RECLAMATION OF WET LANDS.
He also made the same order and the same statement with reference to the bill [H. R. 147] to enable owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same.
Mr. BELL could not vote for a bill that has never been read here, and which affects a large portion of the State. A long and well digested drainage bill has already passed this General Assembly, and he hoped the Senate will not pass another and confuse this subject, which he hoped had been forever settled.
Mr. HENRY regarded this as greatly inferior to the act passed by this Legislature, though he would regret to see it defeated because so many members of the House are wedded to it.
Mr. WHITE favored this bill as being far superior to the one passed, which was framed by the Revision Committee.
Mr. KRAMER also spoke in favor of this bill. There is a clause in the bill passed which refers to this one, and neither repeals the drainage act of 1875.
The bill passed by--yeas, 28; nays, 12.
