Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — MANY NEW BILLS ARE BEING INTRODUCED DAILY. [ARTICLE]

MANY NEW BILLS ARE BEING INTRODUCED DAILY.

Indiana State Legislature Has Enough In Front of It to Maintain an AH Summer Session. l ■ k /*i- 1,1 " Bills continue to be filed with unrelenting energy, in thg, state legislature. Twenty-six were filed Wednes • day in the house and twenty-nine in the senate/' A bill was rushed through that day carrying with it an appropriation for SIOO,OOO for interest on bonds outstanding and issued to pay for thfe construction of the live stock pavilioh at the state fair grounds. Major David 1. McCormick has inspired a bill asking for $12,000 to incase all the flags not hitherto incased that were used during the Mexican, Civil and Spanish wars. Another bill was introduced to increase the salaries of councilmen in cities of the second, third, fourth and fifth classes. Representative McMullen, of Dearborn county, wants a law that will provide that jurors drawn from a distance shall be allowed V cents a mile after the first day. Now they get nothing except the 5 cents for the first day and often they are required to go back and forth several times during a tour of jury duty. A bill has been proposed to prevent the selling or giving of tobacco to any child under 6 years of age, and making the person who gives or sells it amendable to the juvenile court. A bill providing for free school books was also introduced. Another' bill proposes that a city sewer can be built altogether from city fund instead of assessing property owners. Senator Wood opposed the bill which seeks to increase the number of state bank examiners. He contended that the provision for an increase made the building of a political machine possible and thought he could see how it was aimed to dispose of republican examiners and substitute democrats. The Royse bill, providing for the inspection of building and loan associations, was reported favorably. Another bill seeks to increase the pay and the working force of the state veterinarian.