The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-05-31
CAPITAL. NOTES.

seems to be making good progress, though
much of the tims OF the Senate during
the past few days has been occupied with
the consideration Of gHbernaterial ap-
pointments in executive session,
Probably the action of most general
interest taken during the past week was
the defeat on Tuesday, in the House OF
Representatives, Of the joint resolution
introduced by Mr.. Wells Of Richland
proposing the abolition of article 167 oil
the constitution, relative to lotteries
After an interesting discussion the bill was
submitted to vote and received 47 yeas
against AZ nays. Being proposed
amendment of the constitution it required
two-t thirds vote of the House to adopt the
resolution, and this it failed to receive
Representative Gibson of this parish was
not present when the vote was taken, ILL
ness preventing his attendance.
Among the bills of general interest and
Importance pending in the General Assem-
bly, we note the following: To regulate
public education: to provide for filling
vacancies in Judgeships of the Circuit
Courts; to prohibit employment of con-
victs outside Of the penitentiary; to author
ize the refunding of taxes paid twice on ac-
count of double assessment; making it a
crime for any bank director or Official to
receive a deposit Or incur an obligation
after he knows the bank to be insolvent:
appropriating $4,000 out of the general
fund for the relief of sufferers by the over
flow; appropriating $4,000 for work on the
Davis crevasse; to charter the New Orleans
and Shreveport Lottery; to prevent bribery
and undue influence at elections: compel
ing railroads to provide for a free flow of
water across their tracks; creating a State
Board of Pharmacy; prohibiting the opening
of places of business.on Sunday; to invest
Police Juries with the management and
control of public levees; to transfer the
State Library to the University of Louisi-
ana: memorializing Congress to. close a
crevasse, build levee and improve two
bayous in Madison parish; to regulate the
fees of Clerks of Court, Justices of the
Peace and Constables; TO remove the parish
seat of jackson from Vernon to more
central point; to create another Judge for
the Twenty third Judicial District; to
strengthen the streams in Louisiana and
provide against overflow; to form the
parishes of Catahoula, Caldwell, Ouachita,
Morehouse, West Carroll, Richland and
Franklin into a separate levee district, to
be known as the Tensas Basin Levee
District; memorializing Congress to trans
fer the property of the United States used
as barracks in Baton Rouge to the Louisi-
ana State University; to create an addition
al levee district west of the Atchafalaya; to
define and punish the crimes of incest and
seduction: to amend the act of 1882 relative
to the practice of medicine and surgery; to
prohibit a levee tax in the fifth district,
Orleans; providing for the election of AS
SCISSORS and Police Jurors; asking Congress
for $125, 0G0 to remove the raft in Bayou
Pierre; amending article 1877 of the civil
code and repeating act No. 222 of 1877 re-
lative to divorces; allowing a husband or
wife to testify in suits for divorce or separ-
alton; to prohibit the sale of lottery tickets
in Louisiana: forbidding the sale of gun
powder or dangerous weapons to minors
requiring railroads to fence their tracks;
granting relief to disabled Confederate
soldiers; making a marriage license OBJ
tanned in one parish operative in another;
making an appropriation to pay the ex-
penses of the General Assembly; compelling
railroad companies to establish uniform
rates and prohibiting discrimination.
The House has indefinitely postponed the
bills to relieve women of civil disabilities,
to fix the compensation of Clerks of Court,
relative to public sales, abolishing duties
on auction sales and providing for the ap-
pointment Of grand iures.
Senator Vance of Bossier introduced
which was adopted, calling upon
the Committee on Elections to frame anew
election law to insure fair count and an
expression of the popular
will.
Representative Hunter of Rapides pre-
sented memorial signed by $1,000 persons
asking that the sale of intoxicating liquors
be prohibited.
Representative Gibson of Ascension has
bills to amend act No. 50 Of
1882, relative to the appointment of an
assistant engineer, and to transfer certain
balances to the engineer and levee funds.
The House Committee on Education has
reported unfavorably on the bill constitu-
ing Police Juries Boards of School Direc-
,ors.
CoLoRED KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.-The