ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Mr. ODELL,from a select committee, returned Mr. Wallace's bill (2) providing for the election of United States Senators, recommending its passage.
The report was concurred in.
[A message from the Governor announced his approval and signature of Mr. Bobb's bill (170) fixing the time of holding the Court of Common Pleas in Marion county.]
Mr. MARCH could not agree with the concurrent vote clause in the fourth section of the bill-the one which provides for a joint convention of both Houses of the General Assembly and nothing else. He moved to amend the bill by striking out that section.
Mr. HEFFREN was opposed to the amendment proposed, and moved to postpone the subject till to-morrow 2 o'clock P. M.
The motion was agreed to.
The PRESIDENT pro temporelaid before the Senate a communication from the Attorney General, in reply to a resolution of the Senate, asking the reasons why a suit in the Floyd Circuit Court in the case of State vs. Newland has been dismissed, stating that he had never been officially informed that any such suit had been commenced or was pending, nor did he know it from any other source, consequently, he did not attend to it, and can not say why it was dismissed
Mr. RICE, from the Finance Committee, returned Mr. Culver's bill (85) providing for ten per cent, interest, recommending indefinite postponement. The report was concurred in.
