Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1915 — YOU CAN’T LOBBY NOW IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

YOU CAN’T LOBBY NOW IN INDIANA

That is, If You Do You Must Register and State tho Name of th« Corporation Paying Yon.

The Davis anti-lobby ibill passed The senate Wednesday, after some minor changes had been made, and will become a law at onee. Governor Ralston, certain that corrupt lobbyists were infesting the legislature and aware of the influences wrought for the bad two years ago, put his shoulder to the wheel and forced the measure through. The opposition which at first seemed quiie pronounced faded away before the governor’s demand and the measure met almost unanimous support. Similar laws are being adopted in many states and this method of ridding the state of the corrupt influence of the paid lobbyist seems highly necessary. The sensation of Wednesday waff the resignation of Senator Stephen D. Fleirimiiig, of Ft. Wayne. He refused to state why he had resigned. Fleming was one of the chief boosters for the return of the saloon and there being nothing that could be done in his line at the legislature this year, he proibably determined to devote his time to his own business, that of a brewer. An association to be known as the Kankakee Drainage and Sanitation association will be created •by a bill introduced by Senator McCormick, which would undertake l a project for the reclamation of, it s said, 400,000 acres of submerged farm land in the Kankakee river ▼alley. Certain school township debts for improvements are legalized in Senator Faulkner’s bill and the actions of the advisory board and trustees thereof mhde lawful. The bill also authorizes the issuance of township warrants and bonds for the improvements. Senator Norman’s bill changes the salaries, of city councilmen in cities of the fifth class from SIOO to SIBO per annum. Another bill offered by Senator Norman would provide better sanitation and ventilation in traction and railroad stations, day cars and sleeping coaches.