REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. WYNN returned the Senate joint resolution in relation to the improvement of the Ohio and Wabash rivers, recommending it be indefinitely postponed.
The report was concurred in.
Mr. LENFESTY returned Mr. Kimball's bill [H. R. 6] creating the Indiana Centenial Association, with amendmnts as to the membership and officers, recommending its passage.
The amendments were adopted, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. REEVES, from the Committee on Roads and Highways, returned Mr. Glasgow's bill [H. R. 79] to amend the supervisors' act of March 1865, recommending its indefinite postponement.
The report was concurred in.
Mr, REEVES, from the Committee on Roads, returned Mr. Ellsworth's supervisors' act amendment bill [H. R. 59] recommending its passage.
It was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. WOLFLEN, from the Committee on Statistics and Emigration, reported back Mr. Lenfesty's bill 88, to provide for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, with sundry amendments.
The amendments were adopted, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. GREGORY, from the special committee thereon, returned his bill [H. R. 134] to provide the times of holding Circuit Court, and the length of the terms thereof, in the counties comprising the Twelfth Sudicial Circuit, recommending its passage.
It was finally passed--yeas 89, nays 0.
Mr. MELLETT, from the Committee on Education, returned Mr. Walker's bill [H. R. 155] to provide a general system for common schools of cities, and recommending its passage.
It was ordered to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr. BRANHAM the House proceeded to the consideration of the orders of the day--business on the Speaker's table.
