At the hour of 12 o'clock м., on motion of Senator Russell of Jones, the Senate adjourned.

SENATE CHAMBER.

DES MOINES, IOWA, January 20, 1882.}

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment, and was called to order by the President.

Prayer by Rev. Mr. Wooton.

The journal of yesterday was read and approved.

Pending the reading, the following message was received from the House:

MR. PRESIDENT-I am directed to inform your honorable body that the House has passed Senate concurrent resolution without amendment, relating to Codes for use of committees.

Also, concurrent resolution, in which the concurrence of the Senate is asked:

Relating to Bureau of Agriculture in Executive Department of General Government.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

E. C. HAYNES, Clerk.

By Senator Keller, Senate File No. 19, a bill for an act to establish and maintain a school for the instruction and training of teachers cf common schools.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Normal Schools, and ordered printed.

By Senator Bills, Senate File No. 20, a bill for an act to amend scction 1717, chapter 9, title 12 of the Code of Iowa, so as to enable the board of directors of district townships to procure highways to schoolhouse sites.

.Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Schools.

By Senator Nichols of Benton, Senate File No. 21, a bill for an act to make an appropriation for College for the Blind, to enable said college to complete the school year ending June 14, 1882.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Appropriations, with instructions to said committee to take immediate action thereon.

By Senator Bills, Senate File No. 22, a bill for an act to insure the better education of practitioners of dentistry in the State of Iowa. Read a first and second time, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Medicine, Surgery, and Hygiene.

By Senator Graves, Senate File No. 23, a bill for an act repealing section 1923 of the Code, and enacting a substitute therefor.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Also, Senate File No. 24, a bill for an act to amend sections 2117, 2119, and 2128 of the Code.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Ju

diciary.

Also, Senate File No. 25, a bill for an act to amend section 951 of the Code.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

By Senator Rothert, Senate File No. 26, a bill for an act providing for the election of assessor for State and county purposes in cities organized under special charters.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Municipal Corporations.

By Senator Smith, Senate File No. 27, a bill for an act requiring judicial and police officers of counties, cities, and towns to advertise stolen property coming into their possession.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Also, Senate File No. 28, a bill for an act for the registry of electors, and to prevent fraudulent voting.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Elections.

By Senator Hutchison, Senate File No. 29, a bill for an act to repeal section 4026 of the Code of 1873, and to enact a section (substitute) in lieu thereof, making it a felony to keep, manage, control, or direct gambling houses, places, or shops.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Suppression of Intemperance.

By Senator Larrabee, Senate File No. 30, a bill for an act to further diminish liability to railroad accidents, and to punish interference with and injury to railroad property.

Read a first and second time, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Railways.

By Senator Nichols of Muscatine, Senate File No. 31, a bill for an act to amend section 2082 of the Code, relating to the negotiability of notes and contracts.

Read a first and second time.

Senator Nichols moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Senator Bills moved to amend so as to refer the same to the Judiciary Committee.

The yeas and nays were demanded.

On the question, shall the amendment be adopted?

The

yeas were:

Senators Arnold, Bills, Gillett, Hall, Harmon, Hebard, Hemenway, Henderson, Hutchison, Johnson, Keller, Mitchell, Nichols of Benton, Parker, Robinson, Rothert, Russell of Greene, Shrader, Smith, Wilson, and Wright-21.

The nays were:

Senators Abraham, Baker, Boling, Brown of Keokuk, Brown of Van Buren, Clark of Page, Clark of Wayne, Cotton, Dashiell, Garber, Graves, Greenlee, Hartshorn, Hunt, Kamrar, Larrabee, Logan,

Marshall, Nichols of Guthrie, Nichols of Muscatine, Nielander, Patrick, Poyneer, Prizer, Russell of Jones, Sudlow, Tirrill, Wall, and Whaley -29.

So the amendment was lost.

The question recurring upon the original motion, the bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Senator Russell of Greene, Senate File No. 32, a bill for an act to repeal section 3774, and to provide a substitute therefor, and to fix the salaries of the judges of the Circuit and District courts.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Judiciary Commit

tee.

By Senator Harstshorn, Senate File No. 33, a bill for an act to amend sections 2077, 2018, 2080, 3061, and 3106 of the Code, relating to the rate of interest.

Read a first and second time, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Senator Logan, Senate File No. 34, a bill for an act to amend chapter 59, of the acts of the Seventeenth General Assembly, in relation to the assessment and taxation of telegraph lines within the State of Iowa.

Read a first and second time, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Senator Clark of Page, Senate File No. 35, a bill for an act to amend section 3575, of chapter 1, of title 21 of the Code of 1873, in relation to appeals from justices of the peace.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

By Senator Hall, Senaté File No. 36, a bill for an act to repeal section 2452 of the Code of 1873, and to enact a substitute therefor.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Also, Senate File No. 37, a bill for an act changing the law of descent and inheritance.

Read a first and second time, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Also, Senate File No. 38, a bill for an act to repeal section 1869 of the Code of 1873, and enact a substitute there for.

Read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

RESOLUTIONS.

Senator Marshall offered the following resolution, which was read and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations:

Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, That in view of the unjust litigation and extortions forced upon the people of our State by barb wire, drive-well, and other patent-right monopolies, we do hereby respectfully and earnestly request our legislators in the national halls of Congress at Washington to exert their influence to amend our patent laws in such a manner that, while they will secure due and ample reward to the inventive genius of our country, they will also protect the people of our State from the recurrence of such unjust exactions.

Senator Tirrill offered the following resolution, which was read and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings.

Resolved, That the Committee on Public Buildings be instructed to inquire, and report at their earliest convenience, how large an appropriation must be made by this General Assembly to complete the capitol, or enough for occupancy by the next General Assembly; also, including that part of said capitol set apart for the use of the State Library, and for State officers.

By Senator Bills, the following joint resolution and memorial.

WHEREAS, The agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial interests of the Northwest, and no less so those of the entire country, are largely dependent for their development upon a full enjoyment of facilities for the transportation of products and commodities; and

WHEREAS, the two great interior water routes of transportation in the United States are those of the Mississippi River, from north to south, and of the lakes, with the Erie Canal and the Hudson River, from west to east; and

WHEREAS, A direct all-water communication between these two great routes is indispensable to a complete service to the interests which imperatively demand improved and cheaper routes of transportation, since without such connection there can be no real use by the Northwest of a water route to the East, nor by the East to the Northwest; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly of Iowa did, in 1864, and again in 1870, and still again in 1874, memorialize Congress for the construction of a canal to connect the Mississippi River with the Illinois River, on a line running eastward from or near Rock Island, while Governors Merrill, Carpenter, and Gear have also in official communication urged that Congress should undertake this greatly needed work of improvement; therefore,

Resolved that the Senate, the House concurring, Respectfully memorialize the Congress of the United States to authorize, provide for, and require by enactment at its present session, an early construction of a canal, for commercial purposes, from Hennepin, on the Illinois River, to or near Rock Island, on the Mississippi River.

Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use all possible and proper exertion to secure from the body in which they respectively serve, the passage of a bill, at the present session, ordering the immediate beginning of the work of constructing the canal herein mentioned, and to vote liberal appropriation therefor, to the end that said canal may be completed and opened to the commerce of the country at the earliest possible date.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, duly signed by the President of the Senate, and attested by the Secretary, be forwarded to each one of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, in order that the same may be presented to the respective bodies in which they

serve.

Read, ordered printed and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Senator Hutchison offered the following resolution.

Resolved, That the Railroad Committee of the Senate are instructed hereby to inquire whether competing railroad corporations are in the habit of agreeing that one road shall take all the freight or the greatest

portion thereof, to and from or to or from any one point or territory in the State, while the other companies with their railroad lines there located refuse to take freight in order to carry out such an agreement. 2. That said committee make such inquiries concerning shipments at Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Ottumwa, or any other point where there are competing railroad lines which to said committee shall seem proper and to ascertain all about such agreements, if any exist, and said committee shall have the right to subpoena and compel the attendance of witnesses and shall have any statements which any citizen may desire to make on said subject, by written statement in affidavit form, or by being personally present.

3. That said committee shall make any other inquiries which to them shall seem needed concerning the working of the Railroad Commissioners' law, and shall report fully and specifically to the Senate on the subject of this resolution on or before the fifteenth (15th) day of February, 1882, and further, whether in the judgment of said committee any legislation is needed to provide against the abuses suggested in this resolution, if such exist, and to report a bill to correct the same if practicable.

The resolution was read and adopted.

The following offered by the same senator was also adopted:

WHEREAS, There is a universal demand for the fourth annual report to the Governor, of the Railroad Commissioners, which is full of most valuable information on railroad matters and especially the transportation question, showing the workings of the Railroad Commissioners' law, what can be done under it by persons having property of any kind to transport to correct any grievance which they may have, and how to make complaints, if any shall be needed, no matter what the grievance may be; and

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WHEREAS, No pains seem to have been taken by foregoing General Assemblies to place this report among those of the several constituences, who might profit largely thereby; therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, the Senate and House concurring, That the Secretary of State is hereby nstructed to provide each Senator and Representative of the Nineteenth General Assembly with fifteen (15) copies of the report above named, for that distribution which will assist in spreading the information intended to be furnished by the report.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

Senator Larrabee, from the Committee on Ways and Means submited the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred concurrent resoultion No. 3, relating to the adjournment of the House and Senate, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be amended by striking out the word "twenty-first" in the third line and inserting the word twenty-fifth," "and when so amended that it do pass. WM. LARRABEE, Chairman.

Ordered passed on file.