MORNING SESSION.
MONDAY, February 24, 1873. 1872.The Lieutenant Governor [the Hon. Leonidas Sexton] took the chair pursuant to adjournment and ordered the reading of the Secretary's minutes of Friday's proceedings.
On motion by Mr. Dwiggins the reading of the minutes was dispensed with.
On motion of Mr. Fuller, the Senate bills on the second reading were made the special order.
Mr. Hough presented a remonstrance from citizens of Perry county, against the passage of the bill authorizing the sale of Rome Academy, formerly a Court House, the signers desiring that it shall ever remain and be used for academic purposes.
On motion by Mr. Dwiggins,his bill in relation to Sheriffs [S. 324] was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Thompson presented a petition from Madison, signed by some one hundred ''American citizens of African descent," praying for the repeal of the law prohibiting the intermarriage of black and white people.
On motion of Mr. Howard, his bill [S. 319] to to legalize the acts of school trustees in corporated towns, was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Smith's bill [S. 327] to limit the time of bringing actions of law or in equity brought upon any judgment or recovered in any State in the United States to ten years, was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for the third reading.
Mr. Slaters bill [S. 41] to amend section five of the liquor law of 1859, so as to require applicants to sell liquors spirituous or vinous to pay a yearly income of $50 to go into the school fund, was read the second time.
Mr. Dittemore, in view of the passage of the new temperance law, moved that this bill be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Brown suggested, out of an abundance of caution, it was better to lay the bill on the table. It was so ordered on his motion.
Mr. Gooding's bill [S. 230] to amend the charter of the city of Evansviile was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed tor the third reading on to-morrow.
Mr. Armstrong's bill [S. 120] to protect the ballot box, to procure fair elections, define felonies, providing punishment therefor - making it a misdemeanor to vote where not entitled, or to tamper with ballot boxes - was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for the third reading on to-morrow.
Mr. Gooding's bill [S. 250] to further prescribe the duties of Secretary of State and further prescribe the duties of his office was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for the third reading on to-morrow.
Mr. Hough's bill [S. 227] to provide for impaneling a jury other than the regular panel was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for the third reading on to-morrow.
Mr. Cave's bill [S. 268] to authorize the transfer of funds raised under the act of March 3, 1865, for the relief of soldiers' families, to the common school fund, was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for the third reading on to-morrow.
Mr. Gregg's bill [S. 224] for the relief of Nicholas Moreback, Joseph Lange and Francis Joseph Wetzler - for the payment of $2,500 interest, etc., on account of moneys stolen from the former when Township Trustee - was read the second time, and referred to the Judiciary Committee, on motion by Mr. Orr.
A message from the House of Representatives was received communicating the passage of concurrent resolutions announcing the death and appropriate to the memory of Patrick Henry Lee, a member of the House of Representatives for the county of Vigo, who died last Saturday at his brother's residence in Terre Haute.
On motion by Mr. Scott, the resolutions were immediately taken up and concurred in.
And so the Senate adjourned (under the rule) till nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
