The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-16

OF the State to institute proceedings for tho
recovery OF certain swamp lands.
This hill comes from the COMMITTEES on
Public Works, Lands, Levees and Railroads.
reported upon favoraby. With All amendment.
Mr. Robertson offered the following
amendment:
After the word "a ,vernor," In line II, In
.eert che words "of not more than Is per cent"
Mr.. Henry offered the following amend
.nssnt 10 the amendment offered by Mr.. Rob
0rt8on
strike out "25 per cent" and Insert 10 per
Mr.. Coegrove moved to lay upon the table
ihe amendment offered by Mr.. Henry.
BY rising vote Of Is yeas to "a nays the
motion 10 lay upon the table was lost.
On motion the amendment offered by Mr..
Henry was adopted.
On motion the amendment Of Mr.. Robert.
son. ~ amended by Mr.. Henry, was adopted
Mr.. Robertson offered the following amend
ment.
ETC.. That the rights Of the purchasers, pat.
enteee or settlers under existing laws sha!
not be In any way affected by this resolution
The amendment was adopted
Mr. Farmer moved to reconsider the vptt
by which tho amendment offered by Mr.
Robertson, az amended by Mr.. Henry, was
adopted.
Mr.. Robertson moved to lay upon the table
the motion made by Mr.. Farmer, and on this
motion the yeas and nays were called for and
resulted 90 follows:
Yeas-Meesrs. Basktp, Cayolle. Deve
reAux Hathaway, HHney, Henry, Jones
InHEAnf1 X lsiIia,ctI,r I.nnnNptar. IaunndrQ
Ietten, Lyons, Mahoney. Nixon. Pritehard
Pore Roberto on, Verret, Wise, Williams o
Moreheuse, Williams OF Terrebonne Young
of Iberia-N.
Naye-Mtesrs. Armstrong, Atkins, Aitken
Billiti, Buchanan. Buger, Butler, Oarron, Cos
rrovn. Ouriey, Davidson, billiard, Dudenhefer
Eseex. Farmer. Faulkner, Feazel, Gardner
Gibson, Harris, Herring. jackson Of St.
Miiisndon, Morgan. Mccain. Mccullough
Pearce. Phippa. Philips, Pollard. Quinn
Richardson, Shepherd, st. Clair, Ialton,
Vaughan, Vincent, VOORHEES,, Weems, Young
or 81. Landry-A6
ton TO reconsider made by MIR. Farmer was
lost. -.
BY which the amendment offered by Mr.
Robertson. a. amended by MIR. Henry. was
adopted.
BY rising vote Of 90 yeas to ~ nays the
motion was agreed to.
Mr.. Farmer moved to lay upon the table
the amendment Of Mr.. Henry.
A call for the yeas and nays having been
sustained by the House, resulted az follows
Yeas eesrs. Armstrong, Atkins, Aitken,
Butler, Bulow, .Ooegrove, Curley, Davidson,
Devereaux, billiard, Dldenhefer, Essex, Far
ENsn1 0pnt rtsNsp 1x,sxs
Kayanan9h, Kirk. Lucke, Miilaudon, Morgan,
Mccain, Mccullough, Mcdowell, MeLeroy.
ssSspISsTa; 90 SIs,r. Tslton, Vaughan. voor,
NsysSmesssrs. Allan, Bask,n. Buchanan,
.Osrfon, Uayolle. Dlckerson, Gardner. Hath
away. HAney, Heidenhain, Henry, Jones,
,Joffrion. Kleinpeter Lancaster. Landry.
Legendre Letten. Lyons. Mahoney, Nixon.
pssr prtchard rope Sncent WISE VII
llHms OF Morehouse, Williams OF Terrebonne,
Young Of Iberia--34.
The motion to lay upon the table the
amendment offered by MIR. Henry to the
amendment offered by Mr.. Robertson was
carried.
on motion the bill was engrossed and
passed to its third reading.
SECOND SPECIAL ORDER.
BY Mr.. Frazier
House bill No. IS,
An act to prevent the adulteration Of arti-
cles of food; to prevent the sale Of unwhole-
some and tainted provisions; the slaughter
ing of cattle, ETC., for food when In an I'M
healthy condition, and for other purposes,
Being the second special order Of the day
for this day. was taken up on its second read
Ing.
considered section by section.
Sections and were adopted.
SSection was read.
Mr. Curley offered the following amend
nlant:
{ Aha. sAnd the females thereof when with
young
On the motion of Mr. Vincent the amend
ment OF Mr.. Curley was laid upon the table.
Section was adopted.
Section was read.
Mr.. st. Clair offered the following amend
ment:
Strike out In line s, section !, from the
word "city" to word within" In line 8.
The amendment was adopted. and the sec
ton as amended was adopted.
Section was read, and on the motion Of
Mr. Robertson was amended as follows:
Strike out after felony In line 1, sec
ton 5, the words "a misdemeanor.'
The section was adopted as amended.
Sections and Z were adopted.
Section was stricken out.
The bill as amended was ordered to be en-
crossed and passed to third reading.
Leave Of absence for the remainder OF the
day was granted to the Committee on Public
Education for important business.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ENROLMENT.
MIR. Mccain, chairman, reported as fol-
lows:
10 the Speaker and Members Of the House Of
Representatives:
I have the honor to report as properly en-
rolled
Joint Resolution
Requesting our Senators and Representa-
tives In Congress to secure the passage by the
Congress Of the United States OF a bill 8p-
propriating sufficient sum of money for the
opening and dredging Of the channel OF the