HOUSE OF REFUGE.
Mr. VOYLES called up his bill [S. 9, see page 168 of the Brevier Reports], to change the name for the government of the House of Refuge, being a special order. Having been read the third time heretofore, and the question being: Shall the bill pass?
The bill passed the Senate by yeas, 27; nays, 21.
Pending the roll call-
Mr. SPANN, when his name was called, said: I will vote against this bill for one reason-because, of a political necessity, it proposes to legislate out of office Dr. Freeman, of Union County, a gentleman appointed by the Governor of Indiana to serve a certain term and length of time. There have been no charges made against him on account of inefficiency, but he is to be legislated out of office because of a political necessity. I will vote against this bill because Dr. Freeman was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion; was wounded at Chickamauga; was shot through the body and lay on the battlefield three days, then was carried to a Hospital and lay on his back for six months. His case is reported in medical journals as being one of the most remarkable cases in the History of surgery. I desire to call attention to the fact that by the passage of this bill that man who has such a noble record Roes down in the dust under this bill, after having served his country so faithfully and that Institution so honestly. Therefore, I vote "no."
Mr. VOYLES, in explanation of his vote when his name was called, said: The Senator from Rush [Mr. Spann] has seen proper to make an objection when his ox is gored, f will remind him that a few days since, when a Democratic soldier with an armless sleeve was a candidate for Door-keeper, the Senator from Rush loudly and vindictively voted against him. So it is not the soldier so much with the Senator after all; with him it depends on whose political ox is being gored. This is the explanation of my vote. I vote "aye."
The vote was then announced as above recorded.
So the bill passed.
Mr. VOYLES moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, and to lay the motion to reconsider on the table.
This latter motion was rejected.
