Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1893 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

House convened Monday at 11 a. m. Reading clerk was kept busy with resolutions of thanks to various employes of the House. Resolution to allow Assistant Clerk Carter four men for ten days with full pay to complete House journal carried. Resolution for appointment of » joint committee to examine into alleged defyets of the Constitution was adopted. Majority report of prison Investigating committee exonerating Warden Patten was adopted. Warden Patten’s management is indorsed' in ftvery particular. Members zpeht the afternoon ih offering comic resolutions, and at 4:30 House adjourned sine die. Senate opened, Monday, with prayer by Rev. Thompson. Usual discussion over reading of journal, after which the journal was road and approved. Committee was appointed to wait on the Governor and ask if he had any fdrther communication to make. Message was received from the Governor urging action on engrossed House bills for general taxes and to regulate sleeping cars. Resolution of sympathy with Gladstone was adopted. Sleeping car bill was then taken up and passed The appointment of Miss Ream as trustee of Women’s Reformatory was confirmed. Resolution of thanks to President Nye carried by a standing vote. Report of prison investlgatiug committee received, partly read and ordered Other measures of no importance were talked over and, at 4:50 p. m.,Senate adjourned sine die.