HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY. March 7, 1863.On motion by Mr. McGAUCHEY it was
Resolved, That the Doorkeeper be directed to contract with W.H. DRAPIER, for six hundred copies of the BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS--being the usual number furnished for the use of this House every session since1857--the same to be sent by express,an equal number of copies to each member as soon as possible after the adjournment of the session-- provided said Reports shall not cost more than one dollar per copy; that one copy for each member be bound; and that said reports shall not be paid for till printed.
Mr. BIRD offered a resolution electing the following persons as members of the Board of Trustees of the Benevolent institutions: Charles E. Sturgiss, of Allen county, for Insane Asylum; James Elder, of Wayne county, for Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and Robert Curran, of Clarke, for Blind Asylum. This vote to be regarded as a viva-voce vote.
The resolution was informally passed over.
SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
Mr. HOLCOMB from select committee to whom was referred joint resolution thanking Governor Morton for care and attention to sick and wounded soldiers, reported the committee unable to act upon, it in consequence of the absence of Republican members.
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
The several committees reported back the resolutions and bills referred to them, which were informally tabled.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
Mr. HOLCOMB offered the following resolution, which was informally passed over.
Resolved, That House bill No. 221 be recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, with instructions to report a substitute therefor, amending the law now in force so as to make all officers of the Indiana Legion to be elected by the companies and regiments and commissioned by the Governor, and also to amend said laws so as to appropriate $25,000 per annum for military purposes, instead of $70,000 as now prescribed.
NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Mr. NIBLACK, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported the specific appropriation bill, [257.]
Also the bill making general appropriations for the years 1863 and 1864. [258.]
Mr. NIBLACK moved to suspend the rules so that the general appropriation bills might be read the second time.
The yeas and nays were demanded and being ordered and taken resulted, yeas 53, nays 0.
No quorum voting a call of the House was ordered showing the same result, when the House adjourned to 9 a.m. on Monday.
