The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-01

: tfon was taken up and referred to the Con
, mtttee on Taxation, Equalization and Ez
, emption,
The journal Of May 20 was approved.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY,
The special order Of the day, being the re
port OF the Committee on Legislative De
partment, was taken up, and, on the motion
OF Mr.. Breaux, the consideration Of the re
port was ordered to be postponed and mad
the special order Of the day for May 81, i'm
medlately after the reading Of the journal.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The unfinished business on which the Con
vention was engaged yesterday at the time 81
adjournment was taken up, being the report
OF the Committee on Executive Department
and Ordinance No. 800, reported by said com
mittee, pending the consideration Of article 8
Article was adopted.
Article was read.
Mr.. Smith, OF jackson, offered the follow.
ing amendment:
Strike out, In the third line, all after the
word the and to the word and" In the
fourth line. and insert, first Monday next
succeeding the first Thursday after the meet
ing OF the General Assembly"
| Mr.. George offered the following as O sub
stitute for the amendment Of Mr.. Smith:
In lines 3 and 4, strike out the words "on
the fourth Monday next ensuing his election, y
ana insert, ION the first Monday next ensu-
| ing the announcement by the General As
sembly OF the result Of the election for Gov
ernor."
The substitute was adopted, and the article
as amended thereby was adopted.
! Article 5 was read.
1 Mr. Suthnr1iT, pffarod tho fo1lrrr,3ur~ ~, n
| substitute for article g.:
ART. 5. No member of Congress, or person
| holding any office under the United States
shall be eligible to the office OF Governor or
Lieutenant Governor.
On motion OF Mr.. Breaux the substitute
was laid upon the table.
MIR. Robertson moved to amend BY striking
out LID line s, the words tsix months and
inserting In lieu thereof the words tone year"
Mr.. Heron moved to amend by striking
out the words Tor within six months imme-
diately preceding"
On the motion OF Mr.. Breaux both amend
ments were laid upon the table.
Me- Demas moved to strike out article s.
On motion Of Mr.. Moore, OF Lafourche, the
motion to strike out was laid Oh the table.
On the suggestion OF the Chair, the proceed
ings relative to article were, on motion, sus-
pended, in order to take up communication
just received from the Secretary of State.
The communication was read, as follows:
To the Honorable Louis A. Wilt. President of
the Constitutional Convention New Orleans:
Ssr.1 have the honor to enclose herein the
compilation OF the vote, returned by the civil
ton held on the twenty ninth day OF May, A.
~ 1879, for one delegate to represent the
Fifth Representative District Of the parish OF
Orleans, at which election Mr. FL. j. Riyet
having received the highest number OF votes
cast at said election was declared duly elected
Delegate to represent the said fifth ward in
the Convention.
Very respectfully, your opedient servant,
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary OF State.
The inclosed certificate was read, and on
the motion OF Mr.. Girard 1t was ordered that
the name Of Mr.. Fl. j. Rivet be placed upon
the roll Of the Convention as Delegate from
the Fifth Representative District Of the par
ish of Orleans.
Subsequently Mr.. Rivet, being present on
the floor Of the House, was conducted to a
seat.
Consideration Of article 5 being resumed,
Mr. Moore, OF. Lafourche offered to amend by
by inserting after the word "oficer," In line 8.
the following words:
And all votes cast for such Ineligible person
shall be deemed blank votes.
The motion to amend was lost,
MI Forman moved to amend by adding at
the end OF the article the words following:
In case an ineligible person receives ma
jority OF votes, there shall be new election.
The motion to amend was lost.
1
out the words "six' months, In line g. and in
5erting in lieu thereof the words "three
months"
The motion to amend was lost.
Mr.. Breaux moved the previous question,
which was seconded by the Convention.
On the main question, being the adoption of
article 5, the yeas and nays were called for,
With the following result:
: feass-Messrs. Allan, Babcock, Baskin.
Bell, Bennam, Bienvenu, Blanchard, Breaux.
Breen, Bridger, Bulow, burton, Byrne. CAT.
9Ca oeyn qdhaa chhiapela c!aborn Col
ION OF Claiborne, Davis, Denis, billiard. East
,rly, Edwards, Estopinal, Fayrot. Fontelie11
sorman, Gardner, Gaskins, George. Girard
lovers, Grimes Gueringer, Havard, Henry
Honf he1ry Of natehitochee Heron
Anobiock, Lanaux, Land, Leake. IeGar,.
eur, Jr;. Loan, Long, Luckett, Lyons,
1arks, Marshall Matthews. Mentz. Miilard'
l lore lar Moore Of Lafourche, Moore Of St.
, ,adapy i M,andaay az McGloin, Noguez Mutt
ack, Poche, Ponder. Reid, Richards ,e' Roach
a aessa smith Of st; Mary, Stage, Steele,
, seVe sfrase s5teTTahrt stie Stone strInge
Eatkins, Wells, White, Williams 2 81 Tt Hrent
lilllams q Ierrebonne, Young OF Concordia'
Dung OF East Baton Rouge-10S.
,Nays-M essTs. Boble, Bourgeois, Davidson
!. . loery al Dlckerson, Landry. Pardee,
ABSENT essrs, Bolton, Brian, Bulger, Cal