Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1903 — Page 2

THE JKDTAKAFOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1903.

Republican State committee, in which ho declared that the committee assumed all the responsibility for the Goodwine bill and that the bill did not originate with the Governor. lnt evening Mr. hlttaker denied absolutely that such a statement has been authorized by him. The supporters of the bill gained two representatives yesterday who have been Inclined toward the opposition, but had not taken a definite stand one way or the other. They were Mr. Carmlchael, of Delaware, and Mr. Owen, of I'arkc. On the other hand the opposition claimed that it pained four vote?, a net Rain of two. The names of these members were not given out. As the vote now stands, on an informal poll that is not absolutely reliable, the Opposition has seventeen Republican, members, twenty-two Democratic and thirteen Republican members are in doubt. If the opposition can hold what it now claims and get the thirteen doubtful votes, it will be ablö to defeat the bill by a vote of fiftytwo to forty-eight. SnXATK FLOODED WITH DILLS.

3Ir. Klttlnicer Prnteatn Against Connlilerlncr "Fool" Measures. A flood of new blllj passed into the Senate yesterday, no le3 than twenty-five new measures being presented. Six bills were passed, five Senate bills and House bill No. Z2. which authorizes a levy of an additional 6 cents by the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners. The Senate was in session nearly three hours, partly because the Senators Insisted on strenuous debate and partly because they were anxious to get all pending business out of the way so they could go home over Sunday. As usual, the session was characterized by several warm debates. Senator Klttingcr arose In wrath against Senator Fortune's bill providing that Judgment may be rendered against general verdicts at .the discretion of the court on Interrogatories presenting different findings of fact. The senator from Anderson declared that the bill was dangerous and was In line with other useless and questionable bills that have been Introduced in the Senate. There arc a lot of Infernal fool bills piling in here which do not mean anything," caid the senator emphatically. "I want you to kill this bill." There had been a divided committee report on the bill, the majority of the second division of the judiciary reporting against the measure. After a long tussle, in which Senator Fortune warmly defended the bill, it was killed by a vote of 25 to 18. Senator Fortune was consoled, however, because his Pigeon Iloost bill was passed without a single vote being recorded against it. The bill appropriates a sum for the purpose or erecting a monument over the graves of .the settlers massacred by the Indians at Pigeon Iloost on tho line between Clark and Scott counties in the year 1818. The State meeting of the D. A. It. indorsed thf measure, and this is the farthest it has got along in any Legislature. I , LANDLORD'S LIEN BILL. Senator Wolcott met with come opposition when it came to the consideration of his bill giving a landlord a Hen on the crop of a, tenant when the tenant agrees to pay as rent either a part of the crop or cash and thn refuses to carry out his contract. Tho landlord's Hen may be enforced by the same procedure as iu the case of a chattel mortgage when power to sell Is given. The senator from Wolcott explained that there was nothing vicious, In the bill and nothing which it was desired to conceal. It finally went through by a vote of 28 to 14. Senator Wood called up his bill relating to the verdict of Juries, which met with no opposition, 41 votes being cast for it. Senator Fleming's bill amending the Fort "Wayne charter so as to remove ambiguity in construing the sections relating to the improvement of streets and alleys, was paased. Wampler's bid to provide for the erection, repair or purchase of bridges across a stream on the boundary line of counties was passed. One of the most important measures passed by the Senate was House bill No. 22, introduced in that body by Representative Morgan. It authorizes an additional tax levy of 6 cents for the benefit of the Indianapolis schools, and gives the Board of School Commissioners the right to Issue bonds not in excess of Z2jU,0u0 for the purpose of purchasing real estate, erecting buildings and equipping- them with heating. BAD WEATHER TO-DAY. Snow In Northern Indiana and Rnln In Southern Portion. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: For Illinois and Indiana Snow In northcm, rain in southern portion on Saturday. Sunday rain or snow; fresh east winds, becoming variable For Ohio Snow on Saturday; rising temperature in northern portion. Sunday fair in southern, rain or snow in northern portion; fresh northwest winds, increasing. Local Observations on Friday. Bä. Tem. IL 1 1. Wind. Weather, rtec. 7 a- m.. 30.24 Si 75 North. Cloudy. 0.00 I p. m. .30.24 2s fcw Neasu Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 32; minimum temperature. 2a. ComparatlTe statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on Jan. 23: Tern. Prec. formal zs o. 10 Mean 20 o.OO Departure 2 0.10 ' Lfceyarture since Jan. 1 loo O.li V. T. BLITHE. Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures. Station. Mln. Abilene. Tex 4i Max. 16 41 70 31 24 44 42 36 40 2 33 24 36 23 2t DO 30 2J li 61 63 31 24 46 44 20 60 26 42 It 42 li 8 34 60 W 61 33 14 34 42 23 62 33 41 3 41 1 42 Zi IS 42 40 7 1) r C2 44 30 7 P. m. 43 3H 62 6 21 14 42 3(i Amarlllo. Tex 3) 41 35 8 21 31 Antonio, Tex ... Atlanta, Ga liismarclc, N. D liu.falo. X. Y ... Cairo. Ill Calgary, Altnrta 1 Chattanooga. Tenn 2i ' L0 36 24 32 20 21 26 2 44 23 20 16 16 64 30 16 33 4t 20 10 3(J ii z 14 12 41 U 43 33 21 44 30 32 26 46 32 23 26 21 0 32 31 16 33 34 11 2S 23 c 3(i Cheyenne, yo Chicago. Ill .., Cincinnati. O ., 34 :i i 21 24 Cleveland, O Columbus. O Concordia. Kan Davt-nport, la Lenver. Col . Dodgo City. Kan Dubuque, la Duluth, Minn , o Kl Paso. Tex Oalveton. Tex 64 12 16 IS 2 4 Grand Junction, Col Urand Haven, Mich Havre. Mont Helen. Mont 31 uro a. S. 1 Jacksonville, Fia Kansas City. Mo 24 lander, YVyo g XJttle Kock, Ark 42 Louisville. Ky 36 Marquette, Mich 13 jJempms, Tenn 44 n 34 41 30 34 Mcdena, Utaa ... Montgomery. Ala N&jhvllle. Tenn , New Orleans. Ia New York. N. Y Norfolk. Va North Piatt. N-b Oklahoma. O. T . 40 Omaha. Neb it Palestine, Tex 4i Parkeraburg. V. Va 34 rhUadelpbia. Pa so lUttburg. Pa 22 Pueblo. Cri 20 Wu'AppelJ. Amin ............ S J tart d City, S. D 18 fct LooU, Mo 30 t. Paul. Minn 4 Fait Laka City. Vtah Hanta Fe. N. Hex .. 30 fcnreveport. La 44 Fprlna-neM. ill Fprlngtleid. (u Valentine, Neb W 4 24 30 Vlckbura Miss .... 'Washington. L. C Wlc&lta, Kan MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. GLASGOW. Jan. 23 Arrived: Carthapenlan, from Philadelphia, via St. John's N. F.: Llvonlan, from Boston; Sardinian from New York. NEW YORK. Jan. 21 Arrival: Celtic from Liverpool; Patricia, from Hamburg. ' MOVILLE. Jan. 21 Sailetl: Parisian from Liverpool for St. John, N. B. HAMBURG. Jan. 23.-Arrived: Graf Waldersee, from New York. HAVRE. Jan. 2J.-Arrived: La Bretagne, from New York. ' LONDON. Jan. 23.-Sa!led: Minnehaha, for Ne York. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 23.-Sailed: Tauric. for New lork. TO CUIUS A COLD IX 0.C DAY Tike Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AH druggist refund tho money If it falls to eure. Ü W. Cruvt's Uuaturt U en eacb box. So.

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lichtlnpr and sanitary apparatus. The bill was explained briefly by Senator Layman to the effect that it is intended to relieve the v urgent needs of the Indianapolis schools. A telegram was read from Senator Fairbanks thanking the General Assembly for re-electing him and accepting its Invitation to appear before a Joint session to deliver an address. The senator will be here Tuesday, Jan. 27. A resolution was introduced by Senator Kittinger and adopted, to the effect that the two houses meet In Joint session at noon of that day to hear the senator. Representative James E. Watson was a visitor to the Senate. By invitation he made a short speech. IMPORTANT NEW BILLS. Seme Important bills are among the new measures introduced yesterday morning. Senator Davis, of Bloomfleld, introduced a bill to repeal the truancy law. The bill vests the duties of the truant officer in the township trustee. It provides that parents may teach their children the rudiments and that these children need not be seVt to school. The bill specifies that if parents fail to teach their children and also fail to send them to school they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and suit may be brought by the township trustee on ten days notice. Senator Davis declares that the truant officer in most cases is a tyrant who exercises the functions of his otfice without recard to circumstances. Ills constituents demand the repeal of the truancy law, he says. Senator Wolcott introduced two bills which were referred to the committee on education. One bill authorizes a new State officer, a high school inspector, who shall draw a salary of $2,500 a year. It shall be his duty to inspect the high schools of the State, to systematize their courses and to make them more uniform. The bill is indorsed by the State Board of Education, the State Teachers' Association and by the County Superintendents Association. The other bill authorizes the State Board of Education to contract with publishing companies for primers to be furnished at a cost of not more than 10 cents eacn and their use to be optional in cities of more than 5.0U0 population. Senator Wolcott says there is a demand among teachers for another book a grade below the present hrst reader. FOR MUNCIE CHARTER. Senator Ball Introduced a bill to give the city of iluncie a charter. The charter draft is modeled closely on the Indianapolis instrument. The bill is voluminously drawn and has been prepared with great care. Senator Ball say?. Senator Klttint.'er introduced a bill increasing the pay of police officers and policemen In certain cities under the metropolitan police system. The bill applies, however, only to cities of between 10.0W and 35.1XW population. Senator Lyons introduced a bill which provides that the compensation of prosecuting: attorneys shall be $1,000 a year, in addition to, the feesSenator Barcus Introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a commission to request the placing of the statute of Gen. George Rogers Clark In the National Hall of Statuary at Washington and making an appropriation of $5,0u0 for the purpose. Senator Dausman's bill, providing that insurance companies may have as assets bonds of incorporated companies and first mortgages on real estate, is expected to provoke a lively fight. The claim is made that It will allow insurance companies too much latitude in investing the money of policy holders. Most of the other bills refer to matters purely local with the senators. Senator Johnson's bill, fixing' the penalty for criminal assault at from two years to a life term in the State's prison, was called for on third reading, but the senators could not agree. It was finally ordered that the bill should be made a special older of business for Monday morning at 11 o'clock. An amendment by Senator Davis was adopted which provided that the sentence of convicted persons should be under the Indeterminate system. Senator Matson called up his voting machin bill, but there was no time for a full discussion. It was made a special order of business for Monday morning at 11:30 o'clock. In the committee reports several bills of general interest were recommended for past sage. Senator Wood's bill, providing that intoxicating liquors shall not be sold within one mile of the Soldiers' Homes at Lafayette and Marlon, was reported favorably. Senator LJndley's bill prohibiting public officials from speculating in margins or from gambling of any kind was recommended for passage. House bills Nos. 30. 4, 57, 74 and 133 were reported and referred to commltttees. Among the bills passed to ingTOssment was senator Matson s convict labor bill. The Senate adjourned to meet Monday morning at 10 o'clock. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Action on One Dill Showed the Hnnd of a Skilled Legislator. The clever . hand of a skilled legislator was in evidence in the Hcuse yesterday when the bill for the readjustment of the Forty-second, Sixth, Sixteenth, Eighth and Thirty-seventh judicial circuits was substituted for House bill No. 07 Edwards which made three circuits out of the Forty-second and Sixth. Representative James K. Watson, of Rushville, who represents the Sixth district in Congress, was the veteran parliamentarian who was responsi ble for the shrewd manipulation. It was .a trick that is often resorted to In Congress, but yesterday was the first time it had been used in the Indiana Legislature for many moons. This is how it was worked: Mr. Edwards's bill had been referred to the committee on the organization of courts, of which Mr. Sparks, of Rush, is chairman. The committee reported on Mr. Edwards's bill, but instead of. recommending it for indefinite postponement, as would have been the usual course, a majority of the committee recommended , that the bill be amended in a manner that meant virtually the striking out of all except the enactlns clause and substituting the bill in which Mr. Sparks and Representative Watson are interested. The minority report was for the passage of the Ed wards bill. The House concurred in the majority report and the Watson-Sparks bill was advanced to second reading, thus accomplishing In one day that which In the ordinary course of legislation would have required at least two days and perhaps a week. The bill is now ready to be advanced to engrossment, and it will . be possible to get it through the House on Tuesday. If Mr. Sparks's committee had merely killed the Edwards bill and he had then Introduced his bill as a new measure It could not possibly have been passed before Thursday of next week, except under the suspension of the rules', which could hardly have been accomplished. DISTRICTS REARRANGED. A lively fight may be made on the bill, but it will undoubtedly go through. At present the Judicial circuits affected are comprised as follows: Forty-eecond Jackson.- Washington and Orange: Sixth Ripley. Jennings and Scott; Sixteenth-Rush and Shelby; Eichth-John-

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son and Brown; Thirty-seventh Franklin, Union and Fayette. The Sparks bill arranges the circuits as follows: Forty-second Orange, Washington and Scott; Sixth Jennings, Jackson and Brown; Sixteenth Shelby and Johnson: EighthRush and Fayette; Thirty-seventh Ripley, Franklin and Union. All five of the circuits are Democratic under the existing arrangement, but all of them are close; under the change the Eighth will be safely Republican and all four of the others strongly Democratic. Renresentatlve Watson has been extremely active during the day and a half that he j has been in the city and has lined up a formidable support for the bill. Mr. Edwards was not altogether pleased yesterday at the summary manner in which his bill was disposed of, but the vote was so strongly against him that he could accomplish nothing by opposing it. That the minority will oppose the Sparks bill is to be expected. The House was opened at 10 o'clock with prayer by the Rev. Lewis Brown, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of this city. The following' telegram from Senator Fairbanks, in answer to the one sent him by the committee appointed to notify him of his re-election and to invite him to address the General Assembly at his convenience, was read: "I am in receipt of your telegram notifying me of my re-election to the United States Senate and Inviting me to appear before the joint session of the General Assembly at my convenience. I am profound ly gratified for the action of the General Assembly and shall be pleased to appear before it in its joint sessions on Tuesday, the 27th Inst., at 12 o'clock, noon. I thank you most sincerely for your generous congratulations." The House voted to hold a joint caucus with the senate at noon on Tuesday next to hear the senior senator. REFORTS OF COMMITTEES. Reports of committees was the first order of business, and the following bills were recommended for passage and the reports concurred In: Appointment of special judge by Governor if Judge in change of venue cases fails to qualify, Mummert; establishing Superior Court in Miami, Wabash and, Huntington counties, Stutesman; education board's bill regarding qualifications of county superintendents, Branch; amending compulsory education law to exempt children under fourteen years who may have been graduated from common schools, Kimball; making it illegal to kill quail for three years. Lopp; enabling citizens to compel the building of joint township schoolhouses, Boulden; providing for State forestry reserve, Matthews. The following bills were killed on recommendations for indefinite postponement: Against usury, Sherman; authorizing counties to build market houses. Morton; for compensation for Joseph Ralble for a loss of an arm while a member of the Home Guard. Wright: for appointment instead of election of county couneilmen, Schermerhorn; making county commissioners responsible for accidents due to defective bridges. BARBER BILL'S FATE. House bill No. 64, providing for the examination and licensing of barbers and creating a State board of examination, was taken up on second reading as a special order. It was evident from the amendments that were offered that there is serious objection to the bill, and after sorno little sparring it was recommitted to the committee on rights and privileges. Such opposition has developed to the bill that it is doubtful if it will pass the House. Senate bills Nos. 21. 52, 58. 63. 75 and 121 were handed down on first reading and referred to the proper committees. A number of bills were handed down on second reading and advanced to engrossment. One of these bills, No. 130, the State Board of Taxation's measure, is so long that the reading clerk ground away at it for an hour and then skipped many sections before he reached the one declaring an emergency. It has not been the custom In the past to read the bills In full on the second reading, but this year the programme has been changed, and all bills are read In full on both second and third reading. It is hard on the reading clerk, and he is heartily in favor of a reversion to old customs. House bill No. 100 Baird providing for a commission to distribute bodies for dissecting purposes among the various medical and dental colleges of the State, was handed down on second reading, but it was made a special order for 11 o'clock Tuesday. Mr. Carmlchael, of Delaware, introduced the only new bill offered, as the roll-call for the introduction of bills was not reached. His bill provides for a special charter for the city of Muncie, modeled closely after the charter of the city of Indianapolis. The House adjourned until 2 o'clock Monday. SEPARATE JUVEXILE COURT. Recommendation 31adc to Sennte Committee liy Meeting; of Citizen. Senator Thompson's bill to establish a Juvenile court In Indianapolis was thoroughly discussed last night at a meeting of gentlemen, most of whom are particularly competent to express a view on the needs of the city and county as to a tribunal in which children's cases may be considered exclusively. Among those present were Judge Henry Clay Allen, Judge Fremont Alford, Judge Stubbs, Amos W. Butler, John L. Griffiths, Father Francis H. Gavisk, Superintendent C. N. Kendall, the Rev. Lewis Brown, the Rev. Hiram W. Kellogg, Sylvester Johnson, Charles W. Moores, Representative Ralph Bamberger and Thomas C. Day. The sense of the meeting was that to a substitute bill, which will be Introduced by Senator Thompson covering one or two essential points that were not en jodied in the original bill, an amendment should be written providing that a separate couri should be established having full and ex clusive jurisdiction of all cases in which children may be parties. The original bill provided that the judge of the Circuit Court should act In the capacity of judge of the juvenile court. The motion' covering the amendment was made by Charles W. Moores, of the Board of School Commismissloners. Senator Thompson assured those present that the committee will do all in its power to have the substitute bill passed with the amendment Included. Judge Stubbs made the first speech, in which he reviewed the good work that has been accomplished by the Juvenile court established and conducted by himself. There Is plenty of work along that line for a special Judge to do. he thinks, and the work would occupy all of one man's time. He naid his heart is In the work, and did not attempt to conceal the wish that he him st If would like to be the judge of the court If it be established. SENTIMENT EXPRESSED. Father Gavisk suggested that the Circuit Judge appoint a commissioner, something like the probate commissioner, who should have charge of children's cases. It would be unfortunate, he thought, to have such an office elective. The commissioner should be appointed by the Circuit Judge, who is qualified usually to select a proper person to have jurisdiction In children a cases. John H. Holllday agreed with the sug cxstlon. It would not do to hava th of.

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SEN LINDLtY TELi-S OWL Bll-l-fice elective, he said, because it would be a prize eagerly sought by young lawyers who might not be qualified to sit on a bench requiring such peculiar qualities. Judge Allen, while saying that the Cir cuit Judge has now about all he can attend to. threw cold water on the sugges tions made. He said the people are not ready to agree to the establishment of another Judicial office. He did not think the suggestion to have the cases handled by a commissioner a very good one. John L. Griffiths said that necessity reouires a senarate court for children's cases with a Judge who should have no other duties than to preside in these cases. The magnitude of the work makes such a bench necessary, he thought. There should be no ouestion of the cost. Mr. Griffiths said. False economy should not be considered in a reform of such consequence. He did not believe that the people would be penurious when it came to preventing crime Dy reforming children. James Collins, former Police Court pros ecutor, said that a judge of a Juvenile court would have his hands full with that kind of business alone. Senator Thompson asked that no motion should be made binding the senate com mittee to retaining the amendment even at the sacrifice of the bill. He said the mere fact of having the court established is of such transcendent importance that it should not be lost sight of. He would try to cret the amendment throuch if he could. he said, but it was the bill first of all and the amendment if possible. The meeting decided to follow Ser.Ktor Thompson s sug gestion, and the amendment was carried with the understanding that the committee exercise Its best Judgment. ROOSTKR FOR THE MINORITY. Bird Sent to Mr. Kirkman Created Ainnsement In the House. A rooster, which started in on the ma jority side, moved to the minority, and finally landed in the possession of John Ward, the colored youth who has the shoeshining privilege in the lobby, furnished the House more diversion yesterday toward the close of the session than that body has had since the oratorical feast on tho occasion of the election of Senator Fair banks. The bird came to Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Montgomery, the father of the bill for the prevention of the devastation of gar dens by chickens and other fowls per mitted to run at large, and it was sent as the anonymous tribute of some of his New Richmond constituents. It was brought in and deposited on his desk in the crate in which it was shipped. Mr. Kirkpatrick arose to the emergency and as a matter of personal privilege ex plained why the, fowl had been sent to him. He wound up by presenting It to the minority, declaring that a rooster could not be tolerated on the majority side as It is the emblem of Democracy. He urged his colleagues on the other i-ide to treat tho bird tenderly and not to subject it to the indignities that the Democratic rooster has experienced in times past. A page carried the crate over to Repre sentative Reeves, who accepted it on be half of the minority, but Representative Adair, "the gentleman from Jay," took exceptions to this and announced that the Democrats could not in conscience accept theTrird as it had been corrupted by asso ciation with the Republicans. Representa tive Sherman, of Decatur, made his first play as a humorist, by offering a motion to the effect that further consideration of the rooster be made a special order for the Ides of November, 1901 a sally that was appreciated by both sides. After considerable repartee, in wnicn Speaker Marshall interjected the observation that chickens always como home to roost, the colored gentleman from the cloakroom got in his fine work and carried off the prize. Through it all the rooster conducted himself with the utmost decorum and never once essayed even the feeblest sort of a crow, in which he displayed a conservatism and wisdom that Is not al ways characteristic of the political party he represented. INCREASE OP SCHOOL LEVY. Senator "Wolcott Gathering: Informa tion on Edncational Questions. Senator Eban II. Wolcott, of Wolcott, chairman of the Senate committee on education, is delving Into facts about the dis tribution of the school levy of the State. He seeks Information that will enable him to handle the bill to be introduced soon to increase the levy from eleven cents to sixteen cents. Senator Wolcott is much interested In the prospective legislation and while not stating his attitude positively is inclined to favor the movement. "Everyone knows," he said last night, "that Marion county pays out far mroe money than it gets In. Since the distribu tion is made on a basis of the number of pupils of school age it is apparent at once that Marion assists in the support of other county schools. There are other points to be considered also. The terms of school in many of the Southern counties are too short. Pupils do not have enough instruc tion during the year. If there were more money for school purposes there could be longer terms and perhaps somethines might be done toward better pay for teachers. The whole subject is of extreme importance. Several other measures affecting the schools are to be introduced and will be referred to Senator Wolcott's committee. One bill will provide that children in pri vate orphan asylums shall receive tuition until they are eighteen years of age before their time may be taken by the institution to pay for their support. Under the present system children are taught until they are sixteen and then they are bound over to work until they are twenty-one for the In stitution in which they may be placed. Evnnsville Charity Bill. The Associated Charities of Evansville has prepared a bill for the punishment of the parents of children who abandon them or neglect or refuse to provide proper home, care, food and clothing for them and to pro vide for the application of wages. Income or earnings of such person abandoning a child or children and giving court authority to order and direct the payment of the same for the support of such child or children. The bill carries a penal clause, and while considered a rather severe measure. Is strongly indorsed by leading people all over the State. It will be introduced in the Legislature at an early date. Shelby Object to the Change. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 23. As soon as information reached this city that a bill was being prepared to change the present Sixteenth Judicial district, composed of Ru3h and Shelby counties, a special meet ing of the Shelby County Bar Association was called and the members passed resolutions that the present circuit be not changed, but that if it is necessary Shelby county constitute a circuit to Itself. Legislative SldellKhta. . Warren G. Sayre has a new hat, and, according to his good friend, Stutesman, it's the first one he has had in thirty years. Under such circumstances, to lose the hat

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what Sayre did. He was proud of his new skypiece, and. as is . often the case, pride was his undoing. He wanted to show off before his colleagues and he did not leave the hat in his compartment in the cloakroom, but paraded into the House with It and up to his desk in the most conspicuous part of the floor with the air of a boy with a new pair of redtop boots. In the course of events, when the House was called to order, it was necessary for him to remove the chapeau, and he did so. placing It carefully where he could lay his hands on it the moment he had the opportunity to don It again. As it turned out, he laid it away so carefully that he himself could not find it when the House adjourned, and for half an hour there was a wild-eyed man from the banks of the Wabash rushing all over the House, picking up stray hats and even Inspecting the hats worn by members whom he thought were capable of petit larceny. All in vain; his cherished hat was gone, irrevocably gone, it seemed. Later In the afternoon, when he had lost all hope and was wandering aimlessly about the floor, he found a hat. tucked away In a corner, that resembled his and he prompt ly appropriated it. Now he is looking for the practical joker who caused him all his worry. ' XXX "By the way," said Stutesman, in allud ing to his friend's acquisition, "Sayre has a new hat, but you haven't noticed any new hair on that shining dome of his, have you?" Stutesman himself owns a fringe and seven curly hairs that are all that stand between him and heaven. xxxEle Stansbury is in a predicament. He had a bill the other day that he wanted cooped, one of those measures, entitled "a bill for an act amending an act entitled an act amendatory and supplementary to an act entitled an act," etc., that is as long as the moral law, and he went out into the lobby and entrusted the work to the young lady whom he believed to be the majority stenographer. After she had done the work, which took her the best part of a day and a half, but before Stansbury went after it, he made the heart-rending dis covery that he had made a terrible mistake in stenographers and that the one who did his work was not the one employed by tne state, but one who charges a good round price for her work. In his dilemma the member from Warren went to the speaker and asked what he should do. Do?" repeated Mr. Marshall. "Why. pay the fiddler. Go and get your bill and pay her bill like a man." But Stansbury hasn't introduced that bill yet and some one has been unkind enough to suggest that if he ever does it will have a rider tacked on it entitled "A bill for an act for the relief of one Ele Stansbury." XXX Representative James E. Watson, of Rushville, has the enviable reputation of knowing everybody and their babies in In diana and of being able to call them all. In cluding babies aforesaid,- by their first names and nicknames. During the day or so ne has been circulating about the Legislature, he has demonstrated that his reputation is not without foundation. Time and again a friend has started to introduce him to some one, when he would be interrupted by Watson's reaching out his long right arm with the greeting. "Why. hello. John." or Tom, Dick or Harry as the case might be, and protesting against being introduced to a man he has known for a hundred years or so. xxx Representative Watson ran across an old friend yesterday who Is one of the door keepers in the House. Hello. Hank." was the greeting. "What the deuce arc you doing here? A door keeper? Well, you know. Hank, It's bettero oe a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell within the tents of the ungodly." . , , LEGISLATIVE ROUTINE. New Senate Bills. No. 1G0 Davis Repealing truancv law ana vesting tne powers or this officer In 1 A f j 1 . - T township trustee. Education. ao. lbl Ball Providing a charter for aiuncie. cities and towns. No. 1G2 Starr Authorizing the emnlovineni oi an agent 10 procure homes for the inmates of the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home and annronriatlnc 12.000 for expenses and per diem. Benevolent institutions. No. 163 Barcus Appropriating $3.000 for a statue of George Rogers Clark in the Na tional statuary Hall. Federal relations. .No. 164 Barcus Providing that children placed in families by institutions or associations, between the ages of seven and eighteen years, shall be required to attend school more than live months In a year. Education. No. 165 Wood Repealing the law which makes a township trustee ineligible to succeed himself. County and township busi ness. No. 166-Wood-Giving townshln trustees in counties of less than 25.000 S3 a day for time necessarily engaged in discharging their duties. Fees and salaries. No. 167 Newhouse Giving city courts jurisdiction in civil cases throughout the counties in which they are situated. Judi ciary, No. 2. No. ICS Askrew Legalizing election in November, 1902, of clerks of circuit courts. -County and township business. No. ICD Lyons Increasing salaries of prosecuting attorneys from $500 to $1.000 a year. By request. Fees and salaries. No. 17J Da usman Providing that insur ance companies may have as assets bonds of incorporated companies and first mort gages on real estate. Insurance. No. 171 Wolcott Authorizing the State Board of Education to appoint a high school inspector at $2,500 a year. Educa tion. No. 172 Wolcott Authorizing the State Board of School Commissioners to contract for primers, to be furnished for not over 10 cents each, and making their use op tional in cities exceeamg &,ouu population. Education. No. 173 S trickier Legalizing incorpora tion of Swayzee, Grant county. Judiciary, No. l No. 174 Strickler Providing for the pay ment of claims by county treasurer for the preparation of Indices of free gravel road taxes, when made for the county, but where the order for the work was not spread of record. Fees and salaries. No. 175 Layman Reimbursing the Regimental Association of the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry Regiment for money expended in replacing tablet erected at place where regiment was engaged in battle of Gettysburg. Finance. No. 176 Fleming 1 mng term for holding court in Twenty-sixth judicial circuit. Or ganization of courts. No. 177 jonnston iToviaing xor tne re cording in recorder's office of courts where lands are situated of every conveyance or mortgage of lands, or any Interest therein, and every lease for more than three years. Judiciary, No. 1. No. 1S Singer Legalizing Incorporation of Versailles, Ripley county. Cities and towns. No. 179 Gochenour To amend drainage law so as to permit city councils and boards of trustees of Incorporated towns to apply for drainage under the drainage act. Swamp lands and drains. No. ISO Kittlnger Providing following scale of wages for policemen and officers in towns of between 10,000 and 35.000: Superin tendent. S1.0S0 to $1.320; captain. $3u0 to $1.OSO; sergeant. $S10 to $1,020; patrolmen, $7S0 to $3t50. Other officers' and employes' salaries to be fixed by police commissioners. Cities and towns. No. 1S1 Thompson To permit real -estate, rental and insurance agents who incorporate under the voluntary association act to lend money. Corporations. No. 1S2 Thompson Appropriating money to pay claim of H. A. Mansfield on account of the construction of the East Michiganstreet main sewer in front of Girls' Reformatory and Women's Prison grounds. Claims and expenditures. No. 1S3 Crumbaker Prescribing the number, duties and compensation of Justices of the peace In Vanderburg county. County and township business. No. 184 Milburn Amending law regarding Incest. Judiciary, No. 1. Senate Bills on Third Reading. No. 16 Fortune Appropriating $2,500 for a monument to the memory of the victims of the Pigeon Roost massacre. Passed 41 to 0. No. 73 Wolcott Requiring the filing of crop liens at least thirty days before maturity of the crop. Passed 28 to 14. No. 41 Wood Permitting interrogatories to be argued before a jury. Passed 41 to 0. No. 73 Wampler Providing for erection. repair or purchase of any bridge across a stream on the boundary nne oi two counties. Passed 3G to 0. No. 53 Fleming Amending Fort Wayne's charter so as to make clearer the matter of street assessments. Passed z to 0. Nerr Roane 11111s. No. 209 Carmlchael Providing a special charter for Muncie similar to the Indianapolis charter. Cities and towns. Strikes In China. Nebraska State Journal. You can strike In China all right, but you have to give a month's notice. This takes

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all the ginjrer out of a strike, and hence there la very little heard about strikes in China. Still, some engineers thought they would strike there not long ago. The government nipped them In the bud because of the lack of the required month's notice. The penalty accorded in this Instance was one hundred blows from the mandarin's paddle and imprisonment for two weeks. When we get a little weary facing our problems it may rest us some by taking a look over to our Eastern neighbor in the west. She settled all the problems about a thousand years ago. Consequently she regards us as Ignorant barbarians. ALL EYES ON GERMANY. Distrnat of that Country a. Cardinal Article of Faith. Minneapolis Journal. It Is curious that the German Emperor's protestations of respect for the Monroe doctrine end the apparent recognition of that doctrine by the German government fall on deaf ears in the United States. Nobody here believes that the Emperor has any respect for the doctrine of itself or that the German government has the slightest notion of steering national policy as If the Monroe doctrine were well recognized inter-, national law. Americans are convinced that Germany has more or less definite designs on parts of South America, and we know that if the opportunity offers tho Monroe doctrine will be quickly brushed aside in the realization of the designs. At the same time our skepticism as to the Teuton's sincerity is accompanied the best of good will toward the emp.ie and the German people. International hatred and prejudice have nothing to do with our attitude toward Germany. We are as fond of Germany as of any other nation, and the ties of common blood draw us almost as close to the Germans as to the British. We foraee, however, or think we do, that German and American policy must one day conflict if they continue to travel along present lines. The German expansion policy and the Monroe doctrine cannot be harmonized, assuming, as we do, that South America is the ideal theater of German expansion the one great portion of the habitable globe on which other great powers have not put their claws, and now occupied by weak and demoralized states, which would be as chaff before the mailed fist. We do not blame Germany for coveting South America; we would do the same in her place. At the same time we firmly feel that we must stand by the doctrine of the inviolability of the American continents. It is not a question of right or wrong; it is a conflict of interests. It is a conflict that must be compromised or fought out. The magazines and the newspapers are full of articles which show the drift of American opinion on this question. Stephen Bonsai writes about it in the North American Review, Gunton's Magazine discusfes it as a plain proposition. Secretary of War Root has nearly told us we must one day fight for the Monroe doctrine. President Roosevelt tells us the doctrine is meaningless without a strong navy, and the National Geographic Magazine for this month suggests that Germany la behind Denmark's suddenly discovered reluctance to part with the Danish West Indies. The latter magazine raises the Interesting question of whether the annexation of Denmark to Germany, considered quite possible, would ralae a question a to the application of the Monroe doctrine. A Maurice Low, writing in the Forum, dis This

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