The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

FRIDAY, February 2

FRIDAY, February 26.
SENATE.--A lengthy report from
the select committee on the Wabasl
and Erie canal was read. The nomi
! nation of Finley Bigger as trustee o
the House of Refuge was confirmed
The fee and salary bill occupied tn,
remainder of the forenoon session ant
aportion of the afternoon session
when it was passed. Mr.. Sleeth's bill
to require the fees of the Auditor o.
State received from foreign insurance
companies to be paid into the State
treasury, was passed.
HOUSE.-At the morning session 9
large number of bills were read and
referred. A number of bills of loca
application were passed; also, the fol-
/ lowing: To provide for the speedy
collection of money due laboring men
from employers; regulating and licen-
sing the traffic In intoxicating liquors
(being the Senate bill amended so as to
make it identical with the Bence
billy; creating a new Judicial Circuit
composed ofCarroll. White and JAS
per counties; providing for the cree
ton of an additional insane asylum at
Indianapolis, to cost $3.50, 900; making
a person accepting a bride to vote
equally guilty with the person Offering
it; providing for the appointment OF
gas commissioners, and to protect con-
sumers ofilluminating gas The bill
to require railroad companies to fence
their lines was defeated-yeas Sc,
nays Do. Mr.. Caldwell reported the
revenue bill, making levy of five
cents on the hundred dollars and
fifty cents poll for general purposes,
three cents on the hundred dollars
Tor school purposes, and-cents on the
hundred dollars for the new insane
asylum fund, in each of the years 1875
and 1876. It was read the second
time and made the special order for
next Tuesday at 10 A. NJ A resolu-
ton was adopted providing for night
sessions all next week. s-,e
SATURDAY, February q.
The SENATE-Committee reported
on a number of bills, which were vari-
adopted which provides for the APP.
pointment of Committee on Stolen
Bills, with power to take testimony
under oath. Several bills had been
stolen-among others, 343, amending
the his IduCc act, -. ID. ~ du0 IL. ID
80. Messrs. Larue, Smith and Major
were appointed such committee. A
resolution to recognize certain rights
of women was indefinitely postponed.
A bill was introduced which provides
that manufacturers shall be encour-
aged by exemption from taxation.
The bill to tax church property was
indefinitely postponed. A concurrent
resolution providing for the appoint
ment OF committee to consider the
feasibility of lessening the number OF
members of the Legislature was laid
over. A bill was introduced which
makes the abstraction or concealment
of bills felony.
THE HOUSE disallowed the Shan
non claim for Office, sent as agent of
State, and tabled the report of the
Educational Committee recommends
ing an appropriation to complete the
construction of the Normal School
building. and only agreed to grant
Purdue University so, 900, one-fourth
the amount asked. A bill requiring
county treasurers to settle semi annu-
ally and exhibit the cash in hand to
the county commissioners passed, as
did bill providing for the appoint
ment of a committee in each county to
visit county poor asylums quarterly
and report the result of their investi-
cations as to the treatment of the
paupers A bill exempting the bene-
fits of benevolent associations from
execution was passed.