REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. EDWARDS of Lawrence, from the Committee on Organization of Courts, returned Mr. Offutt's bill [H. R. 104] to amend the seventy-eighth section of the practice act of June 17, 1852, (with reference to change of venue), recommending its passage.
It was ordered to the engrossment.
Mr. CLAYPOOL returned Mr. Wilson of Ripley's bill [H. R. 118], making parties competent witnesses in cases of assignments of contracts to decedents, recommending its passage.
It was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. HEDRICK, from the Committee on Rights and Privileges, returned Mr, Satterwhite's bill [H. R. 101], to protect the citizens of the State from empyricism in the medical profession, with an amendment striking out the third section, which was concurred in, and, as so amended, the bill was ordered to the engrossment.
Mr. PFRIMMER returned Mr. Clarke's bill [H. R. 106] to amend the fish law, recommending its indefinite postponement.
The report was concurred in.
Mr. CLARK returned Mr. Hedrick's bill [H. R. 107] to amend section one of the fish law of February 22, 1871, [it prohibits fishing in March, April, May, November and December, excepting the Ohio river], recommending its passage.
It was ordered to the engrossment.
Mr. HEDRICK returned the bill to authorize persons desirous of erecting a flouring mill on their own land, to make a race below, etc., approved March 1, 1853, recommending its passage.
It was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. BRANHAM, from the Committee on Railroads, returned his bill [H. R. 70] to enable counties bordering on State lines to aid in the construction of railroads opposite, etc., recommending its passage. He said that a railroad (the Cumberland and Ohio RR.) is now being constructed through the States of Tennessee and Kentucky, and they are willing to make the city of Madison a terminus upon that city furnishing the aid which this bill authorizes. It is likely to affect no other county in the State but ours (the county of Jefferson) and will greatly benefit usmaking us a hundred miles nearer to the markets of the South.
The bill was ordered to the engrossment.
Mr. REEVES, from the Committee on Roads, returned Mr. Billingsley's Road bill. [H. R. 97] recommending its indefinite postponement.
It was concurred in.
Mr. KIMBALL submitted the following, which was adopted by unanimous consent
RESOLVED, That the Committee on Ways and Means be instructed to embrace in the specific appropriation bill the sum of $445 to defray the expenses of the funeral of the late Norman Eddy.
page: 143[View Page 143]Mr. BAKER, submitted sundry claims, which were referred without reading.
The SPEAKER proceeded to call the House by counties and districts for
