten in the House
| was adopted.
Section 10, providing, for three, porters for
Section II, referring to the assignment Of
committee rooms, etc, was adopted.
| Section IL was read, as follows:
Be II further enacted, etc, That the Committee
on Auditing and Supervising the Expenses Of
the Senate and the Committee on Contingent
Expenses of the House shall keep u regular set
Of books, .credting the state with the amount Of
the per diem and mileage of members, per diem
pst n ne ehd respee snnshn nd s
dehiting the state with payments made
on any Of the above accounts daily, 50 as
| to have the accounts made up at the end
OF each bu mess day of the session: and shall
also open an account with each member and
employe on contingent expense account, charg-
ing the amount due them and creuiting them
that 1t shall be the duty Of the Committee on
Auditing aud Supervising the Expenses of the
/ (Ommittpp Cpntinrant Ey
penees in the House, to issue. when demanded.
and upon presentation of the proper evidence.
member of their respective houses for mile
GERS GERS and employees Of their respective houses
creditor the amount due to said creditor, which
certificate, thus issued shall be approved on
the, part Of the Senate by the presiding officer,
and on the part of the House Of Representa-.
tives by the Speaker thereof and the Auditor OF
Public Accounts shall and he Is hereby directed
isana bis warrants for the amount Of said
is hereby directed to pay the said warrants out
of the funds provided the.e for..
was amended L Would reoure an s
amount Of labor clerical, in the Auditors and
| Treasurer's offices.
| viding that the warrants shall be issued at the
end of the first thirty days Of the session. and at
the Me- eles W, Gf the , sesstoa Adopted
| mileage" read travelling exuenses.' Adopted.
Mr.. Hacharie moved the further considera-
| ton of the bill be postponed until Thursday at
| i D. M for the reason. he said. that as it stood
| 1t would make an decrease of the clerical force
Of the Auditor. and Treasurer imperative: that
the Auditor for every item Of expense by either
house If 1t amounted to but 81 80. and he
thought that some system could be secured to
Mr. BreauS thought the bill ought to pass
without delay. ne wanted the members per
diem cut down to :. Gay; He called for the
Mr.. Goode thought 1t better to arrange and fix
the bill to-day, as with the amendments already
when a commute Of conference would no doubt
be appointed
Mr.. zacharie withdrew his motion.
Section IL was then adopted.
Section 10. which provided n mileage Of ten
cents per mile 10 committees visiting charitable
institutions. was amended by Mr.. White. to in
was adopted.
MIR. Perkins in the chair
Sections "A, Is and 16 were adopted without
amendment
Section II was amended similar to the amend
ment made to section 3. and was adopted.
Section 1s provinces that the sergeants- at
arms be the keepers of the State House during
the recess, and receive salary Of $3.50 per an
Mr.: White moved to strike out the section.
Carried.
section 10, the enacting clause. was amended
by MIR. Robertson to read; On and after its
the members"
Mr.. Boatner presented a substitute to read
in so far as it affects the employees. the act to
take effect on and after its passage" He
thought that the Legislature could not touch
the members per diem, as that was retroactive,
and could not expect the members to agree to
such an amendment The employees, however,
had been paid to date at the old rate. and they
could afford to work now for less during the
remaining days of the session.
Mr.. Goode thought 1t safe to assume that be-
fore the bill became a law the session would be
Within three or four days of the close that moth.
ing could be accomplished by the amendment
reducing the employees salaries Ii would only
affest their compensation for three or four
days.
Mr.; Boatner moved the adoption of his sub
stitute. :
Mr. Breaux urged the adoption of the section,
and moved TO table Mr.. Boatner's substitute as
far as it affected the employees.
Mr.. Boatner demanded the yeas and nays.
Yeas IS. nays 10. and the substitute was tabled.
Mr.. Ellis moved TO lay the other amendments
on the table.
Mr. Goude was not willing to reduce employees
salaries aud let that of the members remain
untouched. He renewed Mr. Ellis motion to
table.
Mr.. Landry ct . rs p M, cal he'd for executive
session and the chamber was cleared
The doors We're opened in half an hour, when
Mr. Ellis took the floor and spoke in favor of
his motion. stating that in his opinion the
amendments would kill the bill.