HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, November 27, 1865.The House was called to order at 2 o'clock. P.M., by the Assistant Clerk (Mr. Dormer) and Mr. Henricks, of St. Joseph, was called to the Chair.
On motion of Mr. COFFROTH, it was ordered page: 109[View Page 109] that the reading of the journal of Friday be dispensed with, and that the House proceed with the regular morning business.
Mr. NEWCOMB presented a memorial for a claim by B. F. Wingate, of the city of Indianapolis, which, without reading, was referred to the Committee on Claims.
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. MAJOR, from the Committee on Fees and Salaries, returned Mr. Burne's Attorneys' Docket Fee Bill [H. R. 224] with a recommendation that it be laid on the table.
The report was concurred in.
BLACK LAWS.
Mr. BURNES, from the Committee on Rights and Privileges, returned Mr. Miller's black laws repeal bill, No. 214, without amendment, and recommending its passage.
It lies on the table.
SUFFRAGE.
Mr. B., also from the same Committee, returned the resolution submitted by Mr. Kilgore. with reference to the expediency of colored persons testifying in the Courts, and reported that inasmuch as there is a bill pending before this body embracing the subject matter of the resolution, they recommend that it be laid on the table.
The report was concurred in.
BRIDGES.
Mr. SHOAFF of Allen, from the Committee on County and Township Business, returned Mr. Wood's bridge bill [H. R. 206] with sundry amendments.
The report, bill and amendments lie on the table under the rule.
BIRDS.
Mr. HOGATE, from the Committee on Agriculture, returned Mr. Cox's bird bill, [H. R. 223] recommending its passage.
It lies on the table.
SUFFRAGE EXTENSION.
Mr. PRATIIER, from the Committee on Federal Relations, returned the resolution of the House for instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress for amendment of the Constitution of the United States so that the right of suffrage shall be uniform throughout the United States, and that the power to regulate the same shall be invested in Congress, with a recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed.
TWELVE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.
Mr. PRATHER submitted the following:
WHEREAS, A bill accepting the provisions of an act of Congress of the U. S , granting lands to the several States and Territories, providing Colleges for the benefit of agricultural and mechanic Arts.
AND, WHEREAS, Said act authorizes the issuing of Land Script to such of the States as where there is no land subject to entry.
AND WHEREAS, So much of the Governor's messsage as relates to said subject was referred to a committee of one from each Congressional District of this State : Therefore,
Resolved, that said committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing twelve Agricultural Schools in the State of Indiana, one of which shall be located at Bloomington, Indiana, and one other school in each of the several Congressional Districts of the State, giving to the school at Bloomington two-thirteenths of the whole amount of said donation, and the remainder of said donation shall be divided equally with the other eleven District schools, which shall be located in each of the Congressional Districts of this State : in which tuition shall be free to the families of those who have been made destitute and dependent in consequence of having lost their friends in the war of 1861: and that said committee report by bill or otherwise.
It was adopted.
NEW BILLS.
Mr. COFFROTH introduced a bill [H. R. 254] for an act to amend the fifth, fourteenth, and seventeenth sections of the act incorporating the town of Huntingdon, Indiana, approved February 16, 1848.
It was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
INSURANCE.
Mr. NEWCOMB introduced a bill [H. R. 255] for an act supplemental to an act entitled An Act for the Incorporation of Insurance Companies, defining their powers and prescribing their duties, approved March 17, 1852. [It provides that such Companies may insure against the loss of Health, Life and against Accidents.]
On the motion of Mr. THACHER, it was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. PRATIIER said he had been advised that one of our regiments - the l0th Indiana Cavalry, was about to be received and welcomed in speeches; [the same fact was being announced in brass music at the Reception Platform in the eastward grounds;] and he thought the House had better adjourn for the occasion,
The motion was withheld for a formal message from the Senate announcing the action of that body, by O. M. Wilson, their Secretary.
And then the House [at 3 o'clock p. M.] adjourned.
