SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS.
The bill [H. R. 439] making specific appropriations was taken up.
Mr. KENNER moved to amend the bill by adding the items as follows: To the State Prison South, to furnish the Chapel and Hospital $4,000; to furnish the new cell house, $3,600; to purchase three and one-third acres of ground for a grave yard, $4,000; total, $11,600.
Mr. GIBSON said two years ago, $2,000 was appropriated to build a cell house. There was no allowance made to equip it. It is also necessary to have some ground for burial purposes. The ground that they are using now belongs to the city. It is absolutely necessary to have this appropriation to set them in shape.
Mr. MEREDITH said, as a member of the Prison Committee, he knew nothing definite of it, but considered it unnecessary from the fact that the Committee did not recommend this allowance.
Mr. CAUTHORNE said, as a member of the Committee, he remembered considering these cases, and the Committee thought the appropriation ought to be made.
Mr. ROLEKER--I say it is necessary to buy the ground for a graveyard. The present burial ground does not belong to the Prison and has no fence around it, and the hogs and cattle run over it. I think it is very necessary that the State buy a graveyard and have it fenced to bury their dead.
Mr. MEREDITH moved to amend the amendment by striking out that part relating to the purchase of a burial ground.
The amendment to the amendment was rejected.
Mr. GIBSON offered a substitute, which was adopted, inserting $3,000 for the purchase of a burial ground.
Further amendments were adopted, viz:
By Mr. CAUTHORNE, $6,500 for additional buildings at the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
By Mr. BUSKIRK, $3,000 for a heating apparatus in Bloomington University.
A yea and nay vote discovering no quorum--
Then came an adjournment.
