Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-05
Legislative Proceedings.
Senate met. Prayer by the Chaplain.
SLNA I E. Tuesday, Dec. 21.

V, renee with the amendment of the Senate to the resolution concerning recess
 Mir. Hampton presented the petition of Creed Tavlor, stating that he had heard with surprise and regret of the excess of swamp land scrip over the amount reported by the board of com missoners and asking for an investigation.
 MT. Gaines was excused from service on the swamp land committee, and on his motion, Messrs Davies and Marshall were added there- to.
 MT. Watkins, from the committee. presented a report and accompanying bill. The report recommends an entire change in the peniten- tiary system, and the bill being No. ll5, to pro vide for the management and control of the penltentlary, read twice. referred to the committee of the whole, and 100 copies of the report and bill ordered to be printed.
 Mir. Askew introduced Senate bill No. 116, concerning the apportionmeDt of road hands- Read three times and passed
 message was received from the House. sta- ting that they refused to concur in the Senate amendment to the resolution to adjourn for a time.
 On motion of Mr. Gaines, House bill No. 97, for the relief of l.. c. Morgan, was taken up. read three times and passed.
 Mir. Davies, from the select committee. re- ported substitute for Senate bill No. 50, to tax patent medicines, which substitute, being Senate bill No IF, for the benefit of the pub lie health, was read twice and referred to the committee on the judiciary.
 Mir Stirman offered resolution to take recess from he 22d day of December, to the 5th day of January. Tabled by vote of 13 to 8.
 The petition of Creed Taylor was referred to a committee.
 Mir Clark introduced Senate bill No. 118, to amend the election laws of this State Read twice and referred to the committee on the iu- diciarv
 Mr. Carrigan introduced Senate bill No 119, to amend sec. 3, of chapter 162 of the Digest, under the head of slaves. Same disposition made of the bill.
 On motion of Mr. Jones' House bill No. 139. granting charter to George w. Robertson aud Blake Little, to erect toll bridges twas taken up, read twice and referred to the comm tee on public roads.
 Mr. Floyd introduced Senate bill No 12O. to incorporate the White Sulphur Spring fe- male high school. Read twice and referred to the committee on education MT. McColloch introduced Senate bill No. l2l, supplementary to the act to incorporate the town of Hampton, which was read three times and passed. | MT. Davies was called to the chair. | On motion of MT. Clark, House bill Mo- 60 to prevent frauds and oppression under color of | judicial process, was taken up, read twice and referred to the committee on the judiciary. Mr. Trimble presented petition and bill No. 122, to change the name of Josephine Kate Morrow, to Josephine Kate Rushing.- Read three times and passed. An intellectual motion was made to adjourn. On motion of Mir. McColoch, House bill No. 20, to relieve certain purchasers of state lands was taken up, read twice, amended and refer red to the committee on the judiciary. message received from the House an- rouncing the passage of resolution to adjourn from December 21st, til January 10. After some debate the Senate refused to concur bv vote of to IA
 1 Messrs. Floyd, Stirman, Gaines, and Askew asked and obtained leave of absence. | Adjourned.
 Wednesday,, Dec. 15.
 Senate met Prayer by the Chaplain. At the call of the roll there were present Messrs. Carringan, Clark, Craighead, Davies, | Hammond, Hampton, Humphreys. Jones' Mar shall, McCreery, McCooch, Redmond, Terry, Trimbe, Watkins, Williams and Mir. Presi- dent-17.
 MT. Hampton introduced Senate bill No. 123 to amend the act incorporating the Ouachita conference female college
 Mir Redmond offered resolution giving the chaplain four dollars a day. Adopted
 Mir Clark introduced Senate bill No. 124. to repeal the act authorizing the courts of Sebas- tian, Crawford ard Franklin, to employ coun- ty attorney. Read twice, amended by MT. Humphreys, by striking out Crawford and Franklin, then read third time an1 passed.
 Mr. Jones introduced Senate bill No l25. to incorporate the town of Wittsburg Read twice and referred to the committee on the iu- dicary
 On motion of Mr. Hammond, House bill No. l24, requiring the internal improvement com miSsloners of certain counties to loan out the funds m sums not exceeding one hundred dol lars, was taken up, read twice and amended
 Oo motion of Mir. Marshall, House joint re- solution relative to mail route from Smith vile, Ark, to Springfield, Mo-, was read and concurred in.
 On motion of Mr. Terry, House bill No. 1855. to ieSaze the sale of sixteenth sections in Pu- SKI, lzard, Searcy, St. Francis and Prairie counties, was taken up, read three times and passed.
 On motion of Mr. Carrgan, the amendment of the House to Senate bill No. 146, approving an act of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, incorporating the Louisiana. Ar kansas and Texas navigation company, were read and two of them concurred in
 On motion of Mr. McCreery, Senate bill No. 56, for the relief of D. w. Carroll and Garlan Silvey, was read second tme
 On motonof Mir. Williams, House joint re- solution Tn relation to a change in the service on the mail route from Yelville to Clinton, was taken up and concurred in.
 Mir. Hammond introduced Senate bill No. l26, to amend section 50, of chapter 1O1 of Goud's Digest
 On motion of Mr.McColloch, House bill No. 2ol, to change the name of Emily Il. Jenkins, was taken up, read three times and passed
 Nr. Clark introduced Senate bill No. 127. to amend the criminal law of this State Read twice ana referred to the committee on the iu- dietary.
 On motion of Mr. Hammond joint resolution relative to donation of the arsenal grounds at Little Rock to the State, was read.
 MT. Carrigan offered as an amendment to strike out all after the resolving clause and to ask to have the number of arms and munitions of war increased. This motion was lost and the Senate'then refused to concur in the original resolution.
 A recess was taken and at o'clock, P. M., the Senate was called to order.
 Present: Messrs. Carrigan, Clark, Craighead, Davies, Hampton, Humphreys, Jones, Marshall, McCreery, McColloch, Redmond, Terry, Trim ble Williams and Mir. President--15-no uuo- rum.
 The President laid before the Senate, com- munication from the speaker of the House of Representative stating that there was not a quorum present in tbe House, and leave of ab- sence had been. granted to a sufficient number of members, to reduce it below the number re- quired to do business.
 Mr. Hampton offered the following:
 ReSolved That the two houses of the Gen. eral Assembly having disagreed as to a recess or adionrnm ent for limited time, and there being no quorum of either house present or likely to be for some days to come, it is the opinion of the members present that the constitution autbori zes ana the interests of the country requires the Governor to adjourn both houses to a day which he may think convenient and proper.
 This was withdrawn, when the following. off, fered by Mir. Redmond, was adopted:
 Resofuet, That the president of the Senate cause to be communicated to the Governor, a certified copy of the letter addressed to him