AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr. JEWETT moved to take from the table the resolution authorizing the appointment of a Committee to inform the Senate of the organization of the House. He was sure the Senate had taken a wrong step, and the House should not recede from its action.
Mr. STEWART was at a loss to know how the House can inform the Senate it is organized other than by sending a message to that effect by its Clerk. If the Senate does not received him, how are we to inform the Senate of our organization? He knew no good reason for taking the resolution from the table.
Mr. JEWETT did not think the House, on a mere question of dignity, should fritter away a page: 13[View Page 13] day or two. He could see why a gentleman presenting himself at the door of the Senate. claiming to be a Clerk of the House, should be able to identify himself. We are compelled to take notice of persons constituting the Senate of Indiana, and so is the Senate compelled o take notice of persons constituting the House. The action of the Senate can not be deferred on the plane of common sense. Somebody in the Senate has made a worse mistake than we have in the House. Let us go to business rather than pursue a policy more like schoolboys than legislators and men.
Mr. ANTRIM-The mistake lies not in the action of the House. The House authorized its Clerk to notify the Senate that the House was organized. The Senate failed or refused to receive our communication. It was not a communication from the Clerk, but a communication from the House through its Clerk. We have clone all we can do. The Senate refuses to recognize our messenger. It is responsible for the delay, and the House is not.
Mr. FRAZTER-The Senate has refused to receive a notification from. The House announcing: our organization. There is but one way provided in the joint rules by which messages may be transmitted between the two Houses. There is no rule under which the Senate can send a message to the House by a member of this House. Somebody told our Committee to say something to the House. We have nothing but hearsay that the Senate has refused to accept our message as delivered by the Clerk. He made the point of order that the proper motion is to reconsider, and not to take from the table.
The SPEAKER decided the point of order not well taken.
The pending motion to take from the table was lost-yeas 43; nays, 44.
Pending the roll call-
Mr. A. W. BROOKS, of Allen, and Mr. B. S. GREEN, of Dubois and Martin, appeared at the bar of the House and were sworn in by the Speaker.
Mr. JEWETT offered a resolution for the appointment of a Committee of three to inform the Senate of the organization of the House and that it is ready to proceed with Legislative business.
A MEMBER desired the Clerk to state his action in the matter, and what the message contained.
By consent Mr. Clerk Edwins said: I went into the Senate Chamber, proceeded to the rear of the Chamber, and had the Doorkeeper or Sergeant-at-Arms announce a message from the House as usual. I addressed the President of the Senate, and read the message in the following words: "Mr. President-The House has instructed me to inform the Senate that they organized by the election of Hon. W. D. Bynum, of Marion County, Speaker; S. W. Edwins, of Madison County, Principal Clerk; H. B. Frey, of Grant County, as Doorkeeper, and is now ready to proceed to legislative business.
Mr. CAMPBELL-That is the substance of the resolution now offered, and I don't see the necessity of doing over again what we have done.
On motion of Mr. ANTRIM the resolution was laid on the table upon a division- affirmative, 55; negative, 33, as reported by Messrs. Jewett and Wilson, of Kosciousko, Tellers appointed by the Speaker.
Mr. HEFFREN introduced a bill [H. R. 1] for an act appropriating $125,000 to defray the expenses of the regular session of the Fifty-third General Assembly of Indiana, and other matters connected therewith. Which was read the first time, and under dispensation of the constitutional restriction requiring bills to be read on three several days, was read the second time by title only, the third time by sections and finally passed the House of Representatives-yeas, 93, nays 2.
Mr. McMcullen offered a resolution that the Speaker appoint a Committee of five to report the number of appointees as well as by whom appointed.
It was laid on the table.
Mr. KIRKPATRICK offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the thanks of the House be tendered Hon. 0. M. Wilson for services rendered in assisting in the organization of the House of Representatives.
Mr. HEFFREN-It is necessary that we have the Revised Statues. I am informed that they are on hand, and I move that the Secretary of State be requested to furnish members of the House with one copy each of the Revised Statues, to be returned to the Librarian at the expiration of the session.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. MONTGOMERY offered a resolution reciting that whereas there are a great many persons anxiously awaiting the action of the General Assembly with regard to the election of officers in its gift, resolved, that a Committee of three be appointed by the House and a like Committee by the Senate to fix a time for such election in the near future.
On motion by Mr. HEFFREN it was laid on the table.
Mr. JEWETT offered a resolution that this House has learned with sincere regret of the death of Hon. H. S> Perrette, a member elected to this House from the County of Floyd, and said:
"I will not detain the House at any length, but it seems to me proper that something should be said when the House is about to take action in memory of the death of one of its members. Very few members had met him. His death occurred under more than ordinarily distressing circumstances, from the fact that the wife of his youth until within two weeks of his death was in the full flush of life. Yet she was stricken down, and he returned from her grave with the grasp of death in his ame. And his death was the more pitiful from the fact that he left three small children, the oldest of which is an inmate of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. He was a man with a career not marked with any great public service, but he was a useful citizen and trusted friend. It was my painful pleasure, if such an expression may be allowed, to attend his funeral, and I never saw love manifested in a greater degree by the people of his neighborhood than at his burial. I move that this resolution be passed by a rising vote.
The resolution was so adopted.
Mr. HEFFREN-As a further mark of respect to the deceased I move that the House do now adjourn.
The motion was agreed to.
And so the House adjourned till to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock under the rule.
