RAILROAD EXTORTIONS.
Mr. Butterworth submitted a joint resolution for instruction to Indiana Congressmen to use their best endeavors for such legislation in Congress as may compel railroad companies to equalize their charges for way freight and their charges for freight ever the entire length of their lines. It was adopted on the part of the House of Representatives. Yeas, 72; nays, 12.
Mr. Riggs presented a petition of a thousand citizens of Vanderburgh county, praying for such temperance legislation as they have in Ohio and Illinois.
The House then took a recess till two o'clock. P. M.