Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1919 — WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY THE LEGISLATURE [ARTICLE]

WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY THE LEGISLATURE

When the seventy-first session of the Indiana General Assembly adjourned sine die Monday night it had passed the following Republican platform measures: A law for a separate department of insurance. A law for a separate department of banking, including the building and loan associations. A law abolishing the state statis-j tician’s office. A law providing for a conservation commission, to include the state geologist, forester, fish and game commissioner and entomologist. A tax reform law. . Resolutions for constitutional amendments carrying out the platform promises. ißepublican platform measures defeated were: A bill to make the attorney general appointive. . A bill for the appointment of, a child welfare commission. Measures of general importance adopted were: . , ■ a new state highway commission law. A county unit highway commission law. A “blue sky” law for state supervision of sale of securities. A law repealing the act for the compulsory teaching of iGerman, prohibiting the use of German m all the schools as a medium for teaching and providing that all subjects schools must be taught in English only. A law extending to women the right to vote for presidential electors. - —” A voters’ registration law. The legislature defeated a bill legalizing Sunday motion pictures and an Anti-Saloon League bill introdueed by Representative Wright to strengthen the prohibition law.