The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-11
Afternoon Session.

Consideration of the specific appropriation bill
was resumed in the afternoon. Item seven, to al
low to Marion county So, 600 for the use of rooms
in the courthouse by the Legislature during the
sessions of 1879 and 1883 was agreed to.
Item eight, to allow $472. 70 to c. 10y for six
teen head of cattle furnished to the Indiana Re-
form School, was adopted
Item eleven, allowing Patrick Kirkland $406. Sc
for ditching swamp lands, was rejected.
When item twelve, to pay So, 900 interest on
debt of the State Board of Agriculture, was
read, Mr.. Faulkner moved, Intellectually, to
strike it out Every Legislature have been
in,n he said, "this board comes here for money
to keep up a fancy place for fast horses and
dogs, to which most of the people of indianapolis
have free passes, while the farmer who comes
here has to pay his fifty cents to get in"
Mr.. Hilligass-The Board of Agriculture owes
$1,000. The State has guaranteed the bonds
for this debt, and this So 600 is to pay the inter
est on those bonds.
The item was adopted, as were also items thir-
teen and fourteen allowing S.. 1888 for improve
ments at the southern prison and $4,000 for a
hospital at the Female Reformatory.
On motion by Mr. Faulkner item fifteen, to
allow B. Rosenthal for lands furnished the State
for the prison south, So 034, was stricken out Mr.
Day moved to add an item of 81, 974 IL for goods
and materials furnished the prison south by Mr.
Main during the time that Col. l.. s. Shuler was
warden, but there was no definite action on the
matter.
When the item to allow Simon P. Thompson
$785 for expenses and services as an attorney in
recovering real estate in Newton county was
read, Mr.. Sellers moved to reduce the sum to
$500, which was agreed to.
Mr.. Rahm moved to add Ito Marcus M. Sulzer
and August Lemcke 500 each, for services as
members of the Ohio river commissioners"
When item eighteen, to allow 1860 to the
estate of John u. Petit for forty five days
service as judge, was read, Mr.. Winter offered a
substitute reducing the sum to $3.50, the com
4ha 1rxu oil hnA
were rendered. The substitute was adopted
Item nineteen, to allow $3.50 for an iron fence
around the Tippecanoe battle-ground was
agreed to, after remarks by Mr.. johnson of Tip
pecanoe.
Mr. Magee moved to add an item appropri-
ating So, 600 to purchase plat of twelve acres
of ground adjoining the grounds of the Logans-
port Hospital for the Insane.
Mr.. Johnson of Tippecanoe moved to allow
Bert Davidson $35 for services as stenographer,
in making transcript, at the request of the At
torney general The amendment was rejected
Mr. Bailey moved to amend item nine by allow
ing John r. Rankin $780, rs for printing done for
the House of Refuge, under the administration
of Superintendent Ainsworth, in 1876 The
amendment was agreed to-
Mr. Ensley moved to allow Teresa and Chas.
Bachtell $1,000 for damages on account of the
accidental killing of their father at the insane
Hospital, where he was employed, which was
agreed to.
Mr. Winter moved TO aud an Item TO the Dill,
allowing $500 to Dye & Fishback for services as
attorneys rendered the provisional board of the
Hospital for the Insane in the case of John Mar
tin against said board in 1881 The item was
adopted.
Mr.. Bailey moved to add an item allowing w.
Fl. Drapier, the stenogropher, for BREWER Legis
lative Reports heretofore authorized, ordered, &C
cepted and bound by the State and also for re
ports of the debates of the present AssepSoiy
the sum of $13, l53, which was adopted,
Mr. Smith Of Delaware moved to add 81, 70(
for the payment of George FL. Fleming Cyrus