The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-06
first Monday OF April, 1880. and was. therefore.
NO longer n m arnher If tina I,pDialatr1ra

FIRST Monday Of April. 1880. and was. therefore.
no longer a member OF the Legislature
oath as circuit Judge and would not do 80 until
the adjournment SINE die Of the Legislature.
April 10. 1880. because. before bis election. he
throughout the whole of the present session.
He said that while he could qualify and begin
to-day drawing. his salary $40 90 per day In
he would keep the promise he had made to his
| fellow Legislators. He Said that the first term
Of his court which the constitution had fixed,
Monday. April 49, 1880, ut Lake Providence.
East Carroll parish, and that he could not pos
sibly render any service as circuit Judge or
perform any OF the duties of that office until
that day He believed he could be of service to
the State by remaining In the Legislature one
week longer; and he would do 80. and would,
therefore, not qualify as circuit Judge until the
final adjournment Of the Legislature.
He said he did not hold two offices. because
he was not Judge but only Judge elect; and that
he was not drawing TWO salaries at tho same
time.
spenker Ogden decided Mr.. Mahoney's point
of order not well taken, whereupon that gentle
man sat down.
Later In the day. when Mr. Farmer was ure-
Ing tho speedy completion Of the legislntt ION
essential to avoid an extra session, Mr.. Maho-
ney made the same point and quoted the edi-
torihl In the Daily States Of toda as authority
for bis position, Mr.. Mahoney was sgain over
ruled and MIR. Farmer will continue his legiala-
tive functions till he 10 qualified as Circuit
Judged
Tbe license bill was taken up under suspen.
sion Of the rules and the substitute for the sec.
tions Of the bill from section three to section
fourteen inclusive was adopted, with amend
ments, In committee OF the whole. The COM
mittee then rose, In order to take action upon
THE DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL
which came into the House with amendments
by the Senate.
Representative Farmer moved that the
amendments be CONQUERED In.
Reprt sentative Fea2el opposed the motion to
concur, and favored the appointment Of con-
ference committee.
On The call Of the yeas aud nays the motion
to concur was lost-yeas As. nays rs. not con-
stitutional majority.
On motion OF Representative Farmer con-
ference committee was then appointed, to meet
of Bosster and Mcdowell,
=, The Joint resolution thanking Hon, II. L;
Gibson for his efforts to secure the archives OF
Louisiana while under French and Spanish
dominion, was adopted.
amendments to the deficiency appropriation
bill reported, with recommendation that the
amendments be concurred In. The rules were
suspended In order to consider the report
which as adopted-yeas 81. nays 80.
An ast to regulate the number Of employees
OF the clerks Of the city courts of the city OF
dered to be engrossed and passed to Its third
reading.
THE LICENSE BILL RESUMED.
The license bill was again taken up. the pend
Representative Harris offered the following
subs titute for the section:
SECTION. Is. Be. II further enacted ETC., That
the sum of $40 900 Is hereby declared to be the
license fee for the privilege OF conducting the
lottery business In this State said sum to be
paid quarterly Ia advance In sums Of $40 goo. to
the Auditor OF the State. who shall deposit 1t in
the treasury of the State; the first said $4,000
so deposited to be placed to the credit of the
Shreveport Charity Hospital all 9iher sums
educational fund the license for conducting
said business to Issue by the Auditor Of the
State upon tho applicants paying $4,000 down,
and giving good and solvent security In the
sum Of $50 900 for prompt payment OF quarterly
installments as above prescribed.
Representative Cosgrove made the point OF
order that the substitute was unconstitutional.
He insis ed that the General Assembly had not
any lottery companies. and that no
company could do business under the opera
The CHAIR Representative Biliu) said the
point OF order required some consideration. 1t
raised constitutional question which he would
prefer for the House to decide.
Several members insisted that the CHAIR
should decide the point and he called for the
substitute In order to consider It,
Representative Oosgrove said there was an
ether point involved In the matter. The con-
required that the stockholders of all
was no protection proposed in the substitute.
A., Representative Harris replied that stock.
holders and others were as well protected
Of the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany were under the charter OF that corpora
ton.
Representative Cosgrove said he did not con.
slider this question because Of It's relation to The
Louisiana Lottery Company. His position with
regard to lotteries was we'll known. He stood
now where he had always stood with regard to
lotteries. He did not Jump from one side to the
other upon the question rs some others did.
Representative Harris replied that he too
stood where he had always stood upon this
question. He had only alluded to the Louisiana
Lottery Company for the purposes OF compari-
son, aud with no view to hurt the gentleman's
feelings.
The committee rose without any decision
upon the point raised by Representative Cos.
grove, and the House Immediately adjourned
until to- morrow at IL o'clock.