Senate bill No. 84 was taken up and the following amendment, reported by the committee, was read and agreed to:

Amend by inserting after the word "Missouri," in the fourth line, original bill, the words, "payable thirty years after date, and "— The bill, as amended, was ordered engrossed.

On second reading of Senate bills, Senate Joint and concurrent resolution No. 12, entitled "Senate joint and concurrent resolution in relation to the absence of members," was read second time and referred to Committee on Retrenchment and Reform.

Senate joint and concurrent resolution No. 13, entitled "Joint and concurrent resolution providing for furnishing township clerks with the Statutes and session acts of the General Assembly," was read second time and referred to Committee on Township Organization.

Senate joint and concurrent resolution No. 14, entitled " Joint and concurrent resolution urging Congress to provide for a survey and preparation of sectional and schedule maps of the swamp and overflowed lands in Southeast and Northeastern Arkansas," was read second time and referred to Committee on Swamp Lands.

Senate bill No. 205, entitled "An act to amend section 7195 of chapter 152 of the Revised Statutes of 1879, in relation to shows and circuses," was read second time and referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Senate bill No. 208, entitled "An act relating to the publication and distribution of Hunt's Minutes,'" was read second time and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

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Senate bill No. 210, entitled "An act to repeal section 3 of an act concerning street railroads in the city of St. Louis,' approved January 16, 1860," was read second time and referred to Committee on Internal Improvements.

Senate bill No. 216, entitled "An act to prohibit corporations that operate parallel and competing lines of railroads from consolidating, and to prohibit the officers of the one from being the officers of the other," was read second time and referred to Committee on Internal Improvements.

Senate bill No. 218, entitled "An act to amend section 1486 of article 6 of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, concerning crimes and criminal procedure," was read second time and referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Senate bill No. 223, entitled "An act to amend section 24, article 6, Revised Statutes, in relation to exacting illegal fees," was read second time and referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Senate bill No. 224, entitled "An act to amend section 5617, chapter 103, Revised Statutes, entitled 'Of fees,"" was read second time and referred to Committee on Retrenchment and Reform.

Senate bill No. 229, entitled "An act to amend section 2710, chapter 40, Revised Statutes, entitled 'Of injunctions,"" was read second time and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 227, entitled "An act to amend section 5607, chapter 103, Revised Statutes, entitled 'Of fees;'" was read second time and referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Senate bill No. 230, entitled "An act to amend section 6938, chapter 147, Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled 'Of roads and highways, was read second time and referred to Committee on Roads and Highways.

Senate bill No. 231, entitled "An act for the relief of George W. Arnold and George W. Fricke, and to appropriate money therefor," was read second time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 232, entitled "An act for the relief of Edward Price and to appropriate money therefor," was read second time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senator Bryant introduced Senate bill No. 234, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the enlargement of the main edifice of the University of the State of Missouri, at Columbia," which was read first time and 50 copies ordered printed.

Senator Jacobs introduced "Senate joint and concurrent resolution No. 17, instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to use all, means in their representative capacity to secure the appropriation of $25,000.00 for the purpose of improving Grand River and reclaiming the swamp lands lying along said river;" which was read first time and 50 copies ordered printed.

On third reading of Senate bills, Senate bill No. 45, entitled "An act to provide and regulate an additional mode of punishment for crime," was taken up, read third time and passed by the following vote:

AYES-Senators, Bradley, Byrns, Bland, DeArmond, Edwards of Lafayette, Headlee, McGrath, Mackay, Manring, Pehle and Walker -11.

NOES-Senators Allen, Bryant, Cabell, Caldwell, Cottey, Dobyns, Dungan, Edwards of St. Charles, Gottschalk, Heard, Heaston, Hutt,

Jabobs, Lloyd, McMahan, Mabrey, Manistre, Morrison, Naylor, Perkins, Rogers, Rouse and Stephens-23.

Senator DeArmond moved that when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn until 7 o'clock to night; which was agreed to.

Senator Morrisson moved to reconsider the vote by which substitute for Senate bill No. 125 was ordered printed; which was agreed to.

The substitute was then read first and second times and adopted, and the bill ordered engrossed.

Senator Edwards of St. Charles, from the Committee on Engrossed Bills, submitted the following reports, which were read:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 165, entitled "An act to amend section 1715, article 12, chapter 24, Revised Statutes, entitled 'Surety to keep the peace," beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 157, entitled "An act to amend section 5824, chapter 116, Revised Statutes, relating to insane persons,'" beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 168, entitled "An act to amend section 7469, article 7, chapter 162, Revised Statutes, 1879, entitled, 'Of township trustees and their duties,"" beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 147, entitled "An act to provide for the submission of constitutional amendments to a vote of the people," beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 149, entitled an act to amend section five thousand four hundred and sixty-seven (5467), chapter ninety-eight (98), Revised Statutes, 'Of dramshops,"" beg leave to report that they have

compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 204, entitled "An act to exempt the husband from the payment of debts of the wife contracted before marriage," beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 174, entitled "An act in relation to appeal bonds and recognizances," beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 164, entitled "An act to amend section 1158, article 4, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 'Of courts of record,'" beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 23, entitled "An act to amend section 145, article 8, chapter 1 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled 'Redemption, sale and conveyance of real estate,'" beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 166, entitled "An act to amend section 3091, chapter 45 Revised Statutes, entitled 'Of landlords and tenants,'" beg leave to report that they have compared the same and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 103, entitled "An act to regulate practice in the Supreme Court, and to aid in disposing of cases pending in said court," beg leave to report that they have compared the same, and find it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct.

On motion of Senator Allen, the Senate adjourned until 7:30 o'clock.

EVENING SESSION.

Senate met pursuant to recess taken.

Senator Morrisson in the chair.

A quorum present.

On motion of Senator Cottey, the Senate went into Committee of the Whole for consideration of substitute for Senate bills Nos. 3, 4, 12, 15, 21, 32, 38, 54, 59, 79, 109, 127 and 131, Senator Hutt in the chair. The committee rose.

Senator Morrisson called the Senate to order.

Senator Hutt, from Committee on the Whole, reported progress, and asked leave to sit again to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock, which was granted.

Senator Lloyd introduced Senate bill No. 235, entitled "An act for the relief of Patrick H. Edwards, formerly judge of the 14th judicial circuit of the State of Missouri, and to appropriate money therefor;" which was read first time and ordered not printed.

On motion of Senator Edwards of Lafayette, the Senate adjourned until to-morrow morning at ten o'clock.

FORTY-SEVENTH DAY-THURSDAY, March 3.

MORNING SESSION.

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.

President in the chair.

A quorum present.

Prayer by the Chaplain.

Journal of yesterday read and approved.

On third reading of Senate bills,

Senate bill No. 60, entitled "An act to authorize the issue and sale