AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Lieutenant Governor took the chair at 2 o'clock, P. M.
Mr. Gregg offered a concurrent resolution ordering 10,000 copies of the inaugural addresses of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, 4,000 for the use of those gentlemen, and 6,000 for the Assembly.
Mr. Sarnighausen moved to amend by providing that 1,000 copies be printed in the German language. The resolution and amendment were then adopted.
The House concurrent resolution providing for the appointment of a joint commission on claims, coming up in order, was adopted.
Mr. Daggy offered a resolution that the order of the Senate directing the printing of the report of the Secretary of State be construed to mean the printing without the exhibits thereto attached.
Mr. Orr moved that Messrs. Daggy, Smith, and Scott be appointed a committee to examine and report what portions of the report should be printed. Agreed to.
SALARIES OF JUDGES.
The Lieutenant Governor announced the special order for the hour, viz: Mr. Thompson's judicial salary bill [S. 9], and thereupon called the Senator from Lawrence [Mr. Friedley] to the chair. The reports of the majority and minority of the Committee on Fees and Salaries were read.
Mr. Orr moved that the reports lie on the table.
The motion was agreed to - the President deciding th at if the motion carries the bill will also go to the table.
On motion by Mr. Brown, the bill was taken from the table and read the second time.
Mr. Steele moved to refer the bill to a select committee of three, with instructions to report a bill fixing the salaries of Supreme Judges only.
Mr. Boone moved to postpone the further consideration of this subject till next Wednesday (to-morrow) week. He thought enough information would be received from county clerks by that time to act upon. Agreed to.
Mr. Harney, by consent, introduced a bill [S.] for an act to increase the salaries of the Supreme Judges to $5,000 annually, to be paid quarterly by draft on the State Treasury.
Mr. Gooding, by consent, offered a concurrent resolution authorizing the appointment of a joint committee, to consist of three Senators and six Representatives, whose duty it shall be to revise the judicial circuits and districts of the State, and report an Equalization bill.
Mr. Hall moved to amend by providing that the Governor be requested, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint five gentlemen of acknowledged repute who shall suggest such changes as may be necessary in our judicial system.
Mr. Dwiggins regarded the amendment as out of order - not being germain.
The President so decided.
Mr. Glessner offered a substitute, providing for a joint committee of eleven members, four from the Senate and seven from the House of Representatives whose duty it shall be to so redistrict the State for judicial purposes as to equalize the burden of the Circuit and Common Pleas judges throughout the State.
The substitute was adopted.
Mr. Dittemore moved to reconsider the vote just taken.
Mr. Glessner made an ineffectual motion - yeas 15; nays, 26 - to lay this motion on the table.
The motion to reconsider was agreed to.
Mr. Daggy moved to lay the substitute on the table.
The motion was rejected by ayes 20, nays 21.
Mr. Boone and Mr. Steele explaining their affirmative votes because the Committee was too large.
Mr. Gooding moved to amend by making the Committee to consist of three Senators and four Representatives.
The amendment was accepted by Mr. Glessner.
The substitute as amended was adopted.
EMPLOYES.
On motion of Mr. Steele, Mr. Dwiggins' bill [S. 168] providing for an additional number of Senate employes, was taken up, read the third time and passed the Senate by yeas 33, nays 8.
NATIONAL BANK.
Mr. Gregg moved that his National Bank capital stock municipal taxation bill [S. 4] be made the special order for next Friday at 10 o'clock.
It was so ordered.
The President announced a Commiteee on Rules of the Senate, viz: Messrs. Glessner, Brown, and Dwiggins.
On motion of Mr. Brown the committee were instructed to report to-morrow.
SUPERVISORS.
On motion by Mr. Slater, his bill [S. 126] to amend section 1 of the Supervisor of Highways act of March 5, 1859, was read for the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for the second reading.
Mr. Wadge asked and obtained leave to offer a resolution directing the State Printer to hereafter print bills on a common article of book paper.
On motion by Mr. Bunyan, it was laid on the table.
On motion by Mr. Bunyan, the bill [H. R. 6] for an act creating the Indiana Centennial Association was read the second time. It authorizes an appropriation of $2,000.
On motion by Mr. Harney, his bill [S. 122] to legalize in certain cases appropriations made by County Commissioners in aid of railroads, previous to the 12th of May, 1869, when the appropriations were made without authority of law, was read the second time.
The Senate adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow morning.
