HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, December 22, 1865.The SPEAKER, called the House to order at 9 1/2 a.m. and directed the Clerk to read the journal of yesterday.
page: 268[View Page 268]Mr. JAMES moved that the reading of the journal be dispensed with.
Mr. BROWN objected.
Mr. NEWCOMB. I do not want to take up time with the journal. There are several reports from Committees that ought to be made this morning.
Mr. BURWELL The journal ought to be read.
The SPEAKER. The clerk will report the first rule of the House for the order.
The Clerk read:
"1, He shall take the chair every day precisely at the hour to which the House shall have adjourned on the preceding day; shall immediately call the members to order; and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall cause the journal of the preceding day to be read, unless, by a vote of the House, the reading of the journal be dispensed with."
Mr. BROWN. Mr. Speaker. I rise simply to make an inquiry. I may be mistaken, but I understand that the resolution offered by the gentleman from Wabash [Mr Pettit] at the time of the adjournment, yesterday, (which appears on the journal) was read by that gentleman simply for information: if that be true, I submit that the resolution ought not to be on the journal. I submit that nothing should go on the journal, except it has been before the House.
The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report that portion of the journal for the information of the House.
The CLERK read from tke journal beginning with Mr. Pettit's motion to offer a resolution.
"Mr. Coffroth moved an adjournment."
Mr. Pettit asked Mr. Coffroth to withdraw his motion that the following resolution might be read for information."
[Here follows in the journal Mr. Pettit's resolution relative to the taxing of the Shares of National Banks, printed in the close of the House proceedings of yesterday.]
Mr. DUNHAM. Is the resolution there? It is no part of the record, and I move that it be expunged.
Mr. BROWN. I have just consulted the gentleman from St. Joseph, [Mr. Henricks,] who was in the Chair at the time, and he says the resolution was read simply for information, and ought not to be in the journal, I insist that the resolution could not have been offered at the time the gentleman from Wabash undertook to offer it. The House was not in a condition to consider it. and therefore it could make no part of the record. It was simply read for information in order to see whether objection would be made to it.
The SPEAKER. The pending question is on the motion to dispense with the reading of the Journal.
Mr, DUNHAM. There is a prior motion. I move that the journal be corrected by striking this resolution from it. I want to say, that I regard its appearance on the jonrnal as a most disgraceful proceeding on the part of the Speaker now occupying the Chair, whose duty it is to see that the journal is correct. I undertake to say - and the Speaker will not pretend to deny it - that matter which is read simply for information is not before the House, and, if not received, cannot go upon the journal. The resolution was read for information, simply to see whether it should be permitted to come before the House. The House did not permit it: and the record is an outrage upon everything right and decent in parliamentary action.
Mr. NEWCOMB. Sir, I have sat here for two sessions and heard enough of the blackguarding abuse of that gentleman toward the Chair. Mr. Speaker, it is an outrage upon the House, that the gentleman from Floyd sets here and persists, day after day, in using such opprobrious epithets -
Mr. DUNHAM interrupting. You are a liar when you say it.
Mr. NEWCOMB. You are an infernal blackguard when you speak -
Mr. DUNHAM. Any old woman can hurl back epithets - [''Order, order," and members rising.]
The SPEAKER (using the hammer.) All gentlemen will be seated and observe order.
Mr. BROWN. I move to amend the motion to dispense with the reading of the journal, by striking out that portion which has been read by the Clerk.
The SPEAKER. It is not an amend ment. The motion will be in order, if the House should decide to dispense with the reading.
The reading of the journal of yesterday was then dispensed with.
Mr. BROWN. I now move that the journal be corrected, by striking out that portion which relates to the resolution offered by the gentleman from Wabash.
The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman indicate in writing what portion of the journal he would strike out?
Mr. BROWN The part which was read by the Clerk.
Mr. COFFROTH. I would be glad to have the reading of that portion of the record which follows immediately after the resolution.
[Here Mr. DUNHAM advanced across the House to the desk of Mr. NEWCOMB, and there were between them some words of altercation not heard at the reporter's desk, which seemed to be arrested by the interposition of the Doorkeeper.]
Mr.LOCKHART (looking towards the Doorkeeper, and the parties in altercation.) Mr. Speaker, I hope gentlemen will be called to order.
The SPEAKER. All gentlemen will be seated and keep their places. Gentlemen on the right of the Chair will be seated. Gentlemen on the left of the Chair page: 269[View Page 269] will be seated. All gentlemen will be seated and observe order, - The gentleman from St. Joseph was in the Chair, on yesterday, when the motion was made for this resolution.
Mr. COFFROTH. I think the motion of the gentleman from Jackson ought to prevail. Mr. Speaker, I sincerely deprecate any unpleasant feeling on the floor at this time. We have had throughout the session, a pleasant time. There has been nothing that has caused any unpleasant feeling with me. And I trust that we will all go from this place with good feeling towards each other - with the remembrance of nothing to injure personal relations - that we will go home in peace - acknowledging each to all. that, although we have differed in politics, we have differed honestly. But Mr. Speaker, I must say, that I think the journal here is improperly made up. I do submit, sir, that, if I, in my place, offer a resolution, not in order, that it does not go upon the journal. And if my resolution is read for information, still it does not go upon the journal. A speech or an argument is made for information, and speeches and arguments do not go upon the journal. Nothing goes upon the journal, except what is received and acted upon by the House, I may be in error, but, in my judgment this paper is not properly upon the journal. I made the motion to adjourn; and whilst I was upon the floor, I was requested to give way for a resolution by the gentleman from Wabash. I declined, but consented to give way so far as to hear the resolution read. Instead of being offered to the House for information, it was simply read for my hearing, to ascertain whether I would give way for its introduction.
The SPEAKER. The Chair begs to say, that under the Rules of the House the Speaker, is required to correct the journal, and he has at all times endeavored to make a fair journal. And the course pursued in this instance is conformable to usage here. For example: last Monday, the gentleman from Monroe took the floor and moved for leave to submit a resolution to authorize the reference of a large number of bills to a special committee, and the journal shows the facts in this order.
Mr. COFFROTH. But, in this instance, I gave the floor to hear the resolution, but declined to give way for its introduction.
The SPEAKER. The question must finally resolve itself into one fact: Whether the gentleman from Huntington, by waiving the motion to adjourn, did not also waive his right to the floor: and the Chair thinks there can by no doubt of that. The next question is whether the gentleman from Wabash asked the gentleman from Huntington to give way, and whether he did give way : and there certainly can be no doubt of that. The motion to adjourn was lost by waiver; and the gentleman from Wabash then offered the resolution. And then the House adjourned. The purpose of the journal is to tell the truth about what is done by the body.
Mr. HENRICKS, I desire to say, that I do not understand that the resolution went upon the journal by the motion to enable the gentleman to introduce the resolution.
Mr. COFFROTH. A call of the House was demanded, and, thereupon, the question on the motion to adjourn was taken by a division of the House and that division showed no quorum present. A call of the House was then ordered by the Chair and the clerk still reporting No quorum present, no motion could be made.
The SPEAKER. The proposition was introduced before the call of the House.
Mr. COFFROTH. The vote on the motion to adjourn discovered no quorum present when, of course, no business could be done: and, as it was the duty of the Chair to do so, a call of the House was ordered.
The SPEAKER. The Chair begs to say again, that the gentleman from Wabash was upon the floor when the motion to adjourn was made; and that being waived, he took the floor and offered the resolution: he insisted on maintaining the floor, and did maintain it for that purpose. Then, afterwards, the occupant of the Chair, seeing there was no quorum present, ordered a Call of the House.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EXECUTIVE.
[A message was now received from the Acting Governor, announcing that he had approved and signed Enrolled bills of the House of Representatives, numbered 187, 328, &c., and that the Enrolled Act No. 158, for the appraisement and taxation of Railroad Property will become a law without his signature, &c.]
Mr. BRANHAM asked for unanimous consent to enable him to submit a motion for the appointment on the part of the House of a Joint Committee to wait upon the Acting Governor, and ask him if he has any further communication to make to this General Assembly.
No objection being made, he moved to take up the message from the Senate in that matter.
The SPEAKER. No motion is in order whilst a question is before the House.
On the motion of Mr. BROWN, the pending business was postponed for Mr. Branham's motion by unanimous consent.
Mr. Branham's motion was then agreed to, and the Senate resolution for the formal Joint Committee to wait on the Governor was taken up and concurred in. And the SPEAKER appointed Messrs. Branham, Brown and Lockhart said committee on the part of the House of Representatives.
page: 270[View Page 270]CORRECTION OP THE JOURNAL.
Mr. BROWN now submitted, in writing, his motion "To strike from the journal of yesterday all that part which makes reference to the resolution which the gentleman from Wabash attempted; to offer to the House, which resolution relates to the authority and propriety of this State taxing stock owned in National Banks in the State of Indiana, beginning with; the words 'Mr. Pettit,' &c., and ending with these words : 'The Speaker ordered a Call of the House.'"
Mr. COFFROTH. With the indulgence of the House, in relation to this matter of the correction of the journal, I wish to make this statement: The journal shows that the gentleman from Floyd, myself and others objected to the resolution. Our objection was simply to the consideration at the time - as it was adjourning time. I stated at the time, that we would have no objection to the consideration in the morning. The objection was not because we were either in favor of the resolution or opposed to it; but simply because there was not time to consider it. This was the scope of our objection; because, at the time, I was not fully advised of the character, of the resolution: and there was not time then to consider it fully and examine it carefully. Therefore I would have the adjournment, that the gentleman might have a fair opportunity to offer this resolution, and we to examine it.
Mr. BUSKIRK. I desire to suggest, in reference to the matter now pending, that the resolution is not properly on the journal, for the reason that it was not read at the Clerk's desk, After objection was made, the gentleman from Wabash asked leave to read his Resolution, for information: and he readmit: and it was not afterwards read by the Clerk at the desk. For that reason, my judgment is, that the resolution is not properly on the journal. I do not yet know what the resolution is. I could not gather its import feom the reading. I think it very likely I should be in favor of it.
Mr. Brown's motion to amend the journal was again read by the Clerk.
Mr. COFFROTH and Mr. BURWELL demanded the yeas and nays on the motion, and they were ordered and being taken resulted - yeas 27, nays 37 - as follows:
YEAS - Messrs. Abbett, Bird, Brown, Burton, Burwell, Buskirk, Coffroth, Collins, Croan, Dunham, Glazebrook, Gregg, Hargrove, Humphreys, Hunt, Lasselle, Lemon, Lopp, Milroy, Osborn, Pinney, Roach, Shoaff ofJay, Stuckey, Veach and White.- 27.
NAYS - Messrs. Atkinson, Branham, Burnes, Church, Cowgill, Cox, Crook, Davidson, Ferris, Foulke, Gleason, Gregory of Montgomery, Hamrick, Henricks, Higgins, Hogate, James, Kilgore, Litson, Lockhart, Miller, Montgomery, McVey, Newcomb, Prather, Rhoads, Rice, Riford, Shuey, Sim, Stringer, Trusler, Upson, Welch, Wright, Woods and Mr. Speaker - 37.
No quorum voting. But, upon the Call of the House ensuing, the Clerk reported 67 members present and answering.
The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion of the gentleman from Jackson to correct the Journal.
BREVIER REPORTS - JOURNALS - ACTS.
Mr. HAMRICK, Will it be in order to offer a resolution authorizing the Printer to Bind and Distribute the Acts and Journals?
The SPEAKER. It cannot be done without unanimous consent.
There being no objection -
Mr. HAMRICK submitted the following, which was adopted:
RESOLVED, That the State Printer be authorized to Bind and Send to each Member of the House, and the Officers, Clerks and Reporters thereof, three copies of the Legislative Brevier Reports; also, two copies each of the Senate and House Journals, and two copies of the Acts of the present session, all to be bound in full law.
GETTYSBURG CEMETERY APPROPRIATION.
Mr. BUSKIRK. I rise to a question of privilege. I am just informed that the Specific bill does not contain the appropriation of the balance of the amount assessed against the State for the Gettysburg Cemetery. I think, there can be no question of the fact that we have passed that appropriation. There has probably been a mistake in the enrollment ef the bill.
Mr. RHOADS. On examining the bill I find nothing of the kind, either in the original bill or in the amendments. The paper must have been lost before it came into the hands of the Enrolling Clerk.
Mr. BUSKIRK. I do not charge the Enrolling Clerk with any fault.
Mr. DUNHAM. Mr. Speaker -
The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Monroe has the floor.
Mr. BUSKIRK, I yield to the gentleman.
Mr.DUNHAM. I want to bear testimony to the fact that the appropriation was passed. I voted for it.
Mr. BUSKIRK. The gentleman, I think, states the fact correctly. The appropriation has been made. I suppose that there ought to be a re-enrollmant of the bill.
Mr. PRATHER. I think it will be found that it is contained in the Specific bill.
Mr. NEWCOMB, The amendment was offered by myself, in writing, and sent to the Clerk at the time the Specific bill was being read. I offered it as an amended section, and it was adopted.
Mr. BRANHAM. When the question came before the Committee, we were informed that the House had passed a bill making the appropriation, and so it was left. But alter the Specific bill came back from the Senate, the gentleman from Marion made the motion and it was put in.
page: 271[View Page 271]Mr. MILLER. I move that the Clerk be instructed to correct the bill, if the bill has not been signed and returned.
Mr. HENRICKS. The bill has been signed and returned.
Mr. NEWCOMB. I suppose the motion of the gentleman from Monroe to have a re-enrollment of the bill - is the proper course to pursue.
Mr. BUSKIRK. I would suggest to the Chair, that the motion I made be informally passed over, for a communication from the Governor.
A message was now received from the Acting Governor, asking for the withdrawal of the message of this day, communicating his approval and signature of the bill of the House, numbered 187, and other bills - a mistake having occurred in said message.
By unanimous consent, the message was ordered to be returned accordingly.
On motion of Mr. BUSKIRK, (by unanimous consent,) the House took up the Gettysburg bill, [H. R. No. 187,] and it was ordered to be re-enrolled including the Section appropriating $3,467 83, to pay the balance of the amouut assessed against the State of Indiana, on account of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Mr. PRATHER. If there is nothing before the House I would like to make a report from the Committee on Federal Relations.
The SPEAKER. The House is on a division upon the motion of the gentleman from Jackson to amend the Journal.
Whereupon the second vote was taken, resulting - Yeas 24, Nays 40 - as follows:
YEAS - Messrs. Abbett, Brown, Burton, Burwell, Buskirk, Coffroth, Collins, Croan, Dunham, Glazebrook, Gregg, Humphreys, Hunt, Lasselle, Lemon, Lopp, Milroy, Osborn, Pinney, Roach, Shoaf, of Jay, Stuckey, Veach and White - 24,
NAYS - Messrs. Atkinson, Branham, Burnes, Church, Cowgill, Cox, Crook, Davidson, Ferris, Foulke, Gleason, Gregory of Montgomery, Hamrick, Henricks, Higgins, Hogate, Kilgore, Litson, Lockhart, Miller, Montgomery, McVey, Newcomb, Olleman, Prather, Reese, Rhoads, Rice, Riford, Sabin, Sim, Stivers, Stringer, Trusler, Upson, Welch, Wright, Woods, Zeigler and Mr. Speaker - 40.
No quorum voting.
Mr.PRATHER. I move for unanimous consent to make a report.
Mr. COFFROTH. I object.
EZEKIEL GREEN.
Mr. HENRICKS. The Mouse would remember that be had presented here the papers in the matter of the claim of Ezekiel Green, Treasurer of St. Joseph county, which were laid on the table. He asked and obtained unanimous consent to withdraw those papers.
THE DOG LAW.
Mr. BUSKIRK. I trust that the gentleman from Wayne, [Mr. Foulke,] will be permitted to submit his report from, the Committee on Corporations. I have a minority report in the same matter.
There being no objection -
Mr. FOULKE, from a majority of the Committee on Corporations, returned the bill [H. R. No. 250] to repeal an aet, approved March 2, 1865, to discourage the keeping of useless dogs providing penalties, etc., etc.; with a recommendation that the same be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. BUSKIRK, on behalf of the minority of said Committee, obtained unanimous consent to submit the following:
Mr. Speaker - The undersigned, minority of the Committee on Corporations, to whom was referred House bill No. 250, "An act to repeal an act, approved March 2,1865, to discourage the keeping of useless dogs and providing penalties for the violation of said act, and repealing an act to license dogs, approved March 11, 1861, and providing that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to conflict with an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep, approved June 15,lS52," being unable to concur with the recommendation of the majority of the Committee, that said bill do lie upon the table, desire to to submit the following minority report:
The minority of your committee are satisfied that under the act of March 2, 1865, none but useless and sheep-killing dogs can be taxed, although a different constimction has been placed on the said act. The minority of your committee cannot perceive upon what principle the owners of good dogs can be taxed, because some other person may own useless and sheep-killing dogs. The tax, though small, is not regarded by many of our best farmers with favor and many persons engaged in sheep raising assert that if the dogs, and especially the hounds, are killed off, the foxes will kill more sheep than the dogs. The minority of your committee concede that useless and sheep-killing dogs should be killed without any liability against the person killing them, and that the owners of such dogs should be held liable for all damages done by such dogs. The minority of your committee believe that hounds should be preserved to protect sheep, pigs and poultry from foxes and other animals; that when thieves and robbers are committing their depredations all over the State, that the faithful watch dog should not be taxed or killed off; that when every house and barn in the State are infested with rats, that the rat-terriers should not be taxed or killed. The minority of your committee believe that this act should be repealed.
SAM. H. BUSKIRK, HENRY L. ROACH.
Mr. BROWN. Mr. Speaker, I would inquire of the gentleman from Monroe, whether the principle of his report applies to the Old Dog Tray?
Mr. BUSKIRK. He has been dead for a long time.
Mr. BURWELL. It is the most Dogmatical report I ever heard.
Mr. KILGORE. I am opposed to repealing the Dog Law, for it was upon its merits that we carried the State. [Laughter.]
The reports lie upon the table under the rule, and they were ordered to be spread, upon the Journal.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Mr. COFFROTH. Mr. Speaker, I desire to withdraw my objection to the report which the gentleman from Jennings wishes to make from the Committee on Federal Relations. I understand that it is page: 272[View Page 272] a report for hanging Jeff. Davis on a Sour Apple Tree.
There being no objection -
Mr. PRATHER reported from the Committee on Federal Relations, to which was referred two memorials numerously signed by citizens of the State of Indiana, and the memorial of Loyal Young Men of the town of Vernon, in Jennings county, protesting against the pardon of Jefferson Davis; also the concurrent resolution on the same subject introduced by Mr. Groves, That said Committee having had the said memorials and resolution under consideration, a majority of them report, That ths late rebellion in the interests of Slavery has already been pronounced by the civilized world to be a crime against humanity, and the criminality of that attempt to over throw this Government is only excelled by the brutality with which it was prosecuted. The rebellion has been overthrown, and the power and authority of the Government of the United States has been re-instated and established, and it only remains to be decided whether its authors, the individuals guilty of those political excentricities - the blackest crimes that ever disgraced civilization - shall go unwhipt of justice. The interests of free government demand that the authors of so great a crime slaall not escape. The Constitution of the United States defines treason to be the act of levying war against the United States, and can any man doubt that Jettersen Davis and his associates did levy war against the United States? Then the propriety of their trial for treason is unquestionable, unless we subscribe to the tlocirine, That one murder makes the felon whilst a thousand makes the hero. - The report reasons at some length in this strain, to the conclusion, That the trial of these men is a moral and political necessity; and that when the penalty of the law shall fall on the guilty, then, and then only, will the law be vindicated. Whereupon, a majority of tho Committee return to the House without amendment, and respectfully recommend the adoption of the following concurrent resolution, submitted by Mr. Groves on the 15th day of November, 1865:
Resolved, by the House of Representatives, (the Senate concurring,) That in the opinion of this General Assembly, Jefferson Davis, the leader of the late rebellion in the Southern States, ought to be tried for high treason, and, if convicted, punished according to the requirements of the law.
Mr. PRATHER. All I ask is the yeas and nays on the adoption of the resolution.
Mr. COFFROTH. I offer the following additional resolution:
And be it further Resolved, That the said Jefferson Davis, who is hereby declared guilty, shall be hanged upon a "Sour Apple Tree;" and that during the said evangelical performance, Chaplain Lozier chall sing the "Glory Hallelujah" hymn, and William Lloyd Garrison shall pronounce the benediction as follows: "The Constitution of the United Statesa league with Hell, and a covenant with Death;" to which Wendall Phillips shall respond, "So mote it be - I have labored nineteen years to break up this accursed Union, and now, thank God it is broken."
Resolved further, That Salmon P. Chase, Henry Ward Beecher and Beast Butler are hereby appointed hangmen.
Mr. PRATHER. I move to amend further by adding:
"And that the gentleman from Huntington be Chief Mourner."
Mr. NEWCOMB. Mr. Speaker, the paper by the gentleman from Huntington was read for information.
The SPEAKER. The Chair understands it so.
Mr. NBWCOMB. Then I object.
Mr. COFFROTH. I am a member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and have a right to offer it as a minority report, since it is not competent for me to offer it as an amendment.
The SPEAKER. Certainly. We are acting under a division of the House, and nothing can be done under this order, but to receive the report from the Committee on Federal Relations. The pending question is on the application of the gentleman from Huntington.
Mr. DUNHAM. Mr. Speaker, I have a proposition to make.
The SPEAKER answered with the hammer.
Mr. COFFROTH. I submit it, then, in behalf of the minority of the Committee on Federal Relations.
Mr. NEWCOMB. I made the objection, not out of mere courteous retaliation, but, because I never indorsed the doctrine of Garrison. I do not want it to go on the journal.
The SPEAKER. It comes in as a minority report.
Mr. BROWN. I propose to amend the resolution reported back and recommended by the majority of the Committee, by inserting after the word "Davis," these :"Horace Greely, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Weudall Phillips, Salmon P. Chase, Beast Butler, Gerrett Smith, Union Slide Banks. Priest Cheever and George W, Julian."
Mr. OLLEMAN. Believing that we have not time to give to this subject the deliberation which its importance demands, I move to lay it on the table.
The SPEAKER. There is a division of the House pending, and a special order to hear this report. The Chair cannot entertain the motion.
COURTESY TO THE CLERKS.
Mr. BUSKIRK, (by unanimous consent.) submitted a resolution of thanks to David W. Krutts, Reading Clerk, for the ability, efficiency and fidelity with which he he discharged the duties of his position.
Mr. DUNHAM. Is that the man that read with pudding in his mouth? I move to add these: "Cyrus T. Nixon, Principal page: 273[View Page 273] Clerk. Robert O. Dormer, Assistant Clerk, and" -
The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks that the language of the gentleman from Floyd is not decorous towards an officer of the House.
Mr. DUNHAM. Then I will say the man that reads in so rapid and confused a manner that no member of the House can understand him. I desire to say that I meant nothing disrespectful to the Clerk, by the remark which the Chair notices. It was intended as a jest: and I hope that the remark of the Chair will not put it as an earnest reflection upon that officer.
The SPEAKER. The Chair begs pardon, - but the remark was repeated on the floor.
Mr. BUSKIRK accepted the modification : so that the resolution, as it was adopted, read as follows:
Resolved, That the thanks of this House are due and are hereby tendered to Cyrus T. Nixon, Principal Clerk; Robert O. Dormer, Assisstant Clerk; and David W. Krutts, Reading Clerk, for the ability, efficiency and fidelity with which they have discharged their official duties.
INDIANA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Mr. FOULKE, from a minority of the Select Committee on Mr. Buskirk's Agricultural College bill, [H. R. No. 6,] reported that the undersigned do not concur in the report of the Chairman of said committee, in so far as it located said College at Bloomington. Signed, D. C. Branham, W. W. Foulke, N. Gleason.
Mr. BUSKIRK. The question of location was not in the majority report.
The SPEAKER. The Chair has not attempted to indicate to any committee what was submitted to them.
Mr. BUSKIRK. The matter was under stood by the Chair when the gentleman from Monroe was put upon the Committee.
The SPEAKER. The Chair did not intend to qualify at all on the subject.
Mr. BOYD. The House did not understand that this Select Committee had any power over the subject of location.
The SPEAKER. The Chair does not decide anything upon that subject. Until this report came in, the Chair did not know that the majority had not reported on the subject.
The report lies on the table.
Mr. BURWELL asked for unanimous consent to introduce a resolution.
Mr. MILLER objected.
Mr. BURWELL. I move that this House do now adjourn sine die.
Mr. NEWCOMB. A concurrent resolution for the adjournment will soon come in from the Senate.
Mr. BRANHAM. I hope that will not he done. We are waiting for Governor Baker to sign a bill.
Mr. BURWELL withdrew the motion.
CLOSING BUSINESS.
A message from the Senate now communicated the formal concurrent resolution for the adjournment of the session.
Sundry closing notices were informally announced by Messrs. Newcomb, Busklrk and Lockhart, for the proprietors of the Journal and Herald newspapers, and the furnishment of a pamphlet edition of the revised speeches of Mr. Newcomb and Mr. Petitt on the State debt at the Journal office.
Mr. BROWN. Free of charge?
Mr. LOCKHART. If you can get them to think so.
Mr. NEWCOMB asked and obtained leave to submit a majority report from the Committee on Federal Relations, which was received without reading, ordered to be laid on the table and spread upon the journal.
He also obtained leave to return to the clerk's files sundry papers belonging to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. SHUEY and Mr. HIGGINS also obtained leave to return papers.
On the motion of Mr. BROWN, (by unanimous consent,) it was ordered, that Chairmen of all committees of the House, Standing and Select, have the privilege of returning papers to files.
A message from the Acting Governor announced his approval and signature of bills of the House, numbered 187, (State debt,) 328, (Specific Appropriations,) 158, (Railroad Valuation, not having been returned within three days after submission to the Executive by the Enrolling Committee, it became a law without the approval and signature of the Governor,) 329, (General Appropriation bill, etc.
Mr. BRANHAM submitted the following, which goes into the journal:
Mr. Speaker, The Committee appointed on the part of this House to act in conjunction with a like committee appointed ou the part of the Senate, to wait on his Excellency Governor Baker and ascertain whether he had any further communication to make to this House, beg leare to report that they have waited on his Excellency and he has directed us to inform this House that he has no further communication to make.
D. C. BBAKHAM, JASON B. BROWN, B. M. LOCKHART.
Mr. HAMRICK. I presume we are now ready to adjourn, and I want a call of the House to show how many are in attendance and remain faithfull to the last.
The SPEAKER. We are still on a division of the House, and nothing can be received without unanimous consent.
On motion of Mr. NEWCOMB, (unanimous consent having been obtained for the purpose,) the last message from the Senate was taken up, which communicates the following as having passed that branch of the General assembly;
Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) That this General Assembly do now adjourn sine die.
page: 274[View Page 274]The resolution was concurred in.
Mr. OSBORN. Mr. Speaker, I move that this House do now adjourn sine die.
The SPEAKER. Gentlemen of the Home of Representatives: The effect of the concurrent resolution just agreed upon, is to end the present session of the General Assembly.
Before announcing the result it is proper I should ask your indulgence while I repeat my thanks for your kind, considerate and uniform support in presiding over your deliberations.
What has been done - and it is much - is now committed to the consideration of those we represent, and with an honest confidence it will be approved.
In seperating for the last time from this place of public service we shall bear away much respect and affection for each other, formed here; and I say it myself, that while many will be remembered in love, there will beand there is no mental reservation in this - malice for none.
I commend you all to the welcome and embraces of your homes and friends and families.
And so the House of Representatives of the XLIVth General Assembly of the State of Indiana, in the close of the second session thereof, adjourned.
