Eaton, Everall, Finn, Funk, Garst, Henderson, Hurst, Jamison, Jewett, Kilburn, Lewis, Palmer, Penrose, Perrin, Perry, Phelps, Rea, Reynolds, Riggen, Rowen, Turner, Vale, Yeomans-29.

Absent or not voting:

Senators Andrews, Brower, Carpenter, Conaway, Dent, Gorrell Groneweg, Harsh, Lenfeldt, Oleson-10.

So the amendment was lost.

The bill was read a third time.

On the question "Shall the bill pass?" the yeas were:

Senators Baldwin, Bishop, Boardman, Brower, Chantry, Cheshire, Craig, Downey, Eaton, Everall, Finn, Funk, Garst, Harmon, Henderson, Hurst, Jamison, Jewett, Kilburn, Lehfeldt, Lewis, Palmer, Penrose, Perrin, Perry, Phelps, Rea, Reynolds, Riggen, Rowen, Terry, Turner, Vale, Yeomans-34.

The nays were:

Senators Dent, Ellis, Green, Harper, Kelly, Mattoon, Upton, Water

man-8.

Absent or not voting:

Senators Andrews, Carpenter, Conaway, Gorrell, Groneweg, Harsh, Hipwell, Oleson-8.

So the bill passed and the title was agreed to.

On request of Senator Groneweg, Senator Oleson was granted leave of absence.

Senator Dent submitted a prearible to be attached to Senate file No. 82.

Yesterday's journal was read, corrected and approved.

Senator Terry moved that the Senate do now adjourn until 10 o'clock A. M., Monday, February 12th.

Carried.

The Senate adjourned.

SENATE CHAMBER,

DES MOINES, Iowa, Monday, February 12, 1894

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Senate met persuant to adjournment at 10 o'clock A. M., President Dungan in the chair.

Prayer by Rev. E. W. Curtis, Des Moines.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.

Senator Cheshire presented a petition from the faculty of Des Moines College, protesting against repeal of prohibitory law. Referred to Committee on Suppression of Intemperance.

Senator Eaton presented a petition from the faculty of Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa, on the same subject.

Same reference.

Senator Rowen presented a petition on the same subject, from the citizens of Des Moines, Iowa.

Same reference.

Senator Bishop presented a petition from Adelaide Ballard, of Hull, Sioux county, Iowa, asking to be granted the right to vote.

Referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Suffrage. Senator Garst presented a petition from citizens of Sac county, asking for an appropriation of $25,000.00 for the State Agricultural Society.

Referred to Committee on Agriculture.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By Senator Cheshire, by request, Senate file No. 227, a bill for an act appropriating money to Thomas J. Window and Thomas B. Crampton, to reimburse them for money expended in capturing live stock thieves.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Claims. By Senator Harper, Senate file No. 228, a bill for an act to abolish certain offices connected with State institutions, substituting therefor a board of control and defining its power and duties.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

By Senator Kilburn, by request, Senate file No. 229, a bill for an act to repeal section 906 and section 907, of the Code of 1873, and chapter 62, Acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly, and enacting a substitute therefor, relating to the collection of taxes.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

By Senator Kilburn, by request, Senate file No. 230, a bill for an act to provide for the medical treatment of inebriates.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Suppression of Intemperance.

By Senator Mattoon, by request, Senate file No. 231, a bill for an act to remove a cloud from the title to certain land for the relief of Dudley W. Adams.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Judiciary. By Senator Riggen, by request, Senate file No. 232, a bill for an act to facilitate the transfer of real estate and to perfect the title thereof.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Judiciary. By Senator Rowen, by request, Senate file No. 233, a bill for an act to require street railway companies to pay their employes each day.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Labor. By Senator Waterman, Senate file No. 234, a bill for an act to amend chapter 200 of the acts of the Eighteenth General Assembly. Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Compensation of Public Officers.

By Senator Waterman, Senate file No. 235, a bill for an act to amend section 4748 of the Code, relative to the government and discipline of the penitentiary at Ft. Madison, Iowa.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Penitentiaries and Pardons.

By Senator Bishop, by request, Senate file No. 236, a bill for an act to apply to the provisions of chapter 58, Seventh General Assembly, and amendments thereto existing, relating to bonded indebtedness of counties, cities and towns.

Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senator Kelly offered the following concurrent resolution:

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO ADJOURNMENT.

Resolved, by the Senate, the House concurring, That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly shall each declare their respective houses adjourned sine die on Thursday, March 29, 1894, at 12 o'clock, noon.

Resolution laid over under the rule.

Senator Lewis offered the following resolution, and moved its adoption:

Resolved, That five hundred copies of the "Standing Committees of the Senate" be printed in small pamphlet form, and also that two hundred copies of the "assignment of rooms for committees and time of meeting" be printed on cardboard for the use of the Senate.

Resolution adopted.

Senator Lewis offered the following resolution and moved its adoption:

Resolved, That the sergeant-at-arms be instructed to close the curtains of the Senate windows at the bottom and open them at the top.

Resolution adopted.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

Senator Craig, from the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Corporations, to whom was referred Senate file No. 147, a bill for an act to amend chapter 1, title 9, of the Code of Iowa, and to more particularly define the manner of creating corporations for pecuniary profit, and to fix the liability of stockholders, and to fix the compensation to be paid the State for such franchises, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be amended as follows: By striking out all after the third line in section 8 and inserting in lieu thereof the following, "franchise fee as follows: On an authorized capital stock not exceeding ten thousand ($10,000) dollars the fee shall be twenty-five ($25.00) dollars; exceeding ten thousand ($10,000) and less than twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, the fee shall be fifty ($50.00), and each additional one thousand ($1,000) dollars, the fee shall be one-half of one per cent," and when so amended it do pass.

Ordered passed on file.

GEORGE M. CRAIG,

Chairman.

Senator Ellis, from the Committee on Banks and Banking, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Banks and Banking, to whom was referred Senate file No. 109, a bill for an act relating to the publication of quarterly statements of banks, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that the bill do pass.

Ordered passed on file.

L. A. ELLIS,

Chairman.

Senator Finn, from the Committee on Educational Institutions, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Educational Institutions, to whom was

referred Senate file No. 151, a bill for an act for the permanent support and maintenance of the Iowa State University, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that the bill do pass.

Ordered passed on file.

GEO. L. FINN.
Chairman.

Senator Harmon, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate file No. 214, a bill for an act to amend section two (2) of chapter eleven (11) of the acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, relating to the establishment and maintenance of water works, gas and electric light plants, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that the same be referred to the Committees on Cities and Towns.

Ordered passed on file.

M. W. HARMON,

Chairman.

Senator Upton, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Printing, to whom was referred Senate file No. 205, a bill for an act to amend chapter 197 of the acts of the Twentieth General Assembly in relation to circulation of newspapers, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass.

Ordered passed on file.

C. C. UPTON,
Chairman.

Senator Waterman, from the Committee on Cities and Towns, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Cities and Towns, to whom was referred Senate file No. 159, a bill for an act to amend section 1, chapter 11, of the acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, making the powers granted in sections 472, 473, 474 and 475, of the Code of 1873, applicable to the establishment of gas works or electric light plants, and providing for the payment of the same by the issue of bonds, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation, at the request of its author, Senator Craig, that the bill be indefinitely postponed.

H. L. WATERMAN,

Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Cities and Towns, to whom was referred Senate file No 143, a bill for an act creating in certain cities of the first class a board of library trustees, defining the powers and prescribing the duties of such