The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-22

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following report:
To the Honorable President and Members of
Your Committee on Claims beg leave to re-
| port favoraby on
Senate bill No. %, entitled
can act for the relief OF John Ii. Lamon,
parish of East Baton Rouge"
| With the following amendments:
| In line 43, after the word dollars" insert
the words, land that said warrant shall
specify on its face the fund and condition out
or and on which payment OF said warrant
shall be paid"
In lines AZ and 4s, strike out the words "as
| they fall due" and insert in lieu thereof the
words, when actually paid into the State
And with these amendments, the commit
tee recommend the final passage of the bill.
+. 6. ZACHARIE,
Chairman Committee on Claims.
| On motion of Mr. Zacharie the rules were
suspended In order to consider the report at
this time, and Senate bill No %, contained In
| the report, was taken up and the amendments
Of the committee were adopted.
| On motion OF Mr.. Zacharie the bill was
taken as engrossed and passed to its third
reading.
| The constitutional rule being suspended by
four-fifths affirmative vote Of the Senate
the bill was read q third time and finally
passed. and its title adopted, and the bill or
dered to be sent to the House for concur
renee.
| Mr. Zacharie moved to 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.. Steven the Secretary was
directed to notify the House that the Senate
would be ready at IL o'clock m. to meet the
House In joint session for the purpose OF bal
loting for United States Senator.
| At the hour Of IL o'clock m the Senate pro-
ceeded In a body to the House Of Representa-
tives.
JOINT SESSION.
| The Joint Assembly of the Senate and of
the House of Representatives of Louisiana
was called to order by the Hon. Louis A..
Wilt, Lieutenant Governor and President of
the Senate, who announced that the object of
the Joint Assembly was the election Of a
United States Senator for the term commenc-
ing March 4, 1879
The President directed the Secretary to call
the roll OF the Senate, and it appeared the
following named Senators we're present:
| Messrs. Breaux, Bowden, Bryant, De-
Bouchel, Ducros, Ellis Fontenot, Garland,
Harding, Heron, Kelly. Mitchell, Norwood,
Perkins, Sandiford, Scanland, Stamps, Ste
ven, Stnbbs, Sutton, Texada, Wales, Whee-
Absent Messrs. Benners, Cage, Cahen,
Delahoussaye, Ola, Harper, Kenner, Landry,
Merkel, Richardson, Wells-11.
| The Clerk called the roll of the House and it
appeared the following Representatives were
present:
Hon. j. G. Moncure, Speaker, and Messrs.
Allen, Armstrong, Arnauld, Brent, Bridger,
Bilieu, Bienvenu, Board, Bower. Bourgeois,
Brown Of Tensas, Brown of Jefferson, Carron,
Carter, Carville. Coco, Como, Coleman, Cum
ningham, Davidson Of Red River Davidson
Of Iberville, Demas, Decuir, Dupaty, Du-
cote, Durio, Estopinal,. Frazier, Fitzgerald,
HoIzhalb, Jeffries, Jenkins, Landry, Lauer,
Liddell Lott, Martin Of st. Landry, Martin
Of Claiborne, Marquee, Nixon, Munday, Muir
rel, McElroy, Mckee. Nealey, Nettles,
0'Bryan, Parmelee, Potts, Rabouin, Reaney
Scratchley, Steele, Stechmann, Icrrey, Vi
drine, Walton, Watson, Welsh, Weightman,
Wise, Young-73.
The President announced that there were
present ninety-five members of the General
Assembly, and quorum.
Nominations for United States Senator
being in order.
Mr.. DeBouchel nominated Hon. w. A.
Strong, Of VIM.
Mr.. Stamps nominated Mr. 2. J. Kennedy,
Of Orleans.
Mr.. Ryland nominated Hon. Louis Bush, OF
Orleans.
Mr.. Hightower nominated Mr.. L. B. Wat
kins, of Red River.
Mr.. Martin, of Claiborne, nominated Hon.
w. A. Robertson, of St. Landry.
| Mr.. 49, nominated Mr.. F. FL. Hatch.
Mr.. nominated Mr.. Numa Dufour,
Of Orleans.
Mr.. Harding nominated Mr.. Edwin Booth,
Of Orleans.
The rolls of the respective houses were
called, with the following result:
Senators Bowden, Texada and Wales, and
Representatives Carron, Durio, Gordon, Wal
ton and Wise voted for the Hon. L. G. Zach
aries votes.
Senators Breaux, Ducros, Garland, Nor
wood and Zacharie, and Representatives
Gearey, Martin of Claiborne, O'Bryan,
Schumpert and Vidrine voted for the Hon.
w. A. Robertson-10 votes.
Senator Delahoussaye voted for Mr.. Ber-
mudeZ-1 VOTE
Senators DeBouchel, Kelly, Mitchell and
Scanland, Speaker Moncure and Representa-
| tives Allen, Armstrong, Cunningham Nealey,
Rabouin and Scratchley voted for the Hon.
| w. A. StroDg-11 votes.
Senators Bryant, Stamps, Sutton and
Wheeler, and Representatives Bilieu, Board,
Bourgeois, Brown of Tensas, Brown of JEFF
ferson, Carville, Coleman, Cordill, Davidson
of Iberville, Demas, Frazier, Hawkins, Hite,
Murrell, Potts, Welsh and Weightman voted
for the Hon. 2. J. Kennedy-2l votes.
Senators Sandiford and Williams, and Rep
resentatives Billieu, Coco, Dupaty, Estopinal,
Hammond, Lauer, Lddell, Lyons, Munday,
Redon, Ryland. Smart. Steele and Torrey
voted for the Hon. Louis Bush-14 votes.
Senators Harding and Stubs, and Eepre-
sentatives Jeffries, Nettles, Sharp and Young
voted for the Hon. E. Booths votes.
Senators Fontenot Perkins and Steven
voted for the Hon. H. L. Garland-3 votes.
Representatives Bower and Martin voted
for the Hon. j. ID. Hill-2 votes
Representative Detiege voted for A. j. Du-
mont vote.
Representative Como voted for Ftp. Poche-
l vote.
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