Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1924 — Page 2

Legislature To Have Large Amount Os Work Indianapolis, Dec. 16. — (United Presul—lf the Indiana state legislature acts on nil the measures which are certain to come before it and still finds the way clear to limit the session to forty-five days as urged by Clyde A. Walb. republican state chairman, it will set a record for celerity In law making Walb. at last week's conference with republican members of the house and senate, told the soions they should throw the legislative machinery into high gear as soon as the two houses are called to order and begin turning out the legislative grist, I He told them to get busy and pass appropriation bills the first wteek and give the people of the state an example of efficiency and economy. Walb also urged the republican members to hold down on the number of measures passed, saying that that legislature is best which legislates least. I

F. Harold VanOrman, lieutenant governor elect, pledged himself to use his influence toward the same cads, and James J. Nedjl. president pro tern of the senate as it is now organized, said he thought the legislature would do the state a world of good if it d dn't pass any additional laws but confined itself to passing money measures and correcting flaws in existing laws. Despi.e the general sentiment in favor of pass ng as few hi.ls ax possible. it was apparent that the session will be confronted with the usual flood of bills and pet measures. ' One of the measures that is certain to come before the legislature is a co-operative marketing bill, which will be sponsored by the Indiana Faint Bureau federation. A cooperative marketing bill was passed by both houses in 1923 but was vetoed by Governor McCray. The farm bureau federation at its annual state convention last month again pledged itself to the principle of cooperative, marketing and called for the legislature to take up the question. Another fight over the speedway bill to prevent holding of the 500 mile auto races at the Indianapolis .Motor Speedway on Decoration Day is in prospect. The bill was passed by both houses at the last session J vetoed by Governor McCray, and failed of passage over the governors veto. The Indiana Department of the’ - G. A. R. severely criticized McCray for his veto. The ‘■fifty-fifty’' b'll, which would' provide for a dual organization of men and women in each political party organization, is certain to bob up again. It was defeated at the last session, but women's organizations of the state are again calling for representation on a 50-50 basis in party councils. A remodification of existing liquor laws to plug up weakness in the present prohibition enforcement system will be urged by the Indiana Anti Saloon league. Pointing to the alarming number of bank robberies in the state during the past two years, the Indiana Bankers association will get squarely behind a bill for the establishment of a state constabulary. The constabulary bill was vetoed two years ago. Measures providing for the regulation of motor bus traffic will come up, although bus owners want all regulatory legislation held up for two years while a state commission investigates the problems of motor bus transportation. Another proposal will be for the elimination of grade crossings on interurban and railroads as the only means of cutting down the terrible toll of dead and injured from grade* crossing accidents in the state each year. | Labor organizations will sponsor amendments to the workmen’s compensation law, while women's organizations are preparing to fight for amendment of the child labor law. Both klan and anti klan factions in the legislature are getting readv for a Hitter fight over the parochial schools. When the klan measure requiring all children of school age to attend schools supported by general taxation is introduced the anti klansmen will counter with a measure' which would excuse pupils in public schools for a certain period each week to receive religious instruction. Anti klan members are also expected to be active in working for a bill to abolish horse thief detective associations and for stricter regulation of the sale of fire arms. Sponsors of the county unit education bill will be just as active as they were last session, while the township trustees' association is already tasking preparations to fight the'bill to abolish their office to the last. • i With all these measures and countless others ready to be taken up, it is admitted that the legislators '• ill be btts? men it they go home ; by the middi*

Indiana Has More Wild Life Now Than In 1918 At a recent meeting of the Ameri- - can Protective Association, in New i York City, which national organizaI tion acts as a clearing house for the J conservation ami promotion of wild , life. George N. Mannfeld, superintendent of fisheries and game of this state told the convention that Indiana has decidedly more wild life though population has increased and I there Is less cover for wild things , than in 1918, prior to organization of . the state conservation department. J The Indiana situation is due, Mann- ( feld said to strict law enforvement ( by an efficient warden services, plus lan ever increasing interest among . the people through dedueational . stories in the state press, and the fact that 172 protective fish and game clubs organized bv the conservation department and carrying

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the campaign to kill wild lite judlciI ously, to the individual by personal cohtact. Mannfeld said that in 1918 his division’s receipts amounted to 189.000. For the fiscal year closing September 30, receipts were $190,000. ‘ This division receives no legislation I appropriation and is self supporting, • d> riving its revenue from tho sale ot i hunting and fishing licenses, the • majority of which sell for $1 each. I During the past year, according to I J bls conservation official, the division < constructed a $60,000 fish hatchery ; f in sourthern Indiana, which mak.s ( five now operated at which millions ■ of baby game fish are annually raised t and used for stocking public waters. , The division from its funds also purr chased 8,000 acres of cut over laud I in Brown county where it will forth- • er wild game and bird propagation I jand assist in reforestation. To prove that more game exists in : Indiana today under conditions

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brought about by the conservation departinent than half a decade ago. tutc’ in the face of advancing civilization that great destroyer of wild life, Mannfeld told of a census last March which showed 2.508 coveys of quail on 148,00 b acres in 48. of the 92 counties of this state. The average was a covey to each 57 acres. Only 13 out of 797 landowners reported no quail on thler lands. i Mannfeld says while there is an abundance of wild game, sportsmen ■ frequently are distressed where to •! hunt because so many farms are postJed. if the division's receipts are allowed to be spent as now. it will be possible, he declared, to carry out the Pennsylvania idea of establishing public shooting grounds. - M.S Relatives Say Morton S. Hawkins Is “Broke” Portland. Ind., Dec. 16. —Morton S. Hawkins, fugitive head of the defunt

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