entitled An act entitled an act to amend sections 25 and 27, chapter 20, General Statutes of Missouri, relating to grand and petit larceny; read first time. Senator Parrish, on leave, introduced Senate bill No. 23, entitled An act to amend sections 1, 8, 22 and 29 of an act entitled an act to provide for the manner of selecting and summoning grand and petit jurors for courts of record in counties having a population of less than twenty thousand inhabitants, approved March 15, 1875, and to repeal sections 1, 8, 22 and 29 of said act; read first time. Leave of absence granted Senator Major until Monday next. Senator Rubey offered the following resolution: Resolution in regard to lands granted H. and St. Jo. R. R. Co.: Resolved, That the Governor be requested to lay before the Senate, for its inspection, the report made to him by the H. and St. Jo. R. R. Company, in pursuance of the joint resolution of the General Assembly, approved March 24, 1875. Which was read first and second time and adopted. Senate joint and concurrent resolution No. 7 taken up, read second time, and referred to Judiciary Committee. The following Senate bills were taken up and read second time, and referred : No. 21, to Judiciary Committee. No. 20, to Judiciary Committee. No. 19, to Committee on Banks and Corporations, and 50 copies ordered printed. No. 15, to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence. No. 17, to Judiciary Committee. No. 16, to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence. No. 18, to Judiciary Committee, and 50 copies ordered printed. House concurrent resolution No. 5, in relation to the revision of the State laws, with amendment offered by Senator Murray, was taken up, and the question being upon the adoption of the amendment, Senator Edwards of St. Charles moved to refer the resolution and amendment to the Judiciary Committee; which was agreed to. Senator Morrisson called up resolution relating to the employment of a night watch for the Senate, as follows: Resolved, That the Doorkeeper be and is hereby authorized to appoint a night watch for the Senate chamber for the present session, at a compensation to be fixed by law. ap Senator Rubey moved to amend by inserting after the word " point" the words "out of the number allowed to him as employees." The amendment was agreed to. The resolution, as amended, was then adopted. On motion of Senator Young, the Senate adjourred. ELEVENTH DAY-MONDAY, January 15, 1877. day. Prayer by the Chaplain. Journal of Saturday read and approved. A quorum present. Leave of absence granted Senators Phelan and Thompson for to Propositions and motions being in order, Senator Parrish introduced Senate bill No. 24, entitled An act to amend sections 1, 19 and 20, of chapter 210 of the General Statutes of Missouri, being sections 1, 19 and 20 of article 3, chapter 111 of Wagner's Statutes, and to repeal said sections 1, 19 and 20; read first time. Senator Claiborne introduced Senate bill No. 25, entitled An act authorizing the imprisonment of persons convicted of misdemeanors in other places than the county jail; read first time. Senator Wilson introduced Senate bill No. 26, entitled An act entitled an act to subject railroad franchises to sale under execution; read first time. Senator Rubey offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Ways and Means be authorized to rent a suitable room in which to hold its sessions; read first and second time and agreed to. Senator Biggs introduced Senate bill No. 27, entitled An act to abolish the office of township collector in counties having township organization, and to make the county treasurer collector thereof; read first time. Senator Terry introduced Senate bill No. 28, entitled An act providing for elections in cases of failure to hold elections at the time specified by law; read first time. Under head of second reading of bills, Senate bill No. 22 was read second time, and referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence. Senate bill No. 23 was read second time, referred to Judiciary Committee, and fifty copies ordered printed. Senator Edwards, of St. Charles, from Committee on Engrossed Bills, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to who m was referred substitute for Senate concurrent resolution No. 4, entitled "joint and concurrent resolution to employ counsel," beg leave to report that they have considered the same, and find it truly engrossed, and that they have also examined and compar ed the printed copies thereof furnished the Senators, and find them correct. A. H. EDWARDS, Chairman. Which was read. Senator Rubey moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill was ordered to engrossment; which was agreed to. Senator Rnbey offered the following amendment: Amend by adding after the word "appropriated," in the fourteenth line, the words: "provided, however, this resolution shall not be so construed as to authorize the Governor to employ counsel, or to enter the appearance of this State in said suit, unless he be advised by the written opinion of the Attorney-General of Missouri that such employment should be made, and said appearance entered, in order to protect the State's interest"; which was agreed to. Senator Hudson moved to amend as follows: Amend line seven of the resolution, by striking out the word "three," and insert the word "two" in lieu thereof. The amendment was agreed to. Senator Pope called attention to a clerical omission in the engrossment of the concurrent resolution, which was corrected, and the bill, as amended, ordered to engrossment and a third reading to morrow. Senator Edwards of St. Charles, from the Committee on Engrossed Bills, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 14, entitled An act to provide for the payment of the subordinate officers and other employees of the two houses of the General Assembly, beg leave to report that they have considered the same, and find it truly engrossed, and that they have also examined and compared the printed copies thereof furnished the Senators, and find them correct. Which was read. A. H. EDWARDS, Chairman. The bill was then read a third time, and passed by the following vote: AYES Senators Abney, Ballingal, Biggs, Burkeholder, Claiborne, Coleman, Edwards of St. Charles, Edwards of Lafayette, Hudson, Morrisson, Mosby, Murray, Parrish, Parsons, Paxton, Perkins, Pope, Read, Rubey, Shelby, Terry, Wallace, Wight, Wilson and Young-25. NOES-Senator Seay-1. ABSENT-Senator Wear-1. ABSENT ON LEAVE-Senators Flood, Major, Newberry, Phelan and Thompson-5. SICK-Senators Ake and Lakenan-2. Senator Perkins moved that the vote by which the bill passed be reconsidered, and that that motion lay on the table. Carried. The Chair said that he put the motion as made now, but hereafter ! the two motions embraced in it would have to be made by two Senators. It is unparliamentary and contrary to common sense for a Senator to move any motion, and at the same time to move to lay that motion on the table. It has been the practice in our bodies, however, and in deference to that practice the Chair put the motion. Senator Claiborne, on leave, introduced Senate bill No. 29, entitled An act to amend section 2, chapter 213, General Statutes; read first time. Senator Wallace, on leave, introduced Senate bill No. 30, entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act to authorize cities, towns and villages to organize for school purposes with special privileges; read first time. Senator Rubey offered the following resolution: Resolved, That 1,000 copies of the printed message of Governor C. H. Hardin be kept by the Secretary and returned to the printer, to be put into appendix to journal; read first and second time and agreed to. On motion of Senator Burkeholder, the Senate adjourned. AFTERNOON SESSION. Senate met pursuant to adjournment. The President in the chair. The roll being called, the following Senators answered to their names: PRESENT-Senators Abney, Ballingal, Biggs, Claiborne, Coleman, Edwards of St. Charles, Morrisson, Mosby, Parrish, Parsons, Paxton, Perkins, Pope, Rubey, Seay, Terry, Wallace, Wear, Wight, Wilson and Young-21. ABSENT-Senators Burkeholder, Edwards of Lafayette, Hudson, Murray, Read and Shelby-6. ABSENT ON LEAVE-Senators Flood, Major, Phelan, Thompson and Newberry-5. SICK-Senators Ake and Laken an-2. On motion of Senator Rubey, the Senate adjourned. TWELFTH DAY-TUESDAY, January 16, 1877. MORNING SESSION. Senate met pursuant to adjournment. The President in the chair. Prayer by the Chaplain. A quorum present. Journal of yesterday read and approved. Reports from Standing Committees being in order, Senator Thompson, from the Judiciary Committee, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 5, beg leave to report that they have considered the same, and recommend that the accompanying substitute do pass. W. B. THOMPSON, Chairman. Which was read. Senator Phelan moved to amend the substitute by striking out section two'; which was agreed to. The substitute, as amended, was then adopted, and the bill ordered to engrossment. Senator Thompson, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report: SENATE CHAMBER, JEFFERSON CITY, MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom wast referred S nate joint and concurrent resolution No 5, beg leave to report that they have considered the same, and recommend that it do not pass. Which was read. W. B. THOMPSON, Chairman. Senator Pope moved to amend the resolution by striking out all after the first section, pending which Senator Murray moved that the resolution lay over informally; which was agreed to. Senator Thompson moved that the rules be suspended, and that Senate Bill No. 1 be taken up; which was agreed to. The bill was accordingly taken up, and the Secretary proceeded to read, when Senator Hudson moved that the further consideration of the bill be postponed until the twentieth day of February next, and be made the special order for 11 o'clock, A. M. of that day. Senator Murray moved to amend the motion so as to read "lay over until to-morrow, and to make the special order at 2 o'clock, P. M.” The amendment was agreed to, and the motion as amended adopted. Senator Wear, from Special Committee, submitted the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your Special Committee, to whom was referred Senate resolution relating to the printing the report of the Official Reporter of the Senate, would beg leave to report that they have considered the same, and recommend that the resolution be committed to the Committee on Printing; which was read and so referred. The following report was submitted by the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence: MR. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence |