Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — Favorable Reports. [ARTICLE]

Favorable Reports.

Favorable reports by committee advanced several bills .to second reading, including additions to the bill legaHzing horizontal tax increases were: " A bill by Representative E. F. Daily, republican, Fort Wayne, reducing park board levies of second class cities from the present rate of from ten to twenty cents to from five to ten cents; a bill by Representative Walter J. Behrmer, republican, of Logansport, to permit. cities of the third class to establish the office of city treasurer if they desire; a bill by Representative Rothrock providing that cities that have passed from one class tda higher class may pay officials the minimum salaries provided for that higher class; the bill of Represen- । tative William McMasters, of IndianI anolis, permitting that city to apI propriate $30,000 for the entertainment of the national G. A. R. encampment next fall, and a biU by ■, Charles H. Bidaman, democrat, ft Terre Haute, permitting that city |to establish the two platoon system (in the fire department