Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, M,RCH 9, 1901.

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Til 12 I.UIA.Al'OLIS JOL11NAL. Can be found at the following places: HtlW lORK Astor House. CHICAGO ralmer House, P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Auditorium Annex Hotel. CINCINNATI J. R. Hawley & Co., 134 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. De-rinsr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., ZJ6 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. "WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs House, Ebbltt House and Wlllard's Hotel. Of the cntlro cotton crop of the current year, 4.672,603,500 pounds, Texas produced l,30f,50S,702. The State seems at last to have adopted tho advice of raising less hades and more cotton. An investigating committee of the Nebraska Legislature has discovered a "holdup bill" factory and has named those engaged In the industry. The hold-up busU ness seems to be an annex to several legislative bodies. "While the new form of legalized negro slavery In South Carolina is abominable beyond description, credit must be given to the local court and grand jury of Anderson county for a seemingly honest and determined purpose to break It up. The Cubans are like wayward children who only need to know that a parent is In dead earnest and inflexible, to yield. In this case the parent is Uncle Sam, whose good Intentions they should have learned by this time to thoroughly trust. , Any bill relating to the improvement of the streets of Indianapolis which does not give the taxpayer appeal beyond the Board of Public Works should not become law, no matter who advocates it. The house owner on the fide streets should have some rights. It is said that the President will not be deterred from appointing Colonel Sanger assistant secretary of war by the protest of Senator Piatt. Colonel Sanger was selected because of his special qualifications for the position should there be a vacancy. Chicago papers state that tho first pay day at Fort Sheridan, under the anti-canteen law, verified all the predictions that were made concerning the effect of abolishing the canteen. The soldiers fairly reveled in saloons, got drunk on bad whisky, and some squandered all their pay. Senator Chandler's parting shot at Senator Clark and the political corruption in Montana leads the Washington Post to suggest that he turn hl3 attention to reforming New Hampshire, where, he says, he was beaten for re-election to the Senate by railroad Influence and the corrupt use of money. The point seems to be well taken. It turns out, as might have been expected, that the position of the United States relative to the purchase of the West India Islands is that, while this government does not need nor care for the islands, it will pay a fair price for them to oblige a friendly power, but that under no circumstances will it allow the islands to pass under the control of any other European power than Denmark. As the latter Is practically forced to sell, tho negotiation will probably end in the sale of the islands to tho United States. The taxpayers of Indianapolis have one consolation, and that is that the Legislature cannot Increase salaries again without repealing the provision of t'.ie? charter which limits the city levy to 00 cents on the $100 of taxables. At tho rato the expenditures have been increasing under the Taggart regime there was no call for the Legislature to assist the city administration in increasing the burdens of taxation, which fall more heavily upon thousands of men struggling to secure homes than upon any other class. It Is hoped that the county treasurer will look after the thousands of men who are assessed for poll tax and nothing else. Very much the larger part of those assessed for poll tax are single men, who are better able to pay a small tax than are hundreds of men with families who are" assessed for a few household goods. Every voter of the money-earning age should be compelled to pay something to support local government. It is no credit to a city for its controller to say that three-fifths of Its Toters pay no taxes. In Pennsylvania, where the Democratic party Is a hopeless and half demoralized minority, the Democrats in the Legislature nre framing a ballot law that will Insure absolute fairness to all voters. In Missouri, where the Democratic party does as it pleases, the Democratic legislature has voted to stand by a law which made 'the last election in St. Louis an outrage upon popular rights, it having been proved by Investigation that in one congressional district 8.0) votes were illegally cast or fraudulently counted. The elections have been taken entirely out of the hands of the people. Governor Durbln is entirely right In vetoing the tleventh-hour bills to Increase the salaries of county officers here and there. At the beginning of the session the Legislature had a well-matured system for the compensation of county officers xresented to it, but as county officers nor anybody eis took any interest Jn it the Legislature parsed it by. The bill proposed wai entitled

to consideration, but received none. Now that county officers here and there are seeking an increase by special bills the Governor is performing a duty by vetoing all of them, even if some of them may have merit. The eleventh-hour bill Is to be suspected. THE ADVANTAGE OF XOXPARTISAX covrnoL. The two Investigations started early In the legislative cession with such flamboyant assurances have ended and so ended that those who are responsible for them are sorry they were begun. Even those spiteful persons who wished to get even with officials with whom they had differences or by whom they have been discharged, after telling their stories for publication, must feel, now It Is all over, that all they have obtained by the Investigations If the position of discredited witnesses. Reviewing the occurrences about the Statehouse the past few weeks recalls the furor for investigation that prevailed about the Legislature for a few days at one time. Everything was to be investigated, whether there were definite charges or not. If the managers of state institutions had done no wrong they had had the opportunity, anl to some men the opportunity is equivalent In their cases to wrongdoing. The sensational press helped to make the furor. It

gave charges signed by nobody and which came from no committee. In the Senate the Democrats undertook to Investigate the Soldiers' Orphans' Home and the Reform School for Hoys. There were no charges against either Institution except vague reports of extravagance. Fortunately for the State arid for those who would have started the investigation the Republicans disposed of the. resolution without debate, and then, after a few days the furor began to diminish. It died before the Investigators had completed the testimony for the defense. It was said at the time that the investigations proposed were by the advice of a gathering of Democratic leaders who felt that something must be done to deprive a Republican policy for the nonpartisan management of the State's institutions of the credit to which it Is entitled. If such advice was given it was 'very poor advicg since there is no capital to be made, from a political point of view, by making a general assault upon the management of the State's Institutions. On every board there is one Democrat, and on half of them, where tho trustees are men, two. There was talk of investigating the Institution for the Feeble-minded at Fort Wayne, but when it was discovered that two of the trustees and the superintendent were Democrats the suggestion was abandoned. If the hospitals for insane had been investigated the investigators would have found that three of the, four superintendents were selected when the boards were entirely Democratic. Taking the Jeffersonville Reformatory, two of tho four trustees or managers are Democrats, and Democrats standing high In the party's estimation. If It had been found that Superintendent Hert had committed Illegal acts, those Democratic trustees would have been involved by sanctioning his alleged irregularities. And so with other institutions; the nonpartisin policy has so divided the responsibility of management that no political capital can be made out of investigations. That is a greit gain, since the practice of investigating, except on grave charges coming from responsible quarters, is mischievous in the extreme. THE HIUGHT OUTLOOK IX THE PHILIPPINES. No testimony has come from the Philippines In regard to the improving conditions there more encouraging than the cablegram from Judge Taft, president of the commission now engaged in establishing civil government in the islands. Judge Taft's high character gives weight to whatever he says. His dispatch was appropriately sent en the eve of President McKInlcy's second inauguration, and was, in a sense, congratulatory on the success cf a policy which has been criticised In a most unjust and unpatriotic spirit. Judge Taft's statements are entitled to greater weight because he was originally an antiexpansionist, though always a believer in the duty of the United States to meet and discharge every duty and every responsibility forced upon it by events. He went to the Philippines almost a pessimist, but his latest dispatch is so encouraging that, but for his established judicial reputation, it might almost be called optimistic. Its summary of the work accomplished since last Jan. 1, has no yarallel In history In the way of substituting the victories and conlitions of peace for those of war. The le tails of what he briefly reviews will make a great page h. history, and the best feature of the case is that the civil government policy Is gaining strength and popularity every day It Is v-'orth while, even now, to recall, that the beginning of tho success of this prlicy dites from the last presidential election. "The federal party," says Judge Taft, "an avowed and direct outgrowth of the election, is spreading with wonderful rapidity in all parts of the archipelago, and is active and urgent in advocacy of peace and in presenting advantages of civil liberty under American sovereignty." The proofs of this are cited with telegraphic brevity, but they leave no doubt that the Filipinos have at last "caught on" to the idea that American sovereignty means for them vastly more In the way of literty, progress and prosperity than they have ever known before or could have hoped to enjoy under an independence represented by an Agulnaldan dictatorship. With Judge Taft installed as tho first civil governor of the Philippines and judiciously aided by a mixed government of Americans and Filipinos, with sufficient military to enforce order, the work of establishing civil liberty and stable government there will go forward very fast. THE It ES l LT OP TILLMAMSM. The revelations of the grand Jury In South Carolina, showing that negro laborers have been reduced to a condition i of bondage, should not cause much surprise. The negro, that is, the average negro of South Carolina, has been deprived of all that constitutes citizen ship. Long before he was deprived of the right to vote by Tillman's legislation he was fraudulently deprived of the right to vote. Citizenship without tho ballot Is of no value in this country, because it affords the man no protection. When a race, because it is a race, is deprived of tho ballot, it becomes the victim of those who perpetrate the outrage. The colored man In South Carolina has no rights In the courts, and little protection, under the laws. Tho only thins that

he Is certain of at the hands of the courts is injustice, and at the hands of the whites, who believe that he should be a rlave. the ignoring of all the rights that in the North are accorded to human beings. For the outrages which whites commit upon colored women with impunity the colored man is lynched, often without testimony, because the courts seem not to be made forv extending Justice to him. Such is the result of Tlllmanlsm in South Carolina a condltiton in which he has gloried . In the United States Senate while deploring the alleged denial of freedom to the Filipinos and Cuban negroes by the present administration. Nor is he the only man in the Senate who is there by the disfranchisement of the negro voter who denounces the policy of the administration because he aasumes that it has conspired to rob Filipinos of their liberty. Yet these Filipinos and the ignorant natives of Cuba, largely of the race disfranchised in South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina, are held to be capable of maintaining popular government, while the colored men In Southern States who were brought up with a people which has popular government are not capable of exercising the rights of suffrage. The freedom which the administration Is laboring to extend to the Filipinos and has made secure to the Cubans gives justice under the laws and security to person, while the laws of South Carolina deprivo half the population of that State of every safeguard against injustice and outrage, making the negro a chattel without any rights that pertain to human beings. This is the result of Tlllmanlsm. Tillman represents the Southern leadership of the Democratic party, and was selected by the last Democratic national convention to read its platform and move its adoption. To-day Tillmanism has relegated the negroes in South Carolina to a serfdom as hopeless as that of Russian workers before they were given their freedom. In the world there Is not a civilized or semi-civilized people that is so entirely without protection under the laws as are the negroes of South Carolina. At the present time County Treasurer Koehne is collecting from to $$f0 a day of delinquent taxes. If this policy shall be continued more than 22 per cent, of the voters will be paying taxes in the course of a year or two. Aside from the city's necessity for the money, it Is better that all persons who receive the benefits of good streets, police protection and schools should contribute something to maintain them. That is a pernicious system which proceeds upon the theory that the thing called government must furnish the individual security, paved streets, light, police, schools, etc., simnly because he is an individual, free of cost to him and at the cost of others. The value of publicity in public affairs Is conspicuously shown in the relation of the press to legislation. The press of business in legislative bodies and the intentness of individual members on particular measures In which, for legitimate reasons, they are interested often prevents them from discovering the vicious tendency of bills which are backed by well-organized lobbies. The newspapers are in a position to discover such schemes, and by turning on the light they render a great public service. Th?y are a valuable third house. The. local inaugural committee at Washington has got far enough in the settlement of its accounts to determine that there will be a small balance on the right side. As the estimated expenditures of the committee were nearly $00,(X', the outcome indicates good management as well as good luck. The largest Item of receipts was fiom the ball, for which something over eight thousand tickets were sold at $3 each. Those who become weary of the everlasting fault-finding about legislatures on general principles would like to yce a Legislature made up of editors and others who denounce about everything that is done and cast aspersions upon those who do not do as they would have them. Such a Legislature would be so full of Independents and cranks that It could never agree upon a measure. At the close of yesterday's session of the Senate there were about twenty bills on tho president's table that had not received final action and had not been practically disposed of by action on similar bills. On the speaker's table there were only six bills, none of which is of any Importance. Yesterday was a killing day, both branches doing the State good service in that direction. The Joss bill Is better than no primary election law, because it Is a beginning; but it may as well be understood that thousands of Republicans in this city resent the refusal to accept a proposition to permit them to vote directly for candidates for mayor and other city officers as a reflection upon their Intelligence. EXPERIMENTS WITH FOOD.

Student Sealed Vp la an Air-Tight (Hums Case for Ten Day. MIDDLETOWN, Conn., March S. John Christy Ware, the Wesleyan student, from Allendale, N. J., who is Professor O. E. Atwater's iavorite subject in connection with food experiments, conducted in an air-tight glass case known as the respiration calorimeter has just come out from his third and longest period of "imprisonment." The first time he remained in the box six days. The second time he.. was locked In It for nine. This time he was sealed up on Feb. 25. and remained in ten days. The experiments now being conducted have to do with the food values of such articles of diet as one would naturally get at his club. They are much more agreeable to the subject than the nine-day experiments, in which tests were made with foods containing a large proportion of carbo-hydrates starchy foods, in short. Ware has gained a little in weight, and is as fine a specimen of an athlete as can be found In the college. No conclusions have jet been reached regarding the relative values of the foods tested, nor will any be made public until the mathematicians have worked out to their logical result the figures submitted to them. This will be some months hence. NEW RULER IN ARABIA. Sheik of Kowryt Is Xow Maxtor of the Central Part of the Country. BOMBAY, March 8. Mobaronk. Sheik of Koweyt Is now master of central Arabia, according to telegrams received by the Times of India, Sheik Mobaronk followed up hl3 victory over Ibu Rashld's army by driving the defeated army clear across central Arabia, seizing the city of Noj-i and dispersing the army of Ibu Rashul, who appealed to the Sultan to send Turkish troops from Bussaraf to his assistance. Ibu Rashld threatens to stop the overland pilgrlramages to Mecca if ho Is not helped Lv Turkey.

JOSS BILL VICTORY THE IIOISR COXCIRS IX THE SEXATE AMEXD3IEXTS. - A Majority of the Conferee Favored the Sennte 11111 nnd the House Indorsed the Report. TELEPHONE BILL IS KILLED SEXATE VOTED TO INDEFINITELY POSTPONE THE MEASURE. Considerable Confusion In Doth

Houses Legislative Xerrs nnd Gossip of Interest. "When tho Legislature adjourned yesterday evening it was understood that both houses were through passing bills. In the House not more than a half dozen bills nmalned on tho speaker's desk when the numbers adjourned about 6 o'clock, to meet again at 10 this morning. One of the bills was the Senate measure appropriating $1,000 for a monument in memory of the heroes of the Pigeon Roost massacre. None of the other bills was of special importance. In th.3 Senate a few bills were left over. One of the important acts of the House yesterday was the adoption of the Senate amendment to House bill No. 40 (primary election bill.) This amendment is the measure introduced by Senator Joss. The House In the morning killed Senator Agr ew's bill providing for a separation of the Industrial School for Girls and Woman's Prison, and in the afternoon unfavorably considered Senator Goouwine's bill looking to the same end. The Goodwine bill was introduced in the Senate and passed in the afternoon, and was then sent over to the House. An effort was made to have the rules suspended and the bill passed, but tho effort failed. The Democrats, with fcur exceptions, voted against a proposition to suspend the rules, and two of the Republicans voted with them. Roth sessions of the Legislature were attended by more or less confusion, and the session was especially noisy in the House during tho afternoon. Several times Speaker Artivan had to call the members to order and urge them to take their seals. One of the lncieicnts of the morning in the House was when Representative James, a member of the minority, was hissed when ho arose to speak. IltSY DAY IX SEXATE. 11 o nil a m Telephone Hill Killed and Appropriation Hill Passed. When the Senate adjourned, last night, It had practically completed its work for the session. The whole day was devoted to the cleaning up of odds and ends and by C o'clock in the evening there were very few bills remaining In tho big safe, whose contents has been so rapidly depleted within the last two or three days. Although no regular order of business was pursued during yesterday's session, the general decorum preserved was much better than on Yednesday and Thursday. During the morning session and In the early part of the afternoon a large number cf IIou:;o and Senate bills were called up for their last reading, and, in most instances, were passed without opposition or debate. The sole fight of the whole day arose over the Eonham telephone bill, which was advanced to third reading in the Senate Thursday afternoon. It was discovered, yesterday morning, that a mistake had occurred in engrossing the bill, where it was amended to apply to cities of 15,0u0 or less. The bill, as it was printed in the Senate, raised the limit to 20,000. When Speaker Artman heard of the error, he sent word over to the Senate requesting that the bill be returned, in order to correct the mistake, which was supposed to have occurred in the engrossing department of the Housv Senator Wood, who ha$ been looking after the bill ever since it came over to tho Senate, offered a motion to comply with the request of the House, and suggested that the bill be returned at once, in order tlyit k might be acted upon at yesterday's session. Thtre was some opposition on the part of a number of the senators who were favorable to the bill, as they believed it to bu a ruse that would result in the death of the measure. MOTION ADOPTED. After considerable debate the motion of Senator Wood was carried and the bill was sent over to the House by a messenger. On motion of Senator Wood the Senate then agreed to take the matter of the passage of the bill up as soon as it waj returned, and it was made a special order of business for 4 o clock. As soon as the bill was called up for passage Senator Parks took the floor against it. He satd the bill would mean the ruin of smaller companies, and insisted that it had been drawn in the interests of the Bell Company. A number of other senators also spoÄj against the bill, one or two of whom expressed the opinion that the measure was one of the most pernicious in character of any that had b.en introduced during the whole session. Senator Wood and Senator Inman, who led the debate in support of the bill, spoke nearly in the same strain. They argued that the charges that the bill had been prepared in the interests of the Reil Company were untrue. The bill would be to th.? advantage of the smaller companies, they said, as it would allow them to get Into places from which they were now barred by the larger companies. After a long debate, which lasted for nearly an hour, a motion was offered by Senator Binkley, who was strongly opposed to the passage of the bill, to postpone its further consideration indefinitely, and, the question being put. the motion was carried by a vote of 31 to 17. Those who supported Senator liinkley's motion were: Binkley, Charles. Conlogue, Corr, Crumpacker. Darby, Fleming, Fortune, Card, Gochenour. Goodwine, Guthrie, Gwin, Harrison, Joss, Kittlngcr,. Lawler, Layman. Legeman. i-indley, Matson, Miller, Ogborn, Osborn. Park, , Purcell, Thompson, Wampler, Whitcomb, Wintield and Wolcott 31. Those who opposed the motion to postpone were: Agnew, Rail, Barlow, Bronk, Burns, Cregor, Crumbaker, Dausman, Harrison, Heller. Inman, Johnson, Keeney, Kell, Keyes, Lambert, Minor and Wood 17. MORNING SESSION.. When the Senate convened In the morning tho first thing It did was to pass the general appropriation bill. The bill was called up on third reading by the president of the Senate and passed without discussion by a vote of 35 to 0. It was then sent over to the House, where a number of minor amendments were made which were afterwards concurred in by the Senate. Another important bill passed at the morning session was the Stookey measure, which requires the beneficiaries of life Insurance policies to have an insurable interest in the life of the assured. The bill of Representative John appropriating J2.0"0 for the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Monument Association for making Improvements around the grave of Lincoln's mother was defeated. The Horsiield bill to prevent accidents in mines by providing a method of firing shots in mines, and regulating the hours when the shots shall be fired, was passed after a brief discussion. Senator Goodwine's bill providing for the relocation and separation of the Industrial School for Girls and Women's Prison, which was afterward, killet! In the House, was passed by the Senate without opposition. A resolution offered by Senator Rail thanking President Gilbert for his uniform

courtesy to the senators and for impartiality In his rulings was carried .unanimously. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.

Joss Primary Election DIU Win's Separation Bill Lost. The House yesterday afternoon voted to adopt the Joss bill as the primary election law for Indiana, This was done by concurring In the report of- the conference committee of six members of the Legislature, which considered the measure at noon yesterday. The committee recommended that the Senate amendment to House bill No. 40, be adopted and the House concurred in the report by a vote of 51 to 33. The members of the conference committee were Speaker Artman and Representatives Minturn and James, of the House, and Lieutenant Governor Gilbert, and Senators Joss and Legeman, of the Senate. Speaker Artman and the Lieutenant Governor were added to the committee at the request of the other members when it was found they could not agree on a report. Speaker Artman and Representative Minturn, who introduced House bill No. 40, were for the latter bill. The others favored the Senate amendment, which is really the Joss bill. When the report of the committee was read in the House, Mr. Minturn arose and declared that although he signed the report recommending that the House accept the other bill, he did not think any more of the measure than he did .before. The members voted as foilows on the question of concurring In the report: Ayes Adamson. Allen, Beckman, Bell. Bishop, Bonham, Burrier, Carmichael, Clark, Clem, Cooper, Davis of Wayne, Dilley, Erdlitz, Gauntt, Jack, Jackman, Jakways. John. Johnson, Kelley, King, Kirkman. Marshall of Fountain, Marshall of Tippecanoe, Matthews. Maxam, Miller of Kosciusko, Miller of Ohio, Minturn. Mummert, Neal, Owen, Parker, Passage, Perrett, Pritchard. Reagan, Reser, Roberts of Jefferson, Schreeder, Scott. Stookey, Stutesman, Thomas, Van Fleet, Vestal, Wesling, Whitcomb, Speaker Artman 51. Noes Alrhart, Burkharl, Coble, Cotner, Cox, Cravens, Cruson, Davis of Greene, Dirkson, Gerber, Haines, Larr, Lawrence, Louttit MeCarty. Madden, May, Metsker. Murphy, Myler. Parks. Reeve3, Robertson, Scifers, Short, Slack, Small, Sparks, Stout, Trout, Tucker, Waugh. Zollman 33. THE MEMBERS TALK. A number of the members gave their views of the bill in explaining their votes when their names were called. Representative Adamson said he had taken a deep Interest in the movement for a primary election law and regretted to have to vote against the Senate amendment. He voted "no," but, with others, afterward changed his vote. Representative Davis, of the minority side -of the House, said he regarded the bill In Its present form as a pretense and one made In bad faith. He voted against concurring in the report. Representative Scott voted in favor of the amendment, explaining that he did bo inasmuch a3 It would only hurt two counties in the State and as the Republican party had pleelged itself to give the people a primary election law. "As this is the only chance to get one," said Mr. Scott, in concluding his explanation, I vote "aye." Mr. Whitcomb explained that he did not believe the bill wouPd accomplish as good results as the one introduced in the House, he would vote for it. "if it had nothing else In it," he declared, "but the section that prevents men from voting outside their districts, I would gladly give it my support." Representative Bonham did not vote until his name was called as one of the absentees. Then he voted in the allirmatlve, saying he regarded the measure as the best that could be passed under the circumstances. Representative Bishop voted "aye" under protest and not until his name was called as on absentee. Representative Minturn voted against concurring in the report, but later changed his vote. He said he did so at the request of his Republican friends. Representatives Mummert and Van Fleet, of Elkhart county, first voted against concurring in tho report, but changed their votes, announcing that they did so because of the fact that the bill would not affect their own county. AGAINST SEPARATION. The bill introduced by Senator Goodwine in the Senate during the afternoon to separate the Industrial School for Girls and Woman's I'rison was considered by the House, but the action taken was unfavorable. The House eieelined to suspend the rules and pass the bill, although friends of the measure made an earnest appeal In Its Interests. The bill provided for the relocation and separation of the two Institutions on other lands in Marion county, but did not specify the lands. It limited the appropriation for carrying out the provisions of the bill to $50, va) and placed the matter in the hands of a commission to be composed of the Governor, auditor of state and attorney general. Representative Stutesman urged that the House pass the measure, as it was a meritorious one. He said this was an excellent time for the House to give a united vote on a bill that deserved favorable consideration. Representative Louttit, Democrat, was also in favor of the separation of these two institutions, and said he thought the rules should be suspended and' the bill passed." Representative Davis, of Greene, fought the bill, declaring it to be a mere pretense for separating the institutions, although it may have been in good faith. The bill did not provido where the Institutions were to be relocated, he said, and under this bill they might be separated and still be practicallv together. He said he would oppose the bill as a block In the way of final separation of these Institutions. Mr. Slack was opposed to the bill, and Mrs. Scifers objected to its passage, saying it should have been more specific. Mr. Whitcomb spoke in favor of the bill, pointing out that the objections raised by those who had spoken against it were purely technical. On motion ot Mr. Whitcomb a vote was taken on the question of suspending the rules. The motion failed, as net a sufficient number of votes were cast In favor of suspending the rules. The vote stood 58 for and 29 against the proposition. The members votetl as follows: Ayes Adamson, Allen, Beckman, Bell, Bishop, Bonham. Burrier, Carmichael, Clarke. Clem, Cooper, Davis of Wayne, Dilley, Dudley, Erdlitz. Jack, Jakways, James, John, Johnson, Kelley, King, Kirkman, Marshall of Fountain, Marshall of Tippecanoe, Matthews. Maxam, Miller of Kosciusko. Miller of Ohio, Minturn, Morgan, Morton, Mummert, Neal, Ostermeyer, Owen. Parker, Parks, Passage, Perrett, Pritchard. . Reagan, Reser, Roberts of Jefferson, Schreeder, Scott, Short, Small, Sparks. Stookey, Stout, Stutesman, Thomas, Van Fleet. Vestal, Whitcomb, Zollman, Speaker Artman. Noes Airhart, Burkhart, Catley, Coble, Cotner, Cox, Culley, Davis of Greene, Dickson, Gerber, Haines, Jackman, Larr, Lawrence, Lopp, Madden, May, Metsker, Müller, Murphv. Myler, Reeves, Robertson. Scifers, Slack, Trout, Tucker, .Waugh. Wesling. Of the Republicans, Representatives Wesling and Müller voted against suspending the rules. Messrs. James, Parks. Passage and Zollman. of the minority side of the House, voted in favor of the motion to suspend the rules. Nothing further was done with the bill, as It was too late to push the measure through in the regular a5" OTHER BILLS PASSED. Among other measures passed during the aRernoon was Senator Ogborn's bill, No. 45), providing that the children of those who served in tho war with Spain shall be admitted to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. Senator Keyes's bill. No. 21)1, denning veterinary surgery, was also passed. Tne bill provides that one who has practiced this profession in the Stato for live years may be granted a license without producing a diploma from a college of veterinary surgery. Senator Guthrie'3 bill appropriating with which to have the records containing the names of Indiana's troops in the civil war put in better shape was also passed. These records are kept at the Statehouse, but they are said to be in a state of disorder. Bill No. 335. by Senator Legeman, providing for the publication of legal advertisements, was killed by the House, the enacting clause being stricken out on motion of Mr. Stookey. The latter claimed that under this bill a man who was compelled to insert a legal notice in the paper and was desirous of perpetrating some fraud might successfully deceive people and yet comply with the law by placing his "ad" in some small country weekly where the circulation was but a few hundred each week. The morning session of the House was opened with prayer by Rev. D. R. Lucas. Senate bills on third reading were taken up, and two measures Introduced by Senator Thompson were passed. One legalizes the acts of the Marlon County Commissioners In regard to the construction of the Julietta Asylum for Incurably Insane Pau

pers, and the other adopts the United States flag as the b inner of Indiana. Tha passage of this bill was attended by a good deal of oratory. In which the speaker took another fling at the member from Greene county. RESOLUTIONS PASSED. The House passed the Senate resolution amending the Constitution relating to the Supreme Court of the State, which failed to carry at the last election. Joint resolution No. 3, by Senator Llndley, providing for the appointment of a commission to consider the laws of marriage and divorce lu Indiana was up for passage, but failed tor want of the constitutional majority. Senate bill No. S5, regulating the transfer of children from one school corporation to another and fixing the price of tuition, was passed by the House. The measure was introduced by Senator Goodwine and takes the place of a similar bill Introduced in the House by Representative Scott. The latter, in explaining his vote, said he would vote for the Goodwine bill, although he did not believe It was as good a measure as the one he introduced. He declared that his bill was "held up" in the Senate in order that the other bill might be forced through. Senate bill No. 201, by Mr. Goodwine, relating to the compulsory education of children, was passed by a vote of 72 to 1. The bill has been amended so that the compulsory education feature applies to children from seven to fourteen years of age. Senate bill No. 273. by Mr. uolcott, to amend Section 3 of an act 'concerning landlord and tenant," failed to pass, the vote being 3-3 to 30. A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT. There was something of sensation in the House at the morning session when the bill Introduced by Senator Agnew proposing to separate the Industrial School for Girls and Woman's Prison, came up on second reading. ' Representative Davis of Greene county, who had introduced a similar bill in the House which had been indefinitely postponed, made a speech, in which he denounced Mr. James, who had opposed his bill. He alluded to Mr. James as my "bi-partisan friend from Putnam." When Mr. James got up to reply, the speaker recognized him as "the double gentleman from Putnam." As Mr. James began to speak he was greeted with a storm of hisses that came from his own side of the House. He spoke in favor of the Agnew measure and incidentally paid his compliments to Representative Dt vis. ' He said he believed his people would indorse his action in this Legislature. "Mr. Speaker," he said. "I have not been here to force polltie-s and peanut politics on this House. 1 have not been here with any Populistic theories and ideas, but I have been here voting for and working for results and I want to say that to a large extent I have been successful and that is why my people will indorse me." On motion of Mr. Stutesman the enacting clause was stricken out of the bill. It was his opinion and that of others who opposed the measure that there was not time enough to consider it and it ought not to be rushed through in this manner. '

HILLS SIGNED. Governor Durbln Affixes Ills Signature to Several Measures. Governor Durbln yesterday signed the following bills: House bill No. 531 An act requiring loan, trust and safety deposit companies to report guarantee and surety obligations, etc. House bill No. 3S7 An act authorizing county commissioners to pay expenses of attorneys in returning fugitives from Justice. House bill No. 133-An act supplemental to an act concerning general system of common schools. House bill No. 450 An act for the release of Andrew O. Cattleman and Henry C. Rogers. Senate bill No. 47 An act to amend an act concerning Incorporation and government of cities of more than 35,00) and le?s than 40,000 population. House bill No. 250 An act relating to the operation of steam railroads. House bill No. 305 An act amending an act establishing traveling libraries. House bill No. 527 An act with reference to water supply and street lighting in certain cities. House bill No. 572 An act providing for a sinking fund for the liquidation of indebtedness of certain cities. House bill No. 4'Xl An act changing the name of the town of Fayetteville to Orange. House bill No. 34.T An act concerning the Twenty-first and Thirtieth judicial circuits. House bill No. 277 An act legalizing the incorporation of certain manufacturing and mining comnanies. House bill No. 126 An act amending an act for the establishment and maintenance of the Indiana School for Feeble-minded Youth. House bill No. 525 An act legalizing the incorporation of the town of Knox, in Starke coifnty. nouse bill No. 103 An act to regulate the trial and judgment in an appeal from survev by the county surveyor. House bill No. 2fS An act amending an act concerning drains. House bill No. 526 An act concerning libraries. House bill No. 571 An act for the relief of Jacob S. Rrondenburg, of Spencer county. House bill No. 301 An act providing for the annual meeting of county assessors. House bill No. 401 An act amending an act concerning the incorporation of cities. House bill No. 415 An act concerning trusts. House bill No. 523 An act for the incorporation of navigation companies. Senate bill No. 246 An act concerning the incorporation and government of cities having more than 30,000 and less than 36.500 population according to the last preceding United States census. OrrOSED TO FIREMEN'S dill. V. S. McMIllen, of the Hoard of Safety, Talks. "You can put me down on record as being opposed to the Clarke bill to increase the pay of Indianapolis firemen," said W. S. McMIllen, the Republican member of the Board of Safety, yesterday afternoon. "Another member of this board has said that there are a few features in the bill that he does not commend," continued Mr. McMIllen, "but I will go farther and say the entire bill does not meet with my approval. In the first place the members of the Legislature had no right to enact such legislation in straight violation of the city charter provisions, which grant the City Council entire power to regulate the salaries of city employes. The out-of-town legislators are not acquainted with the conditions in Indianapolis and are not capable of governing such conditions. What do men from Brown county and other counties know about the city's ability to increase the pay of Its firemen and whether cr not they are well paid? And why should they want to discriminate against other city employes, especially the policemen? "If the Legislature is going to enact such laws I fail to see the need of having a city charter. The principle of the law is wrong to begin with and the members of the Legislature who reside in this city and covnty never stopped to investigate it before voting for it. I believe that a man should vote against bills when he has not had time to investigate them. I hope Governor Durbln vetoes the bill, although In face of the fact that it was passed by such a large majority, those who are now opposed to it should not shift the responsibility to him and censure him if he signs the measure." Mr. McMIllen said he learned yesterday that many business men who have Just had their eyes opened to what the firemen's bill means are now asking Governor Durbln to veto the bill. THE SURVEYOR DILL. It Is Not Probable that It AVI11 Decome a Law. It is extremely probable that the bill piaclng Marlon county's surveyor on a salary will net become a law. As originally Introduced In the House the bill provided for a salary of $2,800 a year, with an allowance for office expenses. Tha bill wai passed by the Senate and was then sent to the Governor. Later Representative Morgan, who Introduced the bill in the House, onered a motion to the effect that the House ask the Governor to return the bill for "correction." Mr. Morgan said his purpose in having the bill sent back was to cut down the salary, as It had been discovered that te surveyor would receive too much pay under the provisions of the bbl. The measure came bacK to the Senate, and that body reduced the salary to $2.40), and also reduced the office expenses. When the bill camo to the House a day or two ago fiom the Senate the amendments were concurred in. Yesterday Representative Ofterroeyer moved that the vote by which li'.e amendments were concurred in be reconsidered, as he believed the figures namv.i la the bill should bo further reduced. Mr.

Ostermeyer's motion carried, and the speaktr appointed that gentleman nnd Repreertative Horsfield on a conference committee to meet two members from the Senate. The committee met and the members wero unable to reach an agreement.

APPROPHIATIOX RILL. Xot Concurred In by the Hoaie In Order to De Farther Amended. The general appropriation bill was further amended In the House yesterday afternoon. When the Senate amendments to the bill were read the House, in accordance with an arrangement, declined to concur in them. This was necessary in order that the bill might be amended further. Chairman King, of the ways and means committee, stated that ome amounts that should have been appropriatec. for two of the hospitals for the insane had been left out of the bill by mistake. He asked tha House net to concur In the Senate amendments to that a conference committed might add the additional appropriations. Messrs. King and Cravens were appointed on the committee from the House. These additional appropriations were on account of bills for the year 11 King paid out o( the appropriation for lml. One was to reimburse the appropriation fer maintenance for the Northern Hospital for the Insane for llCl in the sum of Another was tsj reimburse the repair fund of tha same institution In the cum of f623.fr." and a third appropriation was for maintenance and repairs for the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, amounting to J6,l54 53. Governor Vetoes a Ulli. A bili introduced In the interests of the commissioners of De Kalb county was vetoed by the Governor yesterday. The bill sought to give them a salary of 100 a year. The Governor, in' his remarks on the bill, pointed out that the Constitution pruhibiU local or special laws in relation to fees or salaries. He further said: "This, not being an amendment of a general law on the subject, is clearly a violation of the constitutional provision. But, Independent of this question, the general law fixing tho salaries of commissioners ought to stand lor sufficient time to determine the inequalities. If any there be, In the salaries f the various boards of commissioners." The Governor mentioned the fact that two years ago the Legislature, by a general act, fixed the salaries of all the boards of county commissioners in the tate. The State Laboratory Rill. Among the bills that lay on the speaker's desk when the House adjourned yesterday evening was Senator Guthrie's bill providing for a chemical laboratory, to be under the direction of the State Board of Health. A similar measure was introduced by Representative Erdlitz, but he sidetracked' his bill in order that the Senate bill, which had advanced more rapidly, might have a clear right of way. Mr. Erdlitz said last night that he asked Speaker Artman several times yesterday to hand down th bill for third reading, and the speaker promised to do so at his earliest convenience. The bill had not been handed elown when the House adjourned. Mr. Erdlitz said the speaker told him he was opposed to the measure and he did not . think it should be allowed to pass. Governor Has Mot Decided. It has been stated that Governor Durbln would receive no more bills from tho Legislature for his signature after last night at 12 o'clock. There was no authority for such statement, as the Governor has refused to say what he will do In this regard. He has the right by the Constitution to refuse to receive bills two days before the adjournment of the General Assembly, but whether he will take advantage of this or not is not known. Governor Durbln remained behind closed doors for the greater part of yesterday, considering bills. There were no callers admitted to see him all afternoon, and the Governor remained at his ollice until late last night. He will announce to-day whether or not he will receive any more bills. Corporations Interested. Senator Ball's bill, which has rasred both houses, providing that all corporations having an agent in Indiana shall incorporate under the laws of this State to the amount of capital they have Invested in the State, will likely be contested by the railroads and other foreign corporations doing business in this State before they will consent to abide by Its provisions. The railroad companies maintain that the Jaw virtually provides for a double system of taxation, as they are compelled to pay on the full amount of their capitalization in the State under the laws of which they' are incorporated. It is said the law slipped through the Legislature without the corporations being cognizant of its true Import. The Drooks Express 'mil. Secretary of State Union R. Hunt ha announced his Intention of taking steps to enforce the provisions of the Brooks express law, which requires express companies to pay Incorporation fees to tho fud amount of their capitalization. If the law Is held to be constitutional it is thought the State will receive between $ao,(xw and $50,000 in fees. Previous to the passage of the Brooks law there was no law In tho State requiring the large companies now doing business in Indiana to lile articles of incorporation. It is expected that the express companies will test the constitutionality of the law before they will consent to incorporate in the State. "Graveyard Insurance Dill. The House yesterday concurred In the Senate amendments to House bill No. 4J5, Introduced by Mr. Stookey and known as the "graveyard insurance" bill. As amended the bill provides that the application for insurance must be signed by the assured, and the assured must be examined by a physician authorized to practice medicine In the State. Tho bill provides a penalty tor the violation of the provisions of the act, fixing a lino of not less than $50 nor more than $500, to which may be added imprisonment in the county Jail not to exceed tix months. LEGISLATIVE HOL'TIXE. Rills on Third Heading In the Senate. House bill No. 573 (Minturn) Regulating descents and the apportionment of estates. Passed-CS to 1. House LIU No. 523 (Minturn) Providing for the protection of the public from Uro. Fassed 34 to 2. House biil No. 430 (Klrkman) Declaring it unlawful for any person, while holding the oflice of prosecuting attorney, to act as attorney for the applicant in any proceeding to procure a license to retail intoxicating liquors. PaFsed 31 to 6. Senate bill No. 4M (Corr)-Provlding that the Supreme Court may order cases transferred from the Appellate Court to Suprem Uourt. Suspension of constitutional ruls and bill passed 31 to 3. Senate Bill No. 4-3 (Goodwine) Providing for the relocation of the Industrial School for Girls and Woman's Prison. Rules suspended and bill passed 35 to 3. Houso bill No. Zs'j (Sparks) Igallzlns the acts of the Arlington East Hilt Cemetery Association, of Arlington. Passed 36 to 0. House bill No. 51d (Robert?) Providing for the maintenance of legal proceedings against foreign insurance companies. Passed 35 to 0. House bill No. 443 (Bell) Legalising the Incorporation of the town of French Lick, Orange county. Passed 35 to 0. House bill No. 153 (Reagan) To prevent end punish the Improper use and desecration of the flag of the United States. Passed 26 to 0. Houne bill No. CIS (Jack) Permitting boards of school trustees to issue bondi. Passed 3.1 to 0. House bill No. 11 (Rogers) Regulitlng the furnishing of books for use in the commoa schools. Passed 37 to 0. House bill No. 42 (Marshall) Legillxlng the incorporation of Htllsboro. Fountain county. Passed 21 to 17. House bill No. 204 (Trout) Concerning, appeals from Judgments of Justices of th peace, mayors, etc. Parsed S3 to 0. House Bill No. 413 (Airhart )-Forthe tiling of open public drains and providing a method of making an assessment for such work. Passed 34 to 0. House Rill No. 2i7 (Catley -Regu!atir.g the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers. Passed SJv to 1. House BUI No. 4J (Scott) Regulating the transfer of school children from one school corporation to another. Passed 33 to 1. House Bill No. 141 (Dickon)-Relatlng U the common schools. Passed 37 to l. House Rill No. 456 (Davis, of WayneH