IN SENATE.
MONDAY, March 11, 1861.By unanimous consent, the reading of the journal of yesterday was dispensed with.
Mr. MURRAY offered the following:
Resolved, That the Principal Secretary and his Assistants, the Assistant Secretary and his Assistants, the Doorkeeper and his Assistants, together with all other employees of this Senate, merit, and are hereby tendered, our thanks for the faithful and creditable manner in which they have discharged their several duties.
Resolved, That the Finance Committee be, and they are hereby instructed, to report a joint resolution, restricting the Directors of the Northern State Prison in regard to the letting of contracts in the construction of said prison, and in the use of the appropriations made by this Legislature for that and other purposes.
Which were adopted.
THE BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS, ACTS, JOUR
NALS
AND DOCUMENTS.
Mr. STUDABAKER offered the following:
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be, and is hereby directed to cause be bound in sheep binding, one copy of the Senate Journal, and one copy of Documentary Journal for each member of the Senate.
Mr. MILLER moved to amend by substituting the following:
Resolved, That the Secretary of State procure, and send to each member of the Senate, and to the officers and reporters thereof, two copies of the Brevier Reports, also two copies each of the Senate, House, and Documentary Journals, and two copies of the acts of the present session. All to be bound in full sheep.
The amendment was agreed to, and the resolution as amended was adopted.
Mr. WILLIAMS. The Select Committee on page: 370[View Page 370] Apportionment, to whom was referred Senate bills 21 and 125, to apportion Senators and Representatives for the next six years, having failed to agree to any bill, 1 therefore make the following report, on my own hook, "Strike out both bills, and insert in lieu thereof new matter, and recommending its passage."
The report was concurred in.
Mr. CLAYPOOL offered the following :
Resolved, That 5,000 copies of the report of the Prison Committee, with the evidence taken, be printed for the use of the Senate, and when printed that the Librarian be instructed to hold one-fiftieth part thereof-subject to the order of each Senator; and that the clerk of said committee shall deposit with the Assistant Secretary of the Senate the books and papers, with the evidence taken before said committee.
Which was adopted.
Mr. SLACK, from the Committee on Banks, returned Mr. Cobb's bill 257-see page 294 of these Reports-recommending that it lie on the table.
Mr. WOLFE, from the Judiciary Committee, returned his bills 254 and 258, recommending that the same lie on the table, for want of time to act on the same.
Mr. CRAVEN, from the Judiciary Committee, returned Senate bill [272] To enable county commissioners to remove county seats in certain cases; recommending its passage.
Mr. MARCH, from the Judiciary Committee, returned Senate bills 211, 95, 256, 78,161,181, and 205, recommending that they lie on the table.
Mr. STEELE, from the Committee on Banks, returned Senator Conner's bill 143-see page 185 of these Reports-recommending that it lie on the table.
The above reports were severally concurred in.
The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a report from the State Librarian of stationery furnished to each Senator.
Mr. CRAVEN, from the Judiciary Committee, returned the bill H. R. 107, To amend the Practice Act, recommending that it lie on the table.
This report was concurred in.
Mr. MILLER offered the following, which he prefaced with appropriate remarks :
Resolved, unanimously, That the members of this Senate will testify their regret for the memory of Rufus Brown , deceased, late a member of this body, representing the counties of Marshall and St. Joseph, by wearing crape on the left arm for one month.
Mr. CAMPBELL offered a similar resolution in memory of Hon Isaac A. Rice, a member of the last session, from Fountain county. He also prefaced this resolution with appropriate remarks.
The resolutions were seconded in short speeches by Senators Hamilton, Wagner, Steele, and Mr. President Cravens.
Mr. WILLIAMS offered the following:
Resolved, That a copy of the above resolutions be furnished to the relatives of the deceased Senators.
The resolutions as amended, were adopted.
The joint resolution [H. R. 38] authorizing the Auditor of State to pay Duval & Fordice for a lost certificate for ditching swamp lands was taken up, amended, changing it from a joint to a concurring resolution, and then adopted.
Mr. MARCH offered the following:
Resolved, That the Doorkeeper be directed to return to the State Library all the copies of the Revised Statutes, Acts of the Legislature, Journals of the Houses, and all other valuable books that have been used by Senators in the discharge of their official duties.
Which was adopted.
On motion by Mr. BLAIR, a Committee was authorized of two on the part of the Senate to act with three on the part of the House, to wait upon the Governor, and ascertain whether he has any further communications to make.
The PRESIDENT makes that Committee to consist of Senators Blair and Odell.
Mr. MARCH, from the Committee on the Judiciary, returned Senator DeHart's bill 189-see page 233 of these Reports-recommending that it lie on the table; which report was concurred in.
Mr. TARKINGTON offered the following:
Resolved, That the Secretary of State have the Annual Reports of the Auditor of State for 185T, 1858, 1859 and 1860 bound together in half binding (or sheep) for each member of the Senate, and forward the same with the laws and journals of this session.
Which was adopted.
The joint resolution [H. R. 39] was amended by changing it into a concurrent resolution, and then adopted.
Mr. NEWCOMB offered the following :
Resolved, That the use of this Hall is tendered to the Baptist Congregation of Indianapolis, whose church edfice has recently been destroyed by fire, to be used by said congregation as a place of worship.
Which was adopted.
Mr. LINE offered the following:
Resolved, That the Librarian be, and he is hereby directed to take up the carpet in this Hall, and preserve the same until the next session of the General Assembly meet, that he also take measures for the care and preservation of the furniture of the Senate Chamber.
Which was adopted.
Mr. BLAIR, from the Committee appointed to wait upon the Governor, reported that His Excellency has no further communication to make, and extends his best wishes for the health and prosperity'of each member.
On motion by Mr. LINE, the Secretary was directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has transacted its legisative business, is now ready to adjourn sine die, and inquire whether the House has any further communication to make.
The PRESIDENT announced the Committee to investigate the financial affairs of the State n the part of the Senate, viz: Senators Wagner and Hamilton: and the Committee on he part of the Senate to be Senator Miller.
Mr. President CRAVENS then addressed the Senate as follows:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
The vacant chairs which T see around me, he restless impatience manifest in every coun
