Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1917 — GOODRICH IS NOW GOVERNOR OF INDIANA [ARTICLE]

GOODRICH IS NOW GOVERNOR OF INDIANA

Samuel M. Ralston Was Succeeded MondayAtNooK By James —- Putman Goodrich. Having completed his-term of four years as governor of the state of Indiana, Samuel M. Ralston retired from that office at noon Monday and was succeeded by James Putman Goodrich, of Winchester. The inauguration was a Simple ~ceremohy. A vast throng had gath* ered in the corridors of the state house. On the platform erected for the occasion were Governor Ralston and wife, Governor-elect Goodrich and wife, Mrs. E. P. Goodrich, mother •of the new executive; Mrs. Mary Edmiston, schoolmate of Goodrich’s mother, Mrs. Jonas Frist, mother ofMrs. Goodrich; Pierre F. Goodrich, son of the new governor; Rev. Percy ”G. Hooper, Goodrich’s Winchester gas tor; Charles W. Fairbanks, John . Shaffer, of Chicago, James A. Hemenway, of Boonville, LieutenantGovernor Bush, A. T. Hert, of Louisville, W. H. Hayes, republican state chairman, and Judge Moses B. Dairy. The oath of office was ‘administered by Judge Moses B. Lairy, chief justice of the supreme court of Indiana. Governor Goodrich then delivered a short address in which he promised economy and efficiency. The governor then held a reception in his office at the state house ana the

crowd continued to pass through until 2 o’clock. At this time the governor retired tor 1 the house chamber, where he delivered his first annual address. The points he emphasised were as follows: Bringing the public service colorations under the supervision of the state board of tax commissioners for the purpose of equalizing taxation as-, sessments. A law to permit absent voters to vote by mail. A law giving home rule to dries by which any municipality may be enabled to adopt its own form of government. : ' —— Purchase of the old state house at Corydon. __ Constitutional amendment to provide for the budget system by which the governor would be given authority to make budget recommendations which the General Assembly could decrease but not increase. T Amendment of the vocational education law to requite employed children to take part-time instruction. Amendment of the workmen’s compensation law to make the waiting period seven days for compensation instead of fourteen days. Abolishment of the state oil inspection department and placing the work now performed by that department under the jurisdiction of the food and drug commissioner. Abolishment of the office of state statistician and placing the dutieß now performed by that official under other departments, the statistician to receive appointment by the governor for the work at a t salary equal to the amount now received.

Abolishment of the office of attorney general, so far as that is an elective office, and a law to provide for the governor to appoint an attorney general and deputies to be legal advisers *to the various departments of the state/ He promises the appointment of Ble Stansbury, the present attorney general, if such a bill is of a state highway commission. Establishment of a department of banking and insurance. Abolishment of the office of legal clerk to the governor, the work to be Hone by the attorney general. Reduction of the state tax levy. Constitutional convention.

Boys’ mackinaw sale at Duvall’s Quality Shop. $6.00 mackinaws so% $3.98; $5.00 mackinaws for $3.65. Everything in boys’ wear greatly reduced. C. EARL DUVALL.