AFTERNOON SESSION.
WORK FOR COMMITTEES.
The bill [H. R. 50] requiring hotels and lodging houses to provide means of escape in case of fire; [H. R. 112] amendatory of the act providing for the election and qualification of Justices; [H. R. 205] for the regulation of insanity inquests; [H. R. 194] to fix the ownership of property held for school purposes; [H. R. 191] to amend Section 120 of the Justice's act of June 9, 1852; [H. R. 122] to amend the act prescribing certain duties of Commissioners and other officers; [H. H. 192] to amend the Justice's act of June 9,1852; [H. R. 198] to amend Section 8 of the act of June 17, 1852, relating to trustees of voluntary associations; [H. R. 69] to provide for security and payment of laboring men, etc., and giving them liens; [H. R. 201] concerning County Prisons; [H. R. 271] relating to Clerks of the General Assembly; [H. R. 200] to amend the act of May 14, 1852, relating to decedents and the apportionment of estates; [H. R. 7] concerning quails and pheasants; [H. R. 65] legalizing the Christian College at Merom; [H. R. 141] regulating the sale of scrap metals; [H. R. 199] to amend Section 45 of the act of May 31, 1852, prescribing wo may make a will, etc.; [H. R. 48] to amend the act of June 16, 1852, concerning inclosures, etc.; [H. R. 17] to establish a Superior Court in Vigo County; [H. R. 435] to repeal an act providing for the payment of sundry bonds and stocks of Indiana issue prior to 1841; [H. R. 53] relating to the sounding of locomotive whistles; [H. R. 101] to amend Section 19 of the act establishing a Female Prison; [H. R. 102] to amend an act establishing a House of Refuge; [H. R. 81] to refund to Benton County extraordinary expenses incurred in a murder trial; [H. R. 88] to authorize execution sales of plank and other roads, and empowering purchasers to reorganize; [H. R. 340] to legalize ordinance 63, passed by the town of Edinburgh, etc.; [H. R. 126] requiring railroads to remove rubbish along their lines; [H. R. 134] concerning the employment of shorthand reporters; [H. R. 196] to abolish the office of Assessor in cities and towns; [H. R. 124] relating to sales of property by infants; [H. R. 202] to amend Section 126 of the Justices' act of June 9, 1852; [H. R. 46] to consolidate the Congressional Township fund for the purpose of loaning; [H. R. 197] to amend the act of June 9, 1852, concerning guardian and ward; [H. R. 172] requiring railroads to destroy Canada thistles and other noxious weeds on their right-of-way; [H. R. 193] to amend Section 10 of the decedent estates act of June 17, 1852, and repeal Section 70; [H. R. 195] to provide for the consolidation of two or more Agricultural Societies; [H. R. 227] to amend Sections 3, 8 and 11, and repeal 5, 6 and 7, of the Presidential Electors act; [H. R. 140] to authorize the election of women to school offices; [H. R. 237] concerning landlord and tenant; the House concurrent resolution requesting Congressmen to favor passage of an act making Treasury notes taxable; the House concurrent resolu page: 45[View Page 45] tion relating to the State's indebtedness to the Common School fund.
The above described bills and resolutions were read the first time and referred to appropriate Committees.
OFFICES AND OFFICERS.
On motion by Mr. FOSTER, the bill [S. 325], a compilation and revision of the existing laws concerning officers and offices, prepared by the Board of Revsion and the Joint Committee upon Revision of the Law, was taken up it having been heretofore read twice by title only.
Mr. VAN VORHIS thought this bill should not be proceeded with so slim a Senate--it s too important a measure. There are a number of other bills from the House that can be taken up.
Mr. KRAMER thought prncipals and sureties should have the benefit of a stay on execution. He moved to so amend Section 10 by striking out the last few words.
Mr. GARRIGUS favored the amendment.
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. FOSTER moved to amend Section 13 by requiring two or more freehold sureties on official bonds.
Mr. CHAPMAN thought this bill provides sufficiently for sureties on bonds. He opposed the amendment, not seeing any reason to multiply number when it does not follow that it multiplies security.
The amendment was rejected.
When the Clerk reached Section 59--
Mr. CHAPMAN thought the reading of the bill should be suspended, that members may have an opportunity to examine the printed copy.
Mr. VIEHE said the bill has just been distributed, and he thought the suggestion a good one.
NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Mr. KEISER introduced a bill [S. 337] to authorize and empower Railroad Companies to construct, acquire, maintain and operate telegraph lines for commercial, mercantile and other purposes, which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on Railroads.
Mr. VIEHE introduced a bill [S. 388] prescribing the duties of Coroners in certain cases [shall perform the duty of Sheriff where the latter is incapacitated] which was read the first time and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
And then the Senate, adjourned till to-morrow.
