SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION BILL.
The special order being the bill H. R. 487 it was taken up.
Mr. SMITH of Jay, moved to discharge the special order.
The motion was rejected by yeas 22, nays 26.
On motion by Mr. FOULKE the Senate resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole (Mr Foulke in the chair)
Mr MACY moved to add an iten item allowing $200 to William H. Schlater for publishing a list of bills in the Journal of 1881.
Mr SMITH, of Jay, moved that the committee rise and ask leave to sit Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
The motion was rejected upon a division - affirmative, 22; negative, 24
The motion (Mr. Macy's) was agreed to.
Mr. WILLARD moved to add an item to Albert P. Ayers for services as Clerk in 1879.
It was agreed to.
Mr WEIR moved an item to allow $2,000 as a contingent fund to be placed at the disposal of the Governor for the employment of counsel in defending suits brought against the State.
It was agreed to.
Mr. CAMPBELL, of St. Joseph, moved to adopt item 3, to allow the Perrin & Gaff Manufacturing Company $6 860 for rebuilding shops destroyed by fire at the State Prison South., which item had been passed over.
The motion was rejected.
Mr. SELLERS moved to add an item of $20,000 for a monument at the Tippecanoe battle ground
Mr. YOUCHE made an ineffectual motion that the committee rise and ask leave to sit again Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Mr. SMITH, of Jay, moved, ineffectually, that the committee rise, report progress and and ask leave to sit again Monday at 2 o'clock p. m.
Mr. YOUCHE moved to amend by adding $25,000 for a monument at Pigeon Roost, Clark County.
This amendment was ruled out of order.
The amendment (Mr. Sellers') was rejected.
Mr. RICHARDSON moved to amend by adding an item for ice furnished the session of 1883, $10.55.
It was agreed to.
Mr. BROWN moved that the committee rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again Monday afternoon.
The motion was agreed to.
Accordingly the committee rose, reported progress and asked leave to sit again Monday afternoon.
The report was concurred in.
