THE
BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS.
VOLUME FOURTEEN.
INDIANA
LEGISLATURE.
IN SENATE.
MONDAY, January 27, 1873 two o'clock P. M.The President (the Hon. George M. Friedley) took the Chair pursuant to adjournment, and directed the reading of the Secretary's minutes of Saturday's proceedings.
The minutes were read and approved.
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. Daggy, from the Committee on the Organization of Courts of Justice, returned Mr. Rings' bill [S. 186] for an act to abolish the Common Pleas and Criminal Courts and establish a Surrogate system, recommending its reference to the special joint committee for redistricting the State for judicial purposes.
The report was concurred in.
PAPERS OF MEMBERS.
Mr. Dittemore offered a resolution directing the doorkeeper to take charge of and safely keep papers belonging to members during their temporary absence.
Mr. D. made complaint in this regard, and stated that it was not the first time his papers had been missing, he understood it was a system of selling waste papers.
Mr. Carnahan and Mr. Gooding thought there was no necessity for the resolution, and that a simple request to the doorkeeper would serve every purpose desired by the author of the resolution.
Mr. Thompson was of the opinion that the resolution was imposing a duty upon the doorkeeper that would be hard for him to perform.
Mr. Dittemore demanded a call of the Senate.
The Secretary was proceeding with the call, when -
Mr. Harney moved that further proceedings under the call be dispensed with.
Mr. Dittemore and Mr. Dougherty demanded the yeas and nays.
The President declared it was not in order.
The motion to dispense with further proceedings under the call was agreed to.
The resolution was rejected.
NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Mr. Cave introduced a bill [S. 251] for an act in relation to donations by individuals to aid in the construction of any railroads. [When no time is fixed for the completion of railroads, unless they are completed in three years the donors shall be relieved from liability.]
Mr. Daggy introduced a bill [S. 252] for an act to amend section thirty-one of the act of June 17, 1852, for the organization of county boards and prescribing some of their powers and duties. [From decision of commissioners an appeal shall be allowed to the counts by any person aggrieved by such decision,]
Mr. Thompson introduced a bill [S. 253] for an act to prevent libellous publications,prescribing a penalty therefor. It declares: Section 1. that any injury falsely or maliciously done to the good name of any person, otherwise than by words orally spoken, is a libel. Section 2. Every person who wilfully, falsely, and maliciously, to injure another, publishes a libel, is guilty of a felony. [Fine not less than $100 nor more than $5,000; or imprisonment for not less than one year ner more than five years, or both, to which may be added disfranchisement for any determinite period.] Section 5. To sustain the charge of publishing a libel it is not needful that the words, picture, caricature, or points complained of should have been read by any person. It is enough that the accused, knowingly parted with the immediate custody of the libel under circumstances which exposed it to be read by any other person than himself.
Mr. Hall introduced a bid [S. 256] for an act to amend section 60 of the city incorporation act of March 14, 1867. [Cities may borrow money to subscribe stock in, or make donations to, any road or bridge company, where the road or bridge terminates, or the road terminates or runs through the city, on a vote of a majority of freeholders.]
Mr. Fuller introduced a bill [S. 255] for an act to prevent the owners of hogs having the cholera permitting them to run at large. (Punishment, a fine not more than fifty dollars nor less than ten dollars.)
These bills were read the first time, and severally passed to the second reading.
A CLAIM.
Mr. Thompson presented a bill from Murphy, Johnson & Co., for goods used in decorating the page: 84[View Page 84] Senate Chamber last session in memory of Mr. Burson.
It was referred to the Committee on Claims.
THE CALENDAR - HOUSE BILLS.
The bill [H. R. 225] to amend section 2 of the act for the protection of wild birds, approved March 11, 1867, and also providing for the protection of certain birds therein named, and the protection of their eggs, and prescribing a penalty, was read the first time and passed to the second reading.
he bill [H. R. 213] defining cruelty to animals, declaring it a misdemeanor, and fixing a penalty thereto, was read the first time. (Fine not exceeding $100.)
The bill [H. R. 307] for the relief of Emsley Winslow, declaring a certain tract of land to be vested in the said Winslow, was read the first time.
The bill [H. R. 299] to allow a bounty for fox scalps was read the first time. [A bounty of $1 25, and County Boards may give a larger sum, not to exceed $2 50.]
The above bills were severally passed to the second reading.
Mr. Orr's bill [H. 204] to repeal the plank, gravel and McAdam, road assessment act of May 14,1869, and also authorizing companies who have organized and commenced work under provisions of the above act to perfect their assessments, and declaring an emergency, was read the second time and passed over informally.
Mr. Dittemore, in view of the fact that there were very few Senators present, moved an adjournment.
The motion was agreed to.
And so the Senate adjourned till to-morrow at ten o'clock A. M.
