ASYLUM FOR THE FEEBLE MINDED.
The bill [S. 102] for the reorganization of said Institution was reported back from the Committee on Benevolent Institutions, with a recommendation that the bill pass.
Mr. HEFFREN moved that the bill be read the third time and put upon its passage.
Mr. DEEM moved to recommit the bill with instructions to amend the bill as to read, "Soldiers' page: 230[View Page 230]Orphans' Home and Asylum for Feeble Minded Children, and to make the Trustees Trustees of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, with supervision over the Asylum, and further to make the annual salary of the Trustees two hundred dollars instead of five hundred as provided in the bill.
The motion was laid on the table by yeas, 57; nays, 39.
Mr. WILSON, of Kosciusko, moved that the further consideration of the bill be indefinitely postponed.
On motion by Mr. HEFFREN the motion to postpone was laid on the table by yeas, 53; nays 41.
Mr, HEFFREN moved the previous question, which was seconded by the House, and under the operations thereof the bill was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 56; nays, 37.
Mr. HEFFREN moved to reconsider the vote on the passage of the bill and lay that motion on the table, which latter motion was agreed to by yeas, 55; nays, 40.