REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. Givan, from the Committee on Education, returned Mr. Martin's bill [H. R. 285] for an act to encourage the organization and perpetuation of reading, lecture and library associations by workingmen, recommending that it lie on the table, which was concurred in. He also returned Mr. Hedrick's bill [H. R. 305] to amend section 12 of the act for the establishment of libraries, approved February 16, 1852, recommending its passags. It was ordered to the engrossment.
Mr. Hedrick, from the Committee on Rights and Privileges, returned Mr. Furnas' bill [H. R. 43] prohibiting plank, MacAdam and gravel road companies from charging toll for going to church and Sunday school on Sunday, recommending its indefinite postponement, which was concurred in.
Mr. Furnas, from the Committee on Agriculture, returned certain resolutions of the State Board of Agriculture, recommending that the same be read to the House, and they were accordingly read by the clerk, showing, first, their approval of the act into which Mr. Furnas' hunting and shooting bill was enacted; and secondly, their desire of the passage of a law to prohibit all foreign and domestic animals from roaming at large, and making their owners responsible for the damage they do.
Mr. Jones, from the Committee on Rights and Privileges, returned, without recommendation, the bill to provide a site, a plan, and a system of government for an inebriate asylum.
On motion of Mr. Hatch, it was laid on the table.
Mr. King, from the Committee on Benevolent Institutions, returned Mr. Tingley's bill [H. R. 103] to amend sections one, seven and eight of the act to establish the Soldiers' and Seamen's Home, recommending that it be laid on the table. The report was concurred in.
Mr. Mellett, from the Committee on Education, returned Mr. Peed's bill [H. R. 244] to amend section ten of the common school law of 1865, with amendments, which were adopted, and the bill was ordered to the engrossment.
Mr. Cauthorn, from the Committee on Temperance, returned Mr, Feed's bill [H. R. 100] to prohibit persons under the age of twenty-one from buying spirituous, malt or other intoxicating liquors, recommending that it be laid on the table.
Mr. Peed and Mr. Shirley resisted the report.
Mr. Furnas said: The bill was a good one, and it had favor with the Committee on Temperance; but, seeing that the bill which they recommended for passage has broader features and covers almost the whole ground of this bill, they preferred that this bill be laid on the table, so that if the other bill fails this one may be taken up. The report was concurred in.
Mr. C. also returned Mr. Offutt's bill [H. R. 68] to amend the seventh clause of section 22 of the act of June 11, 1867, for the incorporations of towns, etc.. with amendmnnts striking words from the first section, etc., recommending its passage.
Mr. Cauthorn said the law which this bill proposes to amend was passed several years ago, and has been declared to be unconstitutional in one of its clauses. And this bill simply proposes to amend that clause of section 22 which regulates the licensing of saloons in cities and towns which the Supreme Court has declared to be unconstitutional.
The amendments were adopted and the bill was ordered to the engrossment.
