The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-16

On motion of Mr.. Henry. and under sus.
pension OF the rules,
| Senate bill No. 22s.
| An act to amend and re.enact section 3s7s
| Revised Statutes of 1870, relative to the pub.
| lie roads.
Was taken up on third reading.
| The bill was read In full.
The yeas and nays on the final passage ol
the bill resulted as follows:
| Yeas-Messrs. Aitken, Archer. Atkins, Bill
liu. Buchanan, Bulger, BuIow, Butler, Uade
garron, Oosgroye, Grain, Davidson, Dei,,el
Essex, Farmer, Fea1el, Franz. Frazier, Gard
ner, Gibson, Golsan, Hall. Haney, Harris.
| Hathaway, .Heidenhain, Ives, jones', Kirk,
Kleinpeter, Legendre Letten, Llcke, Lyons,
Munday, Mccain, Mcdonald, Mcdowell,
McLeroy. Ogden Of Bossier, Phillips, Phipps,
| Pollard, Pope, Pritchard, Richardson, Robert
| SON.. Roche, Schneider, Shaitfer, Shepherd,
ct. Clair, Talton. Varnado, Vaughan, Vincent,
| VOORHEES,, Weems, Williams of Terrebonne,
Wise Young of Iberia, Young Of st. Landry
| "a
Nays Messrs. Allan, Henry, verret,
Yell-4.
Absent-Messrs, Armstrong. Barry. BssIin
| Oayolle, Ourley, Faulkner, Herriug, Jackson
| nf st. Mary, Jackson OF Natchitoches, Joffrion,
kavanagh, Lancaster. Landry, Mccullough,
| Newsom, Pearce Quinn, Strlngfellow, Will
| llams of Morehouse-t9.
| And the bill was finally passed.
The title was read and adopted.
| Mr.. Henry 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.. Henry, and under q sus-
pension of the rules,
Senate bill No. 2O1,
An act to repeal section 1895 of the Revised
Statutes OF 1870,
full.
The vote being called on the final passage
of the bill, resulted rs follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Aitken, Archer, Buchanan,
Bulger, Bulow, Butler, Oarron, Grain, Our
ley, Deibel, Devereaux, Dlllard, Dudenhefar,
Farmer, Faulkner, Feazel, Franz, Frazier,
Gibson, Golsan, Hall, Haney, Harris, Hatha-
way, Ives, Jones, Kirk, klelnpeter, Legendre,
Letten, Lyons, Mahoney, Mlllaudon, Nixon,
Morel, Morgan, Munday, Mccain. Mcdowell,
MeLeroy, Newsoin, Ogden of Bossier, Phil
lips, Phipps, Pollard. Pope, Pritehard Quinn,
Richardson's, Robertson, Roche, Schneider,
Shepherd, shaitfer, vt. Clair, Taltob, Varnado,
Vaughan, Vincent, Voorhies, Weems, Williams
of Terrebonne, Wise, Young of Iberia, Young
of st. Landry-65.
Nays-Messrs Billiu Oosgrove, Davidson,
Essex. Heidenhain, Henry, Jackson of St.
Mary, verret, Yell-9.
Absent-M Messrs. Attain, Armstrong, Atkins,
Gardner, Herring, Jackson of Natchltoohes,
| Joffrion, kavanagh, Lancaster. Landry.
| IIucke. Mccullough. Mcdonald, Pearce,
Stringfellow, Williams of Morehouse-2.
And the bill was finally passed
! The title was read and adopted.
Mr.. Henry moved to reconsider the vote by
which the bill was finally passed. aud on his
own motion the motion to reconsider was
laid ON the table.
| Mr.. Ogden, chairman on part Of the House
OF the special Joint committee to investigate
the books, accounts, vouchers, ETC., of the
Auditor and Treasurer, submitted the follow
Ing report:
To the Senate aud House of Representatives of
the State of louisiana
| Your joint committee appointed to investi-
gate the books, accounts, and v2uchers Of the
| Auditor and Treasurer respectfully beg leave
to report that they have made an examina-
| tion OF the books of the Auditor and found
| that the same are promptly written up In a
neat. orderly and business-like manner, and
that the clerical employees are competent and
experienced accountants.
| 10 examine into the corrections OF each
voucher and to trace the same through the
books of the Auditor and thence through the
books OF the Treasurer would be work iu-
volving the expenditure of many months
| time. Besides, your committee, who are not
| experts In this matter, would have required
| the services Of one or two experienced book.
keeping experts for the length OF time men,
| toned, which would have involved the outlay
of a considerable amount OF money. Under
these circumstances your committee could
search at random for number of vouchers,
and tracing the same throughout the books
of the Auditor, found in each and every case
| everything correct
| Further than this: The yearly and quar-
terly reports of the Auditor and Treas
urer show each and every item OF receipts
| and expenditures; these reports arepublished
In detail and serve to check each other to this
extent making an examination into every
detail unnecessary. The Auditor called the at
tention Of your committee to the meagre ap-
preparation made for the clerical expenses of
| his office, referring to the fact that In former
years the appropriations were over $50 900,
and that under the Nichols government the
amount appropriated was $1S,O00 In this
connection the Auditor asserts most posi-
| lively that the amount now allowed is insult
| tieient for the proper working OF this inn
portant office, and that so far during the year
1880 the clerical work of the offles Is greater
| than In previous years. In these opinions
your committee agree, and we respectfully
ask the attention OF your honorable bodies
to these facts with view of devising suita-
| BILE remedy.
| Your committee commenced the examina-
| tlon OF the Treasurer's Office by requiring
| from the Fiscal Agent statement OF cash bal
ances of the Treasurer in bank to the credit
of each fund, certified by the officers of the
bank as on hand at the close of business each
month since L, A. Burke qualified.
A similar statement was required from the
Auditor, showing the balances at the close of
business each month from January, 1879, in
elusive, as exhibited by the books of his
office.
Another monthly statement of balances for
the same period of time was then required OF
the Treasurer; and on closer comparison OF
these several monthly statements of balances
1t was found that they agreed, and that the
cash balances required by the books of the
Auditor to be on hand at the end of each
months business We're actually at the credit
of the Treasurer In the Fiscal Agency.
Your committee further examined q state
ment OF receipts in the treasury for the year
1879, and for the months OF January and Feb
ruary 1880, as exhibited by the Auditors &C
counts, and q comparison OF the same with
the hooks of the Treasurer show that the &C