Also, House bill No. 226, An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of the poor." By Mr. Tomlinson: House bill No. 227, An act relating to the election of school district officers. BILLS ON SECOND READING. The following bills were read the second time, and referred to appropriate committees: House bill No. 197, An act to authorize James M. Kelley to exercise the rights of majority. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. House bill No. 198, An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act for the relief of the poor, chapter 89, Session Laws of 1870," approved March 2, 1870. Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries. House joint resolution No. 5, providing for an amendment of section 1 of article 11 of the constitution, relating to exemption from taxation. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. House bill No. 199, An act to authorize school district No. 28, Osborne county, to issue a bond. Referred to Committee on Corporations. House bill No. 200, An act for the protection of sheep, and taxation and confiscation of dogs. Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Manufactures. House bill No. 201, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 193, Laws of 1872, relating to the herd law. Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Manufactures. House bill No. 202, An act providing for the appointment of a physician for the State Penitentiary, and prescribing the duties and fixing the salary thereof. Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries. House bill No. 203, An act to promote immigration to the State of Kansas. Referred to Committee on Immigration. House bill No. 204, An act making appropriations for Leav enworth State Normal School for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1875. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. House bill No. 205, An act regulating the salaries of county officers. Referred to Committee on Fees and Salaries. House bill No. 206, An act to legalize the acts of county officers of Wallace county. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. House bill No. 207, An act declaring section lines in Ellis county public highways. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. House bill No. 209, An act to authorize the county commissioners of Ellsworth county to issue bonds for the purpose of funding and paying certain indebtedness. Referred to Committee on Corporations. House bill No. 210, An act to authorize Edmond Early, a minor, to exercise the rights of majority as to property, and to legalize his acts as to the sale and purchase of property. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. House bill No. 211, An act for the refunding of money to a certain county named therein. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. The House then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of general orders; Mr. E. B. Allen in the chair. After some time spent in debate therein the committee arose, and through its chairman submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER: The committee of the whole House have had under consideration House bill No. 9, An act respecting the sale of intoxicating liquors, and instruct me to report the bill back to the House with the recommendation that it be passed. House bill No. 8, An act to authorize district courts to confer the rights of majority on minors in certain cases, and instruct me to report the bill back to the House with the recommendation that it be passed. House bill No. 7, An act respecting vacancies in the office of county attorney, and instruct me to report the bill to the House with the recommendation that it be passed. House bill No. 6, An act relating to occupying claimants, and instruct me to report the bill back to the House with the recom mendation that it be passed over, and retain its place on the calendar. House bill No. 2, An act to prevent and punish gambling, and instruct me to report the bill back to the House with the recommendation that it be passed as amended. House bill No. 79, An act changing and defining the boundaries of the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Representative districts, and instruct me to report the bill back to the House with the recommendation that it be passed. E. B. ALLEN, Chairman. On motion, the report of the committee of the whole was agreed to. By unanimous consent, Mr. Mitchell, chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, submitted the following report: MR. SPEAKER: The Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred House bill No. 54, An act to divide the county of Howard, and to erect the territory thereof into the counties of Chautauqua and Elk, to provide for the organization of said counties, and other matters connected therewith, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the House correctly engrossed. M. R. MITCHELL, Chairman. By uanimous consent, Mr. Legate offered House concurrent resolution No. 22, in relation to the Pomeroy-York bribe money, which was laid over under the rules. On motion, the House took a recess until 7:30 P. M. EVENING SESSION. TOPEKA, KANSAS, January 22, 1875, House called to order; Speaker in the chair. Roll called; quorum present. The following gentlemen answered to their names: Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Angell, Babcock, Bates, Barnes, Baldwin, Beegle, Bell, Benedict, Blair, Bradford, Briggs, Brinkman, C. J. Brown, G. W. Brown (Nemaha), G. W. Brown (Crawford), Bryan, Buchan, Burgess, Campbell, Carter, Codding, Conrad, Cornell, Cowan, Cox, Donnelly, Doud, Duncan, Edmonds, Elder, Fain, Farwell, Ferguson, F. R. Foster, J. N. Foster, Fitzwilliam, Gibson, Haskell, Haff, Hooton, Hubbs, Hulett, Huston, Jaquins, Johnston, Landon, Legate, Lockwood, Loy, Mann, Martin, Marvell, Mackay, McNulty, Meredith, Merriweather, Miller, Mitchell, Mobley, C. Moore, Morse, Morphy, Pickett, Pilkenton, Raney, Reppert, Robinson, Root, Scott, A. W. Smith, T. E. Smith, W. C. Smith, Spurlock, Squires, Stauber, Tabor, Taylor, Thacher, Tomlinson, Tuttle, Vance, Vaughan, Walker, Williams, Willis, Wirt, Wood, Woods, R. M. Wright, and Mr. Speaker. On motion of W. J. Buchan, leave of absence was granted I. O. Pickering, Assistant Chief Clerk, until Monday next. On motion of Mr. Carter, leave of absence was granted Mr. Briggs until Monday. SPECIAL ORDER. This being the hour for the consideration of the special order, being the substitute for House concurrent resolution No. 9, as offered by Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Fitzwilliam offered the following substitute for the substitute offered by Mr. Vaughan, and moved its adoption: Whereas, All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority; and, Whereas, The military should be in strict subordination to the civil power: be it therefore Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein, That any interference by any 'officer or soldier of the United States army, in the organization of any State legislative body, is unauthorized under the constitution of the United States, and contrary to the genius of republican governments, and condemned by the practice and traditions of our people. Resolved, That the late forcible ejection of persons claiming seats in the Louisiana Legislature as members thereof, was an outrage upon the rights of such persons, and a blow at republican government which demands the sternest rebuke of the free people of the nation, without regard to party. Resolved, That the Federal Government has power, under section 4 of article 4 of the constitution of the United States, to protect each State against domestic violence, but no power to organize or assist in the organization or control, by military power or otherwise, the organization of any State legislative body. Resolved, That the people of Kansas contemplate with pride. their past history; a record of resistance to federal and military power against the will of the people of the Territory; a record of freedom against slavery, which they are zealous to preserve; and no more enduring monument of the record of the early Kansas people can be erected than by this, our solemn protest against the bayonet ruling the will of freemen in our sister State of Louisiana. Resolved, That we, the representatives of the people of Kansas, bearing in memory our own history, yet fresh in recollection, do solemnly protest against the outrage lately perpetrated in Louisiana, in the ejectment from the House of Representatives of persons claiming seats therein, by the military power of the government, without authority of and contrary to constitutional and statutory law. Mr. Fitzwilliam moved the adoption of the substitute. Mr. Martin moved that the further consideration of the substitute be made the special order for Monday evening next, at 71 o'clock, which motion did not prevail. Mr. Legate moved the previous question, which motion prevailed, and the question being on the adoption of the substitute offered by Mr. Fitzwilliam, the roll was called with the following result: Yeas, 26; Nays, 66. The following gentlemen voted in the affirmative: Messrs. Angell, Beegle, Briggs, G. W. Brown (Crawford), Campbell, Carter, Cowan, Cox, Donnelly, Fain, J. N. Foster, Fitzwilliam, Goff, Goucher, Haff, Hulett, Jaquins, Martin, C. Moore, Robinson, T. E. Smith, W. C. Smith, Squires, Tabor, Tuttle, and Walker. The following gentlemen voted in the negative: Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Atwood, Babcock, Bates, Barnes, Baldwin, Bell, Benedict, Bradford, C. J. Brown, G. W. Brown (Nemaha), Bryan, Buchan, Burgess, Codding, Conrad, Cornell, Doud, Duncan, Edmonds, Elder, Farwell, Ferguson, F. R. Foster, Gibson, Haskell, Hooton, Hubbs, Huston, Johnston, Landon, Legate, Lockwood, Loy, Mann, Marvell, Mackay, McNulty, Merriweather, Miller, Mitchell, Mobley, Morse, Morphy, Palmer, Pilkenton, Raney, Reppert, Root, Scott, A. W. Smith, |