ORPHANS' HOME INVESTIGATION.
Mr. BUNDY offered a concurrent resolution authorizing the appointment of a Joint Select Committee, consisting of three Senators and four Representatives, to investigate the charges of mis- appropriation of funds, etc., in connection with the management of the Soldiers' and Seamen's Orphans' Home and Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children at Knightstown, with power to send persons and papers.
After ineffectual motions by Mr. MENZIES--yeas, 21; nays, 23--to refer the resolution to the Committee on Benevolent Institutions, and--yeas, 20; nays, 21--to lay the resolution on the table, it was adopted without a division.
The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR made said Committee, on the part of the Senate, to consist of Messrs. Bundy, Spann and Voyles.
Mr. COMSTOCK called up his bill [S. 39] authorizing county Commissioners to establish Asylum, for Indigent Children, heretofore read the third time. Being again read on demand of a Senators Mr. C. asked and obtained unanimous consent to change the sum per day allowed for each child from 20 to 25 cents.
Mr. Bell called attention to the fact that the bill was not compulsory in terms. It is expected that but a few of the large Counties would avail themselves of its provisions.
The bill passed the Senate by yeas, 43; nays, 0.
