LANDLORD'S LIEN.
Mr. JOHNSON, from the select committee thereon, returned his bill, [73] to enable industrious indigent person to rent land, [giving landlords preference in the collection of rents,] recommending passage.
The report was concurred in.
Mr. BAIRD proposed to amend the title of the bill so as to read, a bill to enable landlords to oppress indigent tenants.
Mr. EDWARDS objected, that it was not parliamentary to amend the title till the bill was on the third reading.
Mr. BAIRD proposed to withdraw the amendment. [Cries of "no," "no."]
Mr. ROBINSON. Three years ago, we had a law precisely similar to this. That had been repealed, and now no poor tenant could rent without giving security, and the effect of that was, that many could not rent at all.
Mr. PARKS proposed to amend the amendment by substituting these words: " To give landlords a lien on the crops for the payment of rents.
Mr. DOBBINS desired to make it the special order for Tuesday week, which was rejected.
Mr. PROSSER. Till the fourth of July, which was also rejected, and then -
Mr. Park's amendment and Mr. Baird's amendment were successfully rejected, and the question recurred on engrossment, and the yeas and nays were demanded and ordered thereon.
Mr. MURRAY would like to see the bill referred again, but if forced to the vote, he must vote in favor of it. He considered that there should be better security for the landlord, &c.
Mr. BAIRD. It was going back to the doctrine of the landlord's lein. He believed any honest, industrious man could rent land as much as he required. He reasoned against the bill. He had resisted the petition of a Shylock,in his own county, for a similar law for the benefit of renters of houses, because he knew the petitioner.
Mr. STILES. At the proper time, he should propose to amend so as to give the landlord a lein on the furniture, wife and children of the tenant.
The yeas and nays on the engrossment, [demanded by Messrs. Harney and Brotherton,] were now taken, resulting - yeas 40, nays 48 - as follows:
YEAS - Messrs. Black, Boyd, Carr, Claypool, Clayton, Clements, Cotton, Davidson, Durham, Early, Fordyce, Gifford, Hall of Rush, Hancock, Hunter, Johnston, Lewis, Major, Massey, Merrifield, Murray, Nelson, Newton, Prosser, Robinson, Row, Shockley, Smith of Miami, Smith of Perry, Stanley, Summers, Tebbs. Thompson of Elkhart, Treadway, Usrey, Waterman, Wheeler, Whetzel and Wood. - 40.
NAYS - Messrs. Austin, Baird, Bowman, Boxley, Branham, Brotherton, Cavins, Clark, Colgrove, Collier, Comstrock, Dobbins, Dougherty, Edwards, Firestone, Gregory, Griffin, Hall of Grant, Hamilton of Wayne, Harvey, Harrison, Hartley, Jeffries, Jones, Jordan, Keefer, Kelly, Lawhead, McLain, Mansfield, Mellett, Miller, Martin, Nebeker of Vermillion, Nebeker of Warren, Power, Ritter, Rynearson, Scott, Sherman, Shields, Shall, Sayder, Stiles, Turpie, Whiteman, Wildman, and Mr. Speaker, - 48.
So the bill was rejected.
Mr. DURHAM submitted a resolution, which was adopted, requiring the Committee on Education to inquire into the expediency of amending the school law of 1855, requiring school examiners to classify teachers to whose qualifications they certify.
