Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA.

Read the speech of Senator Wallace on the first page of Jhe Sentinel. Dr. Jnmcs H. Stewart, an old and prominent citizen of Garroli county, died easter morning. Dr. S. survived three wives and eleven children and died childless. The radicals are in a “terr ble stew” over the speeches of eur own Voorhees; Wallace, of Pennsylvania, and Judge Davis, of Illinois. Radicalism would maintain its supremacy with the bayonet and by fraud. It dies hard, but dio it must. If that fellow in Illinois accepts the appointment to Turks Island he will prove himself a bigger fool than our Horace was willing to be. Whereas, if he indignantly declines, he may le made chairman of his congressional and county committees, a member of the State committee, drawn on a U. S. jury, and'flnaily bring up in a post of flc°. Dead sure to, particularly if he is subject to the ague. More Evidence. -Frye, one of the dirtiest radicals in Congress, rose in his place the other day and proceeded to read from a paper he had just received by mail. Tne paper be had rec.eved was the Okalona States, and the fact that radicals in and out of Congress are alone its patrons, is sufficient to show thutit is published in the interest of the radical party,— Frye wasn’t as sharp as he wished to appear or he wouldn’t have let the cut out of the bag. The failure of Horace E. James, of the Rensselaer Union, to accept the position of consul to Turk’s Island, lias created a great consternation among the friends of the administration at Washington. Several cabinet councils have been held to discuss the issue, and it was finally agreed to select another man for the place. Hayes will probably make the declination of James the subject of a spec.al message to Congress.—Delphi Times. That “special message” will not be necessary, as the consul’s wrath has been appeased with a two year i’lease of the post office. At the expiration of that time a Democrat will step in and he will vacate.

Now that the Fifty-first session of the General Assembly has closed its labors we desire to, call attertion to some of the most important bills that have been passed. Of these the most important are those which reduce all the expenses of the state and county officers. The bills passed and approved by the governor number in all—. Many of these are of general interest, but we can only call attention to a few of them. Among the important measures passed are,.the following: 1. The legisla ive apportionment bill. 2. The apportionment for congressional purposes. 3. The Dili reducing the rate of interest on judgments from 10 to 6 per cent., and on special contracts from lb to 8 per cent. 4. The codification of the school laws (which had become very much complicated), which reduces the rate of levies of taxes for special school purposes from 50 cents to 35 cents, and for general purposes from 25 cents to 20 cents en each SIOO valuationand on each poll from one dollar to 50cents. In addition to this the bill prohibits the change of text books in schools ofteuer than once in 10 years. Thcsu changes make a great saving to the people, ami will not Impair the efficiency of the schools. 5. The exemption of property to heads of families from levy and sale on execution to an amount of S6OO. 6. The exemption of wages of laboring men from attachment and garnishment in certain eases. 7. Requiring foreign corporations doing business in this State to bring suit in State courts in the county where the defendant resides, thereby preventing such corporations from suing Federal courts and dragging defendants from home at great expense in time and money. 8. An act for the protection of mines and miners, which, we hope, will be the means of preventing those terrible explosions and consequent loss of life which occasionally startle the country. 9. Two acts abolishing the superior court in Wayne county, and the fourth superior court in Marion county, thereby saving at least $25,000 per annum to the people of those conn ties and the people of the State, as part of the sal-l ies of the s iperior judges are paid from the State treasury. 10. An act providing that persons in jail, not indicted may, at any tertn at which no grand jury is called, be tried upon affidavit and presentment by the prosecuting attorneys. This bill will save counties the expense of boarciug prisoners from term to term, awaiting the action of the grand jury. 11. An act reorganizing the benevolent institutions, which will bring about reforms that wili result beneficially to the people. Up to the pus-, sage of this act no law had been” enacted requiring an inventory to be furnished ts the property belonging to the Insane, Deaf and Dumb, nor Blind Asylum, and no officer connected with said institutions, nor any State officer knew the value of such property. This bill requires an inventory to be furnished to the governor esch year by the officer in charge of said institutions. This act, and the one regarding the prisons and the reformatory institutions, require the profits arising therefrom to be covered into.the State treasury, and become a part ci' the general fond. These pro-

fits will amount to over SIOO,OOO per year. 12. An act to regulate fees and salaries of public officers. This bill has been desired by the - people, more, perhaps, than almost any other bill pending before the Assembly. Be ginning at the highest office in the gift of the people, and running down to the lowest, the fees and salaries have been reduced. One important feature of the bill is that it reduces tees and salaries mainly where the money comes out of the county and State treasury, thus making a saving directly to the people. After making a careful estimate we find there will be a saving, as compared with the expenses of the same officers under the fee and salary bill of 1875, at a low mate, the following: te the state treasury. Governor's office $ 2.500 Attorney General's office 9,200 Auditor* office. ..... 11,000 Secretary'* office 2,100 Treasurer’s office 500 Superintendent Public Instruction 400 Total >19,000 SAVING TO COUNTY TREASURY. County Auditors and Treasurers > 46.000 County Commissioners 9,000 Jurors 60.000 Boarding prisoners '. 23,184 Assessors. 25,000 Township trustees. 27,600 County superintendents 27.500 „ Total >2lB 584 Saving to litigants and I he people tn r<ductionof lees of clerks and sheriffs, 20 percent >200,000 Allow us to recapitulate: Saving to Stffie treasury > 19,000 Saving to county treasury ...... 218,584 Saving to Sate treasury in way of ; rolits of benevolent and other institutions... 100,000 Saving to litigant*, etc 100,000 Total saving $437,584 White the foregoing aie the most important and money saving bills, yet there are many others of interest to the people which we have not time nOr space to mention. We respectfully submit the above statement of facts to the public in full confidence that when these measures shall have been tested they will fully meet the expectations of the people, and will beTound to supply a long felt want in legislation. H. 8. Cauthorn, And’w Humphreys, John C. Briggs, John D. Works, Joseph S. Daily David J. Hefron. Occidental Hotel, Indienapolis, March 81, 1879.