NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Bills for acts were introduced, read the first time and severally passed to the second reading, as follows, except in the case named:
By Mr. DWIGGINS, a bill [S. 58] for an act to repeal an act of June 18, 1852. to enforce the 13th article of the Constitution of Indiana. [The last section declares that whereas the above act is a disgrace to the State, an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act.]
By Mr. HAWORTH, a bill [S. 59] for an act to amend section 16 of the county and township railroad aid act of May 12, 1869. [The amendment provides that no such subscriptions or donations shall be made or be valid until the railroad shall have been permanently located, the track laid and one train shall have passed over it.]
By Mr. ORR, a bill [8. 60] for an act regulating interest on all judgments or decrees, and repealing all conflicting acts. [Interest on judgments and decrees to be from date of judgment, at the rate mentioned in the original contract, not exceeding ten per cent., and if no rate be agreed on, then at six per cent.]
By Mr. THOMPSON, a bill [S. 61] for an act to protect society against dangerous consequences resulting from the pardoning of persons convicted of felony, on the plea of insanity; to protect society against the danger ensuing from setting at liberty persons who may have been acquitted of murder, manslaughter, robbery, arson, rape, burglary, or larceny, upon the ground of insanity. [The bill provides that, whenever any person shall be prosecuted for any murder, manslaughter, robbery, arson, rape, larceny, burglary, assault, or assault and battery with intent to commit any felony, or any other felony, and the plea of insanity shall be set up in defense, it shall be the duty of the court or jury trying the defendant to find specifically whether such defendant was or was not insane when the alleged offense was committed, and whether such insanity was impulsive, homicidal or moral, or not, and in case the court or jury shall find the defendant to have been insane when the offerise was committed, he or she shall be found not guilty thereof. Any person acquitted in any of the cases heretofore mentioned, shall be committed to some secure and strong ward of the hospital for the insane for the term of two years, and as much longer as may be necessary to complete the cure of such defendant, but such defendant shall be kept wholly separate and apart from all other patients in such hospital. It is expressly provided, further, that when any such person shall be acquitted of any charge of murder, manslaughter, robbery, or rape, by reason of the impulsive, homicidal or moral insanity of such person, then such person, upon his or her acquittal, shall be securely confined in such strong ward in said hospital for the insane during his or her natural life.
By Mr. DAUGHERTY, a bill [S, 62] for an act to amend the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th sections of the act of February 12, 1851, incorporating the town of Bluffton, in Wells county, Indiana, and also to repeal section 11 of said act.
By Mr. SARNIGHAUSEN, a bill [S. 63] for an act in relation to promissory notes, bank notes and bills of exchange, and to designate holidays to be observed in the payment of the same.
By Mr. HAWORTH, a bill [S. 64] for an act for the collection and publication of statistics. [The Secretary of State to collect information and prepare tables of statistics, concerning agriculture, mining, manufacture, education, crime, public taxes and expenditures, corporation, and vital and social statistics, and make reports to the Governor on or before December 1 in each year, and providing that all proper officers shall aid the Secretary in the collection of the statistics.]
By Mr. THOMPSON., a bill [S. 65] for an page: 91[View Page 91]act granting the consent of the State of Indiana for the purchase by the United States of certain lands in the city of Indianapolis not exceeding one acre, for the purpose of building thereon a public building for a P. O. and other public purposes, and ceding jurisdiction over the same.On motion of Mr. THOMPSON the consitutional restriction was dispensed with--yeas 39, nays 0--and the bill was read the second time and passed to the third reading.
By Mr. SLEETH, a bill [S. 66] for an act to empower the Board of Trustees of incorporaed towns to regulate the licensing and the sale of intoxicating liquors and the keeping of billiard tables within their limits. [To empower Boards of Trustees of incorporated towns to levy and collect a license fee not exceeding double the amount required for a State license of each person selling intoxicating liquors, and not more than $25 for each billiard table kept for rent or hire.]
Mr. GOODING, a bill [S. 67] for an act to amend section 29 of the Justices' Act of June 9, 1852. [To amend the act relating to Justices of the Peace, so as to provide that no change of venue shall be allowed unless the applicant shall pay, or secure the payment of, all costs occasioned by the change.]
By Mr. RHODES, a bill [S. 68] for an act to amend the second section of the act creating the Twenty-third Common Pleas District.
By Mr. SARNIGHAUSEN, a bill [S. 69] for an act to authorize and empower incorporated cities owning real estate to sell and convey such real estate as the Common Councils of such cities may deem expedient.
At this time a large number of leaves of absence were obtained.
On motion by Mr. SLEETH, the vote adopting a resolution of this morning, directing the Secretary of the the Senate to ascertain what evangelical ministers would attend and open the daily sessions of the Senate with prayer, was reconsidered, and after being amended so as to strike out the word "evangelical," was again adopted.
The Senate then adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow.
