The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-05

outstanding indebtedness of Virgins ~
city. Passed. 81
Act with reference to the Office Of State
Printer. Passed. III ~ b
Concurrent resolution relative TO Saline
lands. Passed.
Act for the issuance of bonds bearing
interest not to exceed TX per cent. to
cover school indebtedness for building
Ca, son scoool house. Passed.
Act for levying special tax in Douglas
county for the repair and improvement
of certain county buildings. Passed. r.
Act to provide for the removal of Gates
and Lefevre from the State Prison to the
Insane Asylum. -,
Mills remarked that the committee had
inquired into the circumstances and
found that these prisoners could be kept
there as handily and probably at less ex-
pense than at the California Insane
ASYLUM.
= Waiter inquired if 'thevprisoners were
hopelessly insane!
Mr.. Varian said he had visited the
prison in company with several other
Senators and found the prisoners men
toned chained down like wild beasts.
He thought that the State laws were
Trained with as mach reference to care
for the disordered in mind as well as the
afflicted in body.
Hazlett said that Lefevre is danger
GUS man, and that it would not be well
to transfer him to such place as the
Insane Asylum until further examination
was had, and it was fonnd that the pris-
oners could be safely transferred.
Act for the relief of the bondsmen OF
Eben Rhoades. Ordered engrossed.
Act requiring State officers to present
duplicate reports. Indefinitely post
poned.
Act to fund and consolidate the debt
of Lincoln county. Ordered engrossed.
Senate concurrent resolution relative
to printing the Mineralogist's report,
returned from the Assembly amended,
so that the 500 copies proposed be bound
in cloth if the cost shall not exceed 70
cents per volume. Amendment concur
red in:
Act to allow convicts to testify IN pros
ecutions against other convicts, returned
from Assembly for engrossment.
The vote by which this bill was passed,
on motion of Lockwood, was reconsld-
cred; and the bill was ordered engrossed.
Act authorizing State Treasurer to APP
point a deputy. Ordered engrossed.
Senate concurrent resolution relative
to postal telegraph. Ordered engrossed.
Senate concurrent resolution relative
to election Of President by direct vote OF
the people.
Lockwood said he was opposed to
making This bill special order. as moved
by Cleveland, as everybody understood
the bill before hand and knew the object
Of the bill was to get rid of the old cum
5ersome election system. Ordered en-
crossed.
Senate went into Committee of the
Whole for the consideration Of the gen
e-al file
The following bills were ordered en-
crossed:
Bill to incorporate Miners Union and
Ancient Order of Hibernians; bill re-
1uirfng publication of execution sales;
DILL amendatory of an Act in relation to
county Commissioners.
The civil appropriation bill was made
the special order for Friday at II.
By Mr.. Stevenson:
Resolved, That the clerk of the Com
mittee on Elections be notified that his
services are no longer required. keso-
luton adopted.
By Mr.. Thompson: That all commit
tee clerks hitherto appointed be declared
discharged and that four be appointed to
10 the Senate Committee work. Lost,
ID to 9.
At AIS Senate adjourned.