Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-05
SENATOR LEAKE AND TME Ex'
IRA SESSION.


the following reasons:
"First. As there are no appropri-
ations for the support of the State In
stitutions during the year 1881, their
administrators will have no other Sc
curity upon which to borYo,r funds at
a heavy rate of interest, than the
supposition that the Legislature, in
May or June next, will make the
| necessary appropriation.
1'Second. The committee for re-
building the capitol being based on
payments in actual cash, the State
and the people alone will have to
stand the loss on the deprecated war
rants.
"Third. That there will be an an
nual deficit of some S250,000 in the
revenues of the State, and that there
| is no license schedule for 1881"
Friend Jastremski is very clever
gentleman, and writes an excellent
article; but ] fear be is like the aver
age legislator he has no idea what
laws are in force in this State. Ifhe
will examine No. II, and No. ll9 Of
the acts OF 1880, he will discover that
there is an appropriation for 1881,
and license for 1881.
BY examining the acts for the past
twenty years, he will find that the
annual deficit has become chronic,
and the only remedy for this evil
would be extra sessions every year.
If the State House contractors con-
tracted on an actual cash basis, they
should have demanded the cash from
the Treasurer, and in default, they
should have given up their contract.
Having received Auditors warrants,
they were not authorized to pledge
them at fifty cents on the dollar, and
expect the taxpayers to make up
their deficiency.
! Give us better reasons for calling
an extra session, if you desire the aid
and assistance of Senator
w. w. LEAKE.
| Through an error (Which is of fire.
quent occurrence) we said 1881 in
tead of 1882, which we meant to says,
in our reply to Senator Leake's pre-
vious communication.
After this correction, we would
like to hear the able and worthy Sen
ator's views on the real situation OF
affairs, which we have endeav0red to
describe in the last weekly edition OF
the CAPIToLIAN, in response to al
article in the New Orleans Democrat.
We honestly believe that the sooner
the sickening traffic in State warrants
is brought to an end, the sooner will
Louisiana emerge from her COVER
mental difficulties.
We can't agree with those, who,
for the sake of saving, apparently,
the twenty or thirty thousand dollars
that an extra session would cost,
would see our charitable and educa-
ti0nal institutions, the Judicial and
other officials and those performing
work for the State, go forth among
the brokers to make ruinous arrange
ments based upon vouchers predica-
ted upon appropriations depending
upon the pleasure of the General As
sembly. when it meets in May and
June of 1882.
Wesay let the State save them from
the brokers.
I Besides, Senator Leake must agree
with us that the revenue and appro-
priation bills, take up very much Of
the time of a regular session.
Could not the twenty-five or thirty
days spent in the extra session in
framing these bills, be deducted from
the sixty or ninety days, which the
constitution has provided for the reg
lar session of 1882?
1t seems to US that when these i'm
portant bills are disengaged, as they
would be in an extra session, from
the various schemes that appear at a
regular one, much objectional legis-
lation would be abandoned, and the
time so shortened thereby, that the
regular session would last no longer
than will the latter if the former is
not held.
MUSIC BY THE BAND.