Senate Bill No. 35, To amend sections 601 and 608 of chapter 80, of the General Statutes of Kansas. Read the second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 36, To authorize railroad corporations to purchase the bonds and stock of other companies and to endorse and guarantee the same, and foreclose mortgages. Read the second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 37, To amend an act regulating interest on money. Read the second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 38, To legalize the organization of the Junction City and Fort Kearney railroad company. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Senate Bill No. 39, To amend an act entitled an act relating to the sale of property without appraisement, approved March 1, 1872. Read second time, and Referred to Committee on Judiciary. House amendments to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 16, Relating to printing the Governor's Message, Were taken up for consideration. · Mr. Murdock moved that the Senate refuse to concur in the amendments made by the House of Representatives. Upon which a vote was had, and The motion prevailed. Ordered that the Secretary inform the House thereof.. The President appointed Mr. W. E. Towner as clerk of the following committees: Federal Relations, Appropriations, Counties and County Lines, Printing, Retrenchment and Reform, and Military Affairs. The President appointed Miss Alice Lee Armsby as an assistant clerk. RESOLUTIONS CONSIDERED. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 18, To amend section 1, article 14, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, Was taken up for consideration. Mr. Murdock moved that the resolution be made the Special Order for Thursday at 10 o'clock A. M. Which motion prevailed. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 19, Relating to the expenditures for the improvement of the State House grounds, Was taken up for consideration. The question being: Shall the resolution be adopted? The resolution was adopted. Ordered that the Secretary inform the House thereof. House Concurrent Resolution No. 4, Referring to Soldiers' Bounty Land Bill, Was taken up for consideration. The question then being upon the adoption of the resolution, A vote was had, and The resolution was adopted. Ordered that the Secretary inform the House thereof. House Concurrent Resolution No. 5, In relation to mail routes, Was taken up for consideration, Mr. Murdeck moved to amend by inserting the following: One from Wichita to Medicine Lodge, Barbour county, semi-weekly. Upon which a vote was had, and The motion prevailed. Mr. Edwards moved to amend by inserting the following: One from Ellis, Ellis county, to the county seats of Phillip and Norton counties. Upon which a vote was had, and The amendment prevailed. Mr. Simons moved to amend by inserting the following: One from Osage Mission, via Girard, to Carthage, Missouri, service to be semi-weekly. Upon which a vote was had, and The amendment prevailed. Mr. Martindale moved to amend by inserting the following: One from Burlington, Coffey county, to Madison, Greenwood county, service to be semi-weekly. Upon which a vote was had, and The amendment prevailed. The question being upon the adoption of the resolution as amended, A vote was had, and The amendment was adopted. Ordered that the Secretary inform the House thereof. Mr. Butler, from the Committee of Conference, on Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 10, Made the following report: Mr. President: Your Committee of Conference, to whom was referred the matter of difference between the two Houses on Senate Concurrent Resolution, No. 10, Have had the same under consideration, and report the same back recommending that the number of papers to be taken on Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 10, be forty-five copies, according to the terms and conditions of said resolution. C. B. BUTLER, Mr. W. E. Towner and Miss Alice Lee Armsby took and subscribed to the following oath: You and each of you do solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Kansas, and that you will faithfully perform the duties of your respective offices, so help you God. ALICE LEE ARMSBY. Subscribed and sworn to before me this twenty-fifth day of January, A. D. 1873. E. S. STOVER, On motion, The Senate adjourned. GEO. C. CROWTHER, Secretary. AFTERNOON SESSION. January 27, 3 o'clock P. M. Senate met pursuant to adjournment. President in the chair. Roll called. The following gentlemen were present and answered to their names: Messrs. Blair, Brandley, Butler, Barker, Crichton, Edwards, Ely, Grimes, Guerin, Johnson, Judd, Martin, Martindale, Matheny, McFarland, McWirt, Moonlight, Morrill, Murdock, O'Neil, Palmer, Price, Rogers, Schmidt, Simons, Simpson, St. John, Topping, Walker, J. C. Wilson, Winter and York. Quorum present. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. F. S. McCabe. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. Mr. Schmidt, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Lines, made the following report: MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Counties and County Lines, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 32, An act to amend an act relating to counties and county officers, Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. F. SCHMIDT, |