Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-11-01
SENATOR LEAKE AND THE Elk.
IRA SESSION.

0VSA A1OhtoVOA 1/OtshO . ONJOCt1VA6 Will
| the following reasons:
| "First. As there are no appropri-
atoms for the support of the State In
stitutions during the year 1881, theil
administrators will have no other Sc
curity upon which to boyro,u funds al
a heavy rate of interest, than the
superstition that the Legislature, in
May or June next, will make the
necessary appropriation.
"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 ari an
nual deficit Of some $25O,O0O in the
revenues of the State, and that there
is no license schedule for 1887
| Friend Jastremski is a very clever
gentleman, and writes an excellent
article; but fear he is like the aver
age legislator he has no idea what
laws are in force in this State. If he
will examine No. Il, and No. ll9 of
the acts OF 1880, he will discover that
there is an appropriation for 1881,
and a 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 ITO 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 Tie 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 saws.
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 endeavored to
describe in the last weekly edition of
the CAPIToLIAN, in response to an
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,
tue twenty or thirty thousand dollars
that an extra session would cost,
would see our charitable and educa-
tioual 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.
Besides, Senator Leake must agree
with IS that the revenue and appro-
priation bills, take up very much of
the tune 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.