[305] He later withdrew one of these vetoes. Ibid., 63. Only one of these ten bills passed over his veto. He should have credit for preventing the squandering of a million and a half dollars by his veto of the Nicholson pavement bill in 1870.
[306] This statement is based upon the table submitted by the governor himself in 1872 to a Congressional committee. House Misc. Doc., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 286-94.
[307] By 1872 he had vetoed 70 bills and refused to sign 40. Ibid., 285.
[308] See the laws of La. for 1871, Nos. 35, 40, 46, 53, 59, 70, etc.
[309] Ibid., No. 45.
[310] Ibid., No. 31.
[311] Ibid., No. 28. The Southeastern Railroad Company.
[312] Ibid., No. 41. The Louisiana Warehouse Company.
[313] Sen. Jour., 1871, 67, House Jour., 35. In all, the New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Company received from the State $4,250,000 or over $58,000 a mile besides a grant of the use of a part of the New Orleans levee, valued at $1,000,000, for it completed only seventy miles. It remains to be added that two different companies of Northern capitalists offered to build the Houston and New Orleans road without subsidy or aid, but the legislature would not grant a charter. Nordhoff, 58.
[314] Annual Cyclopedia, 1871, 474.