Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be requested to inquire into the propriety of preventing the transmission of telegraphic dispatches in cipher, during the present difficulties in our national affairs, and report by bill or otherwise.

Which was adopted.

REPORTS FROM STANDING COMMITTEES.

Mr. Bundy, from the Committee on the Judiciary, made the following report:

MR. SPEAKER:

The Judiciary Committee, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 5, entitled "a bill to define certain felonies, and provide for the punishment of persons guilty thereof," have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the bill back to the House without amendment, and recommend its passage.

Mr. Nebeker moved to concur in the report of the Committee.
Which was agreed to.

Mr. Bundy moved to read Senate bill No. 5 a third time, now.
Which was agreed to.

Senate bill No. 5. A bill to define certain felonies, and provide for the punishment of persons guilty thereof.

Was read a third time, and,

The question being, shall the bill pass?

Mr. Fisher moved to recommit the bill to the Committee on the

Judiciary, with instructions to strike out from the enacting clause, and insert the following:

SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to do, or to advise, or counsel any other person to do, or to directly oa indirectly assist, aid or abet in doing, or to advise or counsel any other person to aid, assist or abet in doing any or either of the things below in this section specified, that is to say:

1. To receive and accept a commission or appointment, in writing or otherwise, from any State or States, person or persons, or real or pretended government, engaged in war, rebellion or insurrection against this State, or the government and laws thereof, or against the United States, or the government and laws thereof, with the intent in any manner, directly or indirectly, to assist or give aid and comfort to any such person or persons, State or States, or real or pretended government in such war, rebellion or insurrection.

2. To directly or indirectly engage in any insurrection or rebellion, or in forming any plot, combination or conspiracy against this State, or the government thereof, or for the the purpose of resisting any law thereof.

3. To enlist in, or join, or to procure, or attempt to persuade or procure any other person to enlist in, or join the army of any enemy of this State or of the United States, or any body or combinations of persons, or States engaged in war, rebellion, or insurrection against this State, or the United States, or engaged in resisting, by force, the government, or laws of this State or of the United States.

4. To furnish, aid or abet in furnishing, or to advise or counsel any other person to furnish, or aid and abet in furnishing any arms, ammunition, or other implements or munitions of war, or any grain, hay, meat, breadstuffs, or other articles of food for the consumption of men or beasts, to any government, or pretended government, or any State or States, or any body or combination of persons engaged in war, rebellion, or insurrection against this State, or the United States, or in resisting by force the government or laws of this State, or of the United States.

5. To combine or conspire, or carry on, or maintain any correspondence with any person or persons, by letter or by personal interviews, or through the agency of any other person, or by any other means, with the view or intent to give aid and comfort to, or to betray this State or the United States, or any of the loyal inhabitants thereof, into the hands or power of any government or pretended government, or State or States, or person or persons engaged in war, rebellion, or insurrection against this State, or the United States, or E. S. H. J.-10.

in resisting by force the government or laws of the State, or of the United States.

6. To build, construct, alter, repair, furnish, or fit out, or directly or indirectly and knowingly to aid or assist in building, constructing, altering, repairing, furnishing or fitting out any vessel, boat or watercraft of any description, to be used in transporting men or property, or in privateering, or otherwise making war in the service of any government, or pretended government or State, or States, or person, or combination of persons, engaged in war, rebellion, or insurrection against this State, or the United States, or in resisting by force the government or laws of this State, or the United States.

7. To sell, buy, barter, exchange, give, deliver or receive, or transport by land or water any arms, ammunitions, implements or munitions of war, or any grain, hay, meat, breadstuffs, or other provisions, for the consumption and sustenance of man or beast, with the intent that the same shall be, or with a knowledge that the same are intended to be immediately, or ultimately furnished to, or received by or for the use of, any body or combination of persons, or any State or States, or any person or persons residing in or acting as an officer or agent of any State or government, or pretended government, engaged in war, rebellion, or insurrection against this State, or the United States, or in resisting by force the government or laws of this State, or of the United States.

8. To go out of this State with the intention, or for the purpose of doing or advising or procuring to be done, any act the doing of which is by this act declared to be unlawful.

SEC. 2. Every person who shall violate any or either of the provisions of the first section of this act shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $10,000, and be imprisoned at hard labor in the State Prison for any term not less than one nor more than twenty-one years, and be disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office during life: Provided, That if any person shall do any act or any number of acts in violation of this act, amounting separately or collectively to treason against this State, according to the definition of treason contained in the constitution of this State, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall suffer death by hanging by the neck.

SEC. 3. Prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this act shall not be barred by any statute of limitations nor by the lapse of any length of time.

SEC. 4. Every Judge of a court, Justice of the peace, Mayor or Recorder of a city, Sheriff, Coroner, Marshal of a city, and Constable shall have power, and it shall be his duty to prevent violations of

this act, and for that purpose every such officer shall have power, with or without process, to arrest persons and seize property any where within the jurisdiction of this State, and to call to his aid the power of his county, and any military force in the service of the State in such county.

SEC. 5. Whereas, several of the States of this Union are in armed rebellion and waging war against the government of the United States; and whereas, the peace of this State and the safety of her citizens are threatened and greatly endangered, there is therefore an emergency requiring this act to take effect and be in full force from and after its passage, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause it to be forthwith published in the Indianapolis Journal and State Sentinel, and send a paper containing the same to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of each county bordering on the Ohio River, and to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of each county bordering on the Wabash River from Posey to Tippecanoe, inclusive.

Mr. Gresham moved to lay the motion and instructions on the table.

Which was agreed to.

Mr. Turner asked, and by unanimous consent, obtained leave to introduce the following resolution:

Resolved, That the bill be recommitted to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to so amend as to prohibit the sale of contraband goods to such States as have refused to respond to the call of the President for troops.

Mr. Bundy moved to lay the resolution on the table.
Which was agreed to.

On motion,

The House adjourned till 2 o'clock P. M.

2 O'CLOCK, P. M.

The House met.

. The House resumed the consideration of Senate bill No. 5.

The question being, shall the bill pass 8?

Mr. Haworth moved the previous question.
Which was seconded by the House.

Those who voted in the affirmative were,

Messrs. Anderson, Black, Bryan, Bundy, Cameron, Campbell, Cason, Collins of Adams, Chapman, Cooprider. Crain, Dashiel, Davis, Dobbins, Erwin, Feagler, Ferguson, Fisher, Fleming, Fraley, Goar, Gresham, Hall, Harvey, Haworth, Henricks, Hopkins, Hudson, Hurd, Jenkinson, Jones of Tippecanoe, Jones of Vermillion, Jones of Wayne, Kendrick, Lods, Lane, Lee, Lightner, McClurg, Moorman, Mutz, Nebeker, Orr, Packard, Parrett, Pitts, Prow, Randall, Roberts, Sloan, Sherman, Smith of Bartholomew, Stevenson, Stotsenburg, Trier, Thomas, Thompson, Turner, Underwood, Warrum, Wells, Williams, Wilson, Woodhull, Woods and Mr. Speaker-66.

Those who voted in the negative were,

Messrs. Gifford, Howard, Kitchen, Polk and Ragan—5.

Present and refusing to vote, Messrs. Ford and Hayes-2.

So the bill passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk inform the Senate thereof.

HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.

House bill No. 30. A bill making appropriations for the Hospital for the Insane.

Was read a third time, and

The question being, shall the bill pass

?

Those who voted in the affirmative were,

Messrs. Anderson, Black, Bryan, Bundy, Campbell, Cason, Collins of Adams, Cooprider, Crain, Chapman, Dashiel, Davis, Dobbins, Erwin, Feagler, Ferguson, Fisher, Fleming, Ford, Fraley, Gifford, Goar, Gresham, Hall, Harvey, Haworth, Hayes, Henricks, Hopkins, Howard, Hudson, Hurd, Jenkinson, Jones of Tippecanoe, Jones of Vermillion, Jones of Wayne, Kendrick, Kitchen, Lods, Lane, Lee, Lightner, McClurg, Moorman, Moss, Mutz, Nebeker, Orr, Packard, Parrett, Pitts, Prow, Ragan, Randall, Roberts, Sloan, Sherman,