REPORTS ON CLAIMS.
The Committee on Claims, to whom was recomitted the swamp land claims in Tipton County, reported recommending the payment of such claims, both principal and interest.
The report was laid on the table.
The same Committee reported on the bill [H. R. 129] appropriating certain money to pay employes of the Soldiers' Home for loss sustained by fire, recommending its passage.
The report was concurred in and bill ordered engrossed.
TheCommittee on Claims returned the claim presented by the House Prison Committee for expenses incurred in visiting the State Prison, reporting inability to make any recommendation, and return the same for the action of the House.
Mr. CAUTHORNE said when members visit these Prisons they go on a kind of special excursion, and he thought these claims should not be allowed, as he did not suppose the members of these Committees were to any expense, and they get their per diem; therefore he did not think the Committee ought to ask such an allowance.
Mr. WILSON thought, in all justice, the State of Indiana owes this money and ought to pay it.
Mr. WRIGHT said he understood when those men were appointed that they drew their $6 per day as membes of the House. He was willing to vote for an allowance of the actual expenses to the members of that Committee, if they can be ascertained. Further than that he thought it wrong.
On motion by Mr. LINDLAY, the claim with the report thereon, was recommitted.
