Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-10-25
AN EXTRA SESSION.

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ted in supplement, our esteemed
contemporary of the N. 0. Demo
crat, opposes vigorously, mot strenu
ously) an extra session of the Gen
eral Assembly, with arguments
which we ask its permission to de-
clare, wholly untenable.
The Legislature, says the Demo
crat, cannot, in twenty days, rusl
through revenue and an appropri
alton bill.
Well, what of it! Cannot TIL,
Governor call an extra session of ter
days, during which these bills could
be discussed and framed, then coulG
he not call another of ten, fifteen OF
twenty days more, from the close O
the first session, during which te
adopt, according to law, the impor-
tant bills in question.
We see nothing in the Constitution
to prevent the Governor from adopt
ing such a course.
To show its Observation-Disclosures, a
very commendable one, the Demo
GRAFT goes on to say that it holds
$4,000, in warrants, ''in payment OF
labor and material furnished the
State for 1880 and 1881, for which we
disbnrsed our money and for which
we should gratefully hail an appro-
priation." 1t then jumps on to the
constitutional warrants, for which the
holders have been getting from IS to
So cents on the dollar, while it is no.
ticeably silent ON the General Fund
ara,rants, for which the State Univer-
sity, we know, obtained but 66 cents
on the dollar, the Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb So cents, and that
for the Blind, that for the Insane, and
the mass of the holders of General
Fund warrants have doubtless OBJ
tanned about the same.
With regard to the warrants for
rebuilding the Capitol, the Democrat
says:
At a meeting of the Capitol Com
missioners held yesterday in this city,
arrangements were made with the
Citizens Bank by which all funds
necessary for present purposes will
be placed at the disposal of the COM
mission, not only to proceed with the
work of construction, but to liquidate
debts already contracted, and this at
8 per cent. interest, on liberal terms.
In another column of the same pa
per we find the following in this con-
nection:
Arrangements have been complet
ed with the Citizens Bank, by which
$4,000 can be procured on the Sc
curity of $37, 900 in warrants. The
Citizens Bank will also take ID the
loan of Newman of $4,000 due De-
cember 18th.
We suppose that it is by such an
arrangement that the capitol is to be
pushed to it's completion.
Whether that way of doing business
suits the people remains to be seen.
Returning to the boosted Constitu-
tonat warrants, we are authorized to
state by a District Judge, that he was
compelled, last year, to sell his at as
low q figure as SO cents. He has sold
them since at figures varying from 60
to 90 cents.
The question with us is: Shall no
licenses be collected in 1882 until June
or Jaly; and in the meantime, shall
transient license payers be allowed to
go scot freee
Shall the charitable institutions,
having no warrants even to pledge,
be allowed to get along the best way
they can until June or July of 1882 ?
Shall the Constitutional officers, the
Judges, ETC., be allowed to make the
best arrangements they can, on their
vouchers, with the Carondelet street
brokers 4?
Shall the leyees take care of them
selves, without warrants even, until
Jhe tax has been levied in June or
July?
How will the municipal and paro-
'hial governments frame their IL
;ense shedules, having no state sched-
lie to limit them as the constitution
provides 4?
How much longer is it contemplate
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