Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — Many Bills Are Now Ready For Action. [ARTICLE]

Many Bills Are Now Ready For Action.

Indianapolis, Jan. 19. —.Before it adjourned this afternoon, the house received notice that the Friday and Saturday holidays it has been enjoying have ended. Other developments of the day were the passage in the house to engrossment of a bill providing for a -constitutional convention, and. an address before the senate by William J. Bryan, former secretary of state. Both house and senate adjourned until Monday afternoon. (Before the constitutional convention bill was acted upon, it had been amended so it read that the delegates to the convention should represent the legislative instead of the senatorial districts. The number of delegates remained unchanged. Advocates of a constitutional convention this evening were expressing some concern about the amendment. They said they feared the senate may not take kindly to the change. Representative McConagle, who offered the amendment, said he had done so because the counties would be better represented, he thought, if the delegates to the proposed convention came from the representative instead of the senatorial districts. » ' There was some talk current tonight that the senate may accept the bill with the amendment, but add another amendment providing for the selection of 150 delegates, fifty of Which would be from senatorial districts. Those who mentioned such action pointed out that delegates to the constitutional convention in 1851 were chosen on that basis.