REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
The following described bills were reported back from Committees with a recommendation that further action be indefinitely postponed:
Mr. WILEY, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back Mr. Frazer's bill [H. R. 336] to amend Section 863 of an act concerning proceedings in civil cases. The report was concurred in.
Mr. HEFFREN, from the same Committee, reported back Mr. Shively's bill [H. R. 248] to amend section 1,637 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, concerning proceedings in criminal cases.
Mr. SHIVELY hoped that the report of the Committee would not be concurred in He had introduced the bill for the purpose of relieving the Courts. It provides that small misdemeanors, there the fine does not exceed $5, shall he tried before Justices, and that they shall have exclusive jurisdiction. It is merely to keep these trivial offenses out of our Courts.
The report of the Committee was concurred in.
