Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1915 — SENATE PASSES M’CORMICK MEASURE [ARTICLE]

SENATE PASSES M’CORMICK MEASURE

Abolishment of Capital Punishment Had Majority of 6—Public drinking Cups Doomed. The state senate Tuesday passed Senator McCormick’s measure to abolish capital punishment in Indiana. The vote was 27 to 21. The measure met some sharp opposition. Senator Van Auken argued against the measure, saying that a sentence for life in Indiana did not mean a sentence for life, but implied only the imprisonment*of the murderer for 10 or 12 years, until some governor issued a pardon. Representative Reser, of Lafayette, also opposed the measure. The abolition of public drinking cups was the provision of a measure that passed the senate by a vote of 30 to 18. A similar measure passed both the house and senate when Thos. R. Marshall was governor but he vetoed it A bill was introduced to give blacksmiths liens on wagons and horses for work performed was offered by Senator Cleveland, of Evansville. So far no one has offered a bill to put the fellow who deadbeats a newspaper in jail and apparently the newspapers are going to continue to do business to suit themselves. Senator White’s bill for the benefit of school teachers provides that where a teacher has taught for 100 months and has maintained a teaching grade of pinety per cent during that time, they shall be issued a life license by the state. Another bill presented by Senator White proposes to transport free of charge high school pupils living in townships where consolidated township schools are located. Under the present law only students of the grade schools are transported. . Fifteen new measures were introduced in the legislature, among them one by Representative Wood, which provides that legal notices shall be published in newspapers nearest the affected territory. This is a measure that out-of-county-seat papers have been trying to get through for a number of years. It is not known just why Mr. Wood fathers the effort unless he contemplates starting a newspaper at Parr. Possibly, ot we may say probably, however, he has simply introduced it to please some constituent and does not approve it himself.