The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-02

Which was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspenoeo ny
fourtifths vote, and the bill was io"a
ond time and referred to the oomihi''eo oA
Finance, and ordered printed
r.rpopun1os or RESOLUTIONS
| Mr.. Merkel offered the following ioeo,u
tion which was read and referred 70 one oon
mittee on Auditing and Supervising the EA-
nenses of the Senate
Peao,ped by the Senate OF me otdte % Lon.
isiana, That the sum OF iotoy-ef ~ tha nav,
,,o't If Jasper Diamond for services rendered s
IA ~ eesenaer to the committee appointed py
the Senate to adjust the affairs OF the STATE III
the installation Of the Nichols government
NJ The m, President laid before the Senate COM
,,unication from Mr. DeBouchel, stating that
ba was absent from the session on account
OF Illness
| REPORTS or COMMITTEES LYING OVER.
| Senate bill No. 10.
| San act to amend and re-enact section lo3
Of act No. 96. approved April 20, 1877"
| Was taken up under the unfavorable report
of the Committee on the Judiciary.
| On motion Of Mr.. Garland further consider
alton OF the bill was indefinitely postponed.
Senate bill No. 10i,
IAN act for the relief of George w. Dupre,
State Printer"
| Was taken I'D under the favorable report OF
the COMMITTEES on Claims, with the following
amendments offered by the committee:
Strike out the whole of the preamble.
| Strike out the whole OF section L.:
| Make section section OF the Dill.
| Strike out section g.
Make section section z.
Your commit 9 recommend the striking
out of section /, which authorizes the pay
| ment of forty thousand one hundred dollars
Of warrants already issued, and the payment
of which has been enioined by the United
States Circuit Court for the reason that they
regard 1t as an unwarrantable inter1er nee
with the judiciary In attempting TO make the
Treasurer do that which he has been prohib
tied from doing by court OF competen
jurisdiction or at least competent until other
wise decided. thus dissolving an Injunction
by legislative act, and provoking an unseemlI
conflict between the State Legislature ant
Federal judiciary, and which should D'
avoided IL possible.
They recommend the striking out Of section
8, as they cannot acknowledge either the le
gality or equity OF a claim for damages
! arising out OF the depreciation OF State war
I rants below par. ALI contracts with the Stat
are supposed to be on cash basis, and II In
principle combined In this section were recog
nized there would be no end OF claims OF thi
description against the State.
The amendments were adopted seridtim.
On motion OF Mr.. Mitchell. the bill wa
taken as engrossed and passed to Its thirt
: reading.
The constitutional rule being suspended b,
four-tifths affirmative vote OF the Senate
, the bill was read third time and its It'll
adopted.
Mr.. Mitchell moved that the bill be flnall
passed.
The hour Of IL o'clock N. having arrived
: the Senate proceeded In a body to the Hous
1 OF Representatives.
JOINT SESSION.
The Joint Assembly OF the Senate and {
the House OF Representatives OF Louisian
was called to order by the Hon. Louis a
4 Wilt, Lieutenant Governor and President
the Senate, who announced that the object {
f the Joint session OF the General Assembi
!, was the election Of United States Senate
: for the term commencing March A, 1879.
q The President directed the Secretary to ca
l. the roll OF the Senate, and 1t appeared the fo
y lowing named Senators were present:
q Messrs Breaux, Benners,, Bowden,,, Del
nOuSSaVp, Ellis, rOuteuOl, Val lldl pS
n Kelly, Mitchell, Perkins, sandiford, Seaman
d Stubbs, Wells, Williams, Zacharie-17.
Absent-Messrs. Bryant, Cage, Cahen,
70 Bouchel, Ducros, ella, Harding, Heron, he
Is ner, Landry, Merkel. Norwood, klcha Td e
Stamps, Steven, Sutton, lexaud, Wallt
= Wheeler-19.
The Speaker directed the Clerk to call t
te roll of the House, and 1t appeared the follo'
q, ing Representatives were present:
i Hon. J. c. Moncure, Speaker; and Messr
Armstrong, Arnauld, Barthelmy, Brei
Billieu, Bienvenu, Bower, Brown Of Tenss
N Brown Of Jefferson, Carter, Carville, Coz
! Como, Cordill, Davidson of Red River, Davl
9 :. son Of Iberville, Demas, Decuir,, Dupat
IL Gubernator, Hammond, Hart, Hasam,, Ha
80 kins. Hav, Hill, Hite, Hightower, Holzha
" Jeffries, Jenkins, Landry, Lauer, Liddt
Lyons, Martin Of st. Landry, Marquee, nv
On day, Murrel McElroy Mckee, Nealey, N
H. ties, O'Bryan, Pope, Potts, Rabouin, Reant
Robson, Ross, Ryland, Sharp, Smart, Stee
Stechmann, Smith OF st. Mary, Scott, Schu
" pert, Taylor, Torrey, Veazey, Vidrine, WI
I moth, WISE Young-T.
Of The President announced that there VIZ
present lightweight members Of the Gene
I'D Assembly, and a quorum.
Nominations for a United States Senat
s. being in order, the following were made:
a. Hon. p. B. S. Pinchback, of Orleans.
Hon. N. B. Trist, of Orleans.
Hon. J. w. SandIford, of Red River.
Hon. Thomas 0gerton, of Avoyelles.
Hon. Henry Demas, of st. John.
The rolls of the respective houses W
5e, called, with the following result:
e. Senator Sandiford and Representatives
90, nauld, f5ienvenu, Dupaty, Fitzgerald, Gut
he nator, Hart, Hill, Lauer, MARQUEE, McEtr
Nettles, Rabouin, Stechmann, Taylor {
Young voted for N. b. Trist-16 votes
Senator Stamps and Representa-
les Brown, Coleman, Hite and Murrell voted
ye- the Hon. P. b. S. Pinchback-- votes.
Senators Breaux, Ellis, Kelly, Mitch
Williams and Zacharie, and Representa-
Armstrong, Carter, Davidson Of Red RiN
Gearey, Guidry, Hay, Hight wer, Jenk
&c, O'Bryan, Potts, Ryland, Smart and Ste
10 voted for the Hon. j. w. Sandiford-19 vo
OF Senator Harper voted for John J. Horar
vote. -.
Decuir. Ducote Landry, Nealey, Rea
and Veazey voted for the Hon. Thomas o.
ton-9 votes.
,u- Representative Bower voted for Hon.