DRAINAGE OF WET LANDS.
The SPEAKER announced the special order to be consideration of Mr. Taylor's [of Lagrange] bill [H. R. 147] to enable owners of wet lands to reclaim them when the same can not be done without affecting the land of others, which was read the third time.
Mr. KENNER said--We have two bills before the House upon the subject of wet lands. This bill, as I understand, is a remodeling of the law of 1875, which I think was the best ditch law we have had in the State of Indiana. While we must decide upon some law (and i believe we must have some relief upon this subject), from investigation of both these bills and testing the sense of the people, I have come to the conclusion that the bill just read is the one which ought to be passed by this House. This bill remedies the defects of the ditch law of 1875.
The bill passed--yeas, 78; nays, 0.
