, 1872-11-23

Gpees4t DtSputca 10 1ae tR3c1J0 1FsouHes
ISo1ANAPoL1s, Ind, Nov. q.
HOUSE.
4 large number Of bills were reported bach
from the Committees with recommendations.
The bill to enable husband and wife to testify
against each other was indefinitely postponed
The bill to exempt q months salary from gar
nishee was indefinitely postponed.
The bill to repeal the act to provide for the
redemption Of property sold under execution,
with an amendment providing that the bill shall
not affect sales made, or to be made, unde1
Judgments existing at the time Of the approval
Of this bill, WAS coucurred in and ordered to be
engTossed.
The bill to appropriate $4,000 to pay debts
contracted by the State University, was ordered
engrossed, and the bill authorizing cities OF
80, 600 inhabitants to contract loans and issue
bonds to the extent Of 10 per cent Of taxables
was amended, reducing the number to 10000,
and ordered engrosed
4 lengthy debate took place On the bill in
creasing the per diem of the members to eight
dollars per day, aud five dollars for
sny % pro7dng %eg that aTf lie IN law amSnd sbs
take effect Jan. 1, 1873, was laid on the table.
A motion to strike out eight dollars and insert
seven dollars :was lost. Finally a motion for the
previous question On the engrossment Of the
bill was carried, and the hill ordered to be en-
crossed.
a message Was received from the Governor in
regard to the status Of the suit against the Terre
Haute Railroad, that he had no information to
communicate, as the resolution offered at the
last session authorizing him to constitute and
prosecute the suit failed to be adopted
A resolution was adopted requesting the Com
mittee Oh Education to report the amount neces-
Rary to complete the Purdue University.
The bill to repeal the Kankakee Drainage law
CAME up on its third reading, and, after dis
+r1
mitted to the Judiciary Committee, with inBtruc-
tions to incorporate section protecting vested
rights.
The following bills we're passed: Providing
that Justices Of the Peace shall have e1-
elusive jurisdiction in all cases Of Of
ing 925; providing that costs shall follow
in all cases Of appeal, including accrued costs
in JuBtices' Courts, and that interest on judg-
ments shall be the same as expressed in con-
tracts, and when no higher rate is named it
shall be per cent.
A memorial was presented from the Society
Of Friends in regard to the law of divorce. Tho
bill to authorize counties to appropriate money
in aid of county roads passing through them~as
read second time and engrossed.
The Committee On Temperance was requested
to inquire into the expediency OF passing law
to prohibit the granting OF licenses to sell intox
icating liquor as beverage.
Ihe following new b1lla we're lnlroQuced: 10
divide the State into l3 Congressional districts,
the same as that introduced into the House by
LII. Wynn to provide for the relocation Of the
county seats when two-thirds Of the legal voters
shall sign petition for the Game; to
amend the net for the incorporation Of
towns 30 as to confer upon Trustees
the power to suppress gambling, houses
Of i1l-fams, and to regulate and restrain ped
ding, travelling institutions, and the license to
sell Intoxicating liquors to repeal the act pre-
venting the breaking up OF quorum OF the
General Assembly to repeal the act to enforce
the Thirteenth Article Of the Constitution to
amend the act extending MD to railroads, so that
no donation or subscription voted be paid until
one train has over It to protect society from
those who have been acquitted OF criminal
acts, on the plea Of insanity; to make 1st Janu.
ary, ed February. 4th July, 25th December, and
Thanksgiving Day legal holidays.
The organization Of the Judicial system, being
the special order Of the dsy, WAS discussed fully,
and the whole subject was referred to the Com
mittee on Organization Of Courts.