Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
Legislative summary,


any time The amount Of during January slight,
probably about Ia inches in all.
Legislative summary
MONDAY, January Is, 1851.
SENArE-A communication was received from
the President of the Bank of the State in reply to
a resolution of the Senate giving it as his Opin-
ion that an expansion of bank circulation is mex
Pedient. The bill from the House to provide for
loan Of SIS, 900 from the Sinking Fund, being
the special order, was debated at length. and
finally tabled. The objection was to borrowing
frOIc that fund. A joint resolution was adopted
unanimously directing the County Treasures to
seDi q to the State Treasury whatever money
wss coll ected. A memorial was presented asking
for an appropriation of SIC, 600 to aid the State
Board Of Agriculture. A series Of resolutions
ir, m Clarke county. asking the appointment of
Commissioners to meet the Virginia delegates on
he 18th of February. and opposed to coercion.
were presented and referred. Mr.. Jones moved
the reconsideration Of the vote sending all papers
or the National troubles to the Committee on
FEDERAL Relations without debate, which was
ending at adjournment.
HoUsE.-ResoIutions on an indefinite number
Of subjects were presented-mainly of inquiry
ard adopted, among others, in reference to put
ting an iron fence around the State-house Square;
as to allowing taxpayers to deduct their indebt-
edness for the amount of their taxabies, and a re-
quest that the Superintendent of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum give an exhibition of the pupils
during the session of the General Assembly. A
joint resolution was introduced by Mr.. Jenkn
son that Henry 5. Lane, Norman Eddy Simon
Yandes and Robert Dale Owen be appointed
Commissioners on the part Of the State of Indi-
ana, to the Convention to be held in Washington
City, on the 4th of February, by Commissioners
from the border States to consider plan of adj
justment of our Federal difficulties. The resolu-
ton was referred to the Committee of Thirteen.
Several new bills were introduced and read first
time. Mr.. Hefren presented the proceedings and
resolutions of Union meeting of the citizens of
Washington, Harrison, Crawford and Orange
counties, held at Hardensburgh, which were re-
ferred to the Committee on Federal Relations.
TUESDAY, January %, 1851
Standardization directory and of inquiry
were passed, as to the practcability of charging
the Hospital for the Insane; to ascertain, by ac-
tual inspection, if the bonds held as security for
the circulation Of the free banks of the State
in the hands of the State Auditor; and as to au-
thorizing County Treasures to sue for money ad-
vanced on account of the sixth section of the act
concerning insane persons. Mr.. Ray submitted a
joint resolution appointing Thomas A. Hendricks,
Cyrus L. Durham, Henry s. Lane, Caleb B. Smith
and William t. Otto, Commissioners to the con-
vention on the 4th of February. Bills were intro
duced to establish Probate Courts in the several
counties in the State; declaratory of the meaning
Of the words "fnal judgment" as used in the
practice act; and to amend the Common Pleas
act. The hour for the special order, being the
consideration of the minority report of the Com
mittee on Federal Relations, having arrived,
speecheswere made by Messrs. Conley, Claypool,
johnson, Miller and Cobb, without coming to a
vote on the report.
HoUsE-Petitions were presented in favor Of
allowing 10 per cent interest on contracts. Mr..
Stotsenberg presented joint resolutions by the
Legislature of Kentucky accepting the invitation
of Virginia to a convention to be held at Wash
ington ON the 4th Of February, which were re-
ferred to the committee of thirteen. The Speaker
presented the proceedings of a mass meeting of
the citizens of Gibson county, which were referred
to the same committee, but Mr.. Holcomb gave
notice that the resolutions had heen passed by |
treachery, and that another meeting was being
held at the same place to-day. On motion of
Mr.. Hefren an order was made changing the res
olution hour until after the other orders. The |
vote on the resolution passed some days ago, to
build monument over the remains of James
Wilson, signer of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, was reconsidered, as it was found that he
died in l795 in North Carolina, and his remains
do not rest on the soil of Indiana.
Reports were made and concurred in, against
the expectancy of passing the bill to change the
mode of selecting electors for President and Vice
President of the United States; recommending
the indefinite postponement of the bill to prevent
the emigration of fraudulent voters from one
county to another; in favor of the bill exemptng
$500 Of the property of widows from taxation;
declaring it inexpedient to legslate in reference
TO make it illegal to fish with drag nets, gull nets
brush nets, or poisonous drugs or to obstruct the
natural transit of fish, except in the Ohio river
and Lake Michigan.
Mr.. Speaker Allen submitted series of reso-
buttons on the state of the Union-beng those
adopted by the Republican caucus. Mr.. Heffren
and Mr.. Gresham also offered each a set, and
after being read by the Clerk, they all went, with
out debate to the committee on that subject Mr..
Aliens resolutions proposed no Commissioners
to the Washington Convention. Mr.. Hefren's
proposed Henry S. Lane, Caleb B. Smith. W. T.
Otto, Thomas A. Hendricks and Cyrus L. Dun
ham, and Mr.. Gresham's proposed Henry s.
Lane, Caleb B. Smith, W. t. Otto, John P.
Usher and Robert Dale Owen. The House adj
journed at noon until Wednesday morning, with
the understanding that the committee would then
report
Wednesday, January 80, 1861.