NEW PROPOSITIONS.
By Mr. Carr, by consent, [H. R. 418] to legalize the incorporation of the town of Cherabusco, Whitley County.
By Mr. Jewett, by consent, [H. R. 419] to appropriate the sum of $100,000 from the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of the sufferers from the floods of the Ohio, Wabash and White Rivers.
Mr. JEWETT stated the amount appropriated on yesterday is wholly inadequate to relieve the distress, and that he had in his possession several dispatches from the deluged districts which he desired to have read. The dispatches being read, he moved that the House take up and concur in the Senate amendment to the bill [H. R. 414] to provide $40,000 for the relief of the Ohio, Wabash and White River sufferers.
The motion was agreed to by consent.
Mr. JEWETT moved that the Constitutional rules be suspended and that his bill [H. R. 419] be read the second time by title. He would like to have an appropriation of $100,000 for the sufferers, but if that amount would not be appropriated, he desired to get as large an appropriation as the measure would allow. He explained the condition of affairs at New Albany in particular paying an exceedingly large number of the houses were small cottages, one story in height, and as these are flooded the people have absolutely no place to go, and many families depend upon the work of the mother for sustenance.
Mr. WILSON, of Marion, said the safest way would be to pass the bill to a second reading and leave it in that condition for the present, and until the present appropriation is distributed.
The motion to suspend the rules and read the bill the second time by title was agreed to by yeas, 82; nays, 7.
Mr. JEWETT moved that the bill be considered' engrossed, read the third time and put upon its passage.
A motion to strike out $100,000 and insert $60,000 was on motion by Mr. GRAHAM, laid on the table.
On motion by Mr. SHIVLEY the bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Mr. Tuley offered a concurrent resolution instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to use their influence to secure an appropriation of a liberal sum from the General Government for the relief of all persons suffering from the flood of the Ohio.
Mr. SHOCKNEY was of the opinion that the State of Indiana could provide ample means of relief for all sufferers within her borders, and as other States could do the same he did not think it necessary to call upon Congress.
An ineffectual motion was made to make the resolution Include the sufferers from the Wabash and White Rivers.
The resolution was adopted.
page: 211[View Page 211]On motion by Mr. HEFFREN the vote by which Mr. Wlley's bill [H. R. 219] to amend Section 4,497 of the Revised Statutes was indefinitely postponed, was reconsidered.
