Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — INDIANA LAWMAKERS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LAWMAKERS

In tho House Tliursd y Representative John V. Baird introduced a bill creating ' a commission to be composed of the president of the State Health Board and one i'epresentative of each medical and dental college in Indiana, whose duty it shall 'be to distribute unclaimed bodies and bodies of paupers to the various medical and dental colleges. The bill was referred. The measure is the result of wholesale grave robberies in Indianapolis for which more th*nn twenty men, white and black, are noxv under indictment. It provides a penalty for stealing bodies or selling or buying stolen bodies. in the Senate on_Friday the bill reducing minimum penalty for railroads failing to bulletin trains to S3OO, was passed. Resolution adopted favoring naming Indianapolis Army Post after Gen. I’, A. Hackleman. Bill introduced making the term of Supreme judges twelve years. Bill introduced increasing salaries of township assessors. Bill introduced extending prison labor system to 1910. Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House bill appropriating SI 15.000 for expenses of tbe Assembly was sent, to the Governor and signed,by him. Bill introduced increasing salaries of Marion Comity Superior judges to $5,000. Bill introduced extending period of prison labor contract system to 1910. House adjourned until Monday. The Senate on Monday adopted a resolution inviting President John Mitchell of the I nited Mine Workers to address the body. Bill protecting quail recommitted to committee. Hill re'stricting use of autonrobiles on county roads recommitted. Bill introduced- grading the offense of embezzlement. Committee report favoring bill making it unlawful to have lottery tickets in Indiana. Concurred in. In the House resolution was adopted inviting John .Mitchell to address tho House. The House and Senate met Tuesday in separate session and re-elected United States Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. There was no opposition. The nominating speech in the Senate for the liepublicans was made by Senator William A. Killmger, of Anderson, joint caucus chairmafi. In the House Newton Booth Tarkington, the novelist, made the nominating speech. He said in part: "If the continuance by the people of the party in power is a witness to anything in the world, mid it surely is, it Is an attestation to the fact that until the present political faiths and conditions and the leopard’s spots shall change you may not look to find political greatness in that fine sense of utility elsewhete than in the Republican party. Mr. Speaker, we of Indiana have looked and have found For the Republicans of this State I have the honor to nominate for United States Senator from Indiana for the term beginning March 4. 1963, Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indianapolis.” The I>emo<T.ats voted for B. F. Shively, of South Bend. They were outnumbered two to one. United States Senator Charles W. Fairbanks wns re-elected Wednesday in joint session of the Legislature. The bill for the reorganization of the Jeffersonville reformatory was passed by the Senate after .a sharp tight, in which Democratic support was gained by providing for a board ot four trustees, two of whom shall be Democrats. The bill now goes to the House, where Booth Tarkington is making a lively campaign against its passage, on the ground that it represents machine polities. The attempt of the brewers and liquor interests to repeal the section of the temperance law providing for “blanket” remonstrances found expression in a bill introduced in tho House for that purpose. This is the first attack made upon the law since its passage' in 1893. and it has aroused the temperance people, who have begun lobbying against it. Among the bills introduced xvas one providing for a State fire marshal nt a salary of $2,000 a year. Another prohibits the < mployment of women in all branches of industry that are injurious to their health.