Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The following bills passed the Senato Monday: Authorizing ftbe Governor to spend as much as $50,000 for the suppression or prevention of tne coming or the jspread of the cholera during his term of offioe; providing that tho County Commit sioners shall open to competition all bridge contracts: for the incorporation of loan fund and savings associations; permitting cities to take stock in water companies established bv privato individuals, with the power to issue bonds to fund their indebtedness; compelling gravol-rood superintendents to make quarterly .'reports to tho Board of County Commissioners; establishing boards of childrens’ guardians in thb counties of Vigo, Allen, and Vandorburg; concerning the duties <A clerks of the Circuit Courts ot the State in regard to registering fees, oto., paid out and taken In: to aiiow watchers, appointed by the campaign commitees of Populists and Prohibitionists on election tottrds. The House gfStlrim arjfcMKyflo over the patronage bill and spont most orthe day debating It. It finally passed by a vote of 63 to 87. The bill to legalize Ashley. DeKalb County, passed. The joint convention of the House and Senate went through the formality of electing Miss Ahern State Librarian. Durino tho House sossion. Tuesday, a number of minor bills wero passed, and some progress was made In considering tho various appropriations aa reported by the Ways and Means Committoo. Among the bills passed was one providing for the general sale of school books. Two important bills wero approved by the Senate, to-wlt: Providing that wardens .of State Prisons shall not accept bids for dontract prison labor at loss than '.15 cents per day. and providing for tlie Incorporation of loan, trust and safety deposit companies, and when so Incorporated, with a capital of not loss than SIOO,OOO, permitting them to act as guardians of minors, lunatics, tyabltitul'druiikarda, and tho estates of deceased persons. The Speaker sprung tho Patronago bill, which has caused so many heartaches, on tho House Wednesday, lteprikontatlve Adler. who hits opposed It from the start, moved tho previous , question on the passage and the roll call resulted In sixty* two affirmative and twenty-nine negatives. The Demoerat|o mcmbors divided ovonly, and Republicans voted solidly for the' measure. The bill will go back to the flonato for concurrence in an immaterial amendment which has been made, and it wlllthon become a law. Tlds bill gives the Governor the appointment pf the boards of ponn land benevolent Institutions, each board consisting of throe members. Tho house voted down the Erwin amendment to tho gehoral tax law and ordered the bill engrossed as rocoiUmonded by the State tax commissioners. Much time was spont ill consideration of the general appropriation bill. The donate accomplished a good deal of routine work, and rushed through a number of House bills. At 4 o’clock both houses udiourned in recognition of Washington’s birthday. The Erwin nntl-insuranco bill to prohibit the employes’ insuranoe operated by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroad companies was handed down on third reading in the House. Thursday, and passed without debate.

The bill by Johnson of Dearborn, limiting the number of days county assessors may be employed and grading them according to peculation, passed. Dailey's bill to put a Democrat on the Monument Commission to succeed Gon. Bennett was read tho third time and passed without debuto by a party vote. Ader's celebrated bill for licensing drummers, brokers, clrcusos. and wire dancers was read tho third time and passed. Dr. Passage's road bill, requiring owners of toll roads to have eight inohes of gravel on them came up on third reading and passed without debuto. The Houso legalized the incorporations of Cayuga. Crothorsville. and West,Shoals in a bunch. The following bills passed tho Houso, Friday: Tho administrative tax bill; providing for tho tuxution of sloepiug-oar. (olograph, telephone, express, and freight dispatch companies; for handling school supplies just ns school books arc sow handled under the law of 1889; prohibiting the collection of 10 cents premium onrush railway fares; providing for the iiicirporation of voluntary live-stock lnsuruuie companies. The balance of the day was consumed In considering the appropriation bills. Senate—Bills passed; Providing a now charter for Evansville; changing the name of Circle Park io "Monumental Place," providing for the punishment of trespassers or demollshments of the property, and to allow tpo completion .of the monument without any additional appropriations; abolishing Che printing of sample ballots; providing for metropolitan police force system in all aitlos between 10.000 and 36,000 Inhabitants; Co amend an act concerning the weight of coal; allowing people who have an open ditch to convert the same into a tlie drain: authorizing tho county commissioners of tho different counties to increase the salaries of circuit and superior judges to as muoh as $4,000, including their salaries received from tho Btute. Minor State llama. Franklin citizens are protesting against street paving with brick. Joseph Ahuott. a retired business man and prominent Frcomason, died at Elkhart, aged 07. Dan Mise. aged 30, caught betwoen two logs at Maley’s sawmill at Sullivan and was crushed to death. Owen I*. Scarff of Madison City, har been appointed Government Guager jtnd assigned to dutv at Hammond,' Ind. Mrs. Havens, a Montpelier woman, aged 70 years, fell on the ice breaking both legs and fracturing her shoulder. The gardeners and farmers around Seymour are preparing to engage much more extensively than usual in the raising of strawberries this year. William Moore of Nashville, Brown County, who was shot by bis nephew a few days ago, has died, and young Joe Moore, the murderer, has been arrested.