Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1927 — Page 4

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The fellow who has introduced the bill to abolish capitol punishment in Indiana needn’t worry. His bill will probably lose out but the juries will take care of his position, if the defendant uses either the insanity or the sob defense. A South Dakota girl who needed twenty-four dollars to pay her college tution, tried to blow a bank vault and was captured when she went back to get her hat. Thats fighting for an education with a determination that lightly directed ought to have won. One thing is assured in the state legislature as shown by the vote on the Saunders* bill and that is that, some how they have managed to | muzzle those who were so insistent a few months ago on saving the honor of Indiana. Perhaps they have decided that its too late or unnecessary. - -• ' - i You are urged at this season and for the next several weeks to assist in saving the roads. Don't attempt 1 to haul extremely heavy loads for by so doing you are costing the tax payers thousands of dollars for repairs even if you are saving a little time for yourself. Forty gallons of denatured alcohol was stolen from an Anderson garage the other night, supposedly by bootleggers who will distill it and peddle it out to “suckers" as genuine prewar on Canadian whiskey. Its hard to tell what you are buying these days if you patronize these illegal merchants. Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri, will be lh e speaker at the Democratic Editorial meeting next week, sufficient announcement to guarantee a crowd and plenty of enthusiasm. Senator Reed is a two-fisted fighter who says things worth listening to, who knows a lot altotit Indiana politics' and government anil who .may spill some remarks that will be the foundation for a red-hot campaign next year. There is no doubt but that the sentiment of the people of Indiana is for, Hie abolishment of the public service commission or for an entire change of the personel and the utilities will make a serious mistake if they pravent it or if they fail to use their power to correct the supposed or real causes for the present feeling.

They should hang some “stop, look and listen'’ signs in the halls of the state legislature. So far a total of 4Gf> bills have been introduced and of these more than a third, llil to be exact, ask the expenditure of public money, taxation anil the administration of tax laws and 125 call outright for increased expenditure. Where will it all end, if not in a terrjble wreck? At the end of this month we will begin to "clean up” our subscription list, which means we will drop those who have indicated by no response to our entreaties that they do not want the paper longer. We are hoping we will not have to drop a single name. » We promise you a bettor paper than ever, every week day of the year, for only three dollars -by mail. We need and ask for your continued support. Eddie O'Rourke, of Fort Wayne, is out for republican state chairman

I honors and troubles. He has just re--1 Hurnod from u trip to Washington j where they insisted on looking up hits I ancestry and activities before promtsling support. Eddie is a nice boy who ought to l>e a democrat and wus until ■ a couple of years ago when he deI elded to "drift with the tide." He may *i>e taking hold of the hot end of the poker in his present aspirations hoAV'Ver. Judge Collins has dismissed the cases against John D. Williams ami Earl Crawford, members of the highway commission and two or three employes. The indictments were returned purely for political purposes and to cause the removal of the officers. Crawford was not reappointed but Williams has held his place because of the demands from hundreds of citizens. The indictments should never have been returned but having

been, the men were entitld to a trial so they could prove their innocense. An Indianapolis truck driver mired down the other day on a couuty road many miles from here. The limit for loads on that road was two tons but it was discovered that this man was trying to get over the highway with . 13.000 pounds. He ought to be severely punished as should others who act ! similarly. Ruining a road for your , own convenience when you know that it must be rebuilt at the cost of the people is just as serious, or should be. as it is to injure them in some other way, at which you would throw hands in horror. Think it over folks. | Old age pensions are of course a fine thing for those who benefit by them and the sentiment expressed by those favoring such a measure in the state senate just now ar e Rood to I listen to, but we should understand that such a law means increased (taxes. If we want it, well and good, but don’t wait until the law is passed and then growl. Do your objecting now or forever hold your peace. Pen sions and special allowances are be- . ing asked from various quarters at I this session of the legislation and the ' only trouble is how to raise the I money. And thats a very important trouble to b e considered. Too often we are for those things which we feel doesn’t affect us, but if we stop to tonsider we must know that all these {things do affect us'either directly or 1 indirectly. * + ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY 4 ♦ ~ * * From the Daily Democrat File 4 ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. 4 ♦+♦+>*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ l*b 7 Evelyn Nesbit Thaw bares | her life, a tragic story, to save her husband from gallows. Henry Thomas elected past worthy president of the new Eagles lodge and D. D. Coffee is president. Decatur, folks form theatre party and see “The college widow", at the Majestic. First theatre party to use the new traction line. Will of Abraham Ausburger probated. Andrew WelTley is visiting at Kula- , mazoo. Mich. • Eastern Indiana Fair association announces that no passes will be issued tint! Decatur belongs. The roller skating link craze has struck Geneva. Mrs. Kate Green buys Shamrock hotel at Geneva and will operate it.

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Trend Toward Home Rule Is Again Thrust Forward i Legislators Breathe Easier After Threat Os Legislative Investigation Is Removed; Senate Refuses to Establish Separte Department Os Building And Loan 5 Eight On Publie Sen ice Commission Expected To Be Brought To Climax This Week; Total Os 466 Bills Introduced In General Assembly So Far.

By Walter A. Shead Written for the Daily Democrat Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 7. —With the threat of the legislative investigation removed the members of the Mventy-fifth general assembly breath--1 ed easier Friday and got down to ‘ real business uppermost being the 1 fight on the public service commis- . sion and the curtailment of the pow- . ers of the state tax board. in other words, the trend toward 1 home rule was again thrust forward ; and the feeling against establishment 1 of any more boards and commissions was shown in two instances. One was the refusal of the state I senate to establish a separate deparment of building and loan, separating lhe building and loan department from the state banking departments A powerful building and loan lobby I ; has been working on this measure I nid the measure, known as senate: bill No. 44 was saved from the brink of defeat when it was snatched from third reading and placed back on second reading by its author Senator: Delbert V. Blackburn of Evansville. Senator Joseph Cravens (Dem. Madison) led the fight, against the I measure and Senator Cravens asserted that the legislature had already delegated too much yf its pow-1 ?rs to boards and commissions and that the people of the state were ‘bored with boards.” The second instance was the adoption of a favorable report of the senite committee on Judiciary B of the; Hewitt bill which delegates to the <#ir-| •nit courts the power of review over local bond issues now held by the stale tax board. A bitter fight was expected on the committee report of this measure and a divided report, signed each, by four members of the committee, three not voting, lead to i ruling by Lieutenant Governor Van Orman, proper in such a ease, that the report be construed as favorable. The fight on Lire public service commission was expected to be brought, to a climax this week. Sen- ■ ator Howard Cann of Frankfort, author of the measure to abolish the commission has been absent for the

past two days owing to a death in his family and his measure has no* been called down for second reading. From every reliable source ’from which information can be obtained, the Cann bill will not receive sufficient support to pass. Although Senator Cann has been deluged with congratulations for his stand the legislators apparently feel that to alsilish the commission without leaving something in its stead would not be good business. All feel, however, that, the present personnel of the omtnission should go. The ’chief objection to the Moor- { head bill, if there is any, is the elective feature. Its proponents point out that tlijs is not an objection but a favorable feature. It is understood, however that the majority would not favor the passage of the bill as it nowstands. The Moorhead bill, however, is looked upon with more favor than any other measure yet suggested and it may be that its backers expect to at. least use it as a club to obtain the ejectment of the present personnel of the commission, or for some other further modification of the present utility law. It is safe to say that the measure which would provide for an i n G=>l on wn a»n r=>a nr -

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appeal from the rulings of the commission to the drcult or superior 1 courts will be passed. Representative Pittlnger of Selma, is sponsor of a measure which would call for a survey commission aippoiuti ed by the Governor to draw up a service commission bill. The measure lias been dubbed the “derail” bill and ■ j its inception linked with the same {crowd that attempted to put over the infamous “road ripper" bill at the 1*25 -session. It will not get far, it is predicted. Friends of the state tax board, of which there are apparently but few are seeking to extend the authority of this board, despite the trend of the session against it. The tax board is making itself unpopular in the legislature by this move, its latest being to attempt to control the administration as well as the collection of the I inheritance tax law. With only approximately two weeks left to introduce bills, there have been a total of 466 measures | introduced in both houses of the legislature. No bills may be introduced after forty-five days without unanimous consent of members. In the senate there have been 202 bills introduced, thirty-four short of the 1925 session. Forty-four have been passed, most of them local measures; twelve indefinitely postponed. ; I seven withdrawn and only two killed on the floor. j In the House 264 bills have been ntroduced as against 275 this time in the 1925 session. Thirty-four have 1 ; been passed; twenty-one indefinfely postponed; twenty-two withdrawn ami only two killed on the floor. • With most of the pet local measures of the members now passed, there will not Im- so much back scratching and log rolling as during the first pait of the session and more measures will be. killed. There has seemed to be a tendency to vote for I the other fellow’s bill thus far in the 1 session. The repeal of the absent voters j law seems an assured fact. The mea- , sure which has already passed the J house, went to second reading in the 1

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BL—» BL—J CBHi BU——J ••■■i Bl—l -iM Bl—l um Bl—l ■ •—J b<—- • -—- —.-— — ■- — —- — — — —— - • - — HEAVY HAULING / On Adams County Highways Must Cease While Roads Are Soft The heavy hauling is .ruining the roads and must be stopped while the highways are soft and thus must apply to all, regardless of person or firm. BE IT RESOLVED AM) ORDAINED. BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ADAMS COUNTY, STATE OF INDIAN A, That the following rules and regulations be and they are hereby made and adopted covering traffic upon the improved public highways of said county: L—That* the several officers of said county he and they are herein ordered and directed to arrest and prosecute each and every person who shall haul a load over any turnpike, gravel or macadam road in said county, at any time when the road is thawing through or by reason of wet weather is in a condition to be cut up or injured by heavv hauling, in violation of section fifty-two of chapter 213 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana (Acts 1925, page (501 or any amendatory dr supplemental act thereto. Here Is The Indiana Law: HEAVY HAULING ■ 11 SHALL BE I NLAV\ 11 L tor any person to haul over any turnpike, macadam or gravel road (the term “gravel road” to include an,' road graded and graveled with not less than one yard of gravel to eight feet in width and nine feet in length of such road) at any time when the road is thawing through or by reason of wet weather is in condition to be cut up and injured by heavy hauling, a load on any vehicle with tires less than three inches in width, the combined weight of which load and vehicle, including the driver, shall be more than twenty-five hundred pounds; or on any vehicle with tires of three inches and lesilkthan four inches in width, the combined weight of which load, vehicle and driver, shall be more than three thousand pounds; or on any vehicle with tires of lour incheh and less than five inches in width, the combined weight of which load, vehicle and driver, shall be more than thirty-five hundred pounds, or on any vehicle w ith tires live inches or over in width, the combined weight ol which load, vehicle and driver shall be more than thirtyc}jr,[ * lun ” re( *.P® unt *s. Any person violating any provision of this section, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than five bundled dollars lor each load so hauled. This includes traction engines weighing over the above limit. * * Our Roads Are Worth Millions Os Dollars -- Help Us Save Them *\. * V • Charles Magley, Supt.

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