Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1917 — Women Will Not Have To Pay Any Poll Tax. [ARTICLE]

Women Will Not Have To Pay Any Poll Tax.

While the women of the state will vote in a limited way on an equal equality with men, and later, it is conceded, on full equality, they will not have to pay for the privilege as mien do by the assessment of a poll tax. The bill that Was introduced in the House imposing a poll tax on women voters was killed Friday when it came up for passage. The house passed the bill authorizing the sale by Harrison county to the state of the old capitol building at Corydon. It will be preserved as a historical museum. 1 Both houses passed the ball which appropriates $-350,000 for the erection of a buiHing aFThd-ianS "University to be used as a school of medicine. And in the senate a bill carrying an additional appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the Indiana National Guard passed toengrossment.' Among other important measures passed by the two houses of the legislature Friday was a bill to regulate advertising and to make untruthful advertising punishable by fine. A bill exempting members of the Amish and Mennonite churches from making oath in applications for marriage -licenses, defining as a misdemeanor the erasure or elimination of license numbers on automobiles or to dispose of a machine so defaced. Fixing the minimum length of township school terms at seven months. The bill requiring school hacks to come to a full stop before crossing railroad tracks became a law without the governor’s signature.