ARBITRARY ARRESTS.
Mr. HANNA offered the following resolution which was adopted:
WHEREAS, The Secretary of War of the United States, in his late official report has declared that the political arrests that have been made in the various States were made by the advice, and with the consent of the several Governors thereof, therefore,
Resolved, That his Excellency, Governor Oliver P. Morton, be requested at an early day, to furnish this House with the facts in relation to the political arrests that have been made throughout the State of Indiana.
Mr. BROWN. If not out of order I desire to give notice that I will at an early day, or as soon as an opportunity affords Introduce a resolution or resolutions asking that a special committee be raised with power to send for persons and papers and compel attendance, whose duty it will be to ascertain the number of political arrests that have been made in the State of Indiana, and report the character of the same to this House, and also to report by bill, or otherwise, the proper and necessary legislation to prevent such outrages, as in my opinion they are, from being committed in the future.
