The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-07-04
Louisiana Legislut,,r<

I BaSon Rouge.-That $7,456, 49,
7S will be required to run the Stat
of Louisiana for the next four yea,
not counting special calls aggrt
eating $191, ,O23.O9-was the informs
ton divulged when the appropriatio
bill was made public.
| In BRET, this total is apportione
! among the various funds as Is follows
General fund ~ s55, ,77ze ssaf'iesl
school fund, $1.942,025; interest Ia
fund, $1,o5O, ,094.7s; general enginec,
$796,625; levee and drainage, $l2,
600; Penitentiary 100000.
/ AlIost evenly divided between TIL
years 1909 and 1910, the aggregat
will give an average for each year o
$3,72S,242.39, or just 81, 1,212,7s3.3
less thaa the expenditure of $4,94l,
! O30.74 for the year 1906, the lates
period reported by the State Audito
of Public Accounts.
To all appearances, the Committe.
! on Ways and Means will adhere t.
its plan to raise the license taxes
but hope is still entertained in some
quarters that it will not be driver
ITO that extremity. -..
Many hopes of even minor appro.
priations for monuments and parks
and cemeteries must be abandoned
and no financial assistance from the
State may be expected. Strive as tle
committee did, i. counld not find &
penny for fhe Jefferson Davis o,
Beauregard monuments, for instance
Or other worthy causes, and all must
possess their souls in patience until
the stringency is relieved in the Treas
ury.
Nor will the request for $150,OG0
for the new courthouse in New Or
leans be granted, a1d the commission
will be obliged to struggle along as
best 1T may until the next apropria-
tion bill is settled.
SENATE.
The following measures have been
duly acted upon and passed by the
Senate
House Bill, by Mr.. Mangham- To
amend tie law providing for the crea-
ton Of a State reform school.
q b. auiriag State tar. calleea
tors to demand proof Of registration
from all practitioners Of medicine.
H. B.-Requiring recorders through
out the State to keep in their offices
i dices to all acts filed and recorded
in their said offices and making them
responsible for the correctness of
same.
Fl. B.-Rela.ive to warehouse re-
ceipts.
H. B.-Requiring corporations to
furnish their stockholders of record
on written denand, periodical state
ments showing their assets and liza
bilities.
H: B.-Amending laws in relation
to taxation so as to include levee
taxes.
H. BIO prohibit assessors from
filing tax rolls with tax collectors or.
sseriffs until said tax collector shall
exhibit a quietus from the Auditor
Of Public Accounts. r. Err
H. B.-To prohibit the gambling
game of craps. ..e
H: B.-Providing 8 for the enumer-
alton Of ex-Confederate soldiers or,
their widows.
H B.-Repealing the charter Of
the city Of Kenner
:. H. B.-Prohibiting the Governor
from borrowing money in the name
Of the State without express author
ity Of law except in cases Of emer-
yeney or grave public necessity, and
then only witt 1.-The consent Of the
State Board Of Liquidation. ).
H. B.-Prohibiting9 persons from,
being seated in. thetres while. an. act
IS in progress.
H. BIO enforce hire, tenants
md share-farming contracts. i
S. B.-An act making any person
,r corporation liable In current money
or checks or other desvices issued by |
hem and redeemable in merchandise |
It their place Of business.
S. B.-An act making it a crime
or any one to purchase timber in
blocks or srafts in any stream, woods,
n other point without extracting
rom the seller written affidavit tha.
udD timber has been paid for cut
rom the lands Of the seller.
S.. Ban act to amend and re-en-
,ct Act No. 1877 of 1890, approved
tly 10, 1890, entitled San act max
ng it crime to wilfully and felo--
iously cut, pull down, burn, destroy,
ill or deaden, carry or float away
ny tree, wood or timber, growing or
wing on the land Of another.
S. B.-"An act for the creation
nd government of municipal corpo-
ations throughout the State, and de-.
ming their powers and duties.
B.-An act in relation to free
ublic schools and to regulate public
ducation in the State. Il
Two measures of Importance passad
= the House were the Anderson bills
, prevent unfair commercial dis
in the State and to pro-
hit improper soliciting or divulgence {
{ information regarding shipments, !
9th hills heinz arnwad1u diraefad {