REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. Steele, from the Judiciary Committee, returned Mr. Glessner's bill [S. 27] to legalize certain plank and gravel road corporations, with amendments. He also returned the bill [S. 302] to make general indexes of deeds and mortgages, valid testimony in certain cases, with amendments, so they shall have as much weight as the court and jury may deem they are entitled to.
Mr. Boone, from the same committee, returned Mr. Taylor's bill [S. 191] to enable securities to be released from an appeal bond, with amendments, inserting "after a new bond shall be given.
These reports were concurred in.
Mr. Beeson said the Committee on Temperance were ready to report, and he moved to make their report the special order for ten and a half o'clock this morning. As chairman of the committee he returned the new temperance bill [H. R. 327] with a recommendation that it pass without amendment.
The motion was agreed to and the report was concurred in.
Mr. Daggy, from the Judiciary Committee, returned the bill [S. 250] to suspend the act establishing the women and girls' reformatory, and that it be used for an insane hospital, with a recommendation that it be referred to a select committee of five, viz: Messrs. Thompson, Steele, Boone, Harney and Taylor.
On motion by Mr. Steele, Mr. Dittemore was substituted for himself on this committee.
The report was concurred in.
