The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-02-27
NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY FEBRUARY a. 1890

doing. which l now find contained in salt
| Rer0yd,
And emphaticalfy dlsclaim my intention
to place the members OF your honorable
| body In false position.
therefore ask that your honorable body
accept this as my explanation In the prem
ises. and dlsmlss me from tho charge Of con
tempt. Respectfully,
VIM J. YELL,
| Member from Fast Carroll,
! MIR Ogden moved that the esp,,rgation o
| Mr. Yell be printed In tho Journal and sie over
until Tomorrow.
Mr.. Dsvarea,Iy moved ns substitute for the
motion of Mr.. Ogden that tho expurgation be
accepted
| On motion of Mr.. Ogden. aud by rising
vote of 81 yeas to 30 nays. the motion to
accept tho sxpurQation was laid upon the
table.
Tho motion Of Mr.. Ogden to have tho ox-
purgation printed and lie over was agrssd to.
Mr.. Landry offered the following state
ment
To tho Rneakat and Members of tho House Of
Representatives:
Grntleme" In compliance with your reso-
lntlnn of tha twenty first Instant daelnring
ms In cnntemptnf your authority and dignity
and requiring mo to purge myself of the
| same. trg Leave respectfully 10 submit the
following as my sEpurgntipn
| declare It my belief that the language
used In the memorial to tho Senate of tho
United States II In contempt Of this honorable
body and der"gatory to its dignity.
| declare further that never should my sig
nature have bsen affixed to the sntus had
| read or known what It. contained.
| When 1t WIS presented to mo nj my desk In
| this House by tho Hon. l., j, HDrler under
stood 1t to be a simple denegatlon that had
given my sanction to tho passage by this hon
| nrnbla House of n resolution unsenting Hon
WIN. PITT Kellogg rs Uultsd States Senator
and recommending tho seating in his place oi
| Hon, Ii. Nj. Aponnrd.
| The memorial as published in tho procsad-
lngs of tho Senate of tho United States Is en-
| tirey different from the memorial which
Thought had signed.
! The language In It contained I cannot
sanction. and the reflectinns npninst the ma
| jority of the members of this House arc I'M
| true and unnerltsd,
| | assure this House that | have beer
| placed In contstnpt of Its authority and dig
| nifty by no wlful or prsmsditatsd net. and
beg that the above will be accepted by 1t as :,
| full md aonplete expurgntiOn on nv part of
| contempt toward 1t and It's honorable NOM
| bers.
PIERRE LANDRY
or ASCENSION.
Mr.. Ogden moved that the statement be
printed In the journal and lie over.
| Which motion was agreed to.
Mr.. Mccain. chairman. on behalf OF the
Committee on Enrolment. reported as fol
| lows. .
| New ORLEANS. February "a. 1870.
| To tho Hpenker aud Membsrs of tho House oi
Representatives.:
have tho honor to report as correctly on
rolled
House bill No. 30. entitled
An net To provide for tho payment OF tho
salaries nj the clerks OF the city courts Of the
city Of Now Orleans. and their deputies and
assistants
am. respectfully,
II. V. MCCAIN. Chairman.
Tho above entitled House bill No 30 wns
read to the House aud Signed by tho Speaker
SPECIAL ORDER or THE DAY
HyCommttee on Ways and Means
| House bill No lag.
| An act toprovde nm annual revenue for the
State Of Louisiana by the levyingof annual
| taxes upon all property not exempted by the
consultation from taxation. and by prescribing
| the methods Of assessing and collecting the
Same and OF enforcing payment thereof.
This bill. being tho special order Of tho day
| WINS taken up.
Mr.. Kavhnnugh moved that tho House dc
now resolve itself into u committees Of The
whole to consider the above entitled House
bill No. tAG
Tho motion was agreed to. and the House
resolved Itself into COMMITTEES of the whole
and took under consideration tho bill.
HOUSE Ers1NEss REsEMED. .-==
| lSpeaker Ogden In the chair
Mr.. Kavanaugh, chairman, on behalf OF the
committee of tho whole. reported that the
committee had had under consideration the
above entitled House bill No. TAG, and recon-
mended to the House the adoption OF the first
section, and asked leave to sit again.
| Mr.. Robertson moved to adjourn until to-
morrow at IL m
Bya rising vote OF 30 yeas to AZ nays the
motion TO adjourn WAS lost.
Mr.. kavanaugh moved that the report ol
the committee be received, and that the first
section OF the bill be adopted.
| BY n rising vote OF IS yeas to 81 nays the
motion Was agreed to, and the first section Of
| the bill was adopted.
| Mr.. Farmer moved to reconsider the vote
by which the first section was adopted and
moved to lay the motion to reconsider upon
the table, which motion was agreed to by a
| rising vote OF i3 yeas to 20 nays.
| Mr.. Allain moved that the House do now
adjourn until tomorrow, Wednesday. the
twenty-fifth instant. mt II O'Clock m.
| BY rising vote Of 50 yeas to lG nays the
motion to adjourn WAS agreed to.
@= PETER J. IRRELEVANT
Clerk OF the House OF Representatives.
Thirty Sixth Days Proceedings.