Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-07-03
ST. JOSEPH. La, FRIDAY, JULY g., 1896.
Nos. i1a and lis were also adopted.

Nos. i12 and 1ls were also adopted.
reported these bills fasorably, and they were
passed to third reading.
The house adjourned at 3:45 O'Clock to meet
Wednesday at II o'clock am.
THIRTY-FIRsr DAY.
SENArE.-The senate met Wednesday at
noon, with twenty-seven members present
and the lieutenant governor in the chair.
Reports Of committees:
City of New 0rleans-Favorably on house
bill 8. to liquidate the floating debt Of the
city Of New Orleans, and to apply the taxes
levied prior to 1892 and collected since accru-
ing to the city board of liquidation.
Judiciary Committee, Section 2-Senate
bill 72, to increase the number OF judges in
the eleventh judicial district, fayorably; SEN
ate bin 144, to give mortgages taken by build
ing and loan associations the force aud effect
Of vendors lien, fayorably; senate bill 147,
unfavorbly.
Sambola's bill was brought up under the
special order OF the day, when the governors
message on the constitutional convention
was received and read.
The bill of Senator Sambola was then
taken up. Mr.. Cordill GO. @. (offered several
amendments, and as a substitute Fenner
moved that the bill be indefinitely postponed.
This motion was carried by vote OF 23 to 5.
Senate bills on third reading:
No. 56-Exempting persons, firms and cor
porations doing business within incorpo-
rated towns from payment Of parish licenses.
Failed to pass-yeas IL, nays 55, alsant IA:
On motion of Baird the vote by which the bill
| failed to pass was reconsidered, and the bill
was made the special order for Thursday at
/ noon.
No. 94-To establish an industrial school
for colored children. Passed.
HousE.-The house met at II o'clock We'd
| nesday, with eighty members present.
Petitions:
From the police jury of Bienvilie, asking
passage of the bill removing the courthouse
| from Arcadia to Sparta.
Several petitions were sent up asking the
maintenance of the Sunday law.
Message from the governor;
| The special message from Gov. Foster, rel
ative to the constitutional convention and
election law, was received and read.
When the reading Of the message had been
concluded Ware moved that {, 900 copies be'
printed fer distribution. The motion pre-
vailed.
Resolutions on the table:
House concurrent resolution 10, for the re-
moyal of the law library from New Orleans
to Baton Rouge.
Wade moved that tn, resolution be indefin-
| ttely postponed.
Mcintosh moved its adoption.
TreZevant thought the motion to postpone
q good one, as there was no necessity for the
| removal of the State library; also, that the
resolution, carrying an appropriation could
not be passed.
Mcintosh insisted on his motion to adopt,
and the vote being taken, the motion was
lost and the resolution defeated.
Resolution that a committee of three MEM
bers be appointed by the speaker to inquire
and report why said article Al Of the eonsti-
tuition has been violated. Postponed.
House bills reported by committees;
Lafargue sent up a resolution that, as the
session Of the legislature is drawing to a
close, all committees be required to report all
\ bills referred to them within two days after
said bills are referred; also, that all bills now
In the possession Of committees be reported
to this body within two days from the passage
/ of this resolution; also, that whenever it is
actually necessary to retain bill in commit
tee for a longer period, or where It Is impos-
sible to consider it, within that time, an ex-
Il tension of time be'granted by this body only
upon the application Of the chairman of the
committee. -
I The house then took recess until pm.
The house convened again at 6 o'clock,
and resumed the order of business.
message from the senate announced the
passage by that body Of house bill "a.
Bills reported by committees:
No. 80, relative to the prohibition OF con-
vict labor in competition with the traders
Barrett made an argument in favor OF the
bill. He moved the passage Of the bill TO
third reading. Marks moved thstthe bill be
indefinitely postponed. B4rret moved that
the motion to postpone be tabled.T The mo-
ton was carried, and the yeas and nays be
ing called on the original motion, to pass 70
third reading, the motion prevailed, and the
bill was ordered TO third reading.
Nos. 10, to abolish Office OF inspector oi
weights aud measures, passed to third read.
ing; 40, returned to calendar; f23, to third
, reading; 166, authorizing minors to subscribe
, for homestead stock, to third reading; 1853
indefinitely postponed; III, relative to bonds
| of notaries, reported by substitute, to third
reading, becomes house bill Sol; 100, to third
reading; 1872, to regulate the sale of drug:
and practice of pharmacy, indefinitely post
} poned; 1893. to third reading.
, No. 80, relative to a standard scale Tor saw
logs Marks moved to indefinitely postpone
O'Neill sent up an amendment exempting cy
, press timber from the provisions Of the bill
The amendment was rejected, and the bil
Was passed to its third reading.
frezeyant moved that the house resolve 1t
self into committee of the whole to con
: slider the constitutional convention bill.
The speaker decided that the bill had,beel
exempted by special resolution adopted tn
day previous, as the bill carried an. appro
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/, given precedence over all Others.
O'Neill appealed from the decision OF tn
chair, and called for the yeas and nays o.
the motion.
The speaker said he had announced tina
} the house had been resolved into commit
} tee of the whole, and the motion was not
order.
D Ware in the chair-TreZevant moved tn
: consideration of the bill. He then move
that the committee rise and report the bi
Q | favorably.
} O'Neill asked for the reading OF the bill
/ When the bill had been read in part y Nei
moved that the bill be considered by sections
e Marks moved the adoption of the bill as
s whole.
: The reading Of the bill was again taken nj
, O'NeiIl moved to amend subdivision 2C
9 section 1. The amendment related TO tn
c selection of the thirty-six delegates-at-larg'
/ and substituted thirty-six delegates from tn
several senatorial districts.
Q The amendment was lost by vote OF ~
5 AZ.
!, Gunby moved to adjourn.
Trezevant made the point Of order that Il
q house was in a committee OF the whole, an
could not be adjourned.