Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-02-02
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.


 Mr. Couch, from Columbia county, presented petition from lol citizens of the town of Masnoha m sad county. praying the passage of law prohibiting the sale of wines and ardent spirits within two miles of said town and pray ing the incorporation of the Magnolia female Institute; and also at the same time. presented remonstrance signed by 83 citizens of said town of Magnolia against the prohibition of ardent spirits, etc.; which were referred to the committee on petitions and memorials.
 Monday, Jan A. House met
 Prayer by the Chaplain.
 Mir. Duval offered series of resolutions in relation to the proclamation of the Governor. communicated to the Senate and House of Ren resentatives on the 23d December last, by which both houses were adjourned, and required the members to reassemble in their respective ca paclty on the 17th inst, etc, etc. which were read, and Mir. Quarles offered substitute. which was read and laid on the table.
 The House then went into committee of tho whole on Senate bill No. 8, ito exclude from residing in the State of Arkansas all free col. ored persons, mulattoes and negroes of the AZ rlcan race, and for other purposes"
 And after some time spent therein tba con,- mlttee rose, and through their chairman made the following report:
 The committee of the whole have had Sen. ate Dill Mo- under consideration and have made some progress therein and rose. and in structeu me 10 report the same hack to the House without amendment, and ask to he dis charged from the further consideration of said blli: Read and adopted.
 he question then came up on the adonton 1i the preamble and resolutions offered by MT Duval. v -''' MT. Gordon called for the yeas and nays wnich WI were ordered and the vote stood: yeas Ao' nays fz. So the preamble and resolutions were rejected Mir. Mitchell offered the followipo resolr. ton: '0'o'u- Resolvsa, That when the two Houses maat on the 18th inst, to elect an Auditor and Trea. surer' that they proceed to elect an Associate justice ot the supreme court, to fill the vacancy occaSloned by the death of the late Hon. q ocott, and the Senate be requested to concur herein. Adopted. MT Hiii moved to take up Senate bill No. q, to exclude from residing in the Srat, of ArkahSas, all free colored persons. mulattoes and negroes of the African race. and for otbar purposes" 0''0' MT. Carroll moved to amend the motion by striking ont Senate bill No. 8, and insert in lien thereof House bill No. 147, to remove free negroes and mulattoes from this State." which was accepted by MT. Hill.
 MT Quarles moved to amend by striking out !"uSe oill No l47, and insert House bill No. lo0, on the same subject, which motion did not prevail. he question then came up on the asonlion al the motion to take mp House bill No l47 and was decided in the affirmative. and s,id i,, gIi, was then taken up, and on motion of MT. nill, was made the special order of the day for ths afternoon at 21a o'clock; which motion pre- vailed. NIT. Williams, from the select committee. to whom was referred Senate bill No. 45. " for the rellet of k. G. Gardenhire, Robert L. Mltchel, Geo. w. Stokes and Stephen &. Bunch of the county of Lawrence.v reported that the committee have considered the hill and have instructed me)to report the same back to the House without amendment and recon. mend It's passage; which was read and received ana was rejected by vote of 20 yeas to 30 nays.
 DO the report was not adopted.
 On motion of Mr. Williams tba hill wos 'hen recommltied to the committee on claims. MT. Bunch, from the committee on enroll. ments, reported sundry bills correctly enrolled House took recess until 215 o'clock
 u 21s o'clock.
 House convened
 House bill No. 147, to remove free neoroes ana muIattoes from this State,n was taken m message was received from the Governor py 'ne hands of his private secretary. in rela. .oH .o 'he ueeison Of the secretary of the in. io' upon the selected swamp lands of the ment and railroad companies rnor .bo s.a,,aJ that many of the lands selected did no1 con,a fuily within the provisions of the act of Con greSs of lo5o. donating them to the State.
 mouse olll No. l41, was then read. and Mir remington offered the following amendment: Aud at the end of sec 8, provided further that when any free negro or mulatto chooses master or mistress under the provisions of this act' that It shall be the duty of the iudoe of the circuit court to appoint three responsible ci 'lzehs ol the county in which said free negro or negroes may reside to value such free negro or negroes, and the master or mistress so cho sen oy them, shall pay one half of such valua- tioh lhto the county treasury of the county for tne use or the common schools in said county" I "i'Cn was read, and on the question of it's adoption, 37 voted in the affirmative and 1a in the negative. Adopted.
 Mir. Duval offered to amend bv striking ont the proviso of the 4th section. fo-wit: "p Pro- Vlded such negro or muatto so purchased shall not De liable to be sold under execution for any oi Ihe deots ot such purchaser whether con "ac'ea before or after such purchase" Adopt MT Green offered the following amendment. Amend section 9 in the third line nrinted VIII, by inserting after the word "cost,, the words to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of sad negroes or mulattoes." Read and adopted A'o"N anu Mr
 MT. Dnual moved to amend by striking out Mr. nuval withdrew his amendment in favor ol one offered by Mir. Edwards. to-wit: Amehd section Il by adding the words until after said free negroes or mnlattoes cor, to the age of 21 years.o
 Mir. Baxter moved the indefinite ,,os+nono ment of the bill and amendments
 on which motion, Mr. Neal called for tho yeas and nays, which were ordered.
 The motion to postpone indefinitely was dis. cuSSed at some length by several members pending which, Mir. Anderson of Phillins ,nov' ed an adjournment
 On motion of Mr. Carlisle. the House od Journed until 91a o'clock tomorrow morn;ng
 Tuesday, Jan. 25.
 House met
 Prayer by the Chaplain.
 Mir. Pennington asked and obtained leave of absence for Mir. Johnson of Pulaski, on account of sickness in his family.
 The reading of the journal of yesterday was dispensed with, in relation to the resolutions in- troduced by Mr. Duval and also the Govern or's message and accompanying documents.
 On motion of MT Edwards. the call of conn., hes was postponed by vote of 32 yeas to 29 nays.
 On motion of Mr. Edwards House bill No. l4', '" to remove the free negroes and mulat- 1ces 9; rom thls State,' was taken up, and the diScussIon on the same was resumed
 MI. McRae was called to the chair. Pending the discussion, message was re- celved from the Senate by the hands of their secretary returning House bill No. f. ito pre- vent the people from being defrauded with panS paper" with amendments: and other hills mouse ensrossed bill No 292, "concerning Q grand grand and petit jurors in the counties of Crit 1enGen' prais;n ay Laayette; Hot Spring, Chicot Polk frairie, Jackson; Calhoun. White, Clark. Mad. son, Ouachita, Union. Pbilins Won, slau-