from Iowa, who have died, or may die, in the service of the United States during the present war against treason and rebellion.

Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to secure the object expressed in these resolutions.

Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to furnish a copy of these resolutions, duly attested under the Seal of the State, to the President of the United States, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

MR. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform the honorable Senate that the House of Representatives has passed the following concurrent resolution:

Resolved by the House of Representatives the Senate concurring, That the Secretary of State place in the hands of the Secretary of the Agricultural College, so many of the Reports of the State Agricultural Society as may be necessary to make up sets of said Reports for the use of those members and officers of the Legislature who have not received sets; and that the Secretary of State distribute the remaining copies of said Reports to the members of the Legislature equally for the use of Agricultural Societies, reserving not less than one hundred copies of each

Also, that the House has passed House File No. 47: A Bill for an Act granting the right of way to open and drain coal mines, in which the concurrence of the Senate is asked.

Also, that the House has concurred in the Senate resolution providing for a Committee to destroy all unsold and useless Bonds of the State, and have appointed Messrs. Oliver and Richards as the members of that Committee on the part of the House.

Also, that the House of Representatives has passed Senate File No. 117: A Bill for an Act making appropriations for the payment of the mileage of the members of the Tenth General Assembly, with the following amendments, to-wit: Striking out $2,296 50 in Section 2 and inserting $2,344 50, and striking cut $4,856 55 in Section 3 and inserting $4,907 40, in which the concurrence of the Senate is respectfully asked.

Also, that the House has concurred in the Senate Joint Resolution relative to the construction of a Ship Canal.

Also, that the House has passed Senate File No. 39: A Bill for an Act to repeal Sections 4779 and 4780 of the Revision of 1860, and to provide a substitute therefor, without amendment.

Also, that the House has passed substitute for House File No. 6: A Bill for an Act empowering Counties to offer bounties on Scalps of Wild Animals, in which the concurrence of the Senate is respectfully asked.

Also, that the House of Representatives has ordered printed a communication from the Adjutant General, relative to expenses incurred by Counties, by the Southern Border Brigade.

JACOB RICH, Chief Clerk H. R.

Senator Boardman presented the credentials of Hon. Ezekiel Cutler, Senator elect from the 30th District, and on motion they were referred to Committee on Credentials.

Senator Foote from the Committee on Credentials reported that they had examined the Credentials of Mr. Cutler and found the same to be correct.

Mr. Cutler appeared and the usual oath was administered by the President.

The President announced Senators Foote and Clark as composing the Special Committee to destroy useless State Bonds.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By Senator Foote: Senate File No. 123: A Bill for an Act authorizing the transmission of fands to pay interest on State Bonds. Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senator Clark from Committee on Ways and Means was granted leave to submit the following report:

The Committee of Ways and Means beg leave to submit the following amendment to House File No.'s 48 and 49: A Bill for an Act authorizing the sale or exchange of specie now in the State Treasury for Legal Tender Notes of the United States, and as amended recommend its passage: The said Treasurer is required to give Special Bonds for the faithful performance of said duty in the sum of dollars, and shall be entitled to and receive a compensation for said service, the amount per thousand dollars usually charged by United States Express Company for such services, which shall be in full for such services and expense attendent thereon.

Senator Bassett offered a Joint Resolution, requesting our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their earnest efforts with the Commissioner of the General Land Office and with the Secretary of the Interior, to secure a full recognition of the rights of the State of Iowa to indemnity for all Swamp Lands sold by the General Government since September 28, 1850, and which have been already confirmed as such by Act of Congress, or for which satisfactory proof has been or may hereafter be furnished as now required. Referred to Committee on Public Lands.

Senator McJunkin offered the following resolution which was adopted:

Resolved by the Senate, That the Committee on Judiciary be instructed to inquire as to the expediency of repealing Chapter 26 of the Acts of the Ninth General Assembly, entitled an Act requiring Clerks of the District Court to keep an Appearance Docket, and that they report by bill or otherwise at an early day.

Leave was granted to take up Senate File No. 117: A Bill for an Act making appropriations for mileage of members of the Tenth

General Assembly, the same having been amended by the House of Representatives, and on the question, Shall the amendment be concurred in?

The yeas were Senators Bassett, Burdick, Brunson, Brayton, Boardman, Brown, Bridges, Cutler, Crookham, Clark, Cutts, Foote, Flaugh, Gray, Hart, Henderson, Hogin, Hillyer, Hunt, Hatch, Hilsinger, Knoll, McJunkin, McCrary of Lee, McCrary of Van Buren, Moore, McMillan, Patterson, Ross, Shippen, Udell and

Wharton-32.

The nays were Senators Clarkson, Parvin, Roberts, Saunders and Woolson-5.

The amendment was concurred in.

On motion of Senator Cutts, the vote just taken was reconsidered.

The Bill was then referred to Committee on Ways and Means. The President presented a communication from Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer accepting the invitation from the General Assembly to deliver an address in Representative Hall, this evening.

Also the following communication from the Register of State Land Office, which was referred to Special Committee, of which Senator Bassett is Chairman:

STATE LAND OFFICE, )

DES MOINES, Iowa, February 6th, 1864. HON. E. W. EASTMAN, President of the Senate.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the following resolution passed by your Honorable Body, yesterday, to-wit: Resolved, That the Register of State Land Office be requested to inform the Senate whether any of the lands sold by John Tolman, School Fund Commissioner of Webster County, have been certified by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to the Dubuque & Sioux City R. R. Co., as approved by the Secretary of the Interior as R. R. Lands, and if so, the amount thereof and date of approval.

And in answer thereto I have to say that I have carefully examined all the lists of lands certified by the Commissiouer of the General Land Office and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, to this State for the benefit of said Railroad, and find that said lists do not include any of the land sold by said Tolman, as school lands reported to this office.

Repectfully submitted,

J. A. HARVEY, Register. The President presented the following communication from His Excellency the Governor, accompanying the Report of Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, State Sanitary Agent, which was referred to Committee on Printing:

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, IOWA, DES MOINES, February 5th, 1864. MR. PRESIDENT:-I am instructed by His Excellency the Gov

ernor, to lay on your desk the Report of Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, and to request you to submit it to the Senate.

Respectfully,

R. G. ORWIG, Private Secretary,

To the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

I herewith have the honor to transmit to you a report of my Sanitary labors for the last fifteen months, to which is appended an exhibit of the receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year, beginning September 25th, 1862, and ending June 13th, 1864.

I have followed your instructions to the best of my ability, and I have reason to hope that a review of my labors, and an examination of my books, accounts, and vouchers will result most satisfactorily.

The limits of this paper will oblige me to review my labors very briefly, and express in a few sentences, the result of efforts which cost me weeks and months of earnest toil.

For the first eight months of my term of service for the State, I had no assistance whatever in keeping up the records and correspondence of our State Sanitary Association, and in addition to my duties as traveling agent, felt myself obliged to maintain a very large correspondence, in order to give proper credit for goods received, and to keep up the interests of the Aid Societies of the State. The present flourishing financial condition of the Sanitary societies of the State, attests the value of this kind of service, for besides the money in the treasury, many of the local societies report from two to four hundred dollars in their respective Treasuries. And it is a most encouraging fact that the Societies that are in the most flourishing condition now, are those that have been the most liberal and active during the past year.

SANITARY DEPOTS.

Last May I was permitted to establish a State Sanitary Depot at St. Louis, there being no commercial centre in our own State, and St. Louis being most convenient of access to the greater portion of our State, and directly on the route to our suffering army.

The U. S. Government about that time, gave to me the services of E. J. Matthis, of the 37th Iowa Infantry, a competent and trustworthy soldier. He was immediately placed in charge of the books and office business, and has continued to serve with great acceptability and faithfulness up to the present time. Of the services of Mr. Matthis, I can not but speak in terms of the highest praise.

The books and accounts of the office have been constantly open to public inspection. The business of the office has been entirely independent of any other Commission, but in conformity to the instructions given me from time to time, I have made personal dis

tributions, or turned over the goods to the United States or Western Sanitary Commission, as circumstances and the situation of our troops seemed to demand.

Partrage & Co., Commission Merchants, St. Louis, have acted as my receiving agents at that point. They have had no control of goods, and have received no compensation whatever, for the valuable services which they have so promptly and faithfully rendered. Theirs has been a large charity. In looking over their freight bills I find that they have received and shipped no less than two thousand six hundred and eighty-nine packages, (barrels and boxes.)

During the past Fall, I communicated with Dr. Jenkins, Gen'l. Secretary U. S. Sanitary Commission, and Judge Skinner, President Chicago Branch U. S. Commission, with a view to the establishment of a Depot at Chicago, similar to the ones at St. Louis. No arrangements were, however, consummated. My views as to the importance of this measure, remain unchanged. I have also to reccommend the establishment of store rooms in connection with each of these Depots, where goods may be conveniently unpacked, invoiced, assorted, accredited and put in proper condition for shipment. A sufficient quantity of goods should always be kept on hand to meet the special demands of field agents.

GENERAL COMMISSIONS.

There are now three General Commissions in the West; the United States and Western Sanitary Commissions, and the United States Christian Commission.

They are all receiving and distributing goods, and are doing a great good work, and yet much remains to be done, so vast is the field for philanthropic labor.

The two first named Commissions issue their goods, usually, on the requisitions of Surgeons: the Christian Commission, having a great many delegates in the field, distribute their supplies by personal effort, placing their goods in the hands of the soldiers.

During the greater part of the first year of the war, before the claims of the General Commission had been presented, when our army was small and our sick were kept mainly in Regimental hospitals, our efforts were more especially directed to the sick of Iowa troops, and personal distribution was made of sanitary goods; but now that our army has been greatly increased, and has advanced into the enemy's country, and many of our Regiments are separated long distances, and our sick have been scattered in General Hospitals, we have found it necessary to co-operate with more extended plans.

I have made personal distribution of goods in our Regiments and hospitals during the year, at times when there was great destitution and suffering; but when there were no such special de