Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1887 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WELKESDAI MARCH 9 idb7

HE SIGNED THE BILL.

Tha Goiertor Proves Himself & Friend of the Soldiers of the Stits, And Does Net Allow tha Me&ament Project to to Killed by Republican Tricksters. Prtnpt Ipprovil of the Meisure After Sacarlrg Uie Signature of President Smith. A Message From the Executive, Eipliining the Action, Rejected by the House. Demccnt Hold i Ciucus and Appoint i Committee to Prepare & Memorial Proceedings of Both llranches of the Gen eral Assembly at Yesterday's Sessions Points of the Speeches. SAVED BT GOVERNOR GHAT. The Soldiers Monument Bill Becomes a Law Despite Republican Tricks to Defeat It. The bill appropriating $200,0 K) to build a soldiers' monument or memorial hall has become a law, notwithstanding the strained relations between the Senate and House; and the soldier element owes thanks to the Governor and Democracy for saving the measure from defeat. Gov. Gray, of coarse, refused to approve the bill in the illegal form in which it reached his hands. He sent it to the Senate, where the signature of Colonel Robertson was erased, after which President Smith and Secretary DLxoa appended their signatures. The Governor then attached his name to the bill, and it is now on file with other sew laws in the office of the Secretary of State. Explaining his action, Governor Gray prepared the following message, which the Republicans of the House refused to receive: Executive Department, Indianapolis, March 3, 187. j The Honorable, the Speaker of the House of .Representative : Senate Bill, No. 3, entitled "An act to provide lor the erection of a State Soldiers' and sailors' Monument or Memorial Hall combined, according to tne discretion of the trustees in this act provided for, and declaring an emergency," and signed "Warren G. Sayre, Speaker of the House of representatives," "E. 8. Robertson, Lieu-temnt-dovernor," was presented to me by the House of Representatives for my approval. The bid does not conform to the requirements of Section 25, Article 4, of the Constitution, which provides that "all bills and joint resolutions shall be signed by the presiding officers of the respective houses, ' and its presentation in that form is also a violation of the joint rules adopted by both Houses of the present General Assembly, which read as follows: "Rule 2. After a bill or joint resolution shall have passed both houses it shall be duly enrolled on paper, and the clerk of the house where it originated shall indorse upon the back thereof the house in which it originated, under which he shall place his signature. "Knie 4. Every bill or joint resolution reported to have been duly enrolled shall be signed first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall send the same to the Senate; then by the President of the Senate, after which it shall be presented by the Joint Committee of En rolle. 1 Bills to the Governor for his approbation and signature; and the said committee shall report to their respective houses the day of their presentation, whica report shall be entered upon the journals of each house. "Kule 5. All bills and joint resolutions shall bo igned by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, in their bouses reepectively, when In session, which shall be carefully noted oa the journals of each house." The bill was not indorsed or signed by the Secretary at the Senate, m which tne bill Originated ; was never sent to the St-aate, as required by the joint rules, for the figriaturo of the presiding officer thereof aad was not slzned by the presiding oflirvr of th Senate as required by the Constitution, and did not puroort to be sigreil iijr the presMla? oilicer of the Senate. ibe ('.t'titutional provision which provides that all bills and joint resolution parsed shall be tinned by the presiding ottieersof thertsective houses does Dot mean some person who is claiming to be lega'ly eutitled to preside, and who i bot presidium, hut. in my judgment, mean tb officer or person who is actually pres;Cii)zs:id discharging the duties of the position. Theie might be two members of the Rouse each claiming to have been Wally elected jpeakpr, and in that case the Executive would nndonbtf dly have to recognize the signature of therpmt.er who wa actually presiding, and whom the House recognized as its presiding Orte r. It is not the province of the Executive to decide who is entitled to preside in either House. The fcxecutive possesses no such power or authority. When me Executive is notified by each House of the (ienerai Assembly that it is duly organized, ready to receive cumnuuioations and trausact business, the Executive must recognize the organization so reported, and has no right to recognize another. Theoreanizv tion reported to me by a committee froaiencu House on the Cth day of January, 1S7, has remained unchanged up to the present time, and has been recognized by each II iuse in tae pussage through each House of eighteen bills, which were iened by the present presiding oilWrs of each House, and approved b? me, among whicn are the bills appropriating S125.60U for paying the mileage ana per diem of the members, and other expenses of the present Ueneral Assembly; for the reorganization and maintenance of the fcold iera' and bailors' Orphans' Home; for the payment of certain employes every two weeas, and authorizing certain cities to issue bo als. Ihe present organization of the Senate bis been further recoenized by the passage by tie House during each day's session during the present week of a number of Senate bills and ether meaoures. The members of each Home have, from the organization of the General Assembly, drawn their mileages and per die -n upon eertifirates signed by the present presiding officer of their respective Houses. If I bad approved the bill in the form In which it was presented to me by the House there certainly would be no question as to its Invalidity. No court could possibly hold that it was signed by the presiding officer of each House, when the entire record of the Senate shows that Alonzo G. Smith, and no one else, is the presiding oiticer of the Senate. 1 can not sanction a proceeding which would inevitably prevent the bill from becoming a law; and, believing that the soldiers and sailors of Indiana and the people generally desire the legal passage of the bill providing for the erection of a soldiers' and sailors' monument, I have caused the bill to be transmitted to the Senate, and it has been returned to me for approval, signed by the presiding officer and Secretary of the Senate. I hare approved the bill and caused the same to be deposited in the office of Secretary of State. IdAAC P. Gray, Governor. TUE DAT IN THE SENATE. 1'realdcBt Smith Signa th Baldiera Mona Dient Bill Supreme Clerk Denounced. "When the Senate had convened yesterday morning with President Smith in the chair and Colonel Robertson on the outaide, the reconsideration of Mr. Iiahm's bill for the repairs and minor Improvements on the three new insane hospitals was moved and carried. On motion by Mr. Wier, the yota was reconsidered by which the bill was ordered ngroteed. On motion by Mr. Fowler, the bill was then referred to a select committee. The chair appointed Messrs. Rafa.ni, Laiiey and 7 harp as such committee. Mr Fowler moved to reconsider the vote 1 - which the Senate passed the bill aoproj ating $3,500 for indexing and arranging i records In the Supreme Court Clerk's cih- e. Mr. Wier objected to the motion, Mylne that tie bill UcnyudcJ Ksp.ct J, UM it

was nrgeiby the Judges of the Supreme Court. President Smith That does'nt give it acy additional weight with me. if. Wier thought politic were going too far when it was proposed to repeal a good law. Tresident Smith The law was pwel in the interest of a man who has violated the law by heading a mob, and is in contempt by the Supreme Court far having certified a decision fifteen minutes after it was rendered a lying certificate too Mr. Wier If this spirit is continued it will be a long time before there is any reconciliation between the political parties. President Smith Nobody cares for reconciliation. Mr. Wier Yon may not, but the people do. I am above any such petty spite, and do not believe in legislating upon any such principle. Mr. Fowler I will never appropriate one dollar, so help me God, for a man who headed a mob against this chamber, even though there were absolute necessity for thebill. Mr. Wier I was not aware that Mr. Noble was Li the head of the crowd; and even if he was it was a time of excitement, and

the excitement is not to be wondered at. Mr. Barrett was opposed to the bill and in favor of reconsideration, outside of its political phase. Air. en said he had never experienced any personal inconvenience by reason of the preeentVondition of the records. An appropriation of $2,500 had already been made for removing the papers and furniture of the State offices from their present quarters to the Capitol, and Mr. Barrett considered this sufficient to include all work which the bill intended the clerk should do. The indexing bad already been done for the most part by Mr. Tnompson in his "citations." Mr. Day The bill provides that any part of the $3,500 left over shall be returned to the Treasury. Mr. Barrett Yes, but did you ever hear of any such residues? Mr. Day Several of them. Mr. Barrett Then it was uuder Democratic officers. Mr. McDonald recited with considerable vehemence the details of last Thursday's riot and charged Mr. Noble with treason. He said: "Some scurvy pimp has said that I tried to eject Senators from this floor. It is as false as hell." Mr. Tharp said that if he voted for the bill on its passage he did not know what he was doing. He thought that all State fees ought to be scaled 50 per cent. The Clerk now gets $10,000 annually. Mr. Tharp would have opposed the bill even if juat, because it was intended to benefit a man who was guilty of high-handed and treasonable outrage and deserved impeachment. President Smith, in explaining his affirmative vote, said: VI vote to reconsider the vote and against this bill for the reason that the clerk is already handsomely paid and for the further reason that he is a violator of the law, in having headed a mob of foot-pads to break into this chamber and If necessary, to kill and murder Senators." The motion carried yeas, 23 ; nays, 5 ; present and not voting, 5. Mr. Sears' bill concerning the mining of coal was called np, but as Mr. Sears was absent and bad the bill in his possession, it was made the special order for 2 o'clock. Mr. Smith (of Wells) introduced a resolution that the Senate visit Mrs. T. A. Hendricks, and that the Chair appoint a select committee to inform her of the intension. The committee was Messrs. Smith, Day, Trippett, Tharp, Bailey and Thompson (of Marion). On motion by Mr. Day, Mr. Sinclair's House bill, to legalize the incorporation of Salem, was read the third time and was passed. Mr. Thompson called up Mr. Parker's House bill, to legalize the incorporation of Windfall, Tipton County. It was read the third time and passed. On motion by Mr. McDonald, the House coneni rent resolution, requesting the S'-ate-house Commissioners to fit np a room in the Capitol for the Adjutant-General, G. A. It., was adopted. Ob motion by Mr. Fowler, his bill requiring foreign insurance companies to pay judgments, was reconsidered and referred to a committee of one (ML Fowler), with instructions to so amend aa to include both life and first insurance companies. The committee's report was concurred in. Mr. Zimmerman introduced a resolution setting forth the demand for legislation prohibitory of convict labor, and providing for the appointment of a committee of three hold-over Senators, who shall investigate the matter and report two years hence a bill looking to the abolition of convict labor. Tne resolution was not adopted. The Pres;dent at this point announced that the Governor had sent to him, as the President of the Senate, the soldiers' monument bill, on which appeared the signature "of a certain R. S. Robertson." Handing the bill to the Secretary, the President said : "You will take thebill and blot out the person's signature effectually with red ink, and I will then sign it properly." After President Smith had signed the bill, Mr. Rahm suggested that a doorkeeper be sent to the Governor's room to throw out persons bearing bills not properly signed. The President replied: 'The Governor will tae care of himself, and don't you forget it." Mr. Tlnhm, for the Select Committee to which was referred his bill concerning the new Insane Hospital appropriation, reported in favor of striking out of thebill the appropriations which were already covered by the general appropriation. The bill wis ordered engrossed. Mr. Andrew called up Mr. Bailey's bill prohit iting manufacturers from eru ploying childr :n under fourteen jears of age. It was passed. A fcuccession of resolutions were introduced providing extra pay for the clerical force of the Senate; and were laid upon the table, on motion by Mr. Trirjett The Committee on Executive Appaintments recommended the confirmation of the Governor's appointment of M-ssrs. Jordan and Barrett as Directors of the House of Ilefuge concurred In. Mr. McClure called up Mr. Link's House bill concerning the incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies. It was read the third time. Mr. Peterson called up Mr. Gordon's House bill for the repair of free turnpike roads. It was prjsed. At the afternoon session a call of the Senate disccovered twenty-eight Senators present and answering to their names, when further proceedings under the call were dispensed with. Mr. Fowler, from the Joint Committee on Enrolled bills, reported that he attempted to communicate with the j lint committee on the part of the Ho ose to convey information that be had delivered to the Governor the Soldiers' Monument bill signed by the President of the Senate, but was denied admission to the hall of the House for that purpose. Upon hia motion this report waa ordered spread upon the journal. A message from the Governor was received announcing his appointment of Mrs. Eliza C. Hendricks and Mrs. Mary A. Walker members of the Board of Managers of the Female reformatory, to serve for four years from this day March 3, 187 -and until their successors are qualified. On motion by Mr. Wier their appointments were confirmed by the Senate. A further message from the Governor announced his approval of the Soldiers' Monument bill, and that it was deposited with the Secretary cf State. The chair directed this communication to be spread in the journal Senator McClure's bill, which was pending at the time of taking the recess for dinner, was again read and referred to the Committee on Corporations. Mr. Tharp called np the special order for th tour, being Mr. Sears' bill concerning the Bislng jl coftMfc? sii&g 1 9 b6 P&id

for before screening after explanation by Senator Tharp passed the Senate by yeas, 20; nays, 3. Present and not voting. 11. Mr. Cox called up his bill concerning County Superintendents of Schools, amended it so that the superintendent shall visit schools only on written requests of the Township Trustee in which the school is located, and, it having failed to pass the other day. another vote was taken with a like result jess, 19; nays, 10. Present and not voting, 13 Onmotion bv Mr. Day his bill to amend section 3.C40 or the Revised Statutes of 1881 concerning tolls on gravel and other roads, establishing a rate for ateam threshing and machines propelled by steam was read the third time. On motion by Mr. Barrett it was referred to a select committee of one, amended, the report concurred in and the bill, for want of a constitutional majority, failed by yeas, 20; nays, C; present and not voting, 14. Mr. Fowler then called np his bill to compel foreign insurance companies to pay judgments rendered against them in this State, wag read the third time. Oa motion by Mr. Wier the word foreign was stricken out, and the bill as amended was passed by yeas, 30; nays, 0: present and not voting, 14. Mr. French offered a resolution directing the printin in the Senate journal all bills passed by the Senate and refused to be re

ceived by the House of Representatives. It was adopted. Mr. Griffith called np a House bill concerning the powers and duties of common councils of cities and towns, which was read by title for the second reading with a favorable . report, which waa concurred in, and the bill ordered engrossed. Mr. Hale called up Senator Winter's bill to regulate foreign insurance companies in this State, which was read the third time and failed for want of a constitutional majority yeas, 18; nays, 9; present and not voting, 14. Mr. Howard, of St. Joseph, called up his bill to authorize the issue of graduated drainage bonds for the payment of asseesments for constructing drains, which was read the third time and amended on motion by Mr. Barrett, by inserting, the word "Superior" before the word "Court" and after the word "Circuit" in two places. The bill passed by yeas, 27; nays, 1; present and not voting, 11. Mr. Howard, of Decatur, offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the Senate congratulate the soldiers and sailors of Indiana upon the rescue of the Memorial Hall bill from the deliberate attempt of the Speaker of the House and of II bert S Robertson to destroy the same by reason of unwarrantable attestation. Mr. Howard, of Decatur, called up his bill to provide for costs in divorce cases, which was read the second time, with a favorable majority and a minority report for indefinite postponement, Mr. Wier made an ineffectual motion to substitute the minority for the majority report. The majority report was concurred in. Mr. French, from the special committee appointed to wait upon Mrs. Hendricks to inform her of the contemplated visit of the Senate at 5 o'clock, reported the performance of that pleasant duty, and that the distinguished lady would be ready to receive the Senate at that time. On motion by Mr. Thompson, the House Telephone bill was made a special order for to-morrow at 10 o'clock. The Senate then adjourned. PKOEEDINGS OF TUE HO USE. Farther Refusals of the Revolutionists to ftiecogul. the Senate. At the opening of the House yesterday Mr. Thompson moved that the consideration of Senate bills be made the regular order for the morning. Carried. Mr. Campbell's bill concerning claims apainst the State; Mr. Johnson's bill to amend an act concerning street railways, and Mr. Dresser's bill concerning gravel roads, were read the first time and laid on the table for their second reading. Mr. Zimmerman's bill amending the act naming public offenses was passed on a suspension of the constitutional rule by J es, ö!; nays, 2'J. The bill is to prevent the prosecution of people by non-reiidents for hunting in the Kankakee marshes. Mr. Jewett favored the bill, uriring that it is well to encourage the holding -.f small tracts of land by Indianians ra ir.r than the holding of large tracts by non-residents. Mr. Winter's bill concerning the condemnation of rights of way; a bill to index the records of the Supreme Court, and Mr. Bailey's bill concerning the appointment of a boiler inspector, were read the second time and laid on the table for the third reading. Mr. Kennedy's bill to set apart a space in the State-house for a statue of the late General P. A. Hacklernan, waa read the third time and passed unanimously. Mr. Harrell said, in support of the bill, that he had known General Hacklernan and knew him to be a brave and true man. He moved that the bill be transmitted forthwith to the Senate, but he was promptly mied out of order. Mr. Dresser's bill to inclose Tippecanoe battle ground was read the second time and. on a suspension of the rules, passed by ayes, 74 ; nays, 10. Mr. "White, one of the Select Committee to whom was referred the bill, urged the importance of the improvements. Mr. Patten thought the people of Tippecanoe County should take care of the grounds themselves, and Insisted that it was not a matter of State legislation.' Mr. Bryant's Senate bill, providing for the exemption of building and loan associations from taxation except in the amount of money actually In the hands of the Treasurer on the 1st of April, was taken up. The bill provoked a warm discussion. Numerous memorials from labor organizations were presented by Mr. Schley, all of which asked the passage of the bill. Speaker Sayre called Mr. StubbleSeld to the chair and spoke favorably of the bill. His point was that the bill would prevent douole taxation. Mr. Patten opposed the bill and took occasion to denounce building and loan associations. They afford the most expensive method of building a house, he thought. The bill was passed after a motion for the previous question. Mr. Gordon protested strenuously against the previous question being moved, but was persistently ignored by the Speaker. The bill, passed and, after a message had been received from the Governor and laid on the table for its reading, the House took a recess. When the House convened at 3 o'clock the consideration of Senate bills was resumed. Mr. Fowler's Senate concurrent resolution to pay Lizzie O. Callia was read and adopted. Mr. Johnson's Senate bill, providing th it executions shall be made in the State Prisons, was taken upland, after an explanation by lit. Reynolds, was passed by a vote of ayes, 77 ; noes, 3. Mr. Osborne introduced a resolution, to pay the witness brought before the Investigating Committee, which was adopted after favorable remarks by Mr. Gordon. Mr. Buckles called up his bill providing that theaters be taxed $100 each annually, and that the revenue so obtained be given to county agricultural societies. Mr. Griffiths opposed the bill, denouncing it as an abominable piece of class legislation. There was no more reason, he said, why theaters should be taxed for agricultural societies than that agricultural societies should be taxed for the theaters. Mr. Shambaugh said that in most Instances theaters were operated by publicspirited citizens who did not expect and rarely got any profits. Mr. Jewett also opposed the bill in a witty speech, in which be characterized the average theater performance in Indiana as bad, and hoped that no legislation would be tolerated which tended to make it worse. f

lar bill, but he could not save it from failore to pass. Mr. Roberts' bill prescribing penal-ie for bribery at primaries waa passed wuh little opposition. Mr. Major's bill, legalizing certain acts of notories public, and Mr. Gordon's bill concerning estates and guardianship were passed nnanimously. Mr. Gordon introduced a resolution. Which the clerk began reading. He was interrupted by the Speaker as soon as it waa evident that the resolution referred to admitting the Secretary of the Senat. Mr. Gordon asked an appeal from the decision of the Chair. Speaker Sayre replied: "In view of a resolution passed by the House, the gentleman is out of order in introducing iuch a resolution and in stopping the clerk. The Chair is only maintaining order." No appeal was possible and the request wss denied. The resolution, after setting forth tbe refusal of tbe Door-keeper to admit the Secretary ot tbe Senate, cor eludes thus: "Resolved. That tha Door-keeper be and he is hereby instructed and directed to at all times admit the secretary of the Senate and nls subordinates, and all other persons beariue mesMiges and communications from tbe Senate to the floor of the House when the time 1 ia session, when such Secretaries present themselves for the purpose of making such communications." The Houfe adjourned after the Speaker's ruling on Mr. Gordon's resolution. SPEAKER StYKE'S CAUSE

Denounced by Members of His Own Party Democratic Cancns. The revolutionists of the House received a decided set back yesterday in the failure of their attempt to defeat the Soldiers' Monument bill and throw the blame therefor upon the Democracy, and at Republican headquarters last night an exhibition of disgust was given. There was great dissatisfaction witn Speaker Sayre on the part of the Republican members on account of his threat to sign no more Senate bills. "This thing has gone far enough," said a Representative from an Eastern county, "and we had better improve tne next few days in setting ourselves right. We can't atiord to place partisan and. person interests above the real interests of tbe State, and the people will not sustain our course in obstructing necessary legislation simply because Colonel Robertson is presiding over the Senate. This foolish policy will prejudice the intelligent masses against a just cause. Damn the policy, anyway. We ought to kept right on with our work in good faith." Some of the Republican members of the Senate were discussing tbe situation at the Denison, and they declared that tbe House's refusal to recognize the Senate had proved a most unfortunate blunder. They were very mad, and criticised Speaker Say re's course in the most sever terms. They held him responsible for the compromise that was made pending the Senatorial Btrvrggle, and freely expressed the opinion that bis ultra partisanship aad Bot-hcadedness had caused the party considerable trouble. The Democrats held a caucus last night and appointed the following joint com mittee to prepare tbe memorial to Congress on Senator Turpie's election: On the part of the Senate Fowler, Barrett, Urmston and Trippett. On the psrt of the House Jewett, Gordon, Kellison and Shambaugh. It is understood that Governor Gray, Senator Turpie and Hon. Jason B. Brown will be called upon to assist the committee. The Senate Visits Mrs. Hendricks. The special Senate committee appointed yesterday afternoon to consult with Mrs. Governor Hendricks as to her convenience in receiving a call from the Senators reported a very cordial invitation from the distinguished lady to call at 5 o'clock. In response the Democratic Senators and Senator Thompson, of Jasper, went at that hour to her residence and were most hospitably received by Mrs. Hendricks. A delightful half hour was spent, and the love felt by all of tbe Senators for the lamented Governor was strengthened by his widow's cordiality. WAS ROBERTSON ELECTED? Something; for Judge Roberts to Think About From 111 Home Paper. Lawrenceburg Register. In our opinion it matters not what the people did at the polls if their acta were illegal. The fact that an election was held and the people voted for a certain party for a certain office, which office could not be legally filled by an election, at that time, does not debar a Representative in his legislative capacity from exercising his right to declare through the forms of law that no lepal election of Lieutenant Governor was had. We may at one time believe an act is legal, when on a fuller investigation of the matter we may become convinced that our opinion was erroneous. Now, when we are convinced that we were wrong in the first place, must we persist in the wrong becau&e we may appear inconsistent in the revision of our actions? Not at all. The members of the Legislature are sworn to discharge the duties of their office in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution of the State they represent If they believe that Robertson was not legally ell ec ted Lieutenant Governor, for the reason that a Lieuterant Goverdor coull not be legilly elected at the last election, it is their duty to see that he does not usurp rights that do not belong to him. The fact that any one participated in an election, when there was no question submitted to the people as to the legality of that election, does not debar him from exercising his judgment when he is better informed as to the legality of his acta. The fact, therefore, that the Democrats took part in the election and placed a candidate in the field for Lieutenant-Governor, does not prevent them from declarisg that there was no election for Lieuten-ant-Governer, when they are convinced that the election was void. The Democrats in the Legislature who take this position will be endorsed by the Democracy of the State. Judge Roberta, therefore, does not reflect the opinion of the party in this County on this question, while the speech of Representative Jewett will be endorsed by tbe Democracy generally all over the State. We have heard no lawyer who claims that Robertson's election was in accordance with the Constitution. The fact that a man got a majority of the votes cast at an election does not legally elect him to an office if there is no office to be elected to. Can an Irishman Become a Cabinet Officer INew York Sun.l A curious mare's nest has been discovered by the Republic, the new Irish weekly of Boston. The notion is that no foreignborn citizen can be a member of the Cabinet, therefore that brilliant young Democrat, Gen. P. A. Collins, must be excluded. As everybody knows, tbe Constitution provides that the President must be a native-born citizen, and Congress has lately fased a law through which, when the 'resident and -Vice-President are both defunct, the members of the Cabinet in a certain order succeed to the vacancy one after another. The Republic reasons that this statute is equivalent to a legislative requirement that each Cabinet officer must be a native-born citizen. Hence Collins can't be let in. This is Ingenious, but delusive. General Collins or any other foreign-born citizen can be Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary1 of War, or fill any other place in the Cabinet just as legally as a native. The law on the Presidential succession can not deprive tbe foreign-born citizen of a right conferred upon him by the Constitution. Only in tbe event of the Presidency's coming to the Cabinet, a foreign-born Cabinet officer would be passed over as unqualified for that office, and tha succession would go to his next colleague possessing the necessary EfttiTltj,

AN EXPERT'S REPORT

Oa the Sjsttm o! Book keeping in Yogua &. the luBiue Hospital He Firds That the Accounts II ve Reen Correctly Kept and All Money Placed Where It Belonged. Mr. William A. Foley, for a hüniber of years Deputy Treasurer of State, and who was called npon to make an examination of tbe records, papers and vouchers of the Indiana Hospital, submitted his report to tbe ßenate yesterday afternoon. In the r port Mr. Foley ssys: "My inquiries wert confined to the business of the past yar and the transactions with three appropriations for maintenance, repairs and clo'hing. In the report of the Trustees for maintenance there is a typographical error. Under disbursements it says 'for maintenance proper as per exhibit No. 2 less No. 3'. It is not less No. 3, but is less the appropriation of $2,000 for contingent expenses which must be returned to the 8 täte Treasury at the close of the fiscal year (See acta 1,835. page 144.) This $2,000 was not returned to State Treasurer until shortly after November 1. It causes the discrepancy between the Auditor of State's report and the Hospital report I was familiar with the discussions that led to the adoption of the !resent law govering our penal and benevoent Institutions. I: was its purpose to require that in all financial transactions similar entries should be made on tne books of the Auditor of State and those of the several institutions suppnr ed hy appropriatioES of money from tbe Stae Treasury for every financial transaction, and that tbe financial statements pu!ijhd in their respective annual reports ami those of the Auditor of Stste should orrespond in every rarticn'ar The statements shows the amoun s f mon: y drawn from the State Treasury and expended in the payment of debts of the Insane Hospital under authority of these appropriations during the year beginning November 1, 188.. and ending October 31, 1SSG. But all claims must be passed upon and allowed by the Board of Trustees governing the hospital before the Auditor of State will draw his warrant for their payment. Tne last meeting of the board for tl.e past year waa held October 23. They show there the pcymentof claims allowed up to October 28. All unsettled and accruing afterward passed over to the next year. That there will be a number of unadjusted and unpaid claims which must be carried over at the end of every fiscal year and paid subsequently is inevitable in any business, and certainly must be so with an institution whose business transactions are as large as those of the Insane Hospital, and where the payments of all claims is so carefully guarded and hedged about by statutory requirements that the amount is considerable, is doubtless better evidence to show that the Biard of Trustees have been careful and diligent In the discharge of their duties than that they have been negligent of them. Tnere were such claims unpaid October 31 last which have been since allowed and pid, a list of which is herewith submitted: Maintenance fund, $G,GG2.47; repair fund, $1,78214; clothing fund, $1,100 03; total, $S 950.70 Tbre were such claims unpaid October 31, läSö. and there have been, no doubt, on every 31st day of October in the thirty-eight years of its history." Exhibit A gives a list of unpaid acounts, s shown by the hospital journal entries, amounting to $2,028.34. Exhibit B gives a list of all claims, of every kind, which accrued prior to October 31, but have been adjusted since, nearly all of which have been paid. Many of these claims were for goods furnished during the last four days of October and during the laiter part of the month. "The books, Mr. Foley says, "are neatly kept and as closely written up as are those of any business concern with which I am acquainted. In the hospital report for 18?4 and 18S5, tbe average per capita expenses of maintenance was ascertained by deducting from the total amounts charged to maintenance, the amounts paid for repairs and charged to that fand. That was not done for the past year. Taking the net amount paid for maintenance, J?-3'v 432.12, and dividing it by the average number of patients, 1,012, the quotient obtained is $15384, in short of $100 02 as snowi oy the puM shed report. If it is ur?ed thst tbe $O.Ot2 47 shown in Exhibit B mid be added, the average per capit xi'i4 for the past year will be $157.27, or less tban they are Bbown to be by tb published report by $2.0ö. But if thedmms unpaid November 1, 1S8G, are to be a ldd, it would, I think, require the like Which were unpaid November 1, 188.5, and carried forward into the past year, should be ascertained and deducted-" Mr. Foley said to the committee tha1; dunng his six years's service as Deputy Treasurer of State he had been brought in constant contact with the financial management of the Insane Hospital, and that the present books were correctly kept. The House Committee yesterday morning held a session, at which Mr. Griffiths was the only member present, actiDg both as Chairman and attorney. Arthur Jordan was on the stand, and every question asked him was almost the answer put into the witness' mouth. All objections of Judge We sner to said questions were promptly overruled by the Chairman. Mr. Wesner desired to ask tbe witness a number of qufstions, but Mr. Griffiths said he did not have time to allow any further examination, and with that put on his hat and left the room. So closed the strictly partiran examination Ly the House Committee. The District Attorneyship. Hon. David Turpie has forwarded his resignation as District Attorney. A strong petition for tbe appointment of Mr. J. G. McNutt to fill the vacancy has been sent to Washington. Managers of the Reformatory. Mrs. Eliza A. Hendricks and Mrs. Clara A. Walker have been reappointed managers of the Reformatory for Women and Girls for terms of four years. The Senate yesterday confirmed the appointments. A I'ox Hunt In the City of London. London Standard.l A singular scene was witnessed yesterday afternoon, February 10, in the city. Mr. Bridgman. r salesman In the Poultry Market, West Smithfield, had received four wild foxes in a wooden case from the cauntry. Between 1 and 2 o'clock the animals were seen rushing np and down the avenues of tbe market. A cry was raised, and dozens of the salesmen and porters gave chase, and after great difficulty three of the animails were captured. The fourth made its way into the street, but only to be driven back by the large crowd who had taken up the chase. After being hunted about the market for upward of half an hour, the animal was at last driven into a coiner and a bull-terrier belonging to one of the market salesmen pounced upon him and killed him. It was found that the foxes had made their escape by gnawing a hole in the box in which they were confined. Tha Strongest Man on Earth. Virginia Footlight. There is a man nn the Darson River, below Dayton, named Angela Cordelia, who claims to be tha strongest man in the world. He Is an Italian, aged twentyeight, and stanas nve ieet ten incues, weighing 198 pounds. His strength was born with him. for he had no athletio training. He differs from other men chiefly in the osseous structure. Although not of nnnsal size, his spinal column is much beyond the ordinary width, and his bones and joints are made on a familiarly lorga aad generous, scale. Ho

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