The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1917-07-06

o.,.r Rouge, La, June 3O.-GOv-
!. pleasant Tuesday night issued
4 sna .l.a..IsmatiOn for an extra session
\ k legislature to convene Monday,
{ A y 3 II noon, for 20 days. The
ny ~ init is fixed for midnight July
: r,,..v.four subjects are included
I y. ,aII, several pressing issues
I 2 l.i - teen admitted at the last mo-
,,..;fication of the widows dowry
y. tbe lis5, with a modification of
y saq Ranking laws to facilitate opera
~ y By the Farm Loan Bank.
~ =, subiects are created by exist
l' a,,s conditions. Creation Of a
49, Y council of defense; a State con-
s.salsrv to take the place of the Ma
sl.sl Guard; power of appropriation
1 ,gan.oosrty and food supplies; to give
4gS privileges to soldiers away,
I kindred and allied subjects
y 'nsrticularly to punish idleness
y 5sgrancy during the war.
v.v Orleans has two subjects in
W. an. To provide for salaries for
l.n i If the Public Utilities Com
l...ion and to authorize the commits
y. ,''S council to close or sell a street
J. lbs extension of Charity Hospital.
M ~ sta,e Bard of Affairs gets two
.s;sets: Amendment of the Powell
Zinc act, under which national
, .I escaped the assessors ard as
s'smsnt Of property of foreign citi-
psvis'on and correction of the cat
n tick legislation as authorized.
Slding Of ships and the establish
..nt If water transportation lines
IN he further encouraged by pro-
msed exemption from taxation,
Drainage boards seek authority to
mteiuate their revenues.
proyisions of the Federal flood con
mi axe to be supplied. The State
giebvay department got its clause
h moyiding for an adjustment Of
4, tancIe with railroads, opposed to
gscial taxes. :.
The governors proclamation II
hl follows:
pg virtue of the authority in me
VISITED by the constitution of tn,
MA Of louisiana, /, Ruffin G
Pleasant, governor of the State Of
louisiana, do hereby issue this my
reclamation converting the Genera
Assembly, of the State of Louisiana
h extraordinary session, at the Stat'
aDitol, in the City of Baton Rouge
IN period not to exceed twent,
lsw, beginning at IL o'clock, noon
y Monday, the ninth day Of July, A
B one thousand nine hunderd ant
eysnteen, and ending at IL O'clocl
Midnight, on Saturday, the twenty
eighth day Of July, one thousand min
hundred and seventeen, and l do here
~ specially enumerate the following
subjects to be considered and acte
u0pn at the said extraordinary ses
EiOn, to-wit.
/. The amending or changing Q
nticle three thousand two hundre
and fifty two of the civil code Q
Louisiana, or any other law, to tn
nd that the privileges therein gran
d may be made secondary to CONVEX
tOnal mortgages where the annual II
tsrest and other charges on loans 81
cured by mortgage shall not excee
TX per cent of the amount loaned.
2 Granting to the Federal Ian
ank Of New Orleans and to all othC
Institutions, federal or state, dom
BUSINESS on a plan similar to tn;
UPON which the said federal bank Of
rates, exemption from the applies
ton Of the privileges recited in a
tiele three thousand two hundred ar
fifty two of the civil code Of Loui
ANA, provided that the annual j
tsrest and other charges on loans S
cured by mortgages do not exceed S
per cent Of the amount loaned.
3. The creation of a council to sta
defense, prescribing its powers al
duties relative to the general welfa
security and defense of the state, i
so-operation with the Council of N
tonal Defense; providing for the s
lection, qualification and terms Of Q
nee Of the members thereof; al
making an appropriation therefor.