CARE AND CUSTODY OF PAUPER CHILDREN
The bill [H. R. 96] to establish a State Public School for Dependent Children was returned with a Committee recommendation that is lie on the table.
Mr. LINDLAY said this was a subject of vital importance. It is a bill providing for taking in charge the children of the State who are without a home, who are now in the County Poor Houses, and growing up with vicious surroundings. He said the bill was not instigated by him, but was drafted by a man who was well versed in this department. He thought it the most intelligent move the House could make, and in the long run, the most economical, as these children had to be cared for anyway, and might just as well with a little more expense, be under a course of instructin that would make worthy men and women out of them. The object is a meritorious one. He hoped the House would take favorable action on this bill and not neglect those who are the most in need, and that i this bill would not prevail, some other bill with similar provisions would pass.
The report was concurred in.
The bills [H. R. 242] for the relief of Joel F. Davis; [H. R. 306] revoking the conditions of the Board of Trustees of Center Township, Marshall County, Indiana; [H. R. 175] the State to sell lot 77 in Jeffersonville; were severally ordered engrossed for the third reading.
