The interior journal., 1874-01-30
kENTUGKy LEGISLsTURE.

to the Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee, by al
most q unanimous vote, asked to he dis
charged frem further consideration Of
the Kentucky University question, and
II is settled that the numerous petitioners
have no rights that this model committee
cares TO protect.
Last Tuesday was a field day in the
Assembly; a number of bills were re-
ported and passed, among them; Mr..
Beckhnm's Geological Survey bill in the
House: the Senate resolution to extend
the session to the 23d proximo, in the
House, etc. The Survey bill appropr-
atcs $4,000 per annum, for two years,
for the completion Of the geological,
miucralogical and botanical surveys now
in progress.
On Menday a joint resolution was sub
mittcd and adopted by the Senate pro-
viding for the appointment Of a Commit
tee to ascertain and report what public
bills were before the Legislature, which
ought to lr ncted upon first. Ha! ha
A happy thought. This considerate ac
ton will relieve the over-worked and
poorly-paid Gee Wilkins Anderson, Of
the C..J, of the toilsome task Of keep
ing the General Assembly advised as to
what measures are of General impor.
portancc." Slaves, we deliberately chalk
you one
That everlasting immigration Bill,
which has cut such figure in the Leg
islature for the past few terms, was killed
as dead as u picked mackerel in the
House last Saturday upon the question
of the third reading. If the press of
the State will now proceed to give less
than half the attention to writing up"
the advantages OF kentucky-her re-
sources schools, social excellence, healthy
climate and economical government, as it
has devoted to the effort to brow beat
the Legislature into enacting a costly
bureau Of immigration and waste of
money on salaried agents and managers,
the country will very soon be flooded
with raw sons Of Erin and blue nosed
sour-krauts.
The Senate, after a spirited debate,
on Saturday, voted an appropriation Of
81 600 to Hon. George X. Mckee for
services in collecting the Kentucky War
Claims. Considering the fact that the
Government had positively refused to
pay these claims and but for the assis-
tance Of Judge Mckee Kentucky might
never have gotten cent of the debt
amounting to five millions Of dollars,
the compensation allowed him was not
credifable to the Senate. Judge Mckee
contracted with the State to collect the
claims within sixty days for a commits
sion. which, had he succeeded, would
have amounted toover 800, 600. Though
the labors of Judge Mckee were finally
approved. and though the sum of ESQ.,
600 has been paid to other attorneys in
the case, Mr.. Mckee is made the incon.
siderable allowance of 1000. 1t is a
shame.
The bill providing for the registration
of marriages, births and deaths through
out the State has passed both branches
Of the Legislature and now only needs
the endorsement Of the Governor to be.
come law. Under this law, which all
men have but to understand to approve.
an official record is kept in the State of
the most important events of our lives,
rendering it comparatively easy to trace
genealogy if foreign legacy were at
stake; enable the medical fraternity to
collect vital statistics and combat dis
eases more successfully; point out por-
tions of the State which are notably
healthy or unhealthy; show the prevail
ing diseases and their relative fatality
the rise and progress of epidemics and
the best means of averting them; pre-
sent a reliable indication as to the in
crease of population, or otherwise, etc.
Ii will also prove invaluable to the local
Of this paper in prosecuting his "1isrep,
ltable" reportorial labors in the "New
Conner" line.
We have no words Of censure or praise
or the General Assembly in the matter
# extending the present session until
February 23d. An adjournment on the
10Th. would have sent the members home
with the brand of cowardice upon their
'hizes. Itappears that there are forty
line House bills. and one hundred and
.hirty Senate bills, which have passed
,ne or the other branch OF the Legi.la.
ure, and are yet to be acted on by the
'ther and, including these there are over
our handed bills in the hands of commit.
ees and ready for action. 1t is much
more difficult to expedite business in
legislative body than many knowing
nes suppose, and that the Legislature
as been in session sixty days holidays
without turning out several
undred finished jobs, is matter of very
reat surprise to many. But it should be
orne in mind, that few experienced
'orkmen only are in the present assem-