Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-02-05
Legislative Summary.
as usual
SENATE.

Hardly day passes but petlons arC
presented to pryent incompetent person:
from practicing medicine The peopl,
suffer more from quackery than from any
other cause, and ifthey can be legally pro
tected they should.
On Friday number OF bills were intro
duced, but the day was principally occu
pied in considering the rules of the Senate
On one, to permit no member to vote
where he is personally interested. on the
APPLICATION of the previous question, by the
Republicans, the Democrats retired to the
lobby. thus breaking the quorum. The
entire afternoon and part Of the morning
WAS spent in this way
On Saturday morning the Senate me!
and adjourned until Tuesday, at o'clock
The committees are full of business, and
require time to make up their reports
On tuesday afternoon the rules for the
government Of the Senate were all adopted
\ petition WAS presented from W. j. Eli
OFT, asking to be admitted to the seat now
occupied by Dr.. Bobbs. II WAS referred
to the proper committee. y number Of
resolutions Of inquiry were passed, and
several bills were introduced, and read a
first time. No BIZ received final action
at the session Of this af.erno Don.
On Wednesday, the Senate was in ses-
sion all day. and good deal Of business
was transacted. \ resolution was intro
duced by Mr.. Mclean to go into joint con
vention ON Tuesday next. to elec. State
Agent, Canal Trustee and Librarian, j;
was laid over, and in the afternoon il was
Withdrawn. A number of bills on their
second reading were disposed Of The Gill
on interest was made the order Of the day
for next Wednesday AZ two o'clock. The
law establishing Courts of Cancellation was
up for amendment, and brought on! good
deal Of discussion. Il was referred to the
judiciary committee. The bill to regulate
elections and prevent frauds, was under
discussion in the afternoon. Amendments
were offered 70 require q residence Of ten
days in the township Immediately preced-
lag the election, but /. was referred back
without adopting them.
Thursday bill was passed to establish
an Inspector Of Tobacco; also to prevent
personal property out Of corporation limits
owned by persons residing thereon, from
being taxed for corporation purposes
All tie afternoon was spent in discussing
the bill on lis third reading, to ALLOW ten
per cent interest on contracts, and it pass
ed by vote Of 50 to II. 4 bim vas in
troduced to provide for a license law, and
passed to second reading y number of
bills were read second time, and resolu-
tons on various subjects adopted. but no.
thing of special interest.
HOUSE.
On Friday, bill was reported from the
committee declaring the Illegal use or
transfer Of bonds by State officer to be
ENLIGHTENMENT OF felony, and prescribing
the punishment. The bill to repeal the
liquor law was ordered to be engrosscd.-
The divorce bill passed the House by Il
large vote. The changes made are allow
ing the parties equal rights to the real es-
tate; to allow the Court to grant alimony,
and to require residence in the State for
one year before the petition is fed. This
will cut off the great bulk of divorce bust
ness. y bill passed defining misdemca-
meanors, and declaring the punishment
for them. An opinion was submitted
from the AttorneY General declaring that in
his opinion. for the reasons given, the
State Is not bound for the redemption OF
the Gramercy and Atiica Bank bills. The
House adjourned until Monday.
On Monday a number Of bills were in
troduced. among others one TO provide
that property shall no. be sold for delia
quent taxes, but shall be part of the school
fund. and be redccmable Another, tha.
common councils may fix the time for as
sesslng and collecting taxes. a joint reso-
luton relatiye TO the admission Of Kansas
as u flee STATE was laid on the table. The
bill to repeal The present liquor law bro't
forth lengthy and bitter personal discus
sion. The Republicans contending that
the Democrats were responsible for the
passage of the law, as i. was signed by 4
Democratic Governor and passed the SEN
ate. "a majority of whom were Democratic;
willie the Democrats declared, that altho'
individual members of the patty favored
the law, as party, the entire strength op-
posed and condemned it, both before and
after lis passage. The history of the law
and all its details were brought in review
during the debate. and before a vote was
taken the House adjourned.
On Tuesday, in the House, among 9TH
er bills introduced was enc by Mr.. Blake,
to amend the third ard ninth sections OF
the Constitution, SO as to provide for the
annual election Of members and the annual
SEES sion Of the Legislature-it was read the
first time. and laid over; also a bill to give
married women, whose husbands are III
the State Prison, or who have deserted
them, the right, under the direction of the
Court, to sell real or personal property; col
lect debts, dc. The bill repeating the il
quor law was again brought up, and a
lengthy discussion took place. both parti-
san and personal in its character. The
bill passed. bya vote of 10 to 10. This re-
peals the late prohibory liquor law. A
bill was passed to provide for distributing
tho German edition Of the Revised Sta
tutes-these books hevc never been dis
tributel Also, one to provide for the ap-