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THE CONVENTION. Ordinance of the Committee on General Provisions. ate Adoption on Second Reading -A Question of Privilege. FRIDAY, July 4, 1879. The Convention was called to order at 10 do'lock, President Wiltz in the chair and a quorum present. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Davidson. The journal of Thursday was approved. GENERAL PROVISIONS. The consideration of the ordinance reported by the Committee on General Provisions was resumed, the pending question being on ar ticle 88, as follows: Atr, 8a. The General Assembly shall, at its irst session pass laws to protect laborers on public buildings, streets, roads, railroads, asalis and other similar public works against the failure of contractors and sub-contractors to patd their current wages when due and to a6le the corporation, company or individuals or hose benefit the work is done responsible o their ultimate payment. An amendment by Delegate Allain, pro viding that farm laborers should likewise be protected, was lost-yeas 88, nays 44. An amendment by Delegate Lyons, provid ing that the word "public" be stricken out wherever it occurfed, was adopted. Delegate Stringfellow offered the following substitute to the article, which was adopted yeas 43, nays 41. AtT. a33. The General Assembly shall pass laws to punish those who willfully violate labor eootraets without any legal or sufficient cause. Delegate Demas moved to reconsider the vote by which the substitute was adopted. Adopted. Delegates Allain, Kernochan, Todd, Mc Connell, Poche, Simon and Matthews argued gainst the substitute. The years and nays were demanded on the substitute, and it was lost-yeas 8, nays 111. Delegate McConnell moved to strike out the Delegate Grimes moved that the further Consideration of the article be postponed un tU to-morrow. Lost. The yeas and nays were demanded on the motion to strike out, and it was lost-yeas 23, The article was then adopted-yeas 76, aysl 20. Delegate Cunningham gave notice that he wOuld at some future time move a reconsid oration of the vote just taken. Article 84 was read and referred to the Committee on Schedule. Article 385 was read. AT. as. No mortgage or privilege upon im movable property shall affoct third persons nles recorded in the manner provided by w, in the parish where the immovable to be feeted is situated, here shall be excepted from the necessity of registry all privileges affecting immovables reasteS by expenses of last illness and wages of l bmestic servants and laborers and salaries of , $foretiries and clerks. frlvileges on movables under existing laws or that may hereafter be created shall exist and 'Overate againstthird persons without being re corded, and all laws requiring the registry of Such privileges are hereby avoided and sn ulled; provided, that nothing in this article shall afect the rights of parties acquired under privileges recorded prlor to the adoption of this eOnstitution by virtue of existing laws, nor in crease or enlarge the privileges provided by said laws. Delegate Blanchard moved to amend by providing that all privileges shall be recorded it the parish where the property to be affected Is situated, in order to eflect the same as against third persons. A number of other amendments and a sub stitute for the entire article were submitted. After considerable discussion the entire sub Leot matter Was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Article 86 was read: ART. i9. The making of profit out of the 8tate, parish, lty,. town or school district money or using the same for any purpose not authorized by law, by any public offcer or member or offi cer of the General hssembluy hall be deemed a misd-meanor and shall be punished as provi ded by law. Delegate Watkins moved to amend by in serting "crime" instead of "misdemeanor." Delegate Robertson moved to lay the whole subject matter on the table. Adopted. Delegate Wells presented an additional arti cle which went over under the rules. The ordinance as amended was ordered to be printed. The enrolled ordinances were, on motion of Delegate Breaux, ordered to be printed for the use of the Committee on Revision. A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. Delegate Kldd rose to a question of privi lege. le read from an editorial in the Pica unce an article criticizing his appointment by President Wiltz as chairman of the State Debt Committee as unwise and as represent ing a minority interest, and the report of that committee as opposing the views of a large majority of the delegates and people. Dele gate Kidd said he was not here to speak for the President of the Conyention, but he must express his surprise at th@profound ignorance exhibited by the Piceyune regarding parlia mentary usage and the facts in this particu lar case. Had· he been appointed by President Wiltz, it would have been in strict accordance with the rules governing such appointments, he having offered the resolution creating the Committee on State Debt. The fact was that by order of the Convention the delegates from the different congressional districts had selected the members of the committee, and he had been chosen as chairman by the com mittee itself. As for the other assertion of the Picayune, that the report of the committee was not sustained, he would venture the opinion that if that report was submitted to the people, it would be ratified by 40,000 ma The Convention then adjourned, in honor of the day, until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock-yeas 73, nays 29. THE OPENING OF TIHE SUEZ CANAL. The Khedive at His Best-Fetes That Coot Him $10,000,000, IN. Y. Herald.] The Khedlve certainly reached the most picturesque phase of his career when the iSuez canal was inaugurated. In the harbor at Port Said, on the morning of the sixteenth of November, 1869, thirty men-of-war of all nations were gathered. French, Austrian, English, Russian, Prussian, Swedlish, Danish and Italian frigates, together with a fleet of merchantmen, dressed ship at sunrise. The Khedive was on board the Mahroussah. In the morning the French Imperial yacht Aigle with the Empress Eugenie on board, dropped anchor, every vessel firing a salute, and as there were high and mighty personages from all lands there the firing was continuous all day. At 3 in the afternoon the unique and in teresting ceremony took place amid a dazzling throng. On the beach, before the Qual Euge nie, was erected a large canopied estrade, fac ing the sea. In front of it were two platforms, that to the right surmounted by the cross and decorated with the flags of Christian nations, that to the left bearing the standard of Mo hammed. To the thousands of Egyptians among the participants must be added the European guests of the Khedive and the com pany, not less than 10,000 in all. On the front row of the estrade were the great personages. The Khedive, magnificent in his uniform of blue and gold lace, with his great broad green ribbon and his scimitar ablaze with jewels, stood next the Empress Eugenie, "who looked," says an eye witness, "as though her voyage to the Nile had taken her back to the days of her youth. She wore," cqntinues this narrative, "a laven der silk cut low and trimmed with immense flounces of white and a white hat with a large black feather." . Near her stood Francis Joseph, the Emperor of Austria, in his white and scarlet untiorm. M. de Lesseps, too, was there. The Crown Prince of Prussia, now Prince Imperial of Germany, was hard by. The Prince of Orange, William of Hesse, and a host of others filled up the royal group. t England was only represented by her Ambas sador to Turkey. The ancient sheik, Apagada, attended by I four mouivles, descended from the Moham medan platform and read in Arabic a blessing 1 to Allah for a work that made the divided waters one, and in praise of the Khedive and c his guests. Then the Archbishop of Alexan dria, in gorgeous vestments, attended by I twenty priests, acolytes and javelin men, 1 came forward, prayed and praised, calling the Khedive "the regenerator of Egypt." In the evening there were illuminations and I fireworks and such splendor displayed on I land and water that the lookers-on could only think of fairy tales for slmilies as the gor geous sunset faded into night, which was scintillant by millions of lights and shoot ing flames, while a full moon flooded the town, the harbor and the ships with mild ef fulgence. Then came the wonderful proces sion of ships through the canal to Ismalla, where a halt was made, and the whole com pany were feasted at the Khedive's expense, and where a ball was held, for which the Khe dive had specially built a huge palace at a cost of $200,000. Twenty thousand nomadic Arabs were gathered there, too, at the Khe dive's order, to add to the picturesqueness of the scene. The flotilla then proceeded to Suez, where the same splendid munificence was displayed. What it cost the Khedive is not precisely known, but it was not less than $2 100,000, and is even swelled, Including all things leading up to it, to $10,000,000. I I THE DEBT QUESTION. Record of the Natchitoohes Vindicator From July, 1878, to the Present Time, [July 14.1878.1 "We have repeatedly called attention to the fact that the advocates for a Constitutional Convention have never intimated a purpose to repudiate the State debt. This charge has come twice from the same source, the New Orleans Times, and is calculated not to injure the cause of the Constitutional Convention, but the credit of the State. The basis of a debt which cannot stand an honest constitu tion is poor indeed; but what must we think of the wretch who would charge the majority of Democrats in Louisiana with being dis honest repudiators; for the assertion that a Donstitutional Convention is fatal to our State credit can be constructed in no other way. "Shame upon the outcast that would utter such a falsehood!" [July 21, 1878.1 "As a sweet morsel," these people who op pose an honest constitution, continually roll under their tongues the stale quid that the 'conventionists' favor the repudiation of the State debt and destruction of the State credit. "Such a charge as that made against honest and honorable men only shows to what desperate straits these people are reduced in their loyalty to bad in order to meet our ar guments. In order that this charge may not have longer the semblance of a contemptuous llence which it deserves, we desire to state most emphatically that we are in favor of the most rigorous payment of every dollar of our State indebtedness. We accepted the scaling law as a compromise with our creditors, and we intend to insist that it shall be maintained to the payment of the utmost farthing. This, too is the sentiment of our people, and we all upon all our confreres in favor of a con stitutlonal convention to give the lie, for once and all, to this stale charge of our being re pudlatlonists. [February 2, 1879.1 Much has been said in this State of repudi ation, and some of our city contemporaries have gone so far as to insist that the country parishes are in favor of a total repudiation of the State debt. We heard more of that kind of talk from the Times and Picayune than from the "country people," and we will only believe that they desire to dishonor them selves when it is attempted, not upon the vile charges of the paid journals we have named, [March 1s, 1879.] It is the settled purpose of the taxpayer to adjust the State debt. Of this there can be no doubt whatever, and they cannot, will not be shaken from that purpose. The bondholder seems equally determined not to yield a point in his demand for his pound of flesh blood and all. The people have never yet considered nor advocated repudiation as charged against them. The ravings of some few demagogues to that end has been taken for their utter ances, but no honorable nor honest citizen has ever entertained such a fatal, dishonest idea. [June 7, 1879.1 In all the years preceding 1861 Louisiana's paper on the market was the commercial in signia of her honor; no man dare ask whether its principal was secured by a "contract," or its interest made certain by a tax, "specially, separately and constitutionally levied, of five and a half mills." It has been left for these degenerate days-the days when men swear oaths to observe law and do their duty as often as they eat their meals-that this strange doctrine of judicial coercion came upon us, followed by its train of evils, leading the van of which is the monster repudiation. And here is where our friends made their grave mistake in supposing that it is neces sary, in order to controvert the hideous doc trine advanced by run-mad creditors, we should as a State tarnish our unsullied honor, we should take refuge inh black disgrace. We stand upon higher ground than that It is upon the necessities-of our people, which are the results of bad government preceded bya ruinous war, and which are temporary. 'hey demand a rest that they may recover, but they ask it not at such a fearful price as legradation. [June 7, 1879.1] In all our arguments on this question we have stood firmly by the doctrine-and we stand firmly by it to.day-that the only pledge Louisiana gave for the payment of her debt was her plighted honor. The ergu ment that her debt was a contract and that she could be dragged before a court and be waade to pay, we will resist to the last extremi ty. [Juno 28,1879.] The 1DEMOCRAT, TnFes and Vindicator pro perly conceived that it was necessary to dis cuss thoroughly the principle claimed as the basis of the debt by its advocates-the prin ciple that the debt was a contract which the State was inhibited from violating by the con stitution of the United States, and which she could compelled to observe through Federal courts. When this question was under dis cussion not a single one of these shallow pated newspapers ever opened their mouths. They could then only howl 'fraud !" and "yell the people!" as they have done since. VWe resisted that infamous doctrine so suc cessfully that we can point to the fact that delegates to the Convention, with but few ex Deptions, hoot at the idea of coercing Lou isiana, and the bondholder himself has been compelled to rely upon the honor of this com monwealth and its people for the final settle ment of his claims. The point being gained by the DEMOCRAT, Times and ourself, that public debts are pledges of public honor too sacred for law, It was in the very essence of victory that we Should observe the debt to its utmost farth tog; offering such settlement, whichbour pov erty demanded, as would be satisfactory to our creditors. This is all there is in the whole matter, and Is a terse explanation of the course of those three journals that were born in the revolu tion and of it, and are not the sickening ex iresence of the time of peace-peace won by loyal hearts and brave arms, and which these pigmy sheets, pigmy In brains and character, enjoy in abusing their betters in every re spect. Had the wild utterances of these people round following in and been heeded by the Convention, the Democracy of Louisiana would have been disrupted, ruin would have been carried to our commercial interests, and cur prosperity as a people would have stood still for years to come. As it is not accom plished, the people who read and rt flect must look to these journals that have been true in peace and war to their interests and their honor, as proper exponents of popular senti ment in the State. How Weston Came to be a Walker. iNoonsocket (R. I.) Patriot.] The simple fact that Edward Payson Wes on, who has just won a great notoriety as a :alkist, in London, is a Rhode Islander by irth, has already been published. The eader may desire to know something more of rim. He was born in the city of Providence. Its father was a man of restless brain, full >f Utopian schemes, and finally died insane. Fis mother was an intellectual woman, and ifter her husband's death she wrote a number L If creditable books for children. After these were printed she sent her son Edward, the present walkist, out into the world to sell the product of her brain. He traveled not only ill over Providence, but also all over Rhode [sland, and parts of Massachusetts and Con necticut. He thus early acquired the habit of long and continued walking. THE LUNATICS-AT-LARGE. Across the Continent With a Wheelbarrow- On to Patagonia-The Uncle Sam. "If I have good luck I'll wheel her down S Broadway to Castle Garden, where I once landed by noon on the Fourth of July," said t L. P. Federmeyer, as he passed through In dianapolis a few weeks ago. But he won't make it. The Altoona Tribune chronicled his t arrival in that city on Wednesday, and push as hard as he may, he will not reach New York and the endof hls journey before July11. Federiaeyer Is a short, slim, wiry French man. Last fall he entered a contest with Ly man Potter, the veritable lunatic who pushed I a wheelbarrow from New York to San Fran cisco during the Clarkson Potter commit tee investigation, to recross the continent with the same vehicle, for a wager of $1500. Both men started on the eighth of De cember, traveling by way of San Jose, Placer 'ille, Reno, Ogden, Cheyenne, Denver, Kan sas City, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, the objective point being New York. The terms of the wager require that both men shall trundle a 124-pound wheelbarrow and paddle themselves across all streams and rivers in small boats. Federmeyer took the lead from the start. He experienced great difficulty in crossing the Rocky Mountains, but met with no mishaps until hehad reached Sheridan, Kansas. There he fell off a railroad bridge and struck on the stones, fifteen feet below. His rate of travel is twenty-live miles a day, rain or shine, hot or cold. He wears a red flannel shirt and black pantaloons. A broadbrim straw hat is pulled over a face that is red with tan. The wheelbarrow is orna mented with miniature flags and a windmill builtover the wheel serves as a fan. He sells piotures of himself on the route. Potter is 400 miles behind, but still pressing on, with the same hope entertained by the rest of the world-that Federmeyer may break his neck e before he gets across the Delaware. The walking Widow Potts, who proposes to c pad all the way from this city to New Orleans and return in five mouths, has reached Mount Airy, Ga., bound south. She left here about forty days ago. As far as can be learned the widow Is not walking on a wager, but just for N the fun of the thing. When a crowd of boys . trotted out Broad street with her in April she was fresh from the band-box, and so in pass ing Chester, Wilmington and Maryland points I she gained the admiration of the spectators by t the peach-like bloom upon her cheek. Now, if the Mount Airy correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle may be believed, the widow is less prepossessing. The correspondent says: "She t was dressed in a cheap gown, belted with a cloth belt, In which she had a watch; had on a straw hat, with a pink, white and blue band around it; she didn't have on baby shoes by any manner of means; her shoes were com mon morocco, about No. 5's-flat heel. Has false teeth, eagle gray eyes, saffron hair, badly sun-burned, bold-looking. She says she has no fear of being molested. I guess not, for people in this country have some taste." The widow Is said to think that the eyes of the world are upon her. When she shall re- i turn to this city she expects to challenge Weston, or whoever may hold the Astley belt, to a 6-day, 60-day or 600-day walk for the championship. With this thought she sings: Jog on, jog on. the foot-path way, And merrily ient tae stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a, Henry St. Patrick Tudor, when last heard from, a few days ago, was crossing the Red river in Louisiana, still bound South. The public will bear in mind that Mr. Tudor is on his way to Patagonia, whither he will be] borne on the back of a faithful steed. He left New York some time last February, with the design of elevating James Gordon Ben nett, of the Herald, to the purple of Patago nia. In swimming the Red river an alligator swallowed him, or rather his left leg. With great presence of mind St. Patrick slipped out of his left boot, and while the alligator made his meal on leather, the gallant pilgrim escaped. Such, at least is the story told by the local papers, which seem to be painfully unappreciative of the explorer's worth. The little boat "Uncle Sam," bearing Capt. Goldsmith and his wife from Boston around the globe, swung off from this continent on Wednesday and is now fairly out at sea, Capt. Goldsmith's plan is to visit the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas and to move from the latter by way of the Suez Canal to India. Thence he will skirt the coast to Hong Kong and strike boldly out across the Pacific. The Uncle Sam is not larger than the ordinary river yacht and unless some miracle inter feres we are relieved of one crank for good. William Van Cott, who left New Rochelle, Conn., something like a month ago, to paddle to Boston in a tub that weighed twenty-eight pounds, has either been lost, or, giving up his task, sneaked into the background. When last heard from he was at South Norwalk, tub-tossed on the waves. In all the cities of Russia where Rachel acted she had tremendous success, but it was at Moscow, in the role of Adrienne Lecou vreur, where the populace actually went wild over her. One night, after she had cited the celebrated speech in this play which ends with the com mand, "Leave me!" the applause seemed likely never to cease, and when, the perform ance over, Rachel entered her carriage, a gen tleman quite unknown to the famous artiste leaped into the very carriage and seated him self beside her. "What does this mean?" she asked in sur prise. "I beg you to forgive me, mademoiselle; you uttered those words 'Leave me!' so divinely to-night that I wish to hear you pro nounce them once more." Rachel then, in the same tone that she had used in the scene on the stage, turned to him and said, "Remain!" A good story is told in Edlnburg about that genial Grecian, Prof. Blackie. One day, shortly before the close of the late session, the professor being through some cause pre vented from lecturing, there was posted on the Greek class-room door a notice to this effect: "Prof. Blackie regrets he is unable to day to meet his classes." A waggish student spying this, scraped out the innitial letter of the last word of the sentence, and made it appear as if the professor was regretful at his inability to meet those fair specimens of hu manity familiarly known outside the college quadrangle as the "lasses." But who can joke with Blackie? The keen-eyed old man, noticing the paank that had been played on him, quietly erased another letter, and left the following to be read by whom it might concern : "Prof. Blackie regrets he is unable to-day to meet.his asses."-[New York E ven ing Post. "On the sixteenth of February," runs a newspaper letter from China, "a mob of one hundred persons entered the American Metho dist chapel at Foochow, assaulted the Chris tians worshipingi there, and tore down the chapel." This was dreadful. It was terrible. Some how, when the heathen tear down a Christian church in China, the brutal act lacks all the refining and civilizing influencesatt'n dant on the murder of a Chinaman by San Francisco Christians. "A smile costs the giver nothing," says a good writer. Doesn't, hey? Perhaps not, but we know of a Rockland man who began to "smile" four 3 ears ago, and then got into the habit of generously giving his friends "smiles" also. He has smiled away a house and lot, a span of horses, a good business and his soul and character.-[Rockland Courier. There is an article from a Georgia paper being extensively copied, that relates the transformation of a hen into a rooster. There is nothing remarkable in this. A Rockland man has a whole flock of hens that turn into roosters every night.-[Rockland Courier, OFFICIAL JOURNAL t --OF THE 10STITUTIONAL CONVYETIONI -OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. 2' t' 8ixty-third Day's Proceedlng.. 1. NEw ORLEANs, Wednesday, July 2, 1879. The Convention met at 10 o'c'ock a. m. 'resent-Hon. L. A. Wiltz, President, and 130 nembers. t Absent-Messrs. Millard, Stille and Steele. Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. T. David on, of Claiborne. f The reading of the journal was postponed hirty minutes. a Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Bur- r on for a few days. ORDINANCE INTRODOUCED. Mr. Claiborne, by unanimous consent, in. - roduced an ordinance, which was read and )laced on the calendar as c Ordinance No. 431, a Providing for the free school funds, the eminary fund, and the Agricultural and Me- a :hanical College fund. Under a suspension of the rules the ordi nance was passed to its second reading and or lored to be printed in bill form, and made the pecial order of the day for Tuesday, July 8, ifter the reading of the journal. ORDINANCE NO. 422 RESOMED. In pursuance of its order of June 30, the a Jonvention resumed the consideration of Or llnance No. 422, "Cneoorning general provi- t dions." t Article 3 was adopted. 1 Article 4 was adopted. a Article . was stricken out. c Article 6 was adopted. F Article 7 was amended, on motion of Mr. iutherlin, by adding at the end thereof the k word "only," so as to read as follows: 3 The laws, public records and the judicial I Ld legislative written proceedings of the 3tate shall be promulgated, preserved and 0 ,onducted in the English language only. The article was adopted as amended. f Article 8 was amended, on the motion of I dr. Moore, of Lafourche, by inserting the Rord "previously," in the last line, after the j Rord "compensation." Mr. Watkins moved to amend the article L )y inserting the words "or retroactive," after he phrase "ec poet facto," in line 1. By a rising vote of 40 yeas to 35 nays the Lmendment was laid upon the table, and ar icle 8 was adopted as amended. Articles 9, 10 and 11 were adopted as )rinted. Article 12 was read. Mr. Parlange offered the following amend- F nent: This provision shall apply to parochial and nunicipal officers as well as to offices estab- d ished by this constitution. To this amendment Mr. Sutherlin offered he following amendment: I Strike out the words "officers established by his constitution" and insert "State offices." The previous question being moved by Mr. )emas, and seconded by the Convention, the notion to amend by Mr. Sutherlin was lost. The motion of Mr. Parlange to amend, by a ising vote of 14 yeas to 67 nays, was lost, And article 12 was adopted as printed. Articles 13, 14 and 15 were adopted as srlnted. Articles 16 was read. 1 Mr. Parlange offered the following amend nent: Strike out the words "shall make it obliga- J ory upon each parish," and insert the words I 'shall delegate to the parishes the power," in A ieu thereof. 3 On the motion of Mr. Todd, by a rising vote I df 66 yeas to 26 nays, the motion to amend was aid upon the table. Mr. Warmoth moved that article .16 be stricken out. Mr. Richardson offered the following amend- f nent: I After the word "all," in line 3, insert the words "infirm, sick and disabled." Mr. Demas moved the previous question I which was seconded, and, the amendment o >ffered by Mr. Richardson was adopted. On Mr. Warmoth's motion to strike out a article 16 the yeas and nays were called for, " with the following result: Yeas-Messrs. Baskin, Bell, Benham, n Blanchard, Bolton, Breen, Bulow, Byrne, C )ahen Carey, Chaffee Clalborne, Cunning I am, bavis, Edwards, lam, Faulk, Favrot, lirard, Gowers, Gueringer, Havard, Henry t rf Natchitoches, Hough Jenkins, Kernochan, Knoblock, Land, Leake, Lott, Luckett, Lyons, v larshall, Moreland, Moore of Lafourche, lunday, Nutt, Parlange, Ponder, Rivet, t tichardson, Stagg, Stevenson, Stringfellow, Jutherlin, Thormpson, Vance, Warmoth s JVebb White, Williams of Grant, Young of ji bast Baton Rouge--51. Nays-Messrs. Allain, Bienvenu, Bobie, 3ourgeois, Breaux, Bridger, Caffrey, Thiapella, Collins, Colvin, Davenport, o Davidson of Iberville, bemas, Denis, f, Dickerson, Dillard, Easterly, Estopinal, 'ontelieu, Gardner, Gaskins, George, la, Grimes, Henry of Cameron, Howell, C lastremski, Joffrion, Kelly, Kemp, Kennedy, C Kirkman, Landry, Loan, Long Matthews, I Vientz, Moore of St. Landry, Mc(onnell, Mc- k Mloin, Noguez, Olivier, Ott, Pardee, Phelps , Pinchback Reid, Roach, Robertson, SelfJ femmes, Simon, Smith of Jackson, Smith o I 5t. Mary, Stamps, Stewart, Stone, Strovich, 1 Todd, Watkins, Wells, Williams of Terre- I >onne, Young of Concordia-63. ii Absent-Messrs. Babcock, Brian, Bulger, 3urtoa, Davidson of Claiborne, Forman, Her- ) on, Kidd, King, Lagan, Lanaux, LeGardeur, 1i Jr., Marks, Millard, Ogden, Poche, Steele, - Stille-19. The motion to strike out was lost. By a rising vote of 58 yeas to 51 nays the ( Lrticle was adopted as amended. I Mr. Young, of Concordia, moved to recon- r cider the vote just taken, which, by a rising rote of 46 yeas to 20 nays, was carried. I Mr. Caffrey offered the following amend nent: Provided, that in every municipal corpora ion in a parish where the powers of the police ury do not extend, the said corporation shall support its own paupers. On the motion of Mr. Pariange, accepted S )y Mr. Caffrey, the amendment was amended & >y inserting before the word "pauper" the words "infirm, sick and disabled." The previous question being moved by Mr. Demas and seconded by the Convention, the S Lmendment was adopted. Mr. Young, of Concordia, moved that the word "sick" be stricken out of the ordinance I Ls amended, and on that motion he moved he previous question, which was seconded y the Convention. t The motion to amend, by a rising vote of 33 las to 52 nays, was lost. Mr. Robertson moved that article 16 be re ~ommitted, as amended, to the Committee on enreral Provisions. I On the motion of Mr. Demas the motion to P recommit was laid upon the table by a rising rote of 66 yeas to 24 nays. Mr. Matthews moved the previous ques ;ion on the adoption of article 16 as amended, I nd the motion was seconded by the Conven- E ion. By a rising vote of 55 yeas to 46 nays, arti- L le 16 was adopted as amended. o Articles 17, 18 and 19 were adopted as P rinted. S Article 20 was read. v Mr. Todd offered as a substitute for article 0 the article recommended by the minority of he Committee on General Provisions, Messrs. h [odd, White, Jenkins and S. P. Henry, as fol- e ows: No lottery shall be authorized by this State, nd the buying or selling or lottery tickets sithin the State is prohibited. Mr. Vance offered the following amendment t o article 20: Strike out all to and including the word 'State" in line 7, and insert in lieu thereof the ollowtng: Lottery privileges are hereby granted to ny person or persons who may desire to wail themselves of the same upon the pay anrnt by sain person or persons of forty ,housand dollars per annum into the treaes iry of the State. After the word "charters," n lIne 8, insert the words, " previously ;ranted." r On the motion of Mr. Cunningham, ac epted by Mr. Vance, the amendment was tmended by striking out "forty thousand , loliars" and inserting "one hundred thou- p and dollars." Mr. Luckett moved to amend the amend- k nent of Mr. Vance by striking out "one hun- c ired thousand dollars" and inserting "fifty f housand dollars." b On the motion of Mr. Bridger the pending Lmendments were laid upon the table. o Mr. Cunningham offered the following amendment to the substitute: Strike out the words "no lottery shall be t authorized by this State" and Insert "all lot- p rerles are prohibited in," and at the end of he article add the words: "The Legislature a prohibited from repealing the penal clause )f act No. 44 of 1879, unless In the repealing It Let it provides for the punishment of the ffenses therein denounced by fine and im ,risonment in the penitentiary." Mr. Robertson moved that the amendment fi )e laid upon the table, and on that motion the yeas and nays were called for, with the fol- a owing result: Yeas-Messrs. Allain, Babcock, Bell, Ben iam, Blenvenu, Boble, Bourgeois, Breaux, Breen Bridger, Bulger, Bulow, Byrne, Cat •rey, nahen, Chaffe, C'hiapella, Collins, Daven ort, Davidson of Iberville, Davis, Demes, )ickerson, Estopinal, Favrot, Gardner, Gla, rimes, Gueornger, Herron, Hough, Howell, astremki, Kelly, Kernochan, Kidd, King, Knoblock, Landry,Loan, Long, Marks, Mentz, latthews Moreland, Moore of Lafourche, Moore of 9t. Landry, Noguez, Nutt,Ogden,Ott, Phelps, Pinchback, Rivet, Roach, Robertson, Semmes, Smith of Jackson, Smith of St. iary, Stamps, Stevenson, Stewart, Stringfel ow, Strovich, Thompson, Warmoth, Wat dns, Wells Williams of Terrebonne, Young of Joncordla, Young of East Baton Rouge--71. Nays-Messrs. Baskin, Blanchard Bolton, larey, Colvin, Cunningham, Davidson of ilalborne, Dillard, Easterly, Elam, Faulk, Forman, Gaskins, George, Girard, Gowers, Eavard, Henry of Cameron, Henry of Natchltoches, Jenkins, Joffrion, Kemp, Ken iedy Leaks, Lott, Lyons, Munday, McCon ell, McGloin, Olivier, Parlange, Poche, Pon er Reid, Self Simon; Stagg, Stone, Todd, Webb, White, Williams of Grant-42. Absent-Messrs. Brian, Burton, Clalborne, Denis, Edwards, Fontelleu, Kirkman, Lagan, anaux, Land, LeGardeur, Jr., Luckett Mar shall, Millard, Pardee, Richardson, Ateele, itille, Sutherlin, Vance-20. The motion to amend was lost. Mr. Robertson moved the previous question a the substitute and article 20, which was iconded by the Convention. On the substitute the yeas and nays were tiled for, with the following result: Yeas-Messrs. Baskin, Blanchard, Bolton, arey, Claiborble, Collins, Colvln,Cunningham, 'avidson of Claiborne, Dillard, Easterly, lam, Faulk, Forman, Gaskins, George, GI Lrd, Gowers, Havard, Henry of Cameron, enry of Natchitoches, Herron, Jenkins, offrion, Kemp, Kennedy. Knoblock, Land, sake, Lott, Luckett, Lyons, Moreland, [oore of St. Landry. Munday, McConnell, [cGloin, Olivler, Pariange, Poche, Ponder, old, Self, Simon, Shilth of Jackson, Stagg, hompson, Todd, Vance, Webb, Wells, White, Tilliams of Grant, Young of East Baton ouge-54. Nays-Messrs. Allain, Babcock, Bell, Ben am, Blenvenu, Boble, Bourgeois, Breaux, reen, Bridger Bulger, Bulow, Byrne, Caf ey, Cahen, Ghaffs, Chiapella, Davenport, avidson of Iberville, Demas, Dickerson, stopinal, Favrot, Fontelieu, dardner, Gla, rimes, dueringer, Hough, Howell, Jastrem ti, Kelly, Kernochan, Kidd, King, Landry, oan, Long, Marks, Matthews, Mentz, Moore [ Lafourche, Nogiez, Nutt, Ogden, Ott, helps, Pinchback, Rivet, Roach, Robertson, emmes, Smith of St. Mary, Stamps, Steven n, Stewart, Stone, Stringfellow, Strovich, farmoth, Watkins, Williams of Terrebonne, oung of Concordia-63. Absent-Messrs. Brian, Burton, Davis, De Is, Edwards, Kirkman, Lagan, Lanaux, Le ardeur, Jr., Marshall, Millard, Pardee, ichardson, Steele, b ille, Sutherlin-16. The motion to adopt the substitute for ar- N dle 20, as recommended by the minority, as lost. Messrs. Stone and Watkins gave notice that ley would at a future time move to recon- I der'the vote by which the substitute was re- p cted. [Mr. Poche in the chair.] On the motion of Mr. Parlange, to strike it article 20, the yeas and nays were called S4 ir, with the following result: 8] Yeas-Mears. Baskin, Blanchard, Bolton affrey, Carey, Claiborne, Collins, Colvin, unningham, Davidson of Clalborne, Davis, illard, Easterly, Elam, Faulk, Forman, Gas Ins, George, Girard, Gowers, Havard, Henry Cameron, Henry of Natchitoches. Herron, mnkins, Ja,ffrion Kemp, Kennedy, Kirkman, noblock, Land, Leake, Lott, Luckett, Lyons, [oreland, Moore of Lafourche, Moore of St. andry, Munday, McConnell, McGloin, Oliv r, Parlange, Poche, Ponder, Reid, Self, imon, Smith of Jackson, Stagg, Stone, Todd, ance, Watkins, Webb, Wells, White, Will ýms of Grant, Young of East Baton Rouge .59. Nays-Messrs. Allain, Babcock, Bell, Ben am, Bienvenu, Bobie. Bourgeois, Breaux, reen, Bridger, Bulger, Bulow, Byrne, Cahen, haffe, Chiapella, Davenport, Davidson of .erville, Demas, Dickerson, Estopinal, Fav it, Fontelieu, Gardner, Gia, Grimes, Guer iger, Hough, Howell, Jastremski, Kelly, ernochan, Kidd. King, Landry, Loan, Long, [arks, Matthews, Mentz, Noguez, Nutt, Ott, helps, Pinchback, Rivet, Roach, Robertson, emmes, Smith of St. Mary, Stamps, Steven in, Stewart, Stringfellow, Strovich, Thomp in, Warmoth, Williams of Terrebonne, oung of Concordia-50. Absent-Messrs. Brian Burton, Denis, Ed rards, Lagan, Lanaux, LeGardeur, Jr., Mar hall, Millard, Pardee, Richardson, Steele, tille, Sutherlin--14. Mr. Ogden announced that he was paired ith Mr. Sutherlin on this question. If Mr. utherlin were present he would vote yea, nd Mr. Ogden would vote nay. There being a tie vote, Mr. Poche, who oo upied the chair and had voted when his name ras called, decided that the motion to strike ut was lost. Mr. McGloin appealed from the decision of te Chair. On the motion of Mr. Robertson the appeal ras laid upon the tarjle by a rising vote of 63 eas to 47 nays. On the adoption of article 20 the yeas and ays were called for, with the following re ult: Yeas-Messrs. Allain, Babcock, Bell, Ben am, Bienvenu, Blanchard, Bobie, Bourgeois, P reaux, Breen, Bridger, Bulger, Bulow, P yrne, Cahen, Chaffe, Chiapella, Davenport, w avidson of Ioervilie, Demas, Dickerson B stoplnal. Favrot, Fontelleu, Gardner, Gin, rines duertnger, Hough, Howell, Jastrem. ii, Kelly, Kernchan, Kidd, King, Landry, oan, Long, Marks, Matthews, Mentz, Moore Lafourche, Noguez, Nutt, Ott, Phelps, inchback, Rivet, Roach, Robertson, Semmes, with of St. Mary, Stamps, Stevenson, tswart, Stringfellow, Strovich. Warmoth, Tilliams of Terrebonne, Young of Concordia. Nays-Messrs. Baskin, Bolton, Caffrey, arey Claiborne, Collins, Uolvin, Cunning. am, bavidson of Claiborne, Dillard, East. ly, Faulk, Forman, Gaskins, George, Girard, owers, Havard, Henry of Cameron, Henry Natchitoches, Herron, Jenkins, Joffrion, emp, Kennedy. Kiirkman, Knoblock, Land, sake, Lott, Luckett, Lyons, Moreland, loore of St. Landry, Munday, McConnell, [c Gloin Olivier, Parlange, '/oche, Ponder, eid, Self, Simon, Smith of Jackson, Stag, tone, Thompson, Todd, Vance, Watkins, (ebb, Wells, White, Williams of Grant 55. Absent-Messrs. Brian, Burton, Davis, enis, Edwards ' Elam, lagan, Lanaux,. eGardeur, Jr., Marshall, Millard, Pardee ichardson, Steele, Stille,Sutherlin, Young of aset Baton Rouge-17. Article 20 was adopted. I vote for article 20 because 1. There is a lottery in existence whose ghts cannot be divested. 2. That it is proper that the revenues to be jrived under the charter of the existing com any should not be withheld from the State long as the institution cannot be sup 8. That the selling of lottery tickets in New rleans cannot be suppressed, as is well: nown from the experience had under the re nt stringent laws In favor of a monopoly ,r the suppression of their sale, attempted to enforced under the stimulus of private in crests, armed with extraordinary powers. 4. That by the abolishment of the monop y featifro in favor bf the existing company,to .ich it assents, further revenue may be de ved out of a system from which there is no resent escape, and besides, gives the oppor minty of bringing the entire matter under roper police regulation. Mr. Blanchard gave notice that he would at Mme future time move to reconsider the vote at taken. Mr. White gave like notice. Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Stille r a few days on account of sickness. On the motion of Mr. White the Convention ijourned until 10 o'clock a. m. to-morrow, WM. H. HARRIS, Secretary of the Convention. IJRUNEWALD'S MAMMOTH MUSIC 1HOUS 14-22 Baronne Street, SGrunewald HalL. 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