Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — STATE LAW MAKERS. [ARTICLE]

STATE LAW MAKERS.

Wlion the Legislature convened oaa Monday among the bills iutrodtleetl woff~j one relating to street car corporations, J which seeks to give cities greater control of such corporations. The hill, like the j 3-cent fare hill of two years ago, was in- , trodueed by Senator Ilugg of Fndiaitape* : lis. It provides for regulating and fixing ! the fares ou street railroad companies,! for the issue and use of transfer tickets $ or passes on such railways, for the pav-rS-ing between the tracks and for inches on the outside of the of tracks, under the supervision of Hoard of Public Works of such cities, and ; for the payment for such work by the j street railway companies. The bill pro-| vides for the purchase of eight tickets, each good for one trip, for 25 cents. Another bill introduced on Monday prohibits ; prize lighting. It provides that any principal in any prize fight or any. person who 1 attends any such fight ns backer, trainer, second, referee or assistant shall be guilty I of n felony and fined not less than SSO nor more than SI,OOO and imprisoned not less than two years nor more than ten years. Albert .1. Reveridgc was nominated for United Stales Senator by the Republican caucus Tuesday night on the eleventh ballot. The "field” combined ou him, and he received J 8 of tin- 80 votes. J. Frank Hanly received 35 and Frank B. Posey 0. : Roberts, Taylor and George W. Steele , threw all their support to Beveridge. In order to expedite business the House, nnd Senate on Tuesday determined to hold only half-duy sessions for the next fourteen days. The members are thus enabled to dispose of bills in committee ■ more rapidly, and it is believed that all work will Ik? advanced. The controversy between the State and non-Stato schools was brought to the fore in a bill introduced on Tuesday for the reorganization of the State Board of Education. It provides that there shall be nine members, no more than four of whom Jjhall he of one political- party, the Gov- j ernor and the superintendent of public instruction being ex-officio members. Representative Kirkpatrick offered a bill which is designed still further to limit the liquor traffic. Section 1 makes it unlawful for county commissioners to graut licenses to sell liquor in the resi- . dence districts of any city or town. To make this binding it is provided that any license so granted shall be void. It is also provided that county commissioners who violate the provisions of the act Hhall each 4 be fined in any sum not exceeding SIOO, ! to which may he added imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. | The hill went to the Committee ou Tom- ; po ranee. At Wednesday’s session of the Legislature many bills were introduced. Rep- 1 resentative Iverwood offered a bill making - an appropriation of SIOO a month as a ismsion to Lucinda M. Morton, widow of Oliver P. Morton. The bill prepared by Gov. Mount, the State superintendent of public instruction and the State statistician providing for the study of agriculture jn the common schools was introduc- ■ ed by Representative Burlow. In'the Senate Mr. Xausbaum introduced a bill; making it the duty of the Attorney General to visit every county in. the State either personally or l*y deputy once each j quurter and make an examination of the county books. It has been decided by the Republican majority that the State shall not l)e redistricted for congressional or legislative purposes at this session.