SHEEP-KILLING DOGS.
Mr. MURRAY offered a resolution, instructing the Committee on Agriculture to report a, bill for the better protection of the wool-growing interest of the State, having for its basis compensation to persons sustaining loss by sheep-killing dogs.
Mr. JONES urged the passage of a law upon this subject, otherwise we might as well abandon the idea of raising sheep in Indiana.
Mr. LINE. It is true the agricultural interests are suffering largely from the destruc page: 68[View Page 68]tion of this kind of stock, and calls loudly for protection at our hands.
Mr. MILLER. A number of my constituents regard this as a matter of some importance. In my section the sheep-growing community seriously suffer by dogs in consequence of the great number of these animals which are allowed to run at large. I doubt not the Agricultural Committee will devise some means by which this evil may be done away with.
The resolution was adopted.
[On motion it was ordered that, when the Senate adjourn this afternoon, it be till Monday next at 2 o'clock P. M.]
