Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1920 — REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE CHEAPER THAN DEMOCRATIC [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE CHEAPER THAN DEMOCRATIC

Indianapolis, Ind. —The expenses of the sessions of the Indiana leglsla ture under Republican control have been less. Including the two short special sessions, than the cost of the preceding sessions under Democratic majority Figures compiled by members of the present legislature show that the combined cost of the 1919 regular session and the two special sessions in 1920 cost less than the previous administrations under Democratic control. The Democrats, in 1913, spent $162,507.67 on the general assembly. The Republicans in the regular session of 1919 and the two brief sessions of 1929 spent $126,700.52, or >44,757.49 than the Democrats spent in 1912. In 1911 the Democratic session cost $129,954.97 and in 1915, $112,472.55, ■■ compared with $103,522.19, ♦he cost of the Republican session in 1917. The 1913 session on which the Democrats spent $162,507.67, was the most expensive’ and extravagant legislative session in the history of the State of Indiana.