MR. PRESIDENT-I am instructed by the House of Representatives to inform the Senate that the following bills have been introduced into and passed that body: House bill No. 233, entitled An act to amend section thirteen of chapter sixty-three of the general statutes of 1865, relating to railroad companies. House bill No. 245, entitled An act to amend sections one and two, chapter seventy-seven, general statutes of Missouri, 1865, and to repeal sections three, four, five, six, seven and eight of said chapter. The following concurrent resolution has been introduced into and adopted by the House: House concurrent resolution No. 21, entitled Concurrent resolution concerning assessments. In which the concurrence of the Senate is respectfully requested. Senator Bruere introduced Senate bill No. 162, entitled An act to amend section one of chapter thirty-one of the general statutes of Missouri, concerning the salaries of certain civil officers. Read the first time, rule suspended, read the second time, and, On motion of Senator Bruere, Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Senator Williams introduced Senate bill No. 163, entitled An act for the payment of money due to the Secretary of the late Constitutional Convention of the State of Missouri. Read the first time, rule suspended, read the second time, and, Referred to the Committee on Claims and fifty copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. On leave, Senator Roseberry, from the committee appointed to visit the State University, submitted the following report: SENATE CHAMBER, February 10, 1869. MR. PRESIDENT-Your committee to visit the State University beg leave to submit the following report: The State University is situated in a fine agricultural district. Its endowment fund consists of $100,000 in 5-20 bonds and $23,000 in stock of National Bank of the State of Missouri. It was located in 1839, in Boone county; the county giving $123,000 to secure the location, out of which the buildings were erected. The University building is a massive, handsome brick structure of three stories above basement, (which needs some necessary repairs) capable of accommodating five hundred students, with extensive and valuable cabinets of five hundred thousand specimens, philosophical and chemical apparatus, library, etc., (law library very deficient, however,) two college societies with handsome halls and libraries; observatory with valuable astronomical instruments, (observatory being very deficient in building and material). The president's house, newly built, is an elegant and permanent building. The model and Normal school building is newly erected, large, airy and capacious; will accommodate with ease four hundred pupils; all within the college campus of twenty-two acres. On an adjoining plat of ground of three acres are three cottages of five rooms each, used for boarding by the students, where some thirty young men are boarding pleasantly and comfortably, at two dollars per week; the rent paid by students being barely sufficient to cover interest on the investment of $3,300 in the cottages and grounds. More cottages are needed and recommended as a means of bringing University instruction within the reach of all classes, however illy provided with the world's goods, and especially as an aid to that most deserving class of young men who desire to avail themselves of the advantages of the Normal school to fit themselves for teachers. No class is more worthy of State encouragement than this, nor will any repay more fully any aid rendered. The Normal school is fully equip ped and in operation, with classes of future teachers in attendance. FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY. Daniel Read, LL. D., President." J. G. Norwood, M. D Professor of Natural Science. Oren Root, Jr., A. M., Professor of English Language and Literature. Major General R. W. Johnson, U. S. A., Professor of Military Science. The Professors, except the President, hold their places for one year, and until otherwise ordered. The duties of the Chair of Latin Language and Literature, now vacant, are distributed among the faculty. General Johnson's department is one of special value and interest, as it includes the Department of Mathematics in part, and civil and military engineering and tactics. Nowhere else within the State can this instruction be had. Nearly all the students have adopted the prescribed uniform of dark blue cloth and the army cap. The number of students attending the various departments of the University is one hundred and sixty-five. That during our short stay we saw something of the ordinary teachings and recitations, and a rhetorical exhibition of the students, all of which evinced a thorough and careful instruction and proficiency on the part of the pupils. The University exercises opened every morning with prayer in the chapel, and under an American flag purchased by the students them selves. Columbia we found to be decidedly an educational point. In addition to the University, there are two flourishing colleges for the education of girls, one under the Presidency of Elder J. K. Rogers of the Christian Church, with one hundred and sixty-five pupils; the other under the charge of Rev. J. A. Hollis of the Baptist Church, with eighty-six pupils. Several primary schools, and a district school with. eighty pupils, furnish means of instruction in the lower studies. Not the least of the objects of interest we met with were two flourishing colored schools, one in charge of Chas. E. Cummins, with ninety-one students, the other in charge of Jos. A. Smith, of eighty-five pupils, both colored teachers. We visited both these schools, heard exercises in reading, grammar, elocution and singing, and were surprised and delighted with the proficiency manifested, and are glad to find them a complete success. They occupy large and commodious houses erected by the colored people, with the aid of the community, which has been freely tendered. We were glad to note also the evident interest and friendship manifested for these colored schools by the people who surround them. Until 1866-7, the University, although called by the name of the State and owned by the State, had never received one dollar of aid from the State. During the session of that year $10,000 were appropriated to re-build the President's house, which had been destroyed by fire in 1865, and otherwise repair the building and grounds. In April, 1868, one and three-fourths per cent. of seventy-five per cent. of the State revenue was received of the State Treasury. Under these circumstances, with the desolation of war, the occupation for two or three years by the Union troops of the University building and grounds, the almost total failure of income from all sources, it can surprise none to find that a debt has been incurred. This debt amounts to about $29,000, and some means ought to be devised for its extinction more rapid than the ordinary income of the University. That we recommend the following appropriations for the use and benefit of the State University: Five hundred dollars annually for law and general library. Two thousand, five hundred dollars annually for the purchase of grounds and erection of cottages to cheapen board of students. Two thousand dollars per annum as a sinking fund to pay off the debts of the institution. These appropriations to continue for four years. Report received, and, On motion of Senator Roseberry, BROWN, of Shelby, For Committee on part of Senate. One hundred and fifty copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. On motion of Senator Human House concurrent resolution No. 20, entitled Concurrent resolution to authorize the superintendent of public schools and the clerk of the supreme court to exchange rooms, Was taken up, read the first and second times, when, On motion of Senator Filler, The rules were suspended, the resolution read the third time and passed by the following vote: AYES Senators Birch, Boardman, Brown of St. Louis, Bruere, Clark, Conrad, Davis, Dodson, Evans, Filler, Gottschalk, Graham, Harbine, Headlee, Human, Rogers, Rollins, Roseberry, Shelton, Spaunhorst, Waters and Williams-22. NOES-None. Absent-Senators Blodgett, Cavender, Essex and Rea-1. Absent with leave-Senators Brown of Shelby, Carroll, Elwell, Morrison, Morse, Ridgley, Reed and Todd-8. The title of the resolution was then agreed to. Senator Williams offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the State Auditor is respectfully requested to furnish the Senate with an exact copy of the account and certificate of each superintendent of registration of the several districts. Resolution read and adopted. On motion of Senator Gottschalk The Senate adjourned until to-morrow morning at ten o'clock. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1869. MORNING SESSION. The Senate met pursuant to adjournment. The President pro tem., Senator Headlee, in the chair. Prayer by Rev. Sanford Ing. The journal of yesterday read and approved. The roll of the Senate being called, there were Present-Senators Birch, Boardman, Brown of St. Louis, Bruere, Clark, Conrad, Dodson, Evans, Filler, Gottschalk, Graham, Harbine, Headlee, Human, Rollins, Roseberry, Shelton, Spaunhorst and Williams-19. Absent-Senators Blodgett and Rea-2. Absent with leave-Senators Brown of Shelby, Carroll, Cavender, Davis, Elwell, Essex, Morrison, Morse, Ridgley, Rogers, Reed, Todd and Waters-13. Propositions and motions being still in order, Senator Williams offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Accounts is hereby instructed in the adjustment of all claims of clerks and employees in the service of either or both Houses of the General Assembly, not to construe any resolution heretofore passed in relation to the employment of clerks and employees, so as to authorize the payment of any clerk or employee a greater sum than five dollars per day for the former, and two dollars and fifty cents per day for the latter, while actually employed. And in no case shall any clerk (except the journal clerk) or employee receive pay for a greater number of days than the General Assembly by which he is employed is in session. Resolution read and adopted. Senator Spaunhorst offered the following resolution : WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of Missouri appropriated, March 23, 1861, and May 15, 1861, the sum of ninty-three thousand. five hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-five cents to defray the expenditures incurred by the southwest expedition in the winter of 1859 and 1860; and WHEREAS, There are yet outstanding unsatisfied and unpaid certificates issued by the then commissioner, J. T. Rogers, amounting to sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-five cents; therefore be it Resolved, That the Committee on Ways and Means be and is hereby respectfully requested to take under consideration the bearings and legality of said claims, and at an early day report to this Senate, by bill or otherwise, upon this subject. Resolution read, when Senator Bruere moved to amend by inserting Committee on Claims instead of Committee on Ways and Means. Amendment agreed to and the resolution adopted. Senator Evans offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Accounts be authorized to audit and allow the account of the proprietors of the Daily State Times for Daily Times furnished the officers and members of the Senate at the rates allowed the news agent for papers furnished by him, and that said account be paid out of the contingent fund of the General Assembly. Resolution read, and, On motion of Senator Bruere, Referred to the Committee on Printing. Senator Gottschalk introduced Senate bill No. 164, entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend the several charters of the street railroads in the city of St. Louis, and to regulate the management of the same, approved March 25, 1868. Read the first time, rule suspended, read the second time, and, Referred to the St. Louis Senatorial Delegation and fifty copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. Senator Roseberry introduced Senate bill No. 165, entitled An act to restrain the sale of intoxicating liquors. Read the first time, when Senator Gottschalk moved to reject the bill. Motion lost by the following vote, Senator Evans demanding the ayes and noes: AYES-Senators Blodgett and Gottschalk-2. NOES-Senators Birch, Boardman, Brown of St. Louis, Bruere, |