Senator Trewin offered the following amendment and moved its adoption:

I move to strike out section eleven (11) and insert the following in lieu thereof:

Section 11. When a difference of opinion exists between the board of control and the authorities in charge of any private or county asylum in regard to the removal of a patient or patients, as herein provided, the matter shall be submitted to the district court or the judge thereof of the proper county and shall be summarily tried, as equitable action, and judgment of the district court or judge shall be final.

Senator Hobart moved that further consideration of the bill under consideration be postponed until 9:30 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Lost.

A roll call was demanded on amendment offered by Senator Trewin.

The yeas were:

Senators Alexander, Allyn, Arthaud, Bachman, Ball, Bishop, Cheshire, Classen, Crossley, Finch, Garst, Griswold, Harriman, Hayward, Healy, Lambert, Lewis, Lister, Mardis, Moffit, Mullan, Nolan, Penrose, Perrin, Smith, Trewin, Wallace-27.

The nays were:

Senators Craig, Emmert, Fitchpatrick, Hobart, Junkin, Porter, Titus-7.

Absent or not voting:

Senators Alberson, Blanchard, Bolter, Brighton, Eaton, Gorrell, Hazelton, Hopkins, Hubbard, Lyons, McArthur, McIntire, Tallman, Townsend, Wilson, Young-16.

So the amendment was adopted.

Senator Lewis moved the adoption of the substitute.
Adopted.

Senator Lewis moved that the rule be suspended, and that the bill be considered engrossed and the reading of the bill just had be its third reading, which motion prevailed.

On the question, Shall the bill pass?

The yeas were:

Senators Alexander, Alberson, Allyn, Arthaud, Bachman. Ball, Bishop, Cheshire, Classen, Craig, Crossley, Emmeri,

Finch, Fitchpatrick, Garst, Griswold, Harriman, Hayward, Healy, Hobart, Hopkins, Junkin, Lambert, Lewis, Lister, Mardis, Moffit, Mullan, Nolan, Penrose, Perrin, Porter, Smith, Titus, Trewin, Wallace-36.

The nays were:

None.

Absent or not voting:

Senators Blanchard, Bolter, Brighton, Eaton, Gorrell, Hazelton, Hubbard, Lyons, McArthur, McIntire, Tallman, Townsend, Wilson, Young-14.

So the bill, having received a constitutional majority, was declared to have passed the Senate and its title agreed to.

HOUSE MESSAGES CONSIDERED.

Senate file No. 159, a bill for an act to prevent and punish the desecration of the flag of the United States.

Passed on file.

House file No. 106, a bill for an act to provide for the erection of monuments to mark the positions occupied by Iowa volunteers at the battle of Shiloh, Tenn., and to make an appropriation to pay for the same and to pay the expenses of the commissioners.

Passed on file.

Substitute for House file No. 223, a bill for an act creating a department to be known as the department of building and loan and savings and loan associations, and creating the office of inspector of building and loan and savings and loan associations, and defining the duties of the inspector thereof, and amending sections eighteen hundred and ninety-four (1894), eighteen hundred and ninety-five (1895), eighteen hundred and ninety eight (1898), nineteen hundred and five (1905), nineteen hundred and six (1906), nineteen hundred and seven (1907), nineteen hundred and eight (1908), nineteen hundred and nine (1909), nineteen hundred and ten (1910), nineteen hundred and eleven (1911), nineteen hundred and twelve (1912), nineteen hundred and thirteen (1913), nineteen hundred and fourteen (1914), nineteen hundred and fifteen (1915), nineteen hundred and sixteen (1916), nineteen hundred and seventeen (1917) of the code.

Passed on file.

House file No. 335, a bill for an act to amend section seven hundred forty-two (742) and seven hundred forty-three (743) of chapter five (5) title five (5) of the code relating to the transfer of the sinking fund accumulated for the purchase and construction of waterworks, and the amendment of section seven hundred thirty-two (732) of chapter four (4) title five (5) of the code relating to the disposition of the library tax for the purpose of reimbursing any fund that may have been used for the erection of a public library building.

Passed on file.

Senate file No. 311, a bill for an act to amend chapter thirteen (13) title nine (9) of the code and to repeal chapter fortyeight (48) acts of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, relating to building and loan associations, and defining certain offenses and providing penalties therefor.

Passed on file.

House concurrent resolution relative to retaining of certain officers of Senate and House for two days after final adjournment for the purpose of arranging and preserving records of this session.

Adopted.

Senator Alberson moved that the Senate do now adjourn. Carried.

Senate adjourned.

SENATE CHAMBER,

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DES MOINES, Wednesday, April 4, 1900.

Senate met in regular session at 9 o'clock A. M., President Milliman presiding.

Prayer was offered by Rev. H. O. Lorenz, of Waverly, Iowa.

REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON ENROLLED BILLS.

Senator Arthaud, from the joint committee on Enrolled Bills, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your joint committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, substitute for House file No. 14, a bill for an act to repeal chapter thirty-eight (38) of the laws of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, relative the cutting of weeds on the public roads, and to enact a substitute in lieu thereof.

Also, House file No. 189, a bill for an act to amend section fifteen hundred and seventy-one (1571) of the code, relative to the operation of steam threshing engines on the public highways.

Also, House file No. 261, a bill for an act making an appropriation to provide for the education of Linnie Haguewood.

Also, House file No. 355, a bill for an act appropriating money for the completion of the classification of the state library.

Also, House file No. 76, a bill for an act to reimburse Jones county for costs incurred in prosecutions for the violation of section four thousand, eight hundred ninety-seven (4897), code of 1897.

Also, substitute for House file No. 78, a bill for an act to amend section one hundred and thirty-six (136) of the code, relating to the printing of the reports of the Academy of Sciences.

Also, House file No. 82, a bill for an act to amend section two thousand, two hundred and thirteen (2213) of the code, relating to compensation of officers and soldiers of the Iowa National guard.

Also, Senate substitute for House file No. 105, a bill for an act to amend section twenty-seven hundred and seventy-eight (2778) of the code, relative to the employment of teachers.

Also, House file No. 145, a bill for an act to repeal section one thousand, three hundred and eighty-five (1385) of the code, and enact a substitute therefor, relative to the correction of assessment and tax list.

Also, substitute for House file No. 234, a bill for an act to legalize sales and manufacture of spirituous, malt, and vinous liquors, under statements of consent filed prior to October 1, 1897.

Also, House file No. 374, a bill for an act to amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-one (2451) of the code, relative to the revocation of a bar to proceedings against persons selling intoxicating liquors.

Also, House file No. 9, a bill for an act to amend section three thousand, one hundred and thirty-eight (3138) of the code, in relation to hotel and innkeepers' liabilities.

Also, House file No. 407, a bill for an act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Beaconsfield, Ringgold county, Iowa, and official acts by its officers.

Also, House file No. 260, a bill for an act to amend section eighteen hundred and eighty-nine (1889) of the code, relating to the receiving of time deposits by loan and trust companies.

Also, House file No. 144, a bill for an act to amend section one thousand, three hundred and forty-eight (1348) of the code, relative to license of peddlers.

F. L. ARTHAUD, Chairman Senate Committee.

Ordered passed on file.

J. P. LYMAN, Chairman House Committee.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

Senator Crossley, from the committee on Educational Institutions, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your committee on Educational Institutions, to whom was referred Senate file No. 322, a bill for an act to provide for the inspec tion, recognition and supervision of schools for the special instruction and training of teachers for the common schools of Iowa, 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 indefinitely postponed.

JAS. J. CROSSLEY,

Adopted.

Chairman.

Senator Harriman, from the committee on Agriculture, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT-Your committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred House file No. 133, a bill for an act providing for the regulation, limitation and control of the flow of water from artesian wells, and fixing the penalty and liability for violation of the same, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same