OF THE House of Representatives OF THE SIXTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA, WHICH CONVENED AT THE CAPITOL, IN DES MOINES, IOWA, JAN. 10, 1876. DES MOINES, R. P. CLARKSON, STATE PRINTER, 1876. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVFS, Į DES MOINES, Iowa, January 10, A. D., 1876. Pursuant to law the House of Representatives of the Sixteenth General Assembly, met at 2 o'clock P. M., and was called to order by Mr. Madden, of Polk county. Prayer by Rev. Granger W. Smith. On motion of Mr. Danforth, of Winneshiek county, Benj. Van Steinburg, of Jackson county, was chosen Chief Clerk, pro tem. On motion of Mr. Given the roll was called by districts, and the members present presented their credentials to the Clerk, which was agreed to, and the following named members answered. 1st District, Lee-Wesley C. Hobbs, John Gibbons, and John N. Irwin. 2d District, Des Moines-John H. Gear, and William Lynch. 3d District, Henry--William Allen, and Jacob Kauffman. 4th District, Jefferson-W. L. S. Simmons. 5th District, Van Buren-Thomas Christy. 6th District, Wapello-Jacob W. Dixon, and G. A. Madson. 7th District, Davis-L. D. Hotchkiss. 8th District, Monroe-A. M. Giltner. 9th District, Appanoose-James B. Stuckey. 10th District, Lucas-Dan M. Baker. 11th District, Wayne-Elijah Glendenning. 12th District, Decatur-Stanfield P. McNeill. 13th District, Clarke-Jacob Proudfoot. 14th District, Ringgold and Union-Samuel W. McElderry. 15th District, Taylor-John Madden. 16th District, Page-Edwin B. Hoag. 17th District, Fremont-William M. Brooks. 18th District, Mills-John Y. Stone. 19th District, Pottawattamie-Daniel Hunt. 20th District, Montgomery and Adams--George A. Morse. 21st District, Audubon, Shelby, Adair and Cass-Milton K. Car bell. 22d District, Madison-J. J. Smith. 23d District, Warren-Samuel Irwin. 24th District, Marion-Green T. Clark, and John B. Elliott. 25th District, Mahaska-W. H. Seevers, and Hardin Tice. 26th District, Keokuk-B. A. Cleveland, and Sanford Harned. 27th District, Washington-William Said, and G. T. Auld. 28th District, Louisa-Robert E. Benton. 29th District, Muscatine-Charles C. Horton, and F. A. J. Gray. 30th District, Scott-Ernst Mueller, Eugene Birchard, and Jose A. Crawford. 31st District, Clinton-Edward H. Thayer, John A. Young, a Henry Horstman. 32d District, Cedar-Robert G. Scott, and Alexander Moffit. 33d District, Johnson-Rush Clark, and Charles W. McCune. 34th District, Iowa-John L. Williams. 35th District, Poweshiek-Charles F. Craver. 36th District, Jasper-George M. Wilson, and Joel W. Deweese. 37th District, Polk-William G. Madden, and Josiah Given. 38th District, Dallas-T. C. Norris. 39th District, Guthrie-George J. Maris. 40th District, Harrison-Lemuel R. Bolter. 41st District, Monona, Crawford, Ida and Cherokee-George Ra 42d District, Greene, Carroll, Calhoun and Sac-Orlando H. M ning. 43d District, Webster-Samuel Rees. 44th District, Boone-Levi Colvin. 45th District, Story-Milton Evans. 46th District, Hardin-John Hall. 47th District, Marshall-William D. Mills. 48th District, Grundy-James Underwood. 49th District, Tama-Gamaliel Jaqua. 50th District, Black Hawk-Herman C. Hemenway, and Harlan Homer. 51st District, Benton-E. Smyth Johnson, and John McCartney. 52d District, Buchanan-John Calvin. 53d District, Linn-Moses C. Jordan, and William Ure. 54th District, Jones-William T. Shaw, and George W. Lathrop 55th District, Jackson-Lewis W. Stuart, and William H. Reed. 56th District, Dubuque-Thomas W. Johnston, Theophilus C ford, and Julius K. Graves. 57th District, Delaware-Joseph Chapman. 58th District, Clayton-Charles Mentzel, and Thos. D. White. 59th District, Fayette-William E. Fuller. 60th District, Allamakee-Luther Brown. 61st District, Winneshiek-Warren Danforth, and Martin N. J son. 62d District, Bremer-Louis Case. 63d District, Chickasaw-John McHugh. 64th District, Howard-H. T. Reed. 65th District, Mitchell-Jesse P. Brush. 66th District, Floyd-Jared B. Shepardson. 67th District, Butler-John Palmer. 68th District, Franklin and Cerro Gordo-Lorenzo D. Lane. 69th District, Worth, Winnebago, Kossuth and Hancock-Henry H. Bush. 70th District, Humboldt, Hamilton and Wright-John L. Morse. 71st District, Pocahontas, Buena Vista, Palo Alto and Emmet- Gifford S. Robinson. 1 72d District, Clay, Dickinson, Osceola and O'Brien-John F. Glover. 73d District, Woodbury, Plymouth, Sioux and Lyon-Samuel B. Gilliland. On motion of Mr. McNeil, of Decatur county, Hon. Lemuel Bolter of Harrison county, was chosen Speaker pro tem., and Messrs. Gear, and Dixon, were appointed a committee to conduct him to the chair. RESOLUTION. Mr. Gilliland offered the following resolution which was adopted: Resolved, That Messrs. Dixon of Wapello county, Wilson of Jasper county, Irwin of Lee county, Case of Bremer county, and Horton of Muscatine county, be and are hereby appointed a Committee on Credentials, with instructions to report to-morrow morning immediately after the reading of the journal. On motion of Mr. Stewart of Jackson county, the following messengers were appointed by the Speaker pro tem : Charles Schramm, and Joseph B. Dabney. At 2 o'clock and 30 minutes, on motion of Mr. Irwin of Lee, the House adjourned until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, } DES MOINES, Iowa, January 11, 1876. House called to order by the Speaker pro tem. Prayer by the Rev. W. W. King. Journal of yesterday read and approved. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. Mr. Dixon, from the Committee on Credentials submitted the following report: The Committee on Credentials find that the following named gentlemen are entitled to seats as members of this House from the several representative districts, as follows: 1st District, Lee-Wesley C. Hobbs, John Gibbons, and John N. Irwin. |