Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1921 — Page 4

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TEXTBOOK QUIZ SET FOR FRIDAY BY SENATE BODY State Board of Education and Company Agents Asked to Appear. COST BOOST IS SUBJECT At a special meeting of the Senate Committtee on Rights and Privileges in room 401 Statehouse, Monday night, Feb. 14, the thirteen members of, the State board of education and representatives of all companies that submitted bids for textbooks at a meeting of the board last week will be asxed to appear and testify regarding the letting of contracts for textbooks for five years at a reported additional cost or SIBO,OOO a year. This action was decided on at an executive s< ion of the committee yesterday, after a L. Hines, State superintendent of public instruction, had appeared as a witness and given the committee full in formation of the transaction. Mr. Hines in his testimony defended the State board of education as far as the legality of its action was concerned, although he frankly stated that he felt at the time the bids were opened that the proper thing to do was to reject all bids and readvertise for a later date.

OUTIISES BIGHTS OF STATE BOARD. “The law gives the board discretionary power in these matters.” Mr. Hines said,.j "and as long as it has this power it is within its rights in accepting bids regardless of our opinions as to the wisdom of doing so.” Among other suggestions Mr. Hines said that he thought the law should be changed so that bids are received on all textbooks at one time, thus doing away with what he termed “perpetual turmoil” ever the question of letting book contracts. “The public has an idea that we constantly are changing textbooks, and there is nothing that arouses public antagonism more than a feeling of this kind Now, as a matter of fact, when any one book is adopted it remains in the schools for at least five years, but these adoptions are not made all at one time, and as a result there are frequent changes, and the public get the wrong impression This could be done away with entirely if we had a law providing that all adoptions be made at the same time.” WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL ANSWERED. Mr. Hines explained that in anticipation of an increase of the bids for new books over the bids received five years ago, he had asked the attorney general if the eampanies holding the old contracts conld be compelled to supply books for another year at the old prices, but the attorney general had given his opinion that this could not be done. Neither is it possible, according to the attorney general, for the Legislature to compel them to do so. The law states that the board of education “shall” adopt

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books every five years and this makes It compulsory for the board to do so. in support of his contention that a book once adopted often remains in tbe schools for a number of ye„rs, Mr. Hines named textbooks that bad been in use in this State for from ten to fifteen years. Among those named were the Conn advanced physiology which has been in use fifteen years, the Gordy history, ten years, and the Tarr-McMurray geography, ten years. In answer to a question as to whether the bids received could be rejected at this late date, after the board had adopted the books, Mr. Hines said: SAYS HE HAS NOT SIGNED CONTRACTS. “The attorney-general says we can, for I have not yet signed the contracts and I am not going to sign them as long ss this investigation Is going on. They will have to mandate me in the Supreme Court before I wUI sign while this is under way.” However, Mr. Hines donbted the wisdom of rejecting the bids now, ev~n though he favored that action at the time they were received. The investigation yesterday brought out nothing more than that the board may have acted unwisely in accepting the bids. That they had the right to do so seems to have been according to law. Whether members of the board were subjected to undue influence in making the selections, and also the matter of possible collusion looking toward the adoption of certain b'ooks, probably will be taken up at the committee meeting Monday evening. The investigation is being made as a result of a resolution Introduced by Sen ator Howard Cann of Frankfort, expressing condemnation of the action of the beard in accepting bids at the figures submitted. This resolution was referred to the Committee on Rights and Priv i'.eges, which is composed of SenntorMiles J. Furnas, chairman; William A Arnold, Harold Van Orman, William M Swain and Howard Cann.

COMMITTEE IN HOUSE FAVORS SALARY BOOST Masters Bill, Fixing Solons’ Pay at SI,OOO a Year, Given O. K. FINAL VOTE IS AWAITED The House Committee on Fees and Salaries late Wednesday evening returned a favorable report on the Masters bill, which provides for an increase In the salaries of Representatives and Senators in the Indiana Legislature to SI,OOO a year. The bill was Introduced in tbe Senate by Senator J. Fred Masters. Indianapolis. While the bill received a favorable report from the fees and salaries committee, it is not considered as a guarantee that the bill will receive the approval of the House. On the contrary, it is predicted that the measure will meet an early death at the hands of the House “salary killers” as every appropriation or salary increase bill that has been presented thus far in the House

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has been vigorously opposed, and most have been killed. MAJORITY favor BUILDING INSPECTION. A divided report was returned on House Bill No. 193, Introduced by Representative James I. Day, Lake County, providing for the establishment of a State board of building inspectors under the supervision of he industrial board, giving it condemnatory powers. The minority report, which favored passage oft the bill, was adopted by the House In place of the majority report which favored indefinite postponement. A divided report was also returned on the bill introduced by R presentatlve N. C. Ross, Allen County, a chiropractor, head of the Ross College of Chlrophactle of Ft. Wayne, defining chiropractic as a “scientific method for the removal of the cause of disease,” declaring it neither medicine, surgery nor osteopathy, and declaring that chiropractors are not subject to the laws governing the healing art. The Committee on Judiciary A returned the report, the minority report, favoring passage of the bill, being adopted. Representative Ross made a long speech defending his bill. The House Committee on Criminal Code stifled one of the bills, introduced

by Representative Georga W. Boner of Daviess and Martin Counties, which was designed to bait the crime wave. Representative Boner’s bill prescribed life imprisonment for burglars aijd felons, and would impose the death penalty on any one who committed a murder while committing robbery or burglary. The committee report, which was adopted, recommended the bill for indefinite postponement. The Rowbottom bill, which would prohibit chauffeurs from using their employer’s machine without the consent of the owner, was also recommended by the Committee on Criminal Code, for Indefinite postponement. The Committee on Insurance recommended for indefinite postponement the Newman bill providing a penalty for persons who make false statements to obtain insurance. COURT DECLARED MEMORIAL. On motion of Representative J. Glenn Harris, Lake County, who received word that the St. Joseph County Bur Association would erect a bronze memorial tablet in the new courtroom, the Beyler bill, providing for the creation of an additional Superior Court in St. Joseph County, whs handed down on second

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reading immediately prior to adjournment. A motion, introduced by Representative Henry Abrams, Marion County, was ndopted, to add anew section to the bill, declaring the court to be a memorial to the late Asa E. Matthews. Representative from St. Joseph County, who died at the Deuconess Hospital in Indianapolis Monday evening. Johnson Fined SIOO on GunTotin’ Charge Harry Johnson, 2015 North Gale street, charged -with assault and battery on two affidavits, unlawful possession of weapons and carrying concealed weapons, after his arrest Tuesday at 528 East North street, was fined SIOO and costs on the latter charge by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court Wednesday. The other three charges were dismissed. , According to the police, Johnson went to the North street address to rent a room which was advertised and insulted Ola Keester and later Ola Wood, living at t’.e same address. The police were called and after taking Johnson to headquarters Miss Wood found an automatic revolver under the chair in which he had been seated. Mrs. Keester testified that Johnson had ho the red them before.

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