RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. KINLEY offered a resolution that the Committee on Prisons be authorized to appoint a sub-committee, of their own number, to examine the condition and management of the State Prison South, with power to send for persons and papers. He said the committee had examined the affairs of the prison just enough to think there was something wrong, and they desired power to appoint this sub-committee.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. HOUGHTON offered a joint resolution [S. 12] instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress, to endeavor to secure the passage of an act for the relief of Mary Burroughs, widow of Charles Burroughs, late a private of Company B, Eighteenth regiment Indiana Militia. He stated that the young man was blown up on the Sultana, and was a laborer in the service of the United States. All proofs necessary to procure his back pay, have been acknowledged, except the Quartermaster's receipt. The Quartermaster's orders cannot be found though some fifty letters have been written in vain to ascertain his whereabouts. The young man's mother is a blind widow and very poor; and it is an act of justice that this pittance should be paid by the government.
The joint resolution was passed the Senate by yeas 39, nays 2.
Mr.JOHNSTON of Montgomery, explained his vote against the resolution, as being a bad precedent, and opening a floodgate which never could be shut again.
