Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1889 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

A WEEK’S DOINGS OF OUR STATE LAW-MAKERS. Resolutions Oflbred—Hills Introduced— Some Passed and Others Defeated— A Summary of the Proceedings. March 7. Senate Bills passed: Making appropriations to meet deficiencies repealing the act making it a felony for any person to interfere with the running of a railroad train, or to intimidate any Aian from working. House —Bill passed: Authorizing the State Treasurer to borrow $1,400,000 with which)to meet the deficiency in the State Treawftry. Two more political bills were vetoed by the Governor, and passed over the veto. March B.—The following Senate bills were passed in the House: To provide for tho establishment of kindergartens for children between the ages of four and six years; to provide for the release of liens iu deeds to real estate; to authorize the purchase of teu acres of land for the use of the hospital for the insane at Logansport; an act to provide for the execution of the bond of County Treasurer, being Sec. 5911, of R. S. of 1881; to authorize railroad companies organized under laws of the State, but not under tho acts of tho Legislature, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of of railroad companies,” etc.; to legalize gifts, donations, sales, and transfers of money, stocks, bonds, and other property by an incorporated city or town in the State; to prescribe tho acts of judges and clerks in guardianships; to provide for the establishment of branch highways, defining their width, etc.; to require of railroad companies to give notice to passengers of delayed trains; to legalize the incorporation of the town of Russelville, Putnam County; to legalize the town of Huntsville; to regulate the sale and manufacture of dynamito; to repeal an act entitled “an act touching the duties of township trustees with reference to liquidating and contracting indebtedness of townships in certain cases,” approved March 5, 1883. March 9. The appropriation bills wero passed. Also a bill authorizing tho State officers to negotiate a loan of $1,400,000 to meet obligations falling due before the next meeting of the General Assembly. The Governor vetoed the bill prohibiting the piping of natural gas out of the State, but it wub immediately passed over the veto.

March 11.—The Fifty-sixth General Assembly of the Htato of Indiana ad* jouruod sine die to-day at 6p. m. The day was mainly devoted to the adoption of resolutions of thanks, and to the reception of messages from the Governor. About fifty bills that were passed Saturday were not presented to Mr, Hovey till to-day, and the Assembly had to wait until his excellency had time to consider them. When he got through with this work he sent word to both houses that he had no more use for them, and an adjournment was takeD without day. All the bills passed have become laws by the approval of the Governor or by passage over his veto and by allowing them to become laws without approval or disapproval, with the exception of house bill 299, which was “hung up.” It was not presented to him within the last two days of the session, and the Governor exercised his constitutional privilege by refusing to accept it. This bill provides for the vacation of cemeteries within the corporation of cities. Mr. Hovey has a great respect for the resting place of the dead and does no believe in disturbing old graveyards. In this sentiment he is no doubt backed by a large majority of the people. Three bills passed yesterday afternoon which he approved—-the high license bill, Mr, Barrett’s bill requiring that all money now on hand or that may be collected on delinquent taxes on account of the State House fund be transferred to the general fund and be made immediately available and a house bill expediting the location of roads. These bills were taken to the Governor about fifteen minutes before adjournment and promptly signed by him. The session of the Senate was the more exciting of the two houses. The high license bill in the morning and the report of the insane hospital investigation in the afternoon gave the “talkee much” senators an opportunity to be heard for the last time—at least in the fifty-sixth general assembly. -The House had its fun Saturday and was unusually quiet for the last day. Frequent recesses were taken, as there was nothing to do except occasionally to adopt a resolution or concur in one from the Senate. No House bills passed. The high license and the road bills, which passed the Senate, were house bills and no other action was required by that body except in the high license bill whose title was amended in the Senate. The House concurred in the amendments by a vote of 49 to 30. The only bill passed by the House was the Barrett bill, relating to the State House fund, which, of course, passed under suspension of the rules. It was 5 o’clock when Mr. Barrett introduced it and at 5:45 it was a law.