The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-19
THE, OUTLOOK.


session of the General Assembly has re-
suited in talk, factonal alignment and
the introduction of thirty-one measures
ir the House and ten in the Senate.
Seve If these have passed through
their respective branches, viz:
Senate: Senate Bill No. /, by Mr..
Relly--Prohibiting foreign corporations
initiating actions in the Federal courts,
or transferring actions to those tribunals
from the State courts.
Senate Bill No. 2, by Mr.. Millsaps-
Comforting OIL the Legislature powers in
connection with the State Railroad Com
mission. .t4
Senate Bill No. ?, by Mr.. Wingate-
Providing for the appointment of an
Auditors travelling agent to inspect the
accounts Of the State tax collectors.
Senate Bill No. 8, by Mr.. Barrett
Relating to the deposit Of State funds in
the banks of the State.
House. House Bill No. II, by Mr..
O'Connor--Authorizing the Governor to
transfer TO the United States the title to
the New Orleans quarantine site.
House Bill No. ID, by Mr.. Johnson
Appropriating $4,000 for the expenses
If the special session.
Henriques' concurrent resolution pro-
viding for legislative investigation Of
conditions at the port of New Orleans
by commission elected by the two
branches of the Assembly.
The Henriques measure therefore
seems the only one Of vital or at least
immediate Importance. Hence we can
see how far we are likely to get, SO far
as legislative matters are concerned
within the following and remaining three
weeks of the session, judging from re-
suits to date.
The Tinles-Democrat correspondent
seems to think that the keynote is oppo-
sition to all the Governors recommen-
dations, and in tempering them down to
the needs of Mr.. Sanders and his Boss
Alliance. On this the correspondent re-
marks:
Should the Lieutenant Governor en-
deavor to prevent the obstruction Of
legislatior by his followers, great pro-
gress should be noted, but should he
permit them to persist in their course Of
offering rival measure to each one
introduced by the so-called admins
tration' leaders, the trouble will con-
tinue to the end of the chapter"
A pointer discloses what is likely to
be the probable direction Of the Sanders
effort to keep hope full of promises and
preserve to his seventeen Bosses in
New Orleans the sum total of what they
are in politics and supporting Sanders
for what there's in it."
To representative of the New Or
leans contemporary, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Sanders has stated that he would
accept the Herman bill, for instance.
when suitably amended but how dras-
tic these amendments must be to be
suitable to the opposition can not yet
be determined" so the correspondent
further remarks.
But here is the significant point:
Since that statement of the Lieutenant
Governor, another bill covering the
Herman matters, the New Orleans tax
collectorships, has been introduced pro-
yiding that the single-headed collector
ship shall not become effective until the
next congressional election, thus cover
ing one Of the objections raised by the
Sanders people to the Herman measure. =
From this il can be judged what Mr..
Sanders means by details" With post
poned effectiveness Of the reform laws
until the fall of 1908 Mr.. Sanders can
have political fund from the old graft
to trade upon and keep in line his New
Orleans Bosses.
When the election is over then--well,
there's the deluge.