AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House again went into Committee of the Whole on the bill H. R. 221, but immediately rose and were discharged from the further consideration of the bill.
The minority report of the Committee of 13 was informally tabled and 500 copies ordered to be printed.
The bill H. R. 221 was taken up.
The question recurring on the substitute--
Mr. LAMB moved to informally table both bills and to print 200 copies of the substitute.
The substitute was withdrawn.
Mr. GRIFFITH offered several verbal amendments preserving the powers of the Governor, which were tabled by yeas 53, nays 35.
Mr. CASON moved to refer the bill to the Committee on Judiciary to inquire into its Constitutionality.
The motion was laid on the table by yeas 51, nays 30.
Mr. BROWN demanded the previous question on the bill.
Mr. ANDERSON asked to be excused from voting, which was objected to, and the yeas and nays being demanded, ordered and taken, he was excused by yeas 44, nays 37.
The previous question was seconded by yeas 53, nays 16.
Mr. CASON asked to be excused from voting, and demanded the yeas and nays.
The SPEAKER. If gentlemen wish to indulge in parliamentary tactics they must be a little quicker. The call has already commenced, and the Clerk will proceed with it.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed--yeas 53, nays 18.
page: 176[View Page 176]REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Recommending that the Senate bill 58, (see page 126;) House bills 104, (p. 94;) 184, (p. 141;) 234 and the joint resolution H. R. 33 (p. 163,) be laid on the table, were severally concurred in.
Mr. BROWN offered a resolution empowering the Committee on Arbitrary Arrests to sit for thirty days after the adjournment of the General Assembly; providing for the printing of their report, and for the employment and pay of certain necessary officers; which was made the special order for tomorrow evening at 7 1/2 o'clock.
Mr. GRIFFITH offered a resolution that when the House adjourns it be until Friday morning, 9 a. m, and that the use of this hall be tendered to those meeting in Republican Convention to-morrow.
Mr. BROWN moved, in amendment, that 7 1/2 p. m. tomorrow be substituted for 9 a. m. next day.
Mr. ROBERTS and Mr. LASSELLE opposed the adjournment.
The yeas and nays being demanded they were ordered and taken, resulting yeas 45, nays 13 no quorum voting.
A call of the House being demanded and taken, but 57 members answered to their names.
