Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1875 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, MARCH 9 1875.

TUESDAY. MARCH 9.

Some time sine tue House passed a bill reducing the n timber and remunera tion ol prison directors, and Bent the same to iho Senate. Tho bill haying very myste riously disappeared from the flies of that body, the IIou?3 suspended the rules and passed a similar measure by an overwhelming majority. Inasmuch as the Senate has had occasion to appoint a conlmitteo on stolen bills, and also make the abstraction oi bills a felony, it is hoped that this partic ular bill -will be protected to its passage. l-J! L 1 Fighting the devil with fire is not generally a very successful sort of combat; therefore the legislature of Virginia is entering upon an unprofitable strnpgle in tho enactment cf a series of state laws to counteract the evils of the civil rigbU bill. The defect of that measure i3 that it Itnpcses new and unusual remedies in favor of certain classes In case wherein the law as already existing gsve good cause of action. Instead of allowing negross who are refused entrance to hotels or theaters the same remedy that lies in case of white people refused the same privileges, exorbitant fines and punishments are created and jurisdiction is given to unusual tribunals. The inevitable result must be the prosecution of suits by worthies.? people.merely lor the booty involved in each sue cessful prosecution. To counteract the unwise provisions of the civil rights bill Virginia enters the field of special legislation. It is proposed to punish all parties making disturbances at hotels, theaters and Other public places, in clamoring for accommodation after tho proprietor has refused it for any good and sufficient reason. As in the civil rights bill a reward is held out to the party prosecuting. By making a number of clever regulations as to reserved seats in theaters and public conveyances and holding fine and imprisonment in terrorem over colored people Jbe Virginians hope to et the congressional measure for raising race quarrels at defiance. In some Southern cities hotel keepers are canceling their hotel licenses and coiug into business as proprietors of private boarding houses. In Cincinnati a sharp publican has declared that the new law will mako no change in his business. lie says that th9 civil rights bill can not dictate to him where ho shall put his rues' s to sl?ep or in what room they shall dine. The truth soem3 to be that the world cam wag along just as usual if the law be met in a proper spirit. All accounts fiom Washington agree in declaring that at the opening of tho now Senate Andrew Johnsen was the central figure. And . not only was he the most marked man on the occasion but he was the most popular or.e Such a strange fact furnishes some food for thought. The lesson which it teache?, however, is an eld one. Perhaps there never was a public man who excited, such partisan hatred as Andrew Johnson, lie was absolutely overwhelmed with a storm of popular indignation and swept away like a wreck. He came into office as vice-president, with the enmity of the rebels and the distrust of the democracy. He alienated a map of his republican supporters by unfortunate iccoherency" on the day of his inauguration. For a short time after the assassination of Lincoln an effort was mad9 by his political associates of that period to act in alliance with him, but ho broke through evory show of false peace and took his stand alone in defense of his convictions. He waa without a party and the political organization which regarded him as a traitor to it was then omnipotent. It deprived him of command over the army. It maintained his moat deadly enemy in his cabinet. It turned cut his friends from office end established his foes. It walked over his veto messages and trod his policy into the dust, and finally it put him on trial for his political life. He had a narrow escape. Every epithet in th9 language, every slander that wit or malice cou!d invent, was buried at him. It seemed to be the determination to bury him with obloquy. Yet he remained firm, unshaken. He was determined to abld,e by his cpirdons, no matter how the heathen might rae. He had an abiding faith that his policy of reconstruction was the only just and noble policy, and he would not foro that conviction for the sake of party power or personal popularity. Iiis course may have been a piece cf political folly, but it was the ' finest exhibition of self-sustained and independent manhood that this generation has Eeen. In an age when politicians bend like reeds before e-ery brecz9of popular anger, such an unshaken fidelity to principle was something to look back on with admiration. And now, after seven years of retirement, Andrew Johnaoa steps forward betöre the nation again. His return to public service U welcomed from one end ol the Union to the other. A glad, genial greeting goes out to tho old man from former friend and foe. Why is thia? It is partly becauso the people recognize that they Were wonderfully unjust in their passion of half a dozan years ago. It is partly Jbecause they cee that the reconstruction policy which was then esteemed the perfection of philanthropy and statecraft has proved a misorabl9 failure the nurso of fraud, sedition and murder and there h3 come upon the public mind a doubt as to whether Andrew Johnson's stubbornness was ncf. after ail founded upon wise forethought, and not upon native obstinacy. And, last of all, it is became, in an era or dishonesty, cowardice and lawlessness, we are glad to hail again the honest man, the faithful servant of the people, the fclave of conscience, the -champion of tie f cna .itntion. 'H"3 may bo obstinate and hot ha Jed, but ho is i;o; a and a knave, and we are sick for a ge. A few years ago the present r from Tennessee undertook, as presia journey through the chief cities of Orth with the design of winning back

by a personal appeal the confidence of the people. Ue traveled in some state with the military, naval and civil heroes of the war in his company. He was greeted with hooting and jeering whereever -be appeared, and - at some places even riot and bloodshed followed his loots teps. Everywhere as he apoke calls were made for the favorite of the hour, Grant. Since that time the great soldier has received the presidency at th9 hands of the people, and so abused the gift that bis two terms will go down to posterity aa among the most disgraceful perlcds of our history. The gratitude of a nation which then took delight in doing him reverence has been worn away in the forgiveness of many follies, and if he should go swinging round the circle now with Senator Johnson in hia train, it is probable that

Ihe Tery crowd that yelled for "Ulysses" on the former trip would hiss tim from the hotel balconies, and call for "Andy." The whirligig of time brings about strange revenges. Fnllnr of the Lfgfslatnro-Responsibll fly or tbe Senate. The people of Indiana will be dis gusted to perceive that the general assembly has virtually closed its working session t without doing any of the more important business for which it come together. It has spent sixty days in fruitless debate, and has had the unparalleled-impudence to adjourn without making the ordinary provisions for carrying on tbe state government, much less consummating any of the reforms about which so much was said last year. The fee and salary bill has failed; the temperance bill has failed; the educational bill has lalled; no tax levy has beau made; the special appropriation bill baa f Ailed, and tbe general appropriation bill has failed. Tbe reason of thn utter break down in legislative work was primarily the political antagonism between the House and the Senate. In a measure both branches of the legislature are to blame for a failure to get together early in the session and prepare compromise measures that each might pass, instead of waiting to lock horns over their differences on the last available night of the session. But aiter passing this general censure upon both bodies, the Sentinel is compelled to hold up the conduct of the Senate before tbe people ns especially factious and revolutionary. The majority of that body seemed resolved upon the desperate policy of ruling or ruining the state. It acted, not with the intention of providing means for carrying on the government of the commonwealth, so muchtas with the policy of embarrasing the party in power. In fact, the republicans of the Indiana legislature have closed their official conduct In the same reckloss and malicious temper with which the forty-third congress brought its career to an end. As Junius said, like a bad tenant turned out, they were bound to leave the house as seriously damaged as possible to the discomfort of the next comer. A few words concerning the closing scenes of the legislative session will show that this ap parently harsh denunciation is richly deserved. Let u3 consider the late of the important measures named above, the passage of which was really the only reason lor th9 existence of a legislature. The fee and salary bill, which embodied the creat reform of the day. was prepared by the House and sent into the Senate in ample season for action by that body. It was then amended by the substitution of the Senate bill, and was sent back to the House yester day. It was again returned to the Senate before the noou adjournment. The Senate asked for a conference committee vesterdav evening which was gi anted. In that committee Mr, Divis, of Flovd. on the part of the House majority, offered to report a bill making a reduction on all fees and salaries of 25 per cent., with a clause making it a forfeiture of all fees in any case in which constructive fees were taxed. This was a great step forward toward reform, but the Senate committee refused to make the compromise. When the conference committees of both houses reported, the Senate and House bills on fees and salaries were upon the files of the Senate, and there they remained until that body adjourned, the House being powerless to take action in the premises. Of scarcely less vital interest was the temperance legislation expected at the bauds of the ceneral assembly, and the story of its . failure is fully as disgraceful. Early in tb.9 session the House passed the license law and sent it to the Senate. There it was allowed to lie until yesterday, when it was returned to the House with a proviso ot local option, also one lor personal liability, and a provision making drunkenness a misdemeanor, and providing punishment therefor. The House promptly concurred In the provision making drunkenness a misdemeanor, and refused to concur in local option and personal liability. The action of the House was without delay reported to the Senate, but, up to the time of adjournment, no farther action was taken by that body. These measures, however, were of the character of reforms, and the general conduct of the state government did not in any great dogTee depend upon their success or failure. But the general appropriation bill and the tax levy were essential to the carrying on of the business of tbe commonwealtn. To fail to pass them was con fessing the lallure of the legislature. Yet what did the Senate do ? The general appropriation bill was prepared by tbe 'House and sent to the Senate early in the week. It was not acted on until yesterday afternoon, when it was sent back to the House. Tbe House upon its reception, refused to concur in the Senate to force an Increase, can not be excused on any ground. Under such circumstances, it becomes tke Senate to accept the House estimates, under protest, and if the democratic state government can not carry on the business of the state with the levy and appropriations which the party has made, and is ioiccdto make ex-

travagant loans, let the party bear the odium of its folly. Tbe attempt of the Senate to force a high tax levy upon a democratic state government, with the design of bringing til pgr ace upon the party in power is a mean partisan trick, too con-

Jtemptlble for "any serious discussion. The iaci mat mere areaeots con tract ea ny republican state officers waiting to absorb the surplus revenue which it is hoped that a demacratic House can be 'compelled to provide for, renders the whole thing worthy of a set of demagogues but unworthy of legislators. Let it be distinctly understood that the public recognizes the game which has been played for sixty days between tbe House aud Senate.in which one body has attempted to throw the responsibility for unpopular legislation upon the other. Let it be understood likewise that the public don't want the same contest to continue during the special session If the present legislature can not agrso upon temperance measures, or a proper fee and salary bill, lot those and kindred questions be postponed until a new legislature can deal with them. The present legislators have bad a fair chance for settling those great questions, and have made a miserable failure, and tbey should now devote themselves to tho work which they must do, and which they can agree cpon. During the performance of that laborjlet them remember the 6weets of their distant homes and speed the plough. It is to be regretted that the governor, in calling the special session, did not possesss the power to specify the f-ubjects which it was designed to have it deal with. In the constitutional convention he advocated granting to the executive the power to make such a specific statement of the purposes for which he at any time convened the general assembly, and it would seem that his political foresight was by no means at fault. However, the limitations which the constitution forbid him to make in his proclamation are set very clearly In the minds of the people, and our law makers may rest assured that they are not to go back to the first.of January and take a fresh start. GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION. - SPECIAL SESSION CALLED. A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR CONVENING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SPECIAL SESSION, GIVEN MARCH 8, 1S75. The State of Indiana, Executive Department. Indianapolis, March 8, 1S75. Because of a disagreement between the Senate and House of Representatives at tho present session of the ceneral assemby, a failure to pass laws indispensable to the administration of the state government, ineluding the revenue and general appropriation bills, hs occurred, and, because thereof, tbe public welfaro requires a special session of the general assembly, Therefore, 1, Thomas A- Hendricks, governor of the state of Indiana, do hereby issue this, my proclamation, and call upon the general assembly of the state of Indiana to convene in spocial session oa Tuesday, March 9, A. D. 1875, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of the state, at the city of Indianapolis. Thomas A. Hendrickp, seal. Governor of Indiana. By the governor: Jno. E. Neff, Secretary of State. Tbe Special Session. The Sentinel baa already given a detailed statement of the closing scenes of the regular session of the legislature, setting forth sharply the action of each branch of the geoj eral assembly and charging home upon the Senate the chief responsibility for the failure of the winter's work. Monday morning a new topic for discussion was presented in the prcclamation'of Governor Hendricks, convening an extra session of the legislature at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. Thi3 action was rendered necessary by the adjournment of the regular session without passing indispensable measures, such as the revenue and general appropriation bills. As a special session was unavoidable, there can be but one opinion in regard to the advisibiiity of calling it a; once, before the members of the legislature have time'to disperse to their hemes. The regular session has left all the important measures just on the eve of completion, and there is nothing icr tbe special session to do but organize speedily under the old officers and with the old committees, and take up tbe unfinished business at the point where it was left at midnight on Saturday. In this way the legislature will have an opportunity to redeem itself by three or four days of activity from the reproach ol utter failure. Governor Hendricks doubtless contemplates a short, sharp and decisive extra session, closing with the week; and if he does not, the people of Indiana certainly do, and they will not be apt to have patience with anything else. Let no senator or representative imagine that he is entering i-pon the-legislative term of forty days allowed by law. If the Senate had continued in session Saturday night and simply stopped the clock as has hitherto been the custom, another hour's work would have prevented tbe call jg of the special session. Aware of that 'fact the people will look on in no very gentle spirit, if the business that required but one evening's honest labor be spun out for another month. Monday, which is formally considered tho last day of the regular eossIod, tbe governor might tske occasion to send to the legislature some tolerably broad hints upon the misconduct of the post two months, and a few suggestions as to the work of the coming week. Should ho do so, be would certainly speak aa the representative of tho united public sentiment of the state. One thing seems very clear in regard to the special session, to-wit: that the republican majority of the Senate can not decently continue to maintain the position which It ha3 assumed la

regard to the tax levy and the appropriation bills. The republican senators are, in one sense, perfectly justified in taking party stand on such issues as tbe temperance law and refusing to budge an inch to meet any compromise offered by the majority of the House. The result in such cases is simply a dead-lock, and both parties can assume the responsibility of going to their constituents for endorsement Of their obstinate fidelity to principle. There are always plenty of people who do not think half a loaf better than no bread. But in regard to the appropriations and the tax levy the case is entirely different. Those measures originate with the House and are designed for the support of a democratic state government. It they were unusually large the republican majority of the Senate might be jastified iu withstanding them, but when the only fault which the ruling party ia the Senate can find with them is, that ihey are too small, the defeat of all legislation, In order for municipal corporations, this bill makes no provision for tho usual qualifications 'of the officers. They are not required to give bond or to take an oath for their good conduct in oCke, and no appeal is allowed to any party ag- ' grieved. Upon the appointmont of tho ofiicers.they become clothed with the author- ' Ity of city officers, but they are not city offlcers; they are likely to exercise their powers in the county. If they belona: to the 'class of township officers, then the bill ' should require them t o reside in the town'ahip of their jurisdiction, aa required in section 6, article 6, of the constitution." The truth is that, while the design of the bill was clearly to further the organization of a camp-meeting system complete in all Its details, with each camp containing authority within itself fo r protection against reckless intruders who' are apt to visit such places out of idle curiosity or malice, the law was so formed as to grant too much power. In pursuing the design of securing the peace and order of the meetings the framers of the bill lost sight of tbe rights of society, as a whole. On a careful consideration of the matter they will doubtless be ready to acknowledge that fact, and accept the action of Gov. Hendricks. i J a The Policy of Eaeh Party. The members of both political parties held caucuasca yesterday to consider the policy to be adopted during the special session. The action of each caucus showed plainly where the responsibility for the breakdown in legislation lay, if there could havo been any previous doubt upon the subject. The democrats came to the conclusion that tho special session was designed eimply to enable the legislature to complete the important work which it tad kit undone, and not to afford an epportunit' to put in forty more days of tedious debate at the rate oi eight dollars per day, to the utter wetrincES aud disgust of the whole state. They therefore determined to confine action entlrelv to the six greet measures, from the consideration of which the Senate ran away on Saturday niht, namely, tbe two appropriation bills, the revenue Mil, the temperance bill, the leo and salary bill, and the per diem bill. A committee of conference whs appointed to wait upon the republican caucus and notify that body ol the policy adopted. In a short time that committee returned with the following resolution, rhieli had been adopted by the republicans in answer to the overtures for a

compromise: Resolved. That we are not convinced of the propriety of b ndlng ourselves In advance, to any particular legislation, butwUlal all times hold ourselves In readiness to legislate for the best interests of the state. It is very fortunate that both parties are thus put upon the record. It is now more clear than ever that the majority in the Senate blocked legislation purposely, in or der to lorcothe calling of a special session. It is also plain that the members of that majority do not intend to make any haste in the performance of the public work. They havo no idea of taking up necessary business, tfans actiDg itnd going home as speedily as possible. Their plan is to consume the forty days allotted to tho session in the discussion of every variety of questions, leaving the es sential measures to fall still-born at the last moment, as they did in tho regular session. Their zeal for delay and the ere ation of public expense is hO great that they have actually adopted a scheme for trying to waste the first week of the sea eion in perfecting a new organization. It is then their design to effect an adjournment for eight or ten days to get an opportunity to prepare - new bills with which to return and swamp' the democratic mai'oritv 'of the House. This is a curious game to play what can they win at it? In the first place they will each one of them win eight dollars a day of the people's money for a period of forty days, so. that every legislator has a personal interest ol of ?320 in the matter. In the next place the republicans hope, and the foolish course of their organ in this city helps to mislead them on the subject, that every failure to legislate will charged upon the democracy, and that the increasod expenses of the state government made necessary by this special session, will add to the tax levy which the democracy will have to impose and cause the ruin of that party's popularity. Thus they will be, as it were, feeding upon spoil which their enemies will havo to provide by tax. In one word tho republicans are confessedly trying to turn tbe antagonism between the House and Senate into partisan advantage. Thus far tbey have made a miserable failure in the attempt, and the caucus resolution , quoted above 6tarnps their course Irrevocably with dishonor. They now appeal to the state, acknowledging their purpose to create public expenso and continue public discord. In doing so they make a serious blunder, and it becomes the ; duty ol the democracy, and the House, which that party controls, to keep tJjeir opponents in the false position in which tbey have placed themselvey. Let the organizrtion for the special session be completed instantly, aud let the onridera-

tlon of all business, save those important measures left unfinished bv the regular session, be tLrust rcf olutcly aside. If the republican majority in the Senate then insist on adjournment, on the Introduction of .new matters and on interminable dalajs and dis-cus-slons.ther esponslbility will be clearly defined before the people and tho result will be that there will be no republican mAjorliy to hamper the next legislature. Thus i&r. In tbe contemptible political game which the opposition has played, it has lo&t everv move. See to it thai every day during which itmake3 its desperate effort to retrieve its fortunes at the expense of tbe people, it is pushed nearer to defeat.

The action of the governor in vetoing' the act providing for the organization or camp meeting associations, and the management and government thereof, is creating considerable discussion. The Sanato passed the measure over the veto, while the House sustained the governor's course. Belcre any partisan or' religious feeling ia er.kindled on thiasutjaci is will be well for all tbougbtful people to consider the character of the bill and the grounds of the governor's opposition to it. With the view of affording an opportunity for getting at this Knowledge the Sentinel publishes this morning tbe fall text of tho veto message. It is a brief, but clear and cogent document, and after a few minutes devoted to the perusal ol It, th6re can be but one opinion as to the justness of the governor's action. The preliminary observations of the message, touching the lolly ot allowing corporations to acqaire land in unlimited quantities in perpetuity, as permitted by the bill, are lounded on the long struggle of the English ecclesiastical corporations against the common law. That struggle gave shape and meaning to parliamentary enactments and judicial decisions for ages, and while lew people in this country, at the present day, contemplate religious corporations with the jealousy with which our ancestors regarded them, yet the political events of the last two or three years, more especially the railroad war, have taught us all a lesson in regard to the dangerous faculties which corporations have for acquiring property and power. Thoy never squander their gains. Their heritage ia never divided among heirs. They keep on growing from age to age while others rise and fall to decay. The "dead hand" holds a firm grip. Whether this defect in the good policy of the bill would have earned or warranted the governor's official condemnation may be doubted; but the erious defects in the structure of the law and the strange and unusual nature of the powers conferred rendered hesitation impossible. The clause which it contained in regard to tho construction of wills, the grant to each association ' formed under the law of the right to amend its articles cf association from time to time, the declaration of emergency and like faults, need only be mentioned to be cersured; but the chief blot in the whole measure, is the provision of section five, that "such corporation may elect such officers or agents as may be necessary to carry Into operation the objects of its organization It may prescribe and adopt rules and regulations for the direction cf its officers and members, and shall have all the powers and authority given to incorporated cities ' In regulating, maintaining and preserving ' order on their camp grounds by the selection oi omcers lor that pur 1 A ! - m m . a pose, who shall be clothed with all the authority of like officers In incorporated ' cities, and tbe appointment of such officers 'by said corporation shall be their sufficient ' authority to act in the capacity designated, and be a srfficient protection to such offi cers acting in such capacity." The argu ment of the governor on this pro vision is conclusive. Here are pow ers executive, municipal and judiciary conferred upon indefinite parties. Each camp gronnd is made a city with ita sanitary and peace regulations, and its police and magistrates toenforce them. Toquotethe words ol tbe message ; "Within the limits 1 of the camp ground, . tho bill pro vides for a government in respect to 'conduct like that of an incorporated city, with authority over all persons coining within that jurisdiction, with local laws to be declared by the directors and enforced ' by judicial and ministerial officers, by 'them to be appointed. Unlike other acts amendments, and that action was reported in the Senate, and in the evening session a conference committee was asked for and met at ten o'clock. That committee took Into consideration tbe general appropriation bill and the tax levy, upon which the great party contest had been carried on and an agreement was effected; but when senators from tbe conference committee reported the compromise measure to the Senate, and Harney, of Montgomery, moved its acceptance, Lieutenant-Governor Sexton pronounced the Senate adjourned, and refused to consider any further business. The technical excuse lor this action was that the hour of midnight had arrived a pretense that has never been made use oi at any previous session. The whole desi&n of the Senate in defeating these two important measures was to force the House to make a tax levy of from fifteen to tweniy cents on the 100, in order to cause a violation of the party pledges of the democracy, and rather than lose an opportunity to raako a political point the republicans were willing to destroy the work of the whole session. The plan was also to refuse to tbe present state officers a right to make tem porary loans, and thus force the pajmeut of republican debts by the democratic ad ministration. A visit to both houses late in the evening showed tbe purpose whioh actuated each body. The House was orderly and quist, each member In his seat axd the whole assemblage attending to it3 duties. The Senate, on the contrary, was noisy and disorderly. There was no at tempt at the performance of business. Members were walking about the floor talking, the presiding officer was making no ef-,

fort to preserve good order, and tho whole, eppearance of tho body was that o .men vcho were merely filllbusterii t- kill timet It will lbr.s l t,An that tbe important measures of ther e.sion died ia the fi te. On Ih.U body the chief responsibility .r ;telr dea'.hfehould rest.

MONDAY. Henate, -Reports and the reading of bi U the second time eihausted tke jorenoon s-s ion. Ex -Gov. Will Cumback vitct tbe Sena e.and a recess waa taken lor personal greetings. Mor bills were rend la the afternoon, and the followprovld for tbe organization f biiuUiug and loan associations ; to let tbe Mate printlr to the lowest bidder ubder the direct Joa of l he tovfJA' rt'Ury ,of state and stale arMl'or, and natHg; to relieve the aureties or John Multz, ruKiee of Clear Creek township, fiedford countyto tne State Luiversuy at B:oomtir-i tr amena tbe city charter or EvÄ iüd tosrn Ceri actsftke trustees of Knights The Uoc;E-lDvo!ed the greater prt of tbe session to tbe consideration of the fee und salaries of sute and county o2icerK,finally ad opting tbe House bill upon that saoject, and nikJn ltt V- e, bi.11 tile social order lor :'i o NcdQesdar. In the event of the Senate fatlin? to pas thtir bill A bill was paM?d wnich empower rarfiittaod Ruanllacato eitct those wbo shall msfrt'ct t he hiidrtn in their charKe and ab-odevriauie the brarches that f hall be taught. A Mil to rctect TCESDAY. Senate Petitions and reports vrcre shoved, along bristly The message of the governor with his objections to Senate bill proiding for the incorporation of camp-meetinj; fMoclations, was considered atd ably argued but h la opposition and defense by Senators iarne, Harney and üivan. The bill was pa&ed over the Z??rJl7- V'lt house bill was indefl?iieJyn'stponed.'2;:,o22 th(s President votinc aje, Ihe committee to investigate the uüalrs and management or the northern prison made - J?J?g, Jnrl ndiraun the icaLament against all charges. Eills were passed cha.:ginK the dates or settlements of county treasurer! with auditors, and aUo tbe date of iraturity of the eecoud Installment of t.ises; legalizirjg certain acts ol the trustees of -Jain-bridge: adjusting certain tax claims inip-operlr crened by the equalization board of J W; authorizing . the auditor of state to convf-v. by Sood title, certain property la Madison coüuty ; to Incorporate granges; to change tbe lav In rei gaid to the statute of limitations In ca e of a temporary non-residence; lu reard to damages by stock running at large: providing tor sir grand Jurors in lieu of 12 as now required providing lor the maturity of the wife's Inchoate interest when real estate of the husband is fold under execution ; to extend the time of holdin courts In the luth lulicial district; to le 'aiize the acts of plank load cninpauies, of local Interest only to Vigo county ; piving t-id-lords a lltn on crops for rent to the valr.e of the rental of farms: requiring railroad crmpHuie to redeem their -oup;ns when not used, a d to print the conditions on tickeU iu brevier tvpe; in regard to the provibion for the Hipixirl of lilegiiimate children of minor vomen : to assess the taxes ol citie3 on the apprai ement of the county list as a basis oftaxaüon; providing for the redemption within thirty days of personal property sold for taxes. The ilocaE Passed tue revenue bill after having corrected a clerical error. The House appropriation bill was considered in comiUttce of the whole and passed afteramendmtnts were nude; .n lnvestiguon into the cha'gs of cruelty preferred ugainst the management of the RSVlllin f.irltln Iniuni.- a I. ill . savings banks in times of nauio m.,.!? a bill regulating administrators, rtquhing them, to file annual reports, and receive hm ir cent, for services ita.! u u,i u i.ni ' vidiug for the appointment of short-uul reporters In certain cases. AVEDSESDAY. The Senate Passed bills, providing tnat process of law can ba served udoo steamboat officers for company; for the enforced sale of property to pay debts; to ruaks the abrac: on or concealment of a bill a felony; to raci.'itale the settlement of estates; the ITouv bill on fees and salaries was tabled; the vote on the bill to extend tho time for making railroad taxts available was reconsidered, the bill amended to suit senators, grangers, railroaders, middlemen and hi, and passed; a bill regulating county mptiiatendeulsof tchools passed; a bill to give married women exclusive control of their own earnings failed ; a bill making it a misdemeanor to draw a deadly weapon passed. The HocsE-Disallowed the Ccburn claim anl again acted adversely upon Shannon's claim for office rent. The committee appointed to Investigate charges of creulty preferred against the superintendent of the Asylum for the Blind, reported that the charges were not sustained by the evidence. The attorney general was authoriezd toinstitulelegnl rrooJdmgs to compel the Ü A M. railroad to comply with, the conditions of lu charter. Tbe t.ttoruey general vas also authorlz d ,to rine suit to reaver money paid extra employes. 1 lie Senate fee and sa ary b.ll was taken up as special order, that body having rejected the House bill as invited to do by the adopt ion of a resolution offered by Mr. Williams on the dy of the passage of the House bill. The bill w as read and Mr.'Burson offered to amend bv stiikir.g out all after ihe enacting clause and inserting the House bill A motion to table was lost. Tbe amendment was adopted amidst applause, nud the bill was passed soon aft rwards. A bill was passed which requires county commissioners to examine the accounts of auditors and treasurers at each term. A bill limiUng the power of township trustees was also passtd. A bill to diM-our-age seduction passed.. THURSDAY. Sexate The special committee on public buildings recommended an appropriation of So.OOO to repair the new building at tho Mate university, and the early abandonment of the southern prlton buildings for new onen at snm other locality. A resolution of Mr. Baxter for three prison commissioners to Investigate and The claims committee recommend the state to pay uer 0111 ror street improvements in Indianapolis, over 14.0U0. Uoue bill 3ti, amended so as to build two hospitals lor tte insane, one north and one south, was passed, 3:4 to 16 A bill authorizing a board of aldermen for Indianapolis to serve without pay, was passed. Engrossed. Honse bill 4VL amended by the substitution Of t tit ni lirlng Henate bill, was lurther amended and passed. (Senate bills 274 and lb", and House bills kl, 14. Hi. -Jid, and W were passed. The HorsE Passed a bill providing that Drosecuting witnesses shall be held liable for costs in" casea of .mal icicus practices before Justices of tbe peace, in the case of lailaro to make th charges stick. A committee was appointed to investigate certain cbargts against the munazeimuiui iijo rwfj luiii iuf luu IJM I anu Hull) o. A diu provicing ior tne removal ot county otuc-'rs for incompetence or con n m inn imit Ablll vesting police poweis in riiu-o;d conductors when on their trins tuxssel. A bill rrvliiinor iHu . i of the attorney general was passed, a bill holdins uMuers iiaoie ior damage aoie by stock: when running at large was lo,t, j to 41. a bill to inrteasp ihn liirisdirtion r.r (iictlixm . r , w f - - - - - ' J t r. V A I HKJ peace; passed at last. A bill to reduce lb nunioer and Hillary of prison directors was passed, a similar one having been sent to the Stouueand tueiesiiuieu iroiu lue mts. FBI DAY. Sisate. A pile of House b!il vctrc rfd km. ond time by title and advanced on the calendar, Tae bin to abolish iron clad note, after a hot debate, was parsed 32 toli. Mr- J. H. Kar net was nominated by the governor yen eral manager ot tne Indiana Keforniaiory for women and girta. The Senate bill No. 15. on liauor license amended by the House. as taken up and furtier mucuuni ttuu tiiuiuiiKi iu as ameuuetl Uy Ine llnnsp. HfinHA Hill vurA rrnil lhl.H 11... . - - - uiuviuu passed a to lows: To remedy erroneous entries oa assessment duplicates in various towns of iue si-aie. hdu legalize assesJiienis msue; to lnrniiinralA honrn rf trnrio. In tha .rtcnr - large part of the time was taken up in considerJUg IUC rn.vc WU felMHIU lVlPHaVJlOH DlilSOt the session. The House Passed the specific appro rrla tlon bill after striking out several sections and amending others. The speaker submittal & statement of an explanatory character, having reiersnce to uis ruungs. a oil! providing for the

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