Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1913 — SENATE PASSES STAHL MEASURE [ARTICLE]

SENATE PASSES STAHL MEASURE

Vocational Training School Legislation is Now Up to Governor Ralston. •* . ■ ■■■ In a three-hour session, ending at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon, the senate passed the vocational train! ing school bill, introduced by Representative Etahl, thus ending legislation on that important subject so far as the general assembly is concerned, for the present session. In all thirteen house bills were passed and eight new senate measures were introduced. The senators again voted against a Saturday session and adjourned until 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. Thera V dissenting voice against the long adjournment. The upper house did not pass any of its own bills Friday. The industrial education bill now goes to Governor Ralston for his approval. An effort to amend the measure In one or two particulars was made during the discussion, but each amendment was voted down. Senator Will R. Wood offered an amendment to strike out the provision for the appointment of an advisory committee representing local trades and industries, but this failed and the bill went by iri the form in which it passed the house on February 6th. The bill provides that any school city, town or township, through, its board of trustees or school commissioners, may establish schools or departments for the teaching of industrial, agricultural and domestic science.

Other house measures passed were: Storen’s bill, providing that where a deceased person leaves an estate and proof of heirship is lacking, the estate shall go to the state school fund. Eichback’s bill, providing for the payment of $lO a day to special judges. Another judge’s salary bill, affecting Lake county, which provides that an additional $1,500 a year shall be paid to the superior court judges out of the county funds.. The Branaman bill, prohibiting the drinking of liquor on trains except in case cars, was passed, and Representative Coons’ bill, which seeks to exempt from taxation property bequeathed to Purdue University by the late William C. Smith. The general appropriation bill, which passed the house Thursday, reached the senate Friday morning and it was referred immediately to the finance committee. A few minutes afterward the committee reported the bill back, recommending it for passage in its original form. By a vote of 53 to 33 the house Friday passed the bill extending the •terms of county superintendents from 1915 to 1917.