Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1920 — EXTRA SESSION AWAITS COURTS [ARTICLE]

EXTRA SESSION AWAITS COURTS

SECOND EXTRA CONVOCATION OF ASSEMBLY IN THE SPRING. Our representative in the lower house of the Indiana legislature, W. L. Wood, who helped to give the women of Indiana the right to vote, attended a meeting after the special session in the House of Representatives last Friday Tn which Governor Goodrich discussed with the members of the assembly the special special session planned for the spring. The governor set no date for the second extra convocation of the assembly, but left the impression that he would issue the call as soon as the court had passed 'upon the tax and road law. The Governor, it is sad, reiterated his previous statements that the tax law is a party, measure and that any changes that are being contemplated should come from the lawmakers themselves. He asked the legislators to sound out the sentiment of their own communities relative to the effect of the measure and to communicate hte result of their investigations to him. * Governor Goodrich declared that the next Session should enact legislation designed to establish a state war •memorial and urged the assemblymen to study the proposed plans for the structure. . ~ , He also said that for the first time in the history of the state the penal institutions reported a profit accruing from —their variou? industries last year. The Governor suggested that legislation dividing the surplus money among either the prisoners or their families should be devised. • He suggested also that changes clarifying the application of the county unit road "law be acted upon and dwelt on the fact that sections of the measure dividing responsibility for the upkeep of the mads between counties and townships .is somewhat obscure. The Governor also recommended that the “blue sky’’ law JoSt in the last regular session of the Senate, should be revived. He responded to several questions, but there was little discussion of the proposed measures among the assemblymen. E. M. Wasmuth, Republican state chairman, who attended the caucus, described it as a round-table conference and asserted that the utmost harmony prevailed Detween the Governor and I the members of the Legislature. Representative Charles A. Jonn--1 son, of Gas City, presided at the ' conference.