The President also directed the Secretary to read at length House bill No. 307, entitled "An act to amend section 1167, chapter 22, article 4 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 'Of courts of record;"" the bill was read at length, no other business intervening, and no objection being made, it was signed by the President in the presence of the Senate in open session.

The President directed the Secretary to read at length House bill No. 202, entitled "An act relating to Texas, Spanish and Indian cattle:" which was read at length, and no other business intervening, and no objection being made, was signed by the President in the presence of the Senate in open session.

The President directed the Secretary to read at length House bill No. 63, entitled "An act to amend section one thousand one hundred and fifty-one (1151), article 4, chapter twenty-three (23) of the Revised Statutes, 'circuit courts;" which was read at length and no objection being made, and no other business intervening, was signed by the President in the presence of the Senate in open session.

The President directed the Secretary to read at length substitute for House bills Nos. 343, 416, 493, 505, 527 and 436, entitled "An act to amend section 7446, article 4; sections 7455, 7457, article 5; section 7470, article 7; section 7485, article 9; sections 7490 and 7491, article 11; section 7535 and section 7538, article 13, all in chapter 162 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, relating to township organization;" which was read at length, no other business intervening, and no objection being made, was signed by the President in the presence of the Senate in open session.

On first reading of House bills, substitute for House bill No. 420, entitled "An act to amend sections 1127, 1135 and 1165 of the Revised Statutes, concerning circuit courts, and attaching the county of Taney to the Twenty-first Judicial circuit," was taken up and read the first time.

House bill No. 426, entitled "An act to repeal section 7669 of chapter 168 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1879, entitled 'Of wharfage," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 517, entitled "An act to amend section 2803, article 1, chapter 44 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, so as to entitle towns of one hundred inhabitants or more, which may contain medical spring or springs, the water of which may be used for its curative or supposed curative effects, or which may be within five hundred yards of any such spring, to one justice of the peace, in addition to the number allowed by law to the township in which such town may be,” was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 220, entitled "An act for the relief and benefit of John N. Payne," was taken up and read first time.

Substitute for House bill No. 278, "An act to amend section 809, article 2, chapter 21 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, " Of corporations," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 450, entitled "An act to regulate the appointment of notaries public in all cities having a population of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 490, entitled "An act to repeal sections 7087, 7088 and 7089 of chapter 150, Revised Statutes, and to regulate the use and purchase of text-books by school districts," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 498, entitled, "An act to prevent partners of prosecuting attorneys of this State from defending in criminal cases," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 560, entitled "An act to authorize county courts in the State of Missouri to cause persons convicted of crime and sentenced to county jails to work on roads or to break rocks for road purposes," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 597, entitled "An act to amend sections 797 and 817 of chapter 21, article 2 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, relating to corporations," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 623, entitled "An act providing for licensing and taxing express companies," was taken up and read first time.

House bill No. 699, entitled "An act to amend section 1159 of article 4 of chapter 23 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, relating to judicial circuits," was taken up and read first time.

On motion of Senator Rogers, the Senate adjourned.

FIFTY-NINTH DAY-THURSSDAY, March 17.

MORNING SESSION.

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.

The President in the chair.

A quorum present.

Prayer by the Chaplain.

The journal of yesterday read and approved.

Senator Heaston offered the following resolution, which was read the first and second times and adopted:

WHEREAS, The people of Ireland are engaged in a struggle against the land-owners and the Government that are unjustly opressing and impoverishing them by high and exorbitant rents and unjust exactions, which have become such a burden upon that unhappy people that further submission thereto ceases to be a virtue; and,

WHEREAS, The people of the United States, enjoying the inestimable boon of self-government and constitutional liberty, always sympathize with the downtroden and opressed people of other climes; therefore,

Resolved, That this Senate does hereby extend to the wronged and struggling people of Ireland its warmest sympathies and good wishes for their speedy success in the struggle in which they are engaged, and will hail with gladness the happy day when the Irish people shali be free from opression and enjoy all the blessings of free homes and a beneficent government.

Senator Byrns submitted the following report from the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, which was read:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 199, entitled "An act to regulate the practice of dentistry in this State, beg leave to report that they have considered the same, and recommend that the accompanying substitute do pass.

The bill so reported, being Senate bill No. 199, not being called for, the substitute reported by the committee was taken up, read first and second times, adopted and ordered engrossed.

Senator Dobyns submitted the following report from the Committee on Constitutional Amendments:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Constitutional Amendments, to whom was referred substitute for House joint and concurrent resolution entitled "House joint and concurrent resolution No. 33, submitting an amendment to section 11, article 10 of the Constitution, relating to taxation," beg leave to report that they have considered the same, and recommend that it do not pass.

House joint and concurrent resolution No. 33, was taken up, and Senator Allen moved to recommit the bill to the Committee on Judiciary.

The ayes and nays being demanded, the motion was lost by the following vote:

AYES-Senators Allen, Bradley, Bryant, Caldwell, DeArmond, Gottschalk, Headlee, Heaston, Jacobs, Mabrey, Mackay, Manring, Pehle, Perkins and Rouse-15.

NOES Senators Byrns, Bland, Cabell, Cottey, Dobyns, Dungan, Edwards of Layfayette, Edwards of St. Charles, Heard, Hutt, Lloyd, McMahan, Manistre, Morrisson, Naylor, Rogers, Stephens and Walker

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SICK-Senator McGrath.

On motion of Senator Lloyd, the bill was indefinitely postponed.

Senator Bradley submitted the following report from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, which were read:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Enrolled Bills have carefully examined and find trully enrolled Senate concurrent resolution No. 16, submitting to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri an amendment to the Constitution thereof concerning the judicial department.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Enrolled Bills have carefully examined and find trully enrolled Senate joint and concurrent resolution No. 9, authorizing and directing the Secretary of State to deliver to the librarian at the State University eight copies of the Revised Statutes of Missouri.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Enrolled Bills have carefully examined and find truly enrolled Senate bill No. 114, entitled "An act to amend section 3046, article 9, chapter 44 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 'Of justices courts."

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Enrolled Bills have carefully examined and find truly enrolled Senate bill No. 155, entitled "An act to amend section 295, article 14, chapter 1 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, relating to appeals in administration.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Enrolled Bills have carefully examined and find truly enrolled Senate bill No. 172, entitled "An act relating to the distribution of books published by authority of the State of Missouri.

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

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 182, entitled "An act to amend section 7628, article 1, chapter 164, Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled 'Of the State Treasury,'" 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. 249, entitled "An act to amend section 1150, article 4, chapter 23 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled '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.

The President announced that all other business would be suspended, and directed the Secretary to read at length Senate concurrent resolution No. 16, entitled "Concurrent resolution submitting to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri an amendment to the Constitution there, concerning the judicial department."

The President also announced all other business would be suspended and Senate bill No. 114, entitled "An act to amend section 3046, article 9, chapter 44 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled 'Of justices courts,"" would be read at length.

The bill was read at length by the Secretary, no objection being made, and the presiding officer, in the presence of the Senate, in open session, and no other business intervening, affixed his signature thereto.

The president also announced that all other business would be suspended, and Senate bill No. 172, entitled "An act relating to the distri bution of books published by authority of the State of Missouri," would be read at length and signed to the end that it may become a law unless objection be made.

The bill was so read, and no other business intervening, and no objection being made, Senate concurrent resolution No. 16 was read at length, and no objection being made, and no other business intervening, the president signed the same, in the presence of the Senate in open session, said resolutions were then taken by the secretary to the House