AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr. FRAZEE offered a concurrent resolution, which was referred to a Committee of Three, returning thanks to James Gordon Bennett for his princely gift to the sufferers from the Ohio River floods.
Mr. SCHLOSS offered a resolution, which was laid on the table, granting aid to persons rendered destitute by the floods on the Wabash.
STATE UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT.
Mr. HEFFREN called up the special order, being Mr. GRAHAM'S bill [H. R. 256], to provide a fund for the permanent endowment of the State University which was read the third time.
Mr. SUTTON favored the passage of the bill with the prevent provisions. This bill seeks to give five cents en the $1,000. A man who pays a tax of $10,000 would pay a tax of fifty cents to this institution. But this tax as provided under the previsions of this bill will raise a tax of $45,000 yearly. He understood that overtures had been made to some of the Professors by Eastern Colleges and he favored placing the school in such a concition that these men would be retained.
Mr. HEFFREN. I have said nothing upon thi bill in its various stages, and shall say but little now. I perhaps am differently constituted from many on this floor. 1 have never yet learned to weigh dimes and dollars against education, knowledge and science. For half a century Indiana has had a University with no endowment fund. It is time she had such an Institution well endowed, where her sons may achieve distinction in the battle of life. I would have one Institution, where we might point in after years and say, there was another Galileo or another Herschel brought forth to the world; one who, pointing his telescope into infinite space, could make new discoveries; where comets and planets perform their stupendous revolutions, that would ennoble the name and fame of Indiana. I would have another Cuvier produced, who, by comparative anotomy, can reconstruct the monsters of ancient times from a single bone. I would have a Hugh Miller, with his geologist's hammer in his hand, standing fit the loot of some mighty cliff, roll back the curtain of time, and, as he laid bare the rocks, read of ages long since passed and gone, and what and who inhabited this world of ours. I would have one place where Indiana's sons and daughters could store the mind with knowledge, civilization and science, find where they might go forth from and flaunt their names high up on the ladder of fame where their attainments, knowledge and genius should stand as beacon lights to a lesser informed world. This would I have Indiana do for her children, and thus would I rear a monument of science and intelligence that would stand out in all the glory and splendor that could encircle go noble and glorious a purpose. Endow this University, pass this bill, and Indiana's name will be honored when our bodies shall be dust and we gathered to our rewards. I hope the bill will pass.
Mr. JEWETT demanded the previous question, which was seconded by the House.
Under the operations of the previous question the bill passed the House by yeas, 78; nays, 61.
SENATE BILLS READ.
Mr. HEFFREN moved to suspend the rules and read the following Senate bills the first and second time, by title only.
The motion was agreed to by yeas, 95; nays, 0:
The bill [S. 45] to incorporate the Ohio Insurance Company.
The bill [S. 278] supplemental to an act concerning drainage.
The bill [S. 250] to establish provisions respecting private corporations.
The bill [S. 236] to fix commutations of terms of sentence on account of good behavior of persons confined in the State Prisons.
The bill [S. 178] supplemental to an act to establish public libraries.
The bill [S. 229] to regulate the business of Express Companies.
The joint resolution [S. 2] to provide for the payment of a claim to Mrs. Edwin May.
page: 278[View Page 278]The bill [S. 189] to authorize Railroad Companies to guarantee the bonds of any other Railroad Company, etc.
The bill [S. 120] to amend an act amendatory of the charter of Clarksville, in Clark County.
The bill [S. 200] for assessment of lands for the benefit of certain roads.
The bill [S. 260] to legalize the incorporation of the town of Darlington, Montgomery County.
The bill [S. 140] to authorize the sale of certain lands in the State of Indiana.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
The bill [S. 12] to define the crime of false pretense was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, -; nays, 0.
The bill [S. 74] to authorize any Manufacturing or Hydraulic Company to erect a dam across the St. Joseph River in Elkhart County was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 75; nays, 7.
The bill [S. 196] to amend an act to divide the State into Judicial Circuits was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 65; nays, 25.
The bill [S. 138] concerning railroads crossing each other on a common grade was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 85; nays, 5.
The bill [S. 67] to authorize municipal corporations to invest their sinking funds in Government, State and County bonds, was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 78; nays, 5.
The bill [S. 285] to legalize the term of Court held in Pulaski County in June, 1881, was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 70; nays, 10.
The bill [S. 105] to legalise the incorporation of the town of Waynetown, Montgomery County, Indiana, was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 75; nays, 6.
The bill [S. 151] to amend Section 5,852 of the code of 1881, concerning the election of Clerks, was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 81; nays, 0.
The bi 1 [S. 114] to amend Section 6,464 of the code of 1881, concerning the publication of the delinquent tax list, was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 85; nays, 2.
The bill [S. 57] to amend Section 280 of the civil procedure act was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 76; nays, 4.
The bill [S. 162] concerning deeds executed by administrators executors, guardians, Sheriffs and Commissioners of Courts was read the third time and passed the House by yeas, 77; nays, 9.
The bill [S. 174] concerning the Supreme Court, and providing for the continuation of the Supreme Court Commission for two years, was read the third time.
Mr. PATTEN was opposed to the continuation of this Supreme Court Commission, and moved to postpone the bill indefinitely, which he subsequently withdrew.
On motion by Mr. FRAZER the further consideration of the question was postponed until ft o'clock to-morrow morning.
The bill [H. R. 456] to provide for the erection of the new State House was read the second time and made the special order for to-morrow morning at 9:30 o'clock.
The House adjourned until 9 o'clock to-morrow.
