, 1872-12-16

saturdayss Proceedings in the State
Legislature.


INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Dec 15.-The Senate bill
to provide for the distribution Of railroad stock
among taxpayers, being the amount contrib
| utea by tax-payers under the Railroad law, re-
ceivcd from the House with an amendment, WAS
| concurred in.
The bill appropriating 1924, 900 for the erection
or an iron fenco around tho Tippecanoe battle
ground passed..
Tho biz providing for the holding of an cleo.
ton on Jan. 29, 1878, to submit to the voters OF
the State tho Constitutional amendment pro-
hibiting tho recognition by the Legislature Of
any liabilities on the part of the State to pay or
redoom tue Canal certificates, passed
The bill to re-district the State for Senators
and Representatives WAS taken up. A motion to
refer the bill to committee Of one from each
Congressional district WAS lost.
Under the previous question, q motion to en-
gross the bill passed; yeas %, nays ID: ,,-.,,.
When the vote WAS taken Messrs WilliamB,
Gregg, and Harney entered their protest against
the bill on account of its intustico and incqual
ity, their remarks looking to extreme measures
to defeat it.
A vote to adjourn till Monday Was lost.
At the M afternoon Ter. @ session only 20 members re-
hr. Gooding moved that the doorkeepers be
despatched for absent members..
Mr.. Dittimore moved to adjourn. Ho WAS the
only Democrat present. He said that the DEM
noon, but ho thought not before. His motion
WAS voted down.
At this point number of Democratic Semi
tors came into tho Chamber, enough to make q
quorum. A call Of the House showed 81 mem-
bers present.
The sonnte bill to relieve counties and
had been levied under the act
of 1869 from tho collection Of the same until
an amount of work has been done by the road
equal to the amount OF taxes levied, passed.
Motions wero made in several cases to suB-
pend the rules to put bills on their passage, but
they were voted down.
Adjourned to Monday, at 10 o'clock.
HOUSE.
collection of taxes on National Banks was or
dered ongrosBed.
The Special Committee to whom was referred
the investigation of the facts in the Car
roll County case, in which Joseph A. Sims.
attorney, testified that ho had prosecuted to
Judgment and collected an aggregate amount Of
Gil, ,199 in behalf Of the State, md that he had
paid into the State Treasury the sum Of
S700, reserving tue balance, reported
that the matter will be reforrod to the
appears that Sims had contract with J. D.
Evans, late Auditor of State, under which he
claimed he had retained his extraordinary
fees.
The Senate bill, providing for the issuing to
Taxpayers Of certificates OF stock equal to the
amount of taxes collected from the same in aid
Of railroads, passed-yeas, 78; nays, 2.
The bill provides TINT where money has
has been collected by tax for county or town
ship aid to railroads, and remains in the treas-
ury unclaimed for years, it should be redistribu-
ted to taxpayers in the proportion collected, or
else transferred to the general fund Of
county or township, in which case
paid bY them in the future collection of taxes.
Passed-yeas, n; nays, none:
4 motion WAS made to consider the vote re-
pealing the Eailroad Aid Law, and it was made
the stlcial order for Monday afternoon.
Ninesaen new bills were offered, making 254 in
all.
Adjourned to Monday, at 2 p. m.