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Mr. URMSTON, from the Committee thereon, returned the bill [H. R. 129--see page 89 of this volume] to appropriate certain money's [$3,953] to reimburse employes for losses sustained by the burning of that Institution several years ago, with a favorable report thereon.
The question being on concurring in the report--
Mr. VOYLES--Opposed the passage of this bill.
Mr. SPANN and Mr. VAN VORHIS thought it an equitable measure.
Mr. BROWN opposed this class of claims--proposing making the State a guarantor for losses to employes occasioned by casualty.
Mr. COMSTOCK also thought it wrong as a general thing, but in this particular instance these employes showed they regarded the trust confided to them as a sacred one; and on that ground it is proper to reward fidelity.
Mr. URMBTON stated the only parties claiming are teachers and employees--all but three women, and the most of them widows and orphans. Two years ago this matter passed one Honse, but failed to pass the other.
Mr. VOYLES did not believe this is a right thing to do. There is no law that would allow one citizen to demand extraordinary pay of another for services at a fire. It is a duty one citizen owes to another to assist in such cases, and not ask afterward a reward.
Mr. WOOD was sorry to see opposition to this page: 162[View Page 162] bill. These claimnts saved hundreds of helpless children in this Institution, and in so doing lost their own personal property.
Mr. BUNDY favored the bill and hoped the favorable report of the Committee would be concurred in. The items are none of them large, and consist principally of clothing, as he understood it. If this bill was rejected it would be regarded as an instruction to persons in charge of the State Institutions to hereafter take charge of their own personal effects and let the State's go.
The report was concurred in--yeas, 29; nays, 6.
The roll-call of the vote commenced some time ago--on the Committee report on the section concerning pool selling, legalized betting at horse races, was now completed and resulted--yeas, 13; nays, 24.
So the report was not concurred in.
