IN SENATE.
FRIDAY, December 3, 1858.The Journal of yesterday was read and corrected.
Mr WAGNER offered a petition from A. Stephenson for compensation for pursuing and prosecuting horse-stealing, and moved that it be referred to the committee on claims without reading.
The motion was agreed to.
BUILDING OF TOWNS.
Mr. CONNER submitted a report from the Committee on Corporations,which bad under consideration the bill (No. 20) recommending its passage: and it was read the second time by its title, and ordered to a third reading. [This is Mr. Shoemaker's bill, having reference to the building of towns]
SHERIFF'S FEES.
Mr. STEVENS introduced a bill (No. 66) entitled An Act, requiring parties to civil suits to advance the fees of Sheriffs in cases herein specified, which was read through the firsttime and passed to the second reading.
A TEMPERANCE BILL.
Mr. BENNETT introduced a bill (No 67) entitled An Act to suppress tippling houses, to prevent drunkenness and crime, regulating the traffic in spirituous and malt liquors, and repealing page: 78[View Page 78]all acts in contradiction of the same, which was read through the first time.
Mr. BENNETT moved that the rules be suspended, and that the bill be read a second time by its title.
In accordance with the constitutional provision the yeas and nays were ordered, and being taken, resulted - yeas 36, nays 4.
Two thirds voting in the affirmative, the rules were suspended; the bill was read a second time by its title.
Mr. BENNETT moved that it be referred to the Committee of Temperance, and it was so referred.
Mr. STEVENS offered an additional section:
Sec.All costs taxed by any Justice of the Peace, or any court having competent jurisdiction, shall be considered a part of the judgment, and the defendant shall stand committed until the judgment and costs are fully paid.
Mr. MURRAY was not in favor of keeping the offender in jail until he paid the costs of his prosecution.
Mr. STEVENS made his amendment a matter of inquiry at the suggestion of the Senator from Howard, [Mr. Murray.]
Mr. STEVENS offered an additional amendment, by requiring Prosecuting Attorneys, on reasonable grounds of suspicion, to file information against any person whom he may suppose, from personal observations, to be guilty of any violations of the provisions of this act, before any Justice of the Peace, or any court having jurisdiction.
Mr. MURRAY would vote for as stringent a law as anybody, but he had objections to this amendment.
Mr. GOODING was also a Temperance man, but he thought this amendment was going too far.
Mr. STEVENS was willing to let this amendment, also, go to the committee as instructions, and it was so referred by consent.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
Mr.TARKINGTON asked and obtained leave of absence for the Senator from Green, (Mr. Conley,) who was called home by sickness in his family.
SWAMP LANDS.
Mr. TURNER introduced a bill (No. 68) to amend the 20th, 28th, 32d and 51st sections of an act entitled, "An Act regulating the sale of the swamp lands donated by the United States to the State of Indiana, providing for the drainage thereof in accordance with the conditions of the said grant," approved May 27, 1852, which was read through the first time and passed to the second reading.
FOREIGN BANK BILLS.
Mr. HEFFREN introduced a bill (No. 69) to prevent the circulation of foreign bank bills or notes, which was read through the first time and passed to the second reading.
BILLS ON THE SECOND READING.
The Senate then took up the order of the day, being bills on the second reading.
Mr. Murray's bill (No. 56) to amend the 103d section of a law reform act approved June 17 1852, was read through the second time.
Mr. MURRAY moved its reference to the Judiciary Committee, and it was so referred.
Mr. Murray's bill (No. 57) to amend the 381st section of the General Law Reform Act, was read through the second time.
Mr. STUDABAKER moved its reference to the Judiciary Committee, and it was so referred.
Mr. Blair's bill (No. 58) to amend the 37th section of an act defining misdemeanors and prescribing punishments therefor, was read through a second time.
Mr. BLAIR, moved its reference to the Judiciary.
The motion was rejected.
Mr. MURRAY moved its reference to the Committee on Temperance, and it was so referred.
Mr. Anthony's bill (No. 59) to amend section 3 of an act regulating the licensing of pilots at the Falls of the Ohio, was read through a second time.
Mr. ANTHONY moved its reference to the Judiciary Committee, and it was so referred.
Mr. Lomax's bill (No. 60) to amend an act authorizing county agricultural societies to purchase and" hold real estate, was read through a second time.
Mr. LINE moved its reference to the Committee on Agriculture, and it was so referred.
Mr Bennett's bill (No. 61) to amend section 10 of chapter 2 of an act with reference to Courts of Conciliation, was read through the second time.
Mr. SLACK moved its reference to the Judiciary Committee, and it was so referred.
Mr. Heffren's bill (No. 62) providing for the relief of married women when deserted by their husbands, or children abandoned by the parents, was read through a second time.
Mr. HEFFREN moved its reference to the Judiciary Committee, and it was so referred.
Mr. Bennett's bill (No. 63) defining embezzlement, was read through the second time.
Mr. BENNETT moved its reference to the Judiciary Committee, and it was so referred.
Mr. Odell's bill (No. 65) prescribing a mode for the election of Senators, was read through a second time.
Mr. MARCH moved that the bill be referred to the Judiciary Committee, and it was so referred.
STATE BANK DEBT.
Mr. Wallace's joint resolution (No. 3) touching the indebtedness of the State Bank of Indiana to the State, was read through the second time.
Mr. STEELE moved that this joint resolution be referred to the Finance Committee, and it was so referred.
STATE FUND BORROWERS.
Mr. Gooding's bill (No. 29) extending time of payment to borrowers of State mods, was read through the second time, and ordered engrossed.
Suggestions being made by Senators that it should not be passed at the present time -
Mr. GOODING explained the merits of his bill in a few words.
page: 79[View Page 79]Mr. GREEN moved a reconsideration of the by which the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. MURRAY moved its reference to the committee on Education, and it was so referred.
ADJOURNING OVER.
Mr. MURRAY asked and obtained leave to offer the following resolution, which was adopted:
WHEREAS. the Senate has now about completed the orders of the day - AND WHEREAS there is a large amount of business before the Committees of the Senate, upon which it is desirable that they should have time to deliberate: therefore,
Resolved, That when the Senate adjourn it stand adjourned until to-morrow morning.
FIXING COURT TIME IN BARTHOLOMEW.
Mr. Jones' bill (No. 31) fixing the time for holding the Court of Common Pleas in Bartholomew county, was read through the third time.
The question being: Shall the bill pass? In compliance with the constitutional provision, the yeas and nays were ordered, and being taken resulted - yeas 42, nays 0 - as follows:
YEAS - Messrs. Anthony, Bjeson, Bennett. Blair, Bobbs, Brown, Carnahan, Cobb, Conner, Cooper, Craven, Culver, Fisk, Gooding, Green, Hargrove, Heffren, Hill, Jennings, Johnston, Jones, Kinley, Line, Lomax, McClure, March, Miller, Murray, O'Brien, Odell, Robinson, Shoemaker, Slack, Steele, Stevens, Studabaker, Tarkington, Thompson, Turner, Wagner, Williams and Wilson - 42,
NAYS - 0.
So the bill passed.
The title of the bill was read and adopted.
And then the Senate adjourned.
