The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-06-11

hibitins members OF the Legislature
and other public officials from 40
cepting free passes on railroads and
inserting a provision requiring the
! Legislature to enact and anti-pass
laws is meeting with considerable
criticism among delegates.
Article 1871 was written into the
convention Of 1898. as the result Of q
fight led by Mr. Carver OF Natchi-
toches> Railroad passes had been
distributed among members OF the
Legislature. judges and other public
officials TO such an extent that ii had
become scandal in the state.
Through the pernicious use OF passes.
II was charged the railroads were
able to prevent the passage Of bills
through the Legislature creating a
Railroad Commission
The Legislature had the authority
at that time TO enact anti-pass laws.
but the influence of passes over the
was impossible to secure the passage
OF such acts. To meet this situation
the convention OF 1898 adopted an ar
ticel that penalized the acceptance Of
a pass by a member of the Legisla-
ture or other official with forfeiture
OF office.
The pass evil has been recognized
In other states and articles weea
written into their C constitutions pro.
hibiting the acceptance OF free trans.
portation by public officials This was
found necessary because OF railroad
influence over Legislatures by the use
of passes, Alabama rote a provi.
sion into her constitution more dras-
tic than that adopted In Louisiana.
An attempt will be made to place
in the constitution an anti-pass provi-
sion with teeth in 1t before the SEES
sion closes
The people OF New Orleans will
have the opportunity OF voting to levy
a tax Of one-fifth OF mill upon them.
selve srofteh I'd emf bw lin au an
selves for the establishing OF a zoo.
A caucus Of the New Orleans dele
gates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton was held recently and this agreed
upon. The question had been before
the taxation committe and represen-
tatives OF the zoo association appear
ed before IL. The committee decided
to leave 1t 70 tho New Orleans dele
gates and required Charles Rosen 70
call a conference Of them
Mr. Rosen presided and ether New
Orleans delegaes present were Colo
mel John P. Sullivan, Martin Behrman.
w. W. Cummings. Esmonds Phelps.
George +. Williams. William H
Byrnes. Jr.. Harold A. Noise, J. o.
Fernandez. Judge Charles f. Clai-
borne. Charles u. O'Connor, Il. M.
Stafford. DIR. " X Irion and J. Henry
Blache
Judge Claiborne and Phil Arras en-.
deavored to have the recommends
ton of the conference provide that .
ZOO also should be established at City
Pork. They withdrew any objection
when ii was explained that the loca.
ton of the zoo would be left entirely
up to the city A nucleus for a zoo
already has been established at An
dubon Park through the activities u
The Times-Picayune
The conference. after close vote,
decided that the levying Of the tax
should be decided at an election in
which only property owners may vote.
Mr. O'Connor and Colonel Sullivan
urged that It be left to vote Of the
entire electorate but Welded in defer
ence to the wishes OF other delegates
who wanted the decision left to prop
erty owners only.
The New Orleans Geological Asso-
citation two years ago started the ZOO
at Audubon Park and already has
nice start through generous contribu-
lions Of Orleanians. The one-fifth of
a mill tax, IL voted. will provide suf-
ficient money for the establishing and
Of a geological garden
which in few years will vie with any
in the country, the ZOO boosters ~
sert