Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — GOVERNOR GOODRICH’S MESSAGE IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR GOODRICH’S MESSAGE IN BRIEF

In his message to the Sefentyfirst General assembly, delivered Thursday, Governor Godrich recommends the following: A tax reform bill to get at intangibles and give the state tax commissioners exclusive assessment jurisdiction over public utilities and greater supervision over local taxing authorities. A constitutional amendment to open the way for classification of property and for a personal income tax. A new statg highway law vesting in state authorities the right to establish maim market highways. A conservation commission that w ould appoi nt certain officials now elected. Measures to abolish the office of state statistician and the oil inspection department, the work of the latter to be transferred to the pure food and drug department, and to create departments of banking and insurance separate from the state auditor’s office; and to make the attorney-gea-erals’s office appointive instead of elective. Constitutional amendments for equal suffrage; Igniting the right to vote and hold office to citizens of the state;, abolishing the elective offices of state superintendent of public instruction and clerk of the supreme court, these offices to made appointive; providing for the budget system, and authorizing the Governor to veto any item of an appropriation bill; preventing an increase in the salary of any official for the term for which he is elected; authorizing the legislature to classify counties for registration purposes; striking the word “white” from the Constitution so that colored men may be permitted to become members of the Indiana state militia and national guard. Repeal of law requiring the teachirig of German in the public schools. A bill empowering cities to adopt the commission or city manager form of government. • . Creation of a commission to study and report on social insurance. Law to require all-time health officers. ’ Establishment of colony for the feeble-minded in the southern part of the state and farm colonies in connection with all hospitals for the in-

sane. s Removal of the state reformatory from Jeffersonville to a more central location. Legalizing of expenditures b” ‘be state council of defense, and expenditures to bear high wartime cost of state institutions. * An appropriation for a monument to Charles W. Fairbanks in the statehouse grounds or in University park.