The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-12
House bill No. 21.

TO the COMMITTEES on the Judiciary.
Mr. Steckman, In accordance with previous
notice given, introduced a bill, which was
read and placed upon the calendar OF the
House as
House bill No. Is,
IAN act to repeal act No. 26 Of the extrs
session Of 1871, approved April 81, 1878"
Mr. Murrell moved suspension OF the
rules In order to put the bill on It's second
reading, and on that motion called for the
yeas and nays, with the following result:
Yeas = Messrs. Armstrong, ArnauId, Bar.
thelmy. Brent, Bllleu. Bienvenu, Bord, Bower
Of Jefferson. Carter, Coleman, Cousin,
Cunningham, Davidson of Iberville, Demas,
Decuir, Ducote, Fitzgerald, Gearey, Cub
dry, Gubernator, Hammond. Hart, Hasam
Lauer, Liddell, Martin Of st: Landry, Mar.
tin Of Claiborne MARQUEE, Moncure, Nixon
Munday, Murrell, McElroy. Mckee, Nealey,
O'Brien, Parfnelee, Potts, Rabouin Reaney
OF jackson, Smith OF st. Mary, Scott, Schnm-
pert, Taylor, Veazey, Vldrine, Walton, Wat
son, Welsh, Weightman, Wise and Young -68
Nays-Messrs. Bridger, Lyons, Pope, Rem.
wick, Ryland, Smart, Steele, Torrey and
Vance,.
The rules were suspended and the bill was
passed to Its second reading.
Mr.. Demas moved that the bill be referred
to the Committee on the judiciary.
Mr.. Murrell moved that the motion to refer
be laid upon the table.
Which motion, by rising vote Of SO yeas
to 40 nays, was lost.
Mr.. Murrell moved to amend the motion to
rafar CO. NC m Ha tho hill ho al lar
OF the day for January 10, Immediately after
the reading Of the journal.
Mr.. Demas moved that the motion to amend
be laid upon the table.
Which motion, by rising vote Of So yeas
to As nays, was lost.
The motion to amend was adopted, and the
bill was made the special order Of the day
for June 10, Immediately after the reading Of
the journal.
Mr.. Lyons, In accordance with previous
notice given, introduced bill, which was
read and placed upon the calendar Of the
House as
House bill No. %,
"An act to provide for a convention to frame
a new constitution OF the State, and making
an appropriation to pay the expenses OF the
same"
Mr.. Murrell moved that the further consid-
GRAFTON of the bill be postponed until Tuesday
next, and be made the special order OF the day
for that day, and that 1t be printed.
Mr.. Lyons moved that the motion to post
pone be laid on the table.
On which motion the yeas and nays were
called for by Mr.. Demas, with the following
result:
YeasMessrs. Armstrong, Arnauld, Brent,
Bridger, Bienvenu, Bord, Bower. Brown OF
Tensas, Carter, Coco, Cousin, Cunningham,
Dupaty, Estopinal. Fitzgerald, Gearey,
Guidry, Gordon, Gubernator, Hammond,
Hart. Hasam, Hay, Hill, Hightower, Holz-
halb, Jeffries, Jenkins, Jones, Lauer, Lid
dell, Lott, Lyons, Martin Of st. Tammany,
Martin OF Claiborne, Marquee, Mon
cure, Nixon, Munday, McElroy, Mckee,
Neaiey,- Nettles, o'Brien. Parmelee, Pope,
Potts, Rahouin, Reaney, Redon, Renwick,
Robson, Ryland, Sharp, Smart, Scratchley,
Steele, Steckman, Smith of jackson, Scott,
Schumpert, Taylor, Torrey, Vance, Vidrine,
Walton, Watson, Welsh, Weightman, Wise,
Young-70.
Nays-Messrs. Barthelmy, Bord, Bour-
geois, Brown of jefferson, Como. Coleman,
Demas, Detiege, Decuir,- Ducote, Frazer,
st. Mary, Veazey and Warmoth-
The motion to postpone was laid on the
table.
NJ. Lyons moved that the rules be sus-