Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-07-03
The LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE,
TwENrY-NINrH DAY.


sKNATE.-The senate met at o'clock Mon
Gay, with seventeen members present, and
Lieut.. Gov. Snyder in the chair. As this was
not a quorum the sergeant-at-arms was in
structed to find the absent members. A few
minutes later two more senators came in and
enabled the senate to proceed with business.
Petitions and memorials:
number Of petitions were presented re-
questing the senate not to repeal the Sunday
law.
The committee on corporations, municipal
and parochial affairs reported favOrably on
senate bill sc. relative to the exemption of
firms within corporate limits from the pay
ment OF parish taxes.
Health and quarantine and charitable in
ENTHUSIASTICALLY on their visit to the in
stitute for the blind. and made recommended
ton In its behalf.
Senate bills and resolutions on final pas
sage:
No. IL, to prevent the use of the New Basin
for drainage purposes. Passed.
No. SO, creating in the parish OF Orleans
the fifth city court. Lies over at request Of
introducer.
The senate then adjourned until 11SO Tues
day morning.
HOUSE The house met at 4:30 o'clock p.
m. Monday with seventy-four members pres
sent with Speaker Henry in the chair.
Petitions, resolutions, ETC.:
Memorial from the Retail Clerks Associa-
tion, protesting against the repeal of the
Sunday law; also several others of the same
purpose.
A message from the senate announced that
the president of the senate had signed bills
IA and 81 aud concurrent resolution IL. The
speaker then signed the bills in open session
and they were then sent to the governor.
O'Neill, at the request of II. l.. Garland,
sent up a memorial from the Women's Pro-
tective Association, protesting against the
Dudenheler high hat bile The memorial was
referred to committee on fish and fisheries.
Communications ON the table:
Communication from the city council of
New Orleans relative to the dredging Of YER
rett canal, the -, nj on Of the civil service
clause in the city charter III and other fea-
lures of the same measure.
Lyons desired to call up house bill 209,
which had been recommitted. The chair
decided that the motion was not In order, the
morning hour having passed.
House bills referred TO committees:
No. 265-Removing the parish seat OF the
parish Of Jackson from Vernon to a location
within radius OF two miles Of the geosraph-
ical centre of said parish. Parochia, affairs.
No. 267-To repeal the act providing that
the sheriffs OF the several parishes of the
State Of Louisiana, the parish of Orleans ex-
cepted, may keep constantlyon hand track
or trailing dogs. Judiciary, section B.
No. 269-To create the birthday of Gen.
Robert E. Lee legal holiday in the State of
Louisiana. Judiciary, section l..
No. 27O-Authorizing the registrar Of the
State land Office to make a selection Of all
unsolicited or enormously selected hands
inuring to the State under the several con-
gressional grants, and to prosecute to a
termination all land claims and matters in
which the State has an interest now pending
before the general land Office at Washington,
and making the necessary appropriation
therefor. Lands and levees.
No. 272-To amend and re-enact section
of act 95 of 1886. being an act to regulate the
hours of labor on and connected with street
railroads chartered under the laws of this
State. Labor and capital.
No. 275-To prohibit the appointment or
election or serving on any public school
board Of this State Of any person engaged as
teacher, director or in any way connected
with the management of any private educa-
tional institution OF the State. Education.
Ware, chairman of the appropriation CON-
mittee, called up the appropriation bill and
moved that the house consider the bill as a
committee Of the whole and pass on the bill
section by section.
The bill was adopted with the following
amendments: -
Adding 5000 per annum for travelling ex-
penses OF the lieutenant governor.
Bourgeois, Of st. Charles, sent up an
amendment increasing the appropriation for
the Colored University at New Orleans to
$4,000. Bourgeois read from the message oi
the governor relative to the institution, and
urged that the increase be granted as mat
ter of justice to the eolored people. Dy-
mond, on the part of the appropriation
committee. stated that it would be unsafe to
) add TO the appropriation bill as the amount
in full came within S25, 900 Of the total State
revenue He stated, also, that the item for
the school had been increased $500 per an
mum. The amendment was defeated.
Wilkinson moved to strike out the item
in relation to the holding of teachers insti
tntes, He said that there was no practica
benefit to be derived from the holding O
these meetings, and that the money could b,
more advantageously expended for the public
schools of the State. He was opposed b,
Claiborne, who said that the teachers insti
tutes were practical benefit to the schoo
system. He said that he had witnessed tn,
practical operations Of the institute in hi
own parish and was firmly of the belief tina
the institutes were good things.
Boggs said that no money Of the State wa.
better expended than that which was contain
ed In the appropriation. 1t was to educat,
teachers In the country who could not attenC
the State Normal Schools, and the institutes
held in various portions of the State were o
'unduestioned value md utility.
DymoI!d spoke to the appropriation. HI
said that II Il was dropped, an appropriation
of a like amount from the Peabody funC
would be lost to the State also.
wilkinson, upon again taking the floor
said that the institute was of no value to til
teachers, but simply offered an opportunit,
for the teachers to get together and have
GOOD time. He again urged the expendinJ
the money in the interest of the BRbli
schools and not for the polishing of Of tn
many public school teachers in the State.e
O'Neill claimed that the institutes In hi
E parish proved a hardship and were discon
tinued for this reason in st. Mary.
The vote on the amendment being taken
the item was ordered stricken out by vot
OF IS TO 32-
Ware sent up an amendment appropriatint
s4.50O per annum for the support Of the Stat,
Leper Home.
, Ariel sent up an amendment increasin,
this sum to $4,000.
Wooten moved to make the amount 81, 900
and Ariel accepted this amount. The sun
was then adopted by the house, the vote be
ing Al to 20.
Ware sent up an amendment providin,
7. efO. 900 for repairs and work on Chalmett
-r,,,,aDt This xvas adOpfed