Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1917 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE IS HARD-AT WORK [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE IS HARD-AT WORK

House of Representatives Seems Very Anxious to Serve the People Besto Possible.

Thursday evening, January 35th,.. the house committee held a special session at whhjh it heard .those Interested in the bill to license chiropractic in the state of Indiana. ‘ This was a very interesting session but the most interesting part of it all was the disposition of the members of the present house of Representatives to get the real views on the people. / The 1 doctors’ of the state are very much opposed to this bill and ask that ail who attempt to relieve the sick come to that duty thoroughly equipped.’ , - „ The chiropractors were represented by Attorney FitpatriCh and he was very bitter against the State Medical Board and thought that the bill of the chiropractors, which provided for four years of training in a good college should be sufficient. The remarks made by both sides reminded one very much of a free-for-all debating society and it is very well that they are nob to become a part of the legislature record. The session of the house of representatives Friday morning was taken up with routine work. In looking over this branch of the .legislature one is impressed with the class of men who compose it. For the most part they are a fine lot of young fellows, full of life and interest. Among them, our representative, W. L. Wood, stands mighty well. Mr. Wood is on the job every minute and no other member of that branch of the legislature is giving the state better service. . In the upper branch of the legislature one' is ' with the great number of gray headed men. One does not have to listen long until he realizes that this, the senate, is a bunch of politicians. Some are not so interested in the people as they are in their party. Senator Robinson, Senator Culbertson and Senator Fleming impress one as the real leaders of this branch. Both sides are anxious to help the other make a mistake it seems, and will try to prevent them from doing anything for which the people can give them much praise.

Senator Thornton made what he thought was a great speech denouncing the Pbblic Service. Commission of Irpiiana. If he knows what he gays to be true he should have introduced a bill to abolish the commission instead of introducing a bill to not allow the state chan-man of each party and the district chairmen of each party frpm appearing before the commission and other state boards. He referred to these mpn as fly-blown politicians and this evoked quite a good deal of amusement. He claims to have entered the rooms of the commission one day and found three of its members asleep on two couches yet they had not had time to even send a receipt to his home city for a petition that they had sent them over two years ago. A talk with our-senator, Dwight Kinder, of Lake county, found him to be a very frank .ellow but as wet as the 1915 wheat harvest- He does not feel under much obligation to Jasper or Newton counties, as he was elected before we were a part of his district. We tried to tell him what we thought of the liquor business but he insisted that he would be a traitor to his people who elected him and that the drys could not build a hot enough fire around him to cause him to vote dry. He seemed anxious to do anything else that was in the interest of the people here but he cannot be moved frpm his position with the wets. In the senate we found our townsman, Attorney D. D. Dean, occupying a very responsible position aid does it in just the way that fellows from Rensselaer always do and that is, of course, in a first class manner. .