THE BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS.
TENTH VOLUME.
INDIANA LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, March 8, 1869.The SPEAKER resumed the Chair at half past ten o'clock a. m.
A message from the Senate by O. M. Wilson, their Secretary, announced in form, the adjournment, sine die, of that body by Constitutional limitation.
Mr. RATLIFF submitted a formal resolution of thanks to the Clerks and Doorkeeper.
Mr. COFFROTH said that the assistant journal, engrossing and enrolling clerks, and the clerks of committees, as well as the assistant doorkeepers, and, indeed, all the employes of the House, having discharged their duties well and satisfactorily, it is proper that they should all be embraced in this expression of thanks. He would therefore move the adoption of two resolutions by way of substitute for that offered by the gentleman from Grant.
Mr. RATLIFF was willing to accept the amendment.
The resolutions were adopted by unanimous consent.
Mr. RATLIFF submitted a resolution for a committee to wait upon the Governor, which was adopted by unanimous consent.
The SPEAKER appointed Messrs. Ratliff, Buskirk and Coffroth.
Mr. COFFROTH (Mr. Osborn in the Chair) now submitted the following:
RESOLVED, That Hon. A. P. Stanton, deserves the warmest thanks of this House and they are hereby tendered to him for the very able and impartial manner in which he has discharged his duties as Speaker.
It was unanimously adopted.
Mr. RATLIFF from the Committee appointed to wait on the Governor, and inquire if he has any thing further to communicate to the House of Representatives report for answer, that his Excellency has nothing further to communicate.
Mr. OSBORN now said: In view of the fact that this is the sixty-first day of this regular session, the day on which the session expires by constitutional limitation--I move that the House do now adjourn sine die.
The SPEAKER. Is there any objection to the motion?
No objection being made--
The SPEAKER adjourned the House without day in the following words:
GENTLEMEN: The final adjournment of the present term of this General Assembly approaches. Before we separate permit me to return to you, one and all, my heartfelt and sincere thanks for the kindness, courtesy and good feeling with which you have sustained me in the discharge of my important and delicate official duties. That I have made errors is true, but I believe you will justify me in the reflection that I have endeavored to discharge my duties faithfully and impartially. That there has almost invariably been the kindest of feeling and, until recently, hearty co-operation in forwarding the work of legislation, is a fact attributable alone to the good intentions and faithful purposes of those who compose this General Assembly. Memory will long cherish valued recollections of the pleasant associations of this term.
One regret I have in common with you all, that many of those who labored faithfully and cheerfully with us until near the close, are not with us to-day. Their withdrawal has prevented the consummation of much needed legislation, which, well matured, would speedily have been accomplished. In taking the step they did, I doubt not the majority, if not all of them, acted as they believe in the strict line of duty; and however much we may and do differ with them as to the wisdom and propriety of their course, still, extending to them the same prerogative which we claim ourselves, namely: that of doing what we think is right, let us not judge harshly the motives which influenced their action. If wrong, as we believe, time will soon show to them the error of their course.
And now, gentlemen, you leave this Hall for dearer associations. The kind greeting of friends at home--the loving welcome of an affectionate wife--the carresses, the fond carresses of the dear little ones that ever anxiously await a father's return; will soon make your hearts glad. May these holy associations make you happy, and preserve and guard the purity of your lives. Wishing you each and every one, a safe and speedy return to your respective homes, I pronounce this Assembly adjourned sine die. [Applause.]
