AFTERNOON SESSION.
The resolution pending at the noon recess was adopted.
Mr. VOYLES offered a resolution, which was adopted, allowing the Reading Clerk, Frank A. Smith, $80 extra.
Mr. DAVIDSON offered a resolution allowing Vincent P. Kirk, for the time he was suspended from the office of Doorkeeper.
On motion by Mr. RAHM it was laid on the table.
Mr. RICHARDSON offered a resolution, which was adopted, allowing a number of claims for labor and supplies, amounting to $36.
Mr. SPANN offered a concurrent resolution Authorizing the printing and distributing of all laws passed with an emergency clause.
Mr BELL from the Committee on Elections, reported a resolution for payment of reporters, witnesses, etc., in the contested case of Johnson versus Overstreet, amounting to over $300, pending the reading of which-
A MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
at 3:15 o'clock announced the passage of the metropolitan police bill by the House of Representatives, the Governor's veto to the contrary notwithstanding. The message also included the Governor's veto
The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR directed the message and the veto to be read at once, which was done by the Principal Secretary.
The bill was then passed, the objections of the 'Governor to the contrary notwithstanding, by yeas, 26; nays, 21-as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bell, Brown, Compton, Davidson, Duncan, Ernest, Faulkner, Fletcher, Hill, Hilligass, Hoover, Howard, Hutchinson, Johnston of Dearborn, Johnson of Tippecanoe, Magee, Marvin, May, McClure, McCullough, McIntosh, Rahm, Richardson, Smith of Jay, Voyles, Wiliard-26.
Nays-Messrs. Adkinson, Benz, Bichowski, Bundy, Campbell, Fleming, Foulke, Graham, Henry, Keiser, Lockridge, Lindley, Macartney, Overstreet, Ristine, Sayre, Spann, Van Vorhis, White, Yancy, Youche-21.
So the metropolitan police bill was finally passed.
The reading of the resolution paying expenses In in the contested election case was finished.
It was adopted.
Mr. BUNDY offered a concurrent resolution to accept copyright of the Code Commissioners secured on the Revised Statute of 1881, and authorizing the Secretary of State to sell to any person for $2 per volume, for which the Secretary shall be entitled to fifteen cents. It was adopted.
CONTRACT CONVICT LABOR.
Mr. JOHNSON offered the following:
Whereas, From all sections and from nearly every County, the State petitions have come to this General Assembly praying for the abolition of the present system of hiring out the labor of convicts of our Penitentiaries and the inmates of our Reform Schools and Benevolent Institutions, under contract to the highest bidder.
Whereas, A bill passed by the Senate for the regulation of said convict labor aims only at modifying the present system, but falls short of abolishing it and applying the proper remedy for its evil and abuses; and,
Whereas, The short time of the legislative section prevented this General Assembly from finding the proper remedy for this system, which is admitted to be pernicious to the interests of Indiana manufacturers and Indiana mechanics and workingmen,
Resolved, That Committee of three Senators holding over for the General Assembly of 1885 be appointed by the President of the Senate to prepare a bill abolishing the present system of convict labor and substitute a system of employment for the convicts of our Penitentiaries, and the Inmates of our Reformatory School and Benevolent Institutions which will not come in competition with Indiana manufacturers.
Resolved, That the members of said Committee of three Senators shall not be entitled to any compensation for services on the Committee.
The resolution was adopted and the Lieutenant Governor makes the Committee to consist of Messrs. Johnson, Foulke and Campbell.
On motion by Mr. SPANN a Committee of Two-Messrs. Spann and Magee-were appointed to wait on the Governor and ascertain whether Hit Excellency has any further communication to make to the Senate.
The Committee soon returned and reported the Governor has no further communication to make to either Branch of the General Assembly.
On motion by Mr. YANCEY the concurrent resolution of the House authorizing a highway opened across the north end of the grounds of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, was concurred in by the Senate.
Mr. FOULKE offered a resolution declaring it the opinion of the Senate that the action of the House of Representatives, in failing, without sufficient reason, to pass the general appropriation bill during the time allotted for the present regular session, is injurious to the best interests of the people.
Mr. VOYLES raised the point of order that this resolution is out of order, because it attempts to criticise a co-ordinate branch of the General Assembly.
The PRESIDENT pro tem. [Mr. Bundy in the Chair] overruled the point of order.
Messrs Bell and Voyles appealed from the decision of the Chair.
A MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
announced that the House of Representatives has concurred in the report of the Senate Conference Committee on the general appropriation bill [H. R 302] and a few minutes after another message announced that the Speaker had signed said bill.
Mr. SPANN-made an ineffectual motion-yeas, 18; nays, 26-that the Senate adjourn sine die.
Mr. FOULKE claiming the floor-
Mr. YANCEY offered a resolution, which was rejected-yeas, 18; nays, 26-that John L. Patterson, Deputy Clerk, be allowed $1 per day extra.
Mr CAMPBELL, explaining his negative vote, said: Upon every proposition which has been made to-day for the payment of additional wages to the employes of this Senate I have voted "no." and shall continue to vote "no." I grant that so far as I know the officers of this Senate may have done their work well; certainly they have been courteous and attentive, but in voting money as a public officer I know of no principle by which to be governed except by the same equity and integrity A I would be in my private business. These employes have sought these positions with the knowledge of the wages paid, which I may add is in all cases nearly if not quite double what they would get in other positions. page: 295[View Page 295] As a, business proposition for personal services not a Senator upon this floor would think of making this additional payment at the expiration of the service, and yet hundreds of dollars have to-day been voted with as much freedom as though the people's money came without burden to them and is to be cared for without responsibility on our part. Men have been voted $6 per day for duties that as a business proposition, no Senator upon this floor would have paid more than $l per day for, and could have got it well done for less than that. I see no ground of equity or integrity for doing this, and hence, as I nave been doing all day, I still vote "no."
Mr. MAGEE offered a resolution that the thanks of this Senate are hereby tendered James Gordon Bennett for his magnificent contribution to the fund for the relief of the sufferers occasioned by the recent floods of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers, and that the secretary of this Senate be authorized to transmit to Mr. Bennett a copy of this resolution.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. HENRY offered a resolution to pay $5 to a witness before the Fee and Salary Committee.
On motion by Mr. VOYLES it was laid on the table.
Mr. FOULKE still claiming the floor
Mr. VOYLES offered a resolution allowing $45 extra pay to Frederick W, Daniels, Senate Postmaster.
On motion by Mr. HENRY it was laid on the table.
Mr. GRAHAM offered a resolution, which was adopted, allowing $1 a day extra pay to Mrs. L E. Bundy, pa[p?]er folder.
Mr. McINTOSH making an ineffectual motion to lay it on the table
Mr. FOULKE still claiming the floor-
Mr. BROWN insisted that the Democratic party on the floor of the Senate should keep still and allow the Senator from Wayne [Mr. Foulke], who seems to be trying to out Herod the Senator from Rush, to crack his whip and lash it over our backs just as much as he pleases, because if there ever was a set of folks in the Senate lathed, in weapon and out of season, it has been the Republican members of this Senate.
Mr. FOULKE, still claiming the floor, gave way for-
Mr. SPANN, who moved that the Senate adjourn sine die.
The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR put the motion and declared it, carried and calls for the yeas and nays and boisterous applause.
So at 3:15 o'clock p.m., the Senate adjourned sine die.
