Senator Hubbell said that it was not meet for the Senate, which was costing the State $250 a day, to waste its time in such frivolity. He said that in reading the leading newspapers of Chicago and the East, he found that the Indiana State Legislature had laid itself open to ridicule by the action already taken on the bill. He thought consideration of such a proposition was not dignified or worthy of the Senate.
Senator Hubbell expressed his disapproval of the Senate's decision to waste its time on frivolous matters, which was costing the state $250 per day. By referencing prominent newspapers from Chicago and the East Coast, he demonstrated that the Indiana State Legislature had already exposed itself to ridicule through their handling of the bill. In this context, Hubbell believed that the Senate should not engage in such unbecoming behavior.