The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-01
LegisIative summary.

In the Senate, on Fridsy, the sub-Treasury
bill, designating the duties of the State Treas
urer, and the mode ofkeeping and disbursing
the public revenues, was passed by the fol-
lowing vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Anthony, Beeson, Bennett,
Blair, Brown, Conner, Cooper, Cravens, Gull
yer, Craven, Geoding, Green, Hamilton,
Johnston, Jones, Kinley, Line, Mclean,
Murray, Odell, Rice, Robinson, Steele, Ste
vens, Studabaker, Turner, Wagner, and
Williams-2s.
NAYs-Messrs. Bobbs, Carnahan, Cobb,
Conley, Fisk, Hargrove, Hefren, Hendry,
Jennings, Lomax, Mcclure, March, Miller,
O'Rrien, Slack, Harrington, Thompson, and
Wilson'S.
The bill defining the mode of electing
United States Senators in future, was passed
on Thursday by vote of 20 to 5.
On Friday the House bill fixing the time
for holding the courts of Common Pleas
in the counties of Gibson, Posey, Wander
burgh, Warrick, Knox, Daviess, Pike, and
Dubois, was read three times and passed.
A bill declaring the selling and conveying
of land without title, felony, passed.
A bill to provide for the publication of all
acts and joint resolutions, containing an
emergency clause, in one weekly newspaper
in each county of the State, passed.
In the House the bill redistricting the
State into twenty-one Common Pleas Dis
tricts and giving the Judges a salary of
$1,000, was taken up and after debate pass
ed The bill completely re-organizes the
districts of the Common Pleas Courts
| After the passage of the bill a committee was
appointed consisting of Messrs. Stanfield,
| Blythe, Eastman, Jones, Davis, Gregory,
Austin, Collins, and others, to prepare bill
fixing the time of holding the Courts OF
Common Pleas in the counties in the new
| districts 1t was said the bill would save
about $4,000 annually to the State. II
passed by vote Of SO to 25.
The Committee on Agriculture returned
sundry papers on the subject of accepting
the Congressional donation of public lands
100000 acres to each Representative and
Senator in Congress, and 10000 acres to
each Representative to which the State shall
be entitled under the next census and ap-
portionment to each of the land States, and
the same proportionate amount in land
script to the States in which there is
no public land), to be applied to the cree
ton of colleges for the encouragement O
agriculture and the mechanic arts-and re-
ported two bills founded thereon, entitled
A bill accepting, on the part of the State
of Indiana, certain public lands, donated tc
such States of the Union as shall accept anC
provide for the erection of colleges for the
support of agriculture and the mechanic arts
and providing for notice of the same to bt
given by the Governor of the State to the
Secretary of the Interior.
\ bill defining the duties Of the Auditor
and Treasurer of State in the management
and security of the trusts arising from the
donation of certain public lands for thu
erection of colleges for the encouragement
of agriculture and the mechanic arts, ant
providing for the election of Board of Re
gents for the government of such institu
tions, and defining their powers, duties, &c