NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following described bills were introduced read the first time, and severally referred to appropriate Committee:
By Mr. Yancy [S. 74]: To regulate and improve the practice of medicine in Indiana. Divides the State into nine Districts, the Governor to appoint Board of Examiners in each from each school of medicine.
By Mr. Bell [S. 75]: To enable owners of lands subject to overflow by any stream or river to reclaim and protect such lands by a system of levees, with proper dikes, water-gates and breakwaters.
It provided for petition by a majority of such land owners, along any river or water course, to the Board of Commissioners; for the appointment of appraisers for the assessment of benefits and damages; for making such assessment a lien upon the lands; for an appeal by the land owner to the Circuit Court, etc. The bill is lengthy and provides full safeguards and defines the method of procedure in detail.
By Mr. Woods [S. 76]: To permit all patents issued by the United States and by the State of Indiana conveying real estate in said State, and the record of all patents aforesaid, legal evidence in the Courts thereof, and to provide for recording all patents aforesaid for said purpose.
By Mr. Brown [S. 77]: To provide for exemption from sale or execution or other processes issuing upon demands arising out of contract, express or implied, certain property, and exempting from sale a homestead, and to prevent the same from being mortgaged to secure debts or demands, and preventing the same from being conveys without the consent of the wife. [Every householder having a family dependent on him may hold exempt from execution a house, outbuilding and grounds not exceeding in value $1,500.]
By Mr. Chapman [S. 78]: To create a State Board of Charities for the various Charitable and Benevolent Institutions of the State, and of the respective Counties thereof, providing for the appointment of such Board, defining its powers and duties, etc.
By Mr.Comstock [S. 79]: Concerning the purchase of toll roads and their management as free roads.
By Mr. Foster [S. 80]: For the preservation of life and limb of railroad employes. [It requires all Railroad Companies doing business in Indiana to change freight cars within sixty days to a uniform height, so a coupling can be devised rendering it less liable to cause accidents.]
Pending the introduction of bills--
The Lieutenant Governor announced the Special Committee of one from each Congressional District, to which was referred the bill [S. 1] providing for calling a Constitutional Convention, viz.: Messrs. Brown, Hart, Hefron, Wilson, Lockridge, Spann, Chapman, Compton, Langdon, Woods, Sayre, White and Foster.
The Lieutenant Governor laid before the Senate the following list of appointees, arranged by the officers of the Senate, which was ordered spread upon the journal.
Appointments by the Principle Secretary:
- Reading Clerk--Peter C. Canary, of Marion county.
- Registry Clerk--William F. A. Bernhamer, of Marion County.
- File Clerk- J. L. Leach, of Floyd County.
- Engrossing Clerks--W. W. Woollen, Jr., of Marion County; C. L. Speer, of Marion County; William W. Buchanan, of Marion County.
- Enrolling Clerks--Peter H. Pernot, of Allen County; H. S. Mintle, of St. Joseph County.
Appointments by the Assistant Secretary:
- Minute Clerk--W. H. Drapier, of Marion County.
- Principal Journal Clerk--J. T. Darnell, of Putnam County.
- Copying Clerk--C. F. Robbins, of Marion County.
- Copying Clerk--Aaron P. Harrell, of Warren County.
- Copying Clerk--Edward E. Davis, of Vermillion County.
Appointments by the Doorkeeper:
- First Assistant--Walter Poindexter, of Clark County.
- Second Assistant--Frank H. Pillet, of Marion County.
- Third Assistant--John W. Marian, of Rush County.
- Postmaster--A. W. Monroe, Jr., of Floyd County.
- Paper-folder--W. H. Padgett, of Scott County.
- Sweeper--John Campbell, of Vermillion County.
- Spittoon Cleaner--J. T. Owen, of Putnam County.
Pages appointed by President pro tem. Viehe and the Lieutenant Governor:
- Harry Bouser, of Marion County.
- George Price, of Marion County.
- Ralph J. Pendledon, of Marion County.
- Harry Richardson, of Putnam County.
- Kay Robinson, of Marion County.
On motion by Mr. Yancey, Senator Van Vorhis was added to the Standing Committee on Public Health and Vital Statistics.
A yea and nay vote discovering no quorum present--
The Senate adjourned (under a previous order) till Monday 2 o'clock p. m.
