THE
BREVIER LEGISLATIVE REPORTS.
FOURTEENTH VOLUME.
INDIANA LEGISLATURE.
Geological appropriation.---Temperance.---Debate in Continuation.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, February 5, 1873.CONTINUED FROM PAGE 127, BOTTOM OF FIRST COLUMN.
he SPEAKER announced the special order, viz : the consideration of Mr. Thayer's bill [H. R. 303] for an act to amend sections 2 and 6 of the act providing for a Geological survey and for the collection and preservation of a geological and chemical cabinet of the Natural History of the State, creating the office of State Geologist, defining his duties and fixing his salary, and making appropriations for the same, approved March 5, 1869the question being on the pending amendment: Mr. Miller's amendment for striking out the $10,000 total appropriation and inserting $6,000 in lieu; and Mr. Gregory's amendment for striking put the $3,600 salary of the Geologist and inserting $2,500 in lieu.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH was unmilling to incur additional expense as to the survey, but would increase the salary of the Geologist. He did not think the interests of the State demanded an extensive Geological Survey.
Mr. RENO. After giving this subject the most careful consideration, I think it would be unwise to cut down the compensation of Prof. Cox at this time. We never reapt the benefit of those immense mines of coal till the discoveries of science and scientific men draw the capital to our State to work them. Therefore I think it is economy to grant what Prof. Cox asks for in this bill. It is certainly to the interest of the people of the State to make this appropriation. It has been said that this is a local matter, but I can't see it in that light; for anything that increases the wealth and prosperity of the State certainly helps every tax-payer of the Slate. If, through the reports of scientific men like Prof. Cox, capitalists can be induced to bring their capital into the State to the amount of millions, will it not help the tax-payer? It is childish to talk of local benefits in this connection. If the city of Indianapolis were to grow rapidly into a city of 200,000 population, in connection with the development of our coal and iron I should rejoice at it, as I would rejoice at the increase of the taxable property of the State, and every farmer of the State would share in such a local prosperity; for then, under a just and economical administration of our affairs, we might reduce the taxes. We passed a bill here but the other day appropriating $24,000 to enclose the Tippecanoe Battle ground, which benefits nobody, and we passed it without grudging; yet now, when Prof. Cox asks for this appropriation of $10,000 which is to increase the taxable property of the State, we are higgling about it. I think, sir, that the manufacturing interest of the State has received a very palpable impulsion by the labors of Prof. Cox. I think we page: 424[View Page 424] should show a liberal hand in fostering science by sustaining the State Geologist, and so through the enlargement and the increase of the number of our manufactories, we will have before long a market for our produce at home - for every pound of pork and every bushel of grain we can produce. Sir, I would be willing to vote $20,000 for this purpose.
Mr. GREGORY. I am advised that the Geologist will be satisfied with a salary of $2,500, and that he can run the machinery of his office with a total appropriation of $8,000; and I wish to send this up and offer it as a substitute for the other amendment.
The SPEAKER. It can not be offered now.
Mr. GREGORY. It is the opinion of the State Geologist that $8,000 will answer, and that a salary of $2,500 will do him. It seems to me that amount should be sufficient here. There is no question but there ought to be an appropriation for the purpose of operating the machinery of this office and giving it encouragement. The only real question then is what amount should be paid to the Geologist ? and if I am correctly informed $2,500 will be sufficient for him ; and if not, when the next Legislature shall convene they can give him a compensation commenserate with his labors.
Mr. MELLETT. The gentleman from Owen (Mr. Reno) speaks in opposition to cutting down the salary and the appropriation. I believe that, at present, the appropriation is $5,000 and the salary $1,800 -
Mr. KIMBALL interposing. The salary of $1,800 is deducted from the appropriation of $5,000.
Mr. MELLETT continuing - and the proposition before the House is to increase that appropriation. This is a liberal House of Representatives, but to pass this proposition as it stands would be a little more liberal than we have been yet. It would be simply multiplying the salary and the appropriation by two. We surely can be allowed to inquire whether this is not a little too strong. I think that probably a more prudent measure would be adopt the amendment which makes the salary $2,500, which is $500 more than we pay the President of the State University, and $1,000 more than we pay any professor in that University. The bill then would both increase the salary of the Geologist and give him a larger fund for extending his surveys.
Mr. NORTH. I think the gentleman from White (Mr. Gregory) was certainly mistaken when he said Prof. Cox would be satisfied with $2,500. I have myself talked with the Professor on the matter, and I think he must certainly be mistaken in regard to it.
Mr. GREGORY. I got the information from a member of this House who thought he was correct. But I have since been informed from the Professor himself that he can't get along with less than $8,000.
Mr. WOOLLEN. I was glad to hear the gentleman from St. Joseph (Mr. Butterworth) modifying some statements which he was pleased to make the other day - he having probably come into possession of facts which he had not before. The gentleman should keep pace with the State Geologist who has been occupying his position for some years, developing the resources of the State and advertising them to the world. There is another fact which I have gathered, not from the Professor himself but from disinterested parties, that Mr. Cox has expended in this work some five or six thousand dollars of his own private funds - nearer six thousand than five thousand. I said the other day $2,500 is a good salary, but I would now vote for a salary of $3,000. I did not say then, and I do not say now, that $10,000 is too large an estimate. I do not think it is. I think it bad policy for us to stint this department, because now it needs nursing and nourishing with a liberal hand. I am sure the House is willing to extend to it the support it deserves. I am willing, I say, to give the salary of $3,000. I have been informed from a source that leaves not the slightest doubt in my mind of the fact, that offers have been extended to Prof. Cox from Kentucky, to leave here and go there on a salary even better than what we are proposing to pay him in this bill. But he has declined because he has been sometime in Indiana and has become thoroughly acquainted with the resources of the State, the manner of their development, and he is so wedded to her interests that he remains here, when he might do better outside; and it must be admitted that it would not be exactly fair in us to ask him to stay since he has been offered more. I would not cut down the appropriation of $10,000. The bill is well guarded; and, in the hands of the State Board of Agriculture the money will be well expended,it is well guarded and well considered in every sentence of it. I hope the appropriation will not be cut down, for it is no more than fair, as I think - no more than an honest, equal appropriation for much needed services.
Mr. LENFESTY. I desire to say a word in reference to this matter. In the first place, I do not desire to be considered at all penurious in reference to the compensation of our public officers. I can say that the State Geologist has done a great work for the State. But, in view of the fact that we are called upon to pay out money in so many directions - in view of the page: 425[View Page 425] tact that our benevolent institutions are suffering - our Insane Asylum is almost nothing in comparison with what it should be, - I am compelled to think that $2,500 should be sufficient for the salary. We can't expect to pay any public officer an amount in money equivalent to the amount of benefit he is expected to confer on the State; and there is no reason why we should compensate a public officer for all the benefits of his labors. I am in favor of giving to all our public officers a just compensation; and when we come to raise a salary from eighteen hundred dollars to twenty-five hundred dollars it is liberal; and as for the total appropriation - eight thousand dollars for salary and office expenses, I think that should be sufficient - leaving to the Geologist five thousand five hundred dollars for the expenses of his office. It may be that in two years from now this should be increased , and then I might be in favor of increasing this appropriation gradually. We have shown a very liberal spirit here - beginning with the members of the General Assembly, and going from the Governor to the Judges, but I believe this should proceed gradually.
Mr. MELLETT. I desire to move for a division of the question : to proceed to vote first on the amount we will substitute for the ten thousand dollars.
The SPEAKER. There will be a division of the question.
Mr. BRANHAM. This amendment can not be divided.
The SPEAKER. The first question will be: Will the House strike out the ten thousand dollars?
Mr. BRANHAM. Suppose we fix first the amount we will pay the Professor; my own conviction is that we should retain the three thousand dollars. I think if the office is not worth that we had better abolish it. When we shall have fixed that, then I would be willing to give an increased amount for the additional work of a Geologist. But I am opposed to giving ten thousand dollars. If it would be proper I would move that we fix the salary of the Professor at three thousand dollars. I want to get a direct vote on the salary.
The SPEAKER. The first question will be on the striking out ten thousand dollars.
Mr. RENO. We have a great many scientific men in the State of Indiana, but we have only one Professor Cox; and as the Professor desires this sum in order that he may carry out his Geological work for the State, I believe it is our duty to allow it; and I shall vote to retain that sum both as a matter of duty and a matter of courtesy to a faithful public officer; and I think it is reasonable.
Mr. KIMBALL. I have said that this ten thousand dollars is to include the salary of the Professor; and the argument against the proposed salary has been made in this way : that we give the President of the State University, his professors, the judges of the courts but a meager compensation compared with what is here proposed for the State Geologist. But there are many incompetent judges, and many lawyers who are anxious to become judges, which is a consideration that cannot be urged against the Geologist.
Mr. WOOLLEN interposing with a question of order: The question is on the striking out the $10,000.
Mr. KIMBALL; I thought I might strike some lawyer ; and may be the gentleman wants to be a judge too. But I will make this statement, that out of the vast number of lawyers who might make good judges it might be hard to find even one that would make a fair State Geologist. Now we pay this man on account of his knowledge, and for directing the attention of capitalists to those mineral deposits which his investigations have shown to be superior to any in the world ; whilst, by increasing the salaries of the judges, you only increase the development of crime. [Laughter.] But joking aside,looking back ten years, and seeing the millions of wealth that have been added to the State of Indiana by the researches of this State Geologist, and comparing it with any good result for the material benefit of the State growing out of any thing that has been done by all the judges, or even by the Governor of the State for that period, and the comparison is odious.
Mr. MELLETT interposing. Does the gentleman attribute all the success that has attended the business of the State of Indiana to the State Geologist?
Mr. KIMBALL. Not all of it; but I attribute very much of it to the advertisements which have been given to the world of our great resources by the State Geologist. The trouble was that we had not the capital; and capital came to the districts where the latent wealth was determined,and labor followed the capital; so that labor has benefitted the State by the coming in of the capital, which would not have come had it not been for the State Geologist. The State Geologist has made known to the civilized nations of the earth the superiority of the coal of Indiana for the manufacture of iron and steel, and that has given us a prominence above all other regions. And if our legislation shall be of such a character as will look to the future greatness of the State in this respect, instead of looking at the immediate expense of our geological surveys, the General Assembly will accomplish a good public work, page: 426[View Page 426] not only for themselves but for generations to come, and though I may be charged with voting away the State's money wastefully, I thank God that I can stand here and do it for the honor and prosperity of the State. I cannot say that it is unnecessary to carry on these geological surveys further; for we have been confined to a few counties heretofore, and we want to survey the whole State. Some twenty-five years ago it was known that there was coal and iron in the State; but what good did that do? It was not until the State took it upon herself to organize an agricultural department, and to add the Geologist, that any good result followed from this knowledge. It was not until it was developed in those localities where our minerals existed, that the coal there had a peculiar value for the manufacture of iron and steel, that our iron ore was also superior, and hence the superiority of our State in these respects, and the importance of giving a knowledge of these facts to mankind. I can remember the time when land could be bought in these mineral counties from fifty cents to five dollars per acre, and new you can't buy the same lands for one hundred dollars per acre; and the whole region is marked by railroads. I can remember the time too, when the State of Indiana did not furnish one hundred bushels of coal annually to Indianapolis ; but now we send every year acres of coal to Chicago and Louisville and all this has been brought about by the labors and researches of the State Geologist Now, sir, it is proper that this man should be compensated at a reasonable rate, and that he should be enabled to push his investigations.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH. I have been much pleased with the speech of the gentleman from Marion (Mr. Kimball) and would be willing to subscribe to it as my own. I suppose that my own county is as prosperous as any in the State - conceding every thing that has been said about the prosperity of the coal region ; but I cannot acknowledge here that to the Geologist of the State, or to any other man, can be attributed all this prosperity. If the Geologist had been stricken by lightning, the State would still have gone on prosperously. My sentiment is this: I say, down with all pretentious for increasing the salaries. It is an easy tfiing to increase the salaries, but it is hard to cut them down. Besides this, we have now a fluctuating currency; and when it comes down to solid business, it will break up many seemingly solid men and jostle public measures. Then let us go slow - let us at least do this: let us down with the practice of increasing the salaries. If we had plenty of money and a stable currency I might agree with gentlemen who desire this in creased appropriation. I confess that the interest of one part of the State is the interest of all, the development of the resources and the prosperity of the center of the State is the pride of the entire State of Indiana, but we can't afford this thing, sir, and I think we should here take our stand, and declare that we are not going into a general increase of the salaries at this time.
The yeas and nays on the motion to strike out were then taken and the result was yeas 49, nays 39, as follows :
YEAS - Messrs. Anderson, Barker, Baxter, Blocher, Branham, Brett, Broaddus, Butterworth, Butts, Cobb, Cole, Crumpacker, Dial, Eaton, Ellsworth, Eward, Givan, Goble, Goudie, Gregory, Hatch, Hardesty, Henderson, Hollingsworth, Jones, Lenfestey, Martin, McConnell, Mellett, Miller, Ogden, Reeves, Richardson, Rudder, Shirlry, Shutt, Satterwhite, Scott. Spellman, Teeter, Stanley, Tingley, Thompson of Elkhart, Troutman Tulley, Wesner, Wilson of Blackford, Wynn - 49.
NAYS. - Messrs. Baker, Billingsley, Barrett, Cauthorn, Clark, Claypool, Cline, Coffman, Durham, Edwards of Lawrence, Furnas, Gifford, Hedrick, Heller, Hoyer, Gronendyke, Glazebrook, Isenhouer, Johnson, Kimball, King, Kirkpatrick, North, Odle, Peed, Prentiss, Reno, Riggs, Schmuck, Smith, Thayer, Whitworth, Willard, Willson of Ripley, Wood, Woollen, and Mr. Speaker. - 39.
So the $10,000 were stricken out.
Mr. KINNG moved to insert $9,000.
The motion was rejected.
Mr. SMITH proposed to fill the blank with $8,000, and the motion was agreed to without a division.
The SPEAKER. The next question is on striking out the salary $3,600 as proposed in the bill; and the motion was agreed to.
The SPEAKER. The next question is on filling the blank with three thousand dollars, as proposed by the committee.
Mr. RICHARDSON proposed to fill the blank with twenty-five hundred dollars.
Mr. KING proposed thirty-five hundred dollars.
The latter motion was rejected, and the question recurring on three thousand dollars, it was adopted.
The SPEAKER. Any further amendment to the bill ?
Mr. BRETT proposed to amend by striking out the words "annual appropriation" and inserting "annual appropriation for two years." As the bill now stands, this appropriation would be continuous. My amendment suggests the propriety of making this appropriation to extend only to the next two years; and that will leave to the next Legislature the discretion and the power to increase it. It might be a very easy matter for us to pass this for an annual appropriation, but it is not always an easy matter to repeal a law. It is for that reason that I make this proposition.
The amendment was adopted.
page: 427[View Page 427]The bill as amended was then considered as engrossed, read the third time, and finally passed the House of Representatives by yeas 73, nays 13, as follows:
LOCAL OPTION TEMPERANCE BILL.
On the motion of Mr. FURNAS, the order of business was suspended, and the House took up the consideration of Mr. Butts' Local Option Temperance bill [H. R. 327] entitled "a bill for an act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors, to provide against the evils resulting from any sale thereof, to furnish remedies for damages suffered by any person in consequence of such sale, prescribing penalties, to repeal all laws contravening the provisions of this act, and declaring an emergency. The question being on the adoption of certain amendments just reported by Mr. Butts from the Committee on Temperance; namely: In section one, strike out the word "district" and insert the word "town" in lieu: In sec. three strike out and making the initial sentences of the section to read as follows: "SECTION three, Before the granting of a Permit by the Board of Commissioners the applicant shall cause to be executed and properly acknowledged before an officer authorized to take acknowledgement of Deeds, a bond payable to the State of Indiana in the sum of three thousand dollars, with good freehold security thereon of not less than two persons, to be approved by the Board of Commissioners, and conditioned for the payment of any and all fines, penalties and forfeitures incurred by reason of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and conditioned further, that the principal and sureties therein named shall be jointly and severally liable, and shall pay to any person or persons any and all damages which shall in any manner be suffered by or inflicted upon any such person or persons, either in person or property or means of support, by reason of any sale or sales of intoxicating liquors to any person by the person receiving such permit, or by any of his agents or employers. Separate suits may be brought on said bond by the person or persons injured, but the aggregate amount recovered thereon shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; and in case the amount of said bond shall be exhausted by recoveries thereon, a new bond with the same penalty and with like sureties shall be filed within ten days; and in default thereof said permit shall be revoked." In SECTION four, strike out the word "district," and insert the word "town" in lieu, etc., etc: and sundry amendments in section twelve, as: "Provided execution in each judgement shall be first levied on the property of the principal, and then on the property of the other defendant;" and, "all judgements shall be enforced without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws;" and, "In addition to the right of action provided in section eight," every husband, wife, parent, child, guardian, employer or other person who shall be injured in person or property, etc., shall have a right of action in his or her name, personally or jointly, against any person, who shall, by selling." etc., and "where such person have no parents, etc, the officer for the poor shall have the right of prosecution;" and "all, judgements shall be for the benefit of the poor of the county;" and striking out the words: "and be imprisoned in the county jail."
The amendments were severally concurred in.
Mr. FURNAS. I move that the bill as amended, be considered as engrossed and put upon its passage.
The motion was agreed to, and the bill, as amended was read through by the clerk.
Mr. SCHMUCK - See his remarks on pages 127 and 128.
Mr. BUTTS. Mr. Speaker: The subject of intemperance is one of very great importance, and is certainly the towering and gigantic evil of our land. It opens before us a wide-spread field of thought - a field that is watered by the crimson streams of humane gore and decked by the graves of fallen victims. It is constantly spreading devastation, misery and wretchedness throughout the length and breadth of our country, and its poisonous streams by its deep current are cutting their way through the vitals of our race. It is carrying upon its bosom the destructive elements of sin in all of its various forms and phases. It is another form of slavery, that is binding by its oppressive yoke and chrushing by its strong arms thousands of our noble and free-hearted citizens. If you open the dark pages of history, upon which is recorded the various evils of intemperance and the effects of its many crimes, the whole earth would be darkened and the broad canopy of heaven shrouded in mourning. Almost every day that we live we are called upon, in some form, to take immediate and continued action in endeavoring to suppress this great and destructive evil. It has created among us a history of corruption, of shame, and of crime. It is daily taking the bloom of health from the face and in its stead placing the reddish hue of the intoxicating bowl. It is constantly destroying the peace and happiness of families, and in its stead placing desolation, misery and ruin. It maddens the brain of the husband and father; and makes him a tyrant and a murderer. It darkens the pathway of a kind page: 428[View Page 428] and affectionate mother, and makes her an object of sorrow and despair. It dethrones reason and transforms this body, so fearfully and wonderfully made the workmanship of God's own hand - into a loathsome and reckless mass of humanity. It is filling our streets with violence, crowding our courts with criminal cases, filling our jails and penitentiaries with criminals, our poor houses with paupers, our insane asylums with inebriates. It is stripping men of their wealth and clothing them with poverty and shame, turning the endearing and gladsome pleasures of home into a place of desolation, of weeping eyes and throbbing hearts. It has been asserted that it produces at least one-half of all the insanity, three-fourths of the pauperism, and four-fifths of all the crime in our land, and at a cost of about three million dollars per day. Indiana, our own State, pays annually for drams sixty-one million two hundred and eighty thousand dollars. This sum would he sufficient alone to build about 18 universities in each county in the State. The one hundred thousand imprisonments, the one hundred thousand suicides that occur annually, the two hundred thousand children that are made worse than orphans, the two million that are deprived of the privileges of an education, the three million tipplers, the six hundred thousand confirmed drunkards, and the sixty thousand of our citizens who die annually, are all examples, teaching us the great importance and absolute necessity of a more stringent legislation on this subject. Are we not ready, as the law-making power of this State, to take hold of this growing and overwhelming evil. Suppose, Mr. Speaker, that some one was to establish a slaughter house, a soap factory, or starch factory in the city of Indianapolis. How long would it be before the City Council or Mayor would go to such person and say to him, that "My friend, you must remove your place of business out of the city?" Your business is destroying the health and comfort of the people, and the law will not allow you to engage in a business where it will effect the health and comfort of the citizens. The same rule will hold good with any business or act that effects the health of the people. It is declared as a nuisance and is subject to the provisions of the law. Why is it that the whiskey traffic is an exception to the general law? It reaches directly or indirectly to the fireside of almost every family, carrying with it the most bitter cup. It affects the health, disturbs the peace, destroys the happiness and comfort of the people in nearly every city, town or neighborhood in the entire land. In fact it lifts its towering and gigantic form of misery and wretchedness and ruin above all the evils in the known world.
Men have been committing murder and theft for these thousand of years and still we continue to legislate against these evils. Here is an evil that lies at the very foundation of nearly all the crime in our land; is it not right and shall we not continue to legislate against this wrong until we shall have placed it beneath our feet ? The poor unfortunate one who falls into the channel of becoming intoxicated commits at least a three fold murder. 1. He kills time. The golden moments that have been given him that he may be a blessing not only to himself but to all around him and that he may prepare in this life to enjoy a better and happier one, he spends in a state of insensibility under the influence of a poisonous liquid. 2d. He kills himself. He destroys that manly frame whose builder and maker is God. The face that once gave evidence of a light and glad heart is now carrying the mark of sorrow, pain and wretchedness, and the manly frame sinks down, down, beneath the effects of the deadly demon. 3d. He kills his own precious soul. He extends the slow, but sure, work of destruction to the very depths of his immortality. The spirit which is to live on when time ceases to move, and when the sun refuses to shine, and was given to glorify its Maker is made to sink so low as to curse even the day of its birth. Instead of enjoying home, friends and friendly associations his mind is actively engaged in the many devices of sin - learning the most successful route to perdition and ruin, although his name might have been written in the Lamb's book of life. No drunkard, saith the Scriptures, shall inherit the kingdom of heaven. Jeremy Taylor has well and truthfully said that temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle - the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
Mr. Speaker, there are to-day in the State of Indiana two thousand one hundred and sixty five, engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors, who are licensed by law to deal out this poisonous and destructive liquid to their fellow men, while there are hundreds of others indirectly engaged in the same work of destruction, carrying before them the most powerful wave of sorrow and pain. These men will stand behind their counter and deal out this poisonous draught until they have extracted the very last cent from the poor man's purse, and sent the poor, unfortunate victim into the streets staggering, without money and without reason. How many children are there to-day scattered all over our land who ask the poor, unfortunate father in vain for bread ? How many to day who have not page: 429[View Page 429]clothes to protect them from the cold and thrilling blast of winter, simply because the father had spent his hard-earned money for the intoxicating draught ? How many wives to-day whose pillows are but too often bathed in tears from the effect of the whisky traffic, and whose prayers have ascended, no doubt to the Most High for relief? Thousands of petitions have been sent to this honorable body praying for a strong temperance law to relieve them from this tyrant wrong, waiting patiently to hear our action. The people are not only suffering by the effects of this traffic upon society, but they are burdened heavily with taxes growing out of cases caused by this evil. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House, we ought to do something on this great question of wrong, and do it without delay. We ought to take hold of this monster evil, and by the strong arm of the law stop as far as possible its destruction among our people. Other States, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio, Illinoise, and others, have felt the weight and power of this growing evil, and have passed laws to prohibit its ever widening path of destruction. Indiana can not afford to fall behind. The bill we have recommended is, with a few exceptions, no new work of legislation. It has proved satisfactory in other States, and I see no good reason why it will not in ours. The local option law has recently been adopted in Philadelphia. From a correspondent we have the following: "Our State seems to have solved, in a practical and satisfactory manner, the long pending and thoroughly perplexing temperance problem. Local option, or giving the people of wards and townships the exclusive right to prohibit the vending of intoxicating liquors within their respective localities, seems to have hit the happy means needed to strengthen the temperance cause. On a very brief trial it has worked so well here that it has already been favorably indorsed and adopted by the combined temperance organizations of the State of New York." I hope Mr. Speaker, that every member of this House will feel it his duty to vote for this bill. I believe that by so doing you will cause many a dark and dreary home to be a home of sunshine, love and happiness. You will by this act of your life carry tidings of joy, of comfort and peace to the fireside of many brokenhearted and sorrowing families. You will give bread to the hungry and clothes to the naked; and this Legislature will be held long in rememberance by the kind good wishes of a grateful people. Mr. Speaker, I earnestly hope the bill will pass. The people are demanding it. The welfare and prosperty of our State demand it. The happiness and comfort of our people demand it. The fact that so many precious souls are being lost in eternity is a sufficient reason that we should give it our earnest support.
Mr. FURNAS. I hope the House will proceed to the vote without a demand for the previous question.
Mr. BLOCHER submitted a motion for adjournment which was rejected without a division.
Mr. SHIRLEY demanded a call of the House to bring in the absentees.
The call proceeded, and was dispensed with when a satisfactory quorum had been determined - eighty nine members responding.
On motion of Mr. BAKER, the bill was again considered as engrossed and put upon its passage
The Clerk reported - yeas 53, nays 36, on the final passage of the bill, as follows: - See page 128.
So the bill passed the House of Representatives, and then, when Mr. Butts' motion to reconsider this vote was laid on the table by his own motion, the House took a recess till two o'clock P. M.
