Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1907 — NEW STATE LAWS [ARTICLE]

NEW STATE LAWS

The Sixty-fifth General Assembly of the state of Indiana enacted an enormous mass of legislation. Among the bills passed were a number of farreaching general importance. Chief among them is the pure food law, the two-cent fare law, the revision of the obnoxious ditch law, a law for the inspection of private banks, a more comprehensive anti-trust law, the creation of depositories for public funds, a law to wipe out “blind tigers,” provisions for a primary election system in the counties of Marlon, Vanderburg, Allen and Vigo, a law for a uniform system of management of public institutions, a law providing for the erection of a hospital for consumptives, the creation of a commission to arrange for the celebration of Indiana’s centennial in 1916, a law enlarging the powers of the railroad commission, a revision of the Moore temperance law, placing the burden of proof in remonstrance cases upon the applicant for a license, and a law fixing the salaries of county treasurers, who, by reason of the creation of public depositories, are deprived of the interest accruing from the funds in their hands. Besides these there were the usual batch of legalizing and enabling acts and measures of merely local importance. Among the special acts were provisions for the filling of Indiana’s vacant niche in Statuary Hall in the capital at Washington with a statue of General Lew Wallace; making Lincoln’s birthday a legal holiday; for giving proper care to the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln; for marking the position of Indiana companies at the battle of Vicksburg; for the erection of a monument on Tippecanoe battleground; appropriating SIO,OOO for a monument to Indiana soldiers who died in Andersonville prison, and for the raising of flags over the public schools. The interests of labor were further preserved by the enactment of several laws looking to the better safety of employes of factories, mines and railroads, and limiting the hours and labor of the latter. While a bill to prohibit child labor was rejected, the better moral safeguarding of the children was provided for by the enactment of several drastic laws to that end. Among these is one raising the “age of consent” to sixteen years, and providing that any man convicted of abusing a girl less than twelve years old shall be imprisoned for life. It has provided that an unnatural parent who leads his own child astray may be sent to the state prison for twentyone years instead of only five as heretofore; has made the mere fact that a man takes a girl under eighteen years old to a saloon or wlneroom, or immoral place, presumptive evidence that he is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for from two to fourteen years, even though the girl be his own daughter; and has given the juvenile court power to require parents to take care of their children, reporting to the court at intervals for a period of two years, with a penalty of a S6OO fine and six months in the workhouse hanging over them in case of default. It also makes the desertion of wife and children a felony punishable by imprisonment for from one to three years, instead of a mere misdemeanor punishable with a light fine. An effort to raise the saloon license fee to SI,OOO failed, as did an effort to repeal the metropolitan police law. and to provide for closer regulation of the insurance -companies of the state. It was the governor’s vfto that settled the two latter propositions. On the insurance proposition the governor held that the bill had “more bad than good in it.” The senate passed this bill over the governor’s head, but a similar effort in the house failed. Several other completed bills met a like fate. In fact, probably never before has the veto power been so freely exerted in this state, although several measures were passed over the executive inhibition. Chief among these was the ancient claim of Vincennes university for $120,000 in requital of losses that Institution bore In an old congressional land deal with the state, which claim was allowed over an emphatic veto. Measures were taken for increasing the salaries of teachers and salaries were raised at several other points. The n general appropriations bill carried something over $6,200,000. Among the appropriations was an Item of $25,000 to erect an Indiana building at the Jamestown exposition. The cost of the sixty-days’ session was about $125,000. The following bills of general importance have received the executive signature and will become laws upon their legal promulgation:

SENATE BILLS. BLIND TIGER LAW. No. 90. Ganlard. The “blind tiger" bill. This provides penalties for the unlicensed sale of liquors and the confiscation of the stock and fixtures of unlicensed dealers and the destruction of such stock upon proper order of the court. It also makes It unlawful for any druggist or pharmacist to sell, barter or give away Intoxicating liquor except on the written prescription of a reputable physician engaged in active practice of his profeslon. Any physician Issuing such a prescription shall date the same, and show thoreon the full and true nßine of the person to whom It Is Issued, and said physician shall sign the same, giving full name and residence; the druggist or pharmacist selling such liquor or liquors thereon shall write on said prescription the date of such sale, the full and true name of the person to whom such sale Is made, and shall carefully file and preserve such prescription for two years from such date; such prescription shall be canceled by writing or stamping on it the word “canceled,” nnd no second or other subsequent sale shall be made on said prescription. It also makes It onlawful for any druggist or pharmacist, who

has been convicted of selling Intoxicating liquors as a beverage In violation of the laws of this state, thereafter to sell Intoxicating liquors for any purpose personally or by agent for two years from the time of such conviction, and upon second conviction of selling liquor Ip violation of the laws of this state, anv such druggist or pharmacist shall have his license as a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist revoked, apd the Jrnlge or court convicting such druggist shall so order and send a copy of such order to the secretary of the stute board of pharmacy, upon the receipt of which such license shall be revoked. THE TWO-CENT FARE LAW. No. 5. Rlaud. Limiting charges for the transportation of passengers on the railways of the state, providing for a straight 2-cent fare where tickets are purchased, and 2 V< cents where cash fare Is paid to the conductor, In which case the latter shall Issue a rebate slip to the passenger, the extra hnlf-cent to be redeemable at any ticket office of the road» on which the excess fare Is paid. Children between the ages of five and twelve years \thall be carried for half fare. THE PRIVATE BANKING LAW. No. 15. Ganlard. This law Is designed to regulate better the business of private banks and bankers, and provide safeguards for the money of the depositors. The main feature of the bill is that It provides for as many examinations each year as the auditor of state may desire to make. The cost of one examination each year must be borne by the bank Itself, and the cost of additional examinations are to be paid for by the state. No. 72. Pelzer. Providing for the Improvement and the maintenance by the state of the grounds whereon the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln Is located, and creating a commission and a fund for carrying these provisions Into effect. No. 28. Moore, T. T. Providing for the erection of a statue of General Lew Wallace in Statuary Hall in the capital at Washington and appropriating $5,000 therefor. No. 260. Fnrber. To provide that whoever sells grain or other farm produce on which there Is a chnttel mortgage or landlord’s lien, without giving a notice In writing. shall be guilty of a felony No. .3.87. Hawkins. Anti-trust bill, revising the present law relating to corporations. and making provisions against competition In restraint of trade, and other Impositions. No. 30. Patterson. Legalizing nets of City councils In cities of the fifth class, where notices of such acts were published in a weekly Instead of a daily paper. No. 100. McCollum. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Batesville. No. ,88. Oox. Amending the Indlnnnpolls police pension fund law. giving more discretion to the governing body. No. 22T. Roemler. Providing that candidates for the superior bench In Marlon county shall run for Room 1, 2 or 3, and not as « group. • No. 155. Mock. Mnklng the throwing or placing of any acid, corroding or other irritating substance upon the person of another a felony, and providing penalty. No. 131. Moss. Legalizing the acts of the trustees of the town of Center Point regarding the location of certain streets and alleys. No. 208. Springer. Giving town clerks a vote In ease of a tie on the town board. No. 365. Goodwine. Permitting the hospital for the insane at East Haven (Richmond) to condemn land for a roadway. No. 17. Goodwine. Directing the distribution of certain dormant funds to the school funds of the several counties. No. 45. Wood, W. R. To appropriate sl2 .500 for the erection of a monument on the Tippecanoe battleground. No. 86. Benz. To provide for friction locks on wagons. No. 97. Kistler. To permit the building of n gravel road to a township line, even though it will not join another gravel road. No. 103. Stotsenberg. To render valid conveyances by surviving wives nnd children of deceased husbands who have left second childless wives. No. 104. Stotsenberg. To provide for the election by a surviving husband or wife where personal property Is bequeathed. No. 125. Barber. To make wife desertion a felony. No. 199. Pntterson. To compel county auditors to publish the amount of loans of the common school fund. No. 226. Moore of Fayette. To provide that n county should support the county institute to the extant of SIOO. No. 242. Moore of Fnyette. To repeal the law creating the old savings banks. No. 264. Stonhonson. To amend act with reference to the Incorporation of bonding and surety companies. No. 371. Klrkman. To permit the transfer of funds from the special school fund to the general fund in certain eases. No. 46. Wood of Tippecanoe. To prohibit Sunday barberlng. No. 78. Wood. C. E. Fixing the time of holding court In the 42d judicial circuit. No. 51. Benz. Legalizing the Incorporation of the German Mutual Fire Insurance company of Tell City. No. 83. Wood of Jackson. Fixing the time holding court In the Cist Judicial cirrnlt. No. 18. Goodwine. Transferring $9,997 now in the state land fund to the general fund. No. 6. Bowser. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Gary. No. 69. Patterson. Incorporating the board of trustees of Moores Hill college. JNo. 56. .Ganlard. To allow a maximum ifmlntennuce per diem for children In a county orphans’ home to he 50 cents Instead of 25 cents. No. 105. Strange. Enabling farmers to organize mutual "cyclone” Insurance compn nles. No. 10. Gavins. Providing that a tenant who appropriates crops that belong to a landlord Is guilty of embezzlement. No. 22. Kimbrough. Appropriating $200,000 for the maintenance of the binder twine factory at the state prison. No. 98. Klttlnger. To permit the condemnation of real estate for school purposes. No. 113. Bowser. Providing for the reclamation of land bordering on Lake Michigan. No. 212. Stotsenberg. Permitting cities to put municipal cemeteries under the control of a board of regents. No. 220. McDowell. The Indiana Hotel Keepers’ association bill, defining the liabilities of hotel keepers. No. 252. Kimbrough. Appropriating $38,000 for markers where Indiana companies fought at the battle of Vicksburg, and providing for a commission to look after the matter. No. 853. Slack. Providing for the sale of school books by dealers Instead of by the school authorities.

No. 273. Fruiupnoker. Relating to the reclamation of swamp lands In St. Joseph and Starke counties. No. 54. Cox. Limiting the price that shall be charged for gas at Indianapolis to 60 cents per thousand feet. No. 228. Moore, E. E. Concerning the classification und wages of school teachers and providing for the increase of their pay. No. 119. Cox. Making child desertion a felony, punishable by Imprisonment from one to three years. No. 515. Durre. Empowering school trustees In cities of the second class to sell bonds to erect school buildings. No. 826. Cavins. Fixing the salaries of the circuit and superior courts In all counties except Marlon. No. 19. Hugg. Increasing the snlnrles of circuit nnd superior Judges lu Marlon county. No. I<>7. Strange. To provide for the encouragement of furmers f Institutes. No. 192. Fnrber. Railway commission bill. To provide for the npplinnce of safety devices on railroads. No. 239. Goodwine. To change the name of the Indiana Industrial School for Girls to the Indiana Girls' School. No. 257. Mock. To make the giving of bribes by grain dealers and the taking ol bribes by railroad employes for special consideration In the placing of empties a misdemeanor. No. 287. Bland. To compel operators to provide washrooms for miners. No. 202. Pearson. Prohibiting the dls

trlbutlon of samples of medicine from house to hot Me. No. 537. Crompackcr. To promote safety of passengers of railroad trains; to require railroads having net earning capacity of $2,009 a mile to establish block systems within two years. No. 162. Roemler. To strengthen the present corporation law compelling reports und prohibiting one corporation from taking the name like or substantially slmilur to that of another. No. 73. Ranke. Revising the act requiring the registration of trained nurses to the end that the nurses will have to have a common, but not necessarily a high school, eduentiou. i No. 12. Cox. To amend the voluntary associations act to permit the organization of hospitals, the support of which shall come from annual payments of the members.. No. 282. Moore, of Fayette. To compel officers of the peace to arrest persons charged by officers of humane societies with having abused animals. No. 539. Moss. Pure stock-food bill, making provisions against the sale of Impure, daugerous or stock food. No. 240. Goodwine. creating a correctional department of the woman’s prison. No. 277. Wood, W. R. Providing for appeals from the Juvenile court. No. 316. Springer. Providing for the printing of the reports of the commissioner of fisheries nnd game. No. 347. Wood, W. R. Requiring judges of police courts to make settlement with city treasurers. No. 350. Klttlnger. To prevent trespassing upon the state house nud other public grounds. No. 384. Forkner. Authorizing the governor, through the attorney general, to appropriate real estate for public purposes. No. 422. Hugg. To permit incorporation of North American Gymnastic Normal school. No. 460. Stotsenberg. Providing for the refunding of taxes Illegally collected in certuln cases. No. 59. Goodwine. Creating a legislative reference department in the stute library. No. 147. Durre. To group enses that go in an appeal either to the nppellate or supreme courts.

No. 222. Roemler. Prohibiting the throwlug of glass on public highways. No. 217. Revising certain regulations relating to penal institutions. No. 267. Hugg. Creating probate court in Marion county. No. 844. Pearson. Providing for the more complete collection of vital statistics by the state board of health. No. 364. Roemler. Concerning actions for damages on account of injuries resulting from defective highways nnd hridges. No. 392. Hugg. Raising the penalty for burglary to imprisonment for from teu to twenty years. No. 473. Klrkman. Authorizing public appropriation of money for aid and maintenance of hospitals. No. 477. Bingham. Authorizing the merger of light and power companies with hydraulic companies. No. 504. Moss. Designating persons to whom shall accrue the right of action for damages that follow accidents In coal mines. No. 13. Farber. To permit an electric lighting and power company to condemn any amount of land for the erection of plants. No. 27. Moore, of Putnam. To place the burden of proof on those who oppose a liquor remonstrance, instead of on those who present the remonstrance, ns at present. No. 67. Moore of Fayette. To reduce the number of ballots to be printed for state and national elections. No. 80. Wood of Tippecanoe. To provide for an Increase In the pay of the police force under the metropolitan police law. No. 127. Kistler. To provide penalties where a foreign corporation falls to comply with the foreign corporation law of the state. No. 174. Benz. To give the prosecuting attorney the power to issue subpoenaes during the interim between terms of the grand Jury. No. 178. Mattingly. To compel hoards of commissioners, township trustees and supervisors to keep rural route roads In good repair. No. 182. Hanna. To give the state geologist the power to collect statistics relative to the natural resources of the state, to issue a bulletin, nnd to raise his salurv to $3,000. No. 185. Ganlard. To provide for the payment of bunk examiners by salaries Instead of by fees. No. 191. Durre. To nllow the circuit court to provide for probate commissioners’ assistants. No. 194. Hugg. To amend the railroad commission law, giving power to the commission to enforce Its orders. No. 198. Kistler. To limit the time within which railroads must pay for condemned lund after the Judgment of the court.

No. 206. Ranke. To provide for the creation of n stnte armory hoard and to appropriate money for Its work. No. 209. Parks of Marshall. To provide for the transfer of dependent children from one county to another for educational purposes. No. 215. Klrkman. To provide for a state hoard of optometry to examine those who wish to practice ns opticians. No. 219. Wood, W. R. To strengthen the present pharmacy law. No. 232. Slack. To provide that school authorities file n list of pupils to whom transfers are granted. No. 245. Tyndall. To legalize the Issuance of free gravel road bonds. No. 248. Moore of Fayette. To provide for a uniform course of study for high schools. No. 253. Kliug. To change the method of increasing and reducing the enpital stock of corporations. No. 256. Orndorf. To prohibit the overseer of the poor to appropriate money to buy burial grounds for old soldiers. No. 265. ltanke. To place the prosecuting attorney’s offlee In Allen and Vanderburg counties on a salary, rather than a fee basis. No. 270. McCain. To provide for the election of county councilmen In case of vacancy. No. 315. Klttlnger. To permit the city treasurer In cities outside of county seats to collect the taxes of such cities. No. 230. Bland. To compel mine owners to construct the entrance Into mines so ns to leave a space of two feet between the sides of the ears that puss and the wall. No. 354. Wlekwlre. To prohibit bucket shops. No. 367. Hugg. To amend cities and towns act so that Indianapolis council may Increase the salary of the deputy controller from $1,590 to SI,BOO. No. 372. Moore of Putnam. To raise the minimum paid-up capital stock of live stock Insurance associations from SSO 000 to SIOO,OOO. No. 393. Ganlard. To authorize the transfer of certain funds In Wayne town ship. Noble county.

No. 65. Orndorf. To give gas companies authority to condemn land for laving mains. No. 496. Kllng. To fix the time for holding court In the Fifty-first Judicial circuit. No. 525. l’enrson. To permit n circuit Judge acting In his capacity ns a juvenile judge, to appoint a special Juvenile Judge when the regular Judge Is In a coun'tv of his circuit, other tliHn the connty where the Juvenile ease arises. No. 530. Cavius. To provide for further regulation of the Inspection of mines. No. 464. Mattingly. To appropriate $1,586 for part purchase of land for the Indiana Village for Epileptics. No. 414. Wlekwlre. Prohibiting operation of railway relief associations which require signing away of employes’ rights to damages. No. 148. Goodwine. For appointments of state entomologist, with office In State House, at salary of $1,500. No. 526. ltlnud. To legalize the Incorporation of the town of Lyons, Greene county. No. 522. W. R. Wood. Extendi: g term

of present Judge of the superior court of Tippecanoe county. No. 400. Cavins. To require that sncel* flcutlons of proposed new buildings and bridges be kept on file by county commissioners. No. 210. Ktotsenhurg. Requiring guideposts at all crossroads; optional with county commissioners. No. 254. Mattingly. To give farmers along roads preference in employing labor on new roads. No. 129. Mattingly. Providing that courts shall render opinions In writing when requested. No.. 300. Klrkman. Claims of One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana Infantry, $l,lOO. No. 499. Fftrber. Making minimum, snlary for circuit court clerk $1,200 a year. No. 528. Ranke. To permit Incorporation of newspapers to do .job business. No. 366. Hugg. To increase penalty for robbery to five years to twenty years. No. 312. Hawkins. To permit isssuauce of lwnds for school In Dunkirk. No. 133. Kimbrough. To permit cities to dlsauuex laud. HOUSE BILLS. THE PURE FOOD LAW. No. 42. Downey. This net forbids the manufacture or offering for sale of any adulterated or misbranded food or drugs, defines food drugs, stating wherein adulterated and misbranded foods consist and defining the duties of the State Bourd of Health In relation to foods and drugs, their inspection, purity and misbranding, regulating the slaughter of animals and their preparation for food, providing an appropriation for enforcement, providing for the appolulmeut of a state food and drug commissioner, declaring penalties for the violation of the laws, rules and ordinances concerning foods and drugs, repealing acts in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency. The new law is designed to protect the people of Indiana from In-tug defrauded by the sale under false colors and names of adulterated or misbranded foods or drugs, to prescribe a standard of honesty among the makers and dealers in such articles und imposing penalties for its violation it embraces all articles of food and all drugs offered for sale in Indiana,whether manufactured in or shipped Into the slate. In the case of drugs the article sold or kept nnd offered for sale must conform to the standard- of purity prescribed In the United States Phnrinacopacia or National Formulary, if listed in those authorities, or else must show by Its label how far it falls below that standard. In the case of food, the sale or offering for sale of any urtiele Is prohibited: First—ls any substance or substances have been mixed with It so as to reduce, or lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength; Second—ls any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article; Third—if any valuable constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; Fourth—ls it consists in any proportion of n filthy, diseased, decomposed, putrid or rotten animal, or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not. or In the ease of milk. If it is the product of a diseased animal; Fifth—lr It Is mixed, colored, coated, polished, powdered or stained In a manner whereby damage or inferiority Is concealed, or whereby it Is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; Sixth—ls It contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious Ingredient; Seventh—ls it contains any added antiseptic or preservative substance except common table salt, saltpeter, cane sugar, vinegar, spices, or. In smoked food, the natural products of the smoking process, or other harmless preservatives whose use Is authorized by the State Board of Health. Other sections specifically name nnd prohibit lue sale of watered milk, of the sale us pure milk of milk from which all or part of the cream has been removed, of the sale of the milk of cows which have been fed on the refuse of distilleries or of those kept in unsanitary surroundings. The law provides for the apolntment of a Rtate food and drug eomiutsstoner, gives the State Roard of Health authority to make all necessary rules and regulations for the enforcement of the law and provides severe penalties for its violation. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ACT. No. 329. Hanna. Providing uniform system of organization of boards of trustees of state benevolent, reformatory and penal institutions and prohibiting campaign assessments. This law makes the boards of trustees of all the state's penal and benevolcut institutions consist of four members divided equally between the two parties. To the bourds consisting of three members now the governor Is to appoint an additional member within thirty days after the act takes effect. The trustees are to serve four years. All the members of present boards are to serve out the terms for which they were appointed. The boards of the ludiana Girls' School and of the Indiana Women's Prison will continue as heretofore to be of women only as of course will the superintendents of those Institutions. One member of the hoard of the ludiana School for the Feeble-minded and of the board of the Knightstowii orphans' Home may be a woman. Every member of a board must give a SIO,OOO bond and the member elected treasurer of the board must give a $50,000 bond. The Governor may remove any trustee for cause after hearing on written charges. The salary is S3OO with expenses not to ex - ceed $125 annually. No person who |s a contractor with the institution «7r who Is In' any wise interested in furnishing any supplies cun be a trustee. Each board appoints the superintendent of the institution in its charge and may remove him for cause after hearing on written charges. All the other officers of the institutions are to be appointed and removed by the superintendents and their appointment shall he without regard to polities, and after an examination for fitness under the rules and regulations prescribed by the board. Tin- number of employes and their salaries as well as the salary of the superintendent shall he fixed by tile board. It Is made a misdemeanor for any one to solicit or receive front any employe-in the Institutions campaign assessments and tt is a misdemeanor for any employe in the Institution to pay such assessment, punishable by fine and Imprisonment. There nre suitable provisions for puldteltv In the award of itraets. etc. The name of the Industrial School for Girls Is changed to the Indiana Girls' School, while the Indiana Women's Prison Is made a seperate Institution under another hoard. PUBLIC DEPOSITORIES LAW No. 597. Wt odflll. Public depository bill of House and Senate committee. A complete system of public depositories is provided by tills law to handle state, county, city, towushtp and school funds. A wide range of securities is made acceptable front banks becoming depositories. Interest rates are fixed at 2 per cent, on dally balance and 2 , .* 1 per cent, on time deposits. The maximum amount that ttiav be deposited with one bank Is $500,000. but no bank may have a greater amount than Its capital anil surplus. The proposed law will not take effect untill December 1. 1907. Funds belonging to the town, city, school town, school dtv or township must be deposited In a depository within the respective communities: county funds may be deposited In any hank of the county, nnd state funds In any bank of the state. State officers and hoards having offices in the stntehouse shall make dally settle nients with the treasurer of state and other stnte officers shall make settlements once a month. The state treasurer shall make dully deposits of the funds coming Into his possession. All county, eltv and town officers must make dally deposits, nud semi-monthly deposits must he made by township trustees. The governor, auditor of stnte and treasurer of state shall constitute the stnte board of finance. The county board shall consist of the county commissioners, the city hoard of the muvor and city council, the townsutp board of the township trustees, and the school trustees and the advisory boards of the school, town or school city. THE COUNTY TREASURERS’ BILL. No. 062. Grleger. Fixing salaries of county treasurers. This measure provides a scale of salaries based upon the amount of business done in the respective counties and upon local conditions surrounding the treasurers In each and Is designed to requite the officials for the loss of Income entailed by the passage of the public depositories, law which

takes from the treasurers the Interest they have heretofore been earning on the funds entrusted to their care. The scale was carefully compiled and ranges from a salary of S2S,OCR) annally for the treasurer of Marlon county, to $1,200 for the treasurer of Brown county. * NEW TAX BOARD LAW. No. 106. Sllmp. Reorganizing the state board of tax commissioners by relieving the governor of duty on the board and authorizing the appointment of an additional commissioner, the salaries of the three commissioners being fixed at $2,000 a year each. The secretary of state becomes exofflcio chairman of tbe commission. The sessions of tbe board are extended to Include seventy-seven days, and every fourth year, when real estate Is assessed, five additional days. No. 680. Andrew. Transferring two cents of sinking fund to tuition fund. It is estimated that this will bring an Increase of about $340,000, which may be used for the purpose of paying the teachers the Increased wages that are called for under the provisions of the Moore bill, which raises the dully wage an average of about 50 cents for each teacher. No. 33!). McCullough. Juvenile court measure defining a dependent and neglected child and providing for their custody, and the punishment of any person responsible for or In any way contributory to such dependency or neglect. No. 104. Kleckner. Regulating the relief associations In operation on railroads In the state by forbidding requirement that railroad relief association benefits be regarded as a waiver of rights to damages for personal Injuries or death. No. 410. Ratliff. Authorizing the Indiana State Board of Agriculture to erect and equip a livestock pavilion on the Indiana state fair grounds, and to issue bonds to the amount of SIOO,OOO to cover the cost of tlie same. No. 35. Daily. Repealing the act of Feb. 11, 1003. reluting to city offices and reviving all laws repealed by said act; legaliz Ing the acts of the officials who took office under the Cities and towns law of 1905. No. 381. Norwood. The “habitual crim inal” act. This law provides that person-, upon the third conviction for a felony shall be deemed habitual criminals, and shall be sentenced to Imprisonment for life. No. 263. Baltzell. Regulating inheritance in ease of an unlawful killing, providing that persons causing the unlawful death of another shall not inherit any of the do ceased person's propot ry. No. 1!). Raker. E-ta'dlshlng r.uperh," courts in the comities of Elkhart and Si Joseph and providing for the election <■! judges thereof. No. 71. Honan. To better protect the lives of railway employes and the traveling public by providing for full train crews jn all trains.

No. 413. Joyce. To Incorporate the Young Alan’s Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association at Terre Haute. No. 468. Kchreedor. Appropriating $12.000 for rebuilding and equipping the laundry department of the Southern Hospital for the insane. No. 46. Klliott, G. A. Legalizing certain acts of the county council of St. Joseph county. No. 105. SlTmp. Providing for the taxation of notes not due but used as collat eral. No. 24. Condo. Appropriating $120,000 to defray the expenses of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly of the state of Indiana. No. 141. Joyce. To provide for a fire men’s pension fnnd at Terre Haute. No. 126. McDonald. Fixing the time of holding court In the 41st judicial circuit, consisting of the counties of Marshall and Fulton. No. 40. Kimmell. To provide for the probation of wills of persons whose whereabouts are unknown for five years. No. '.’o2. Kelley. To provide for the cutting of Canadian thistles and other obnoxious weeds. No. 52. Joyce. Requiring Interurban railway companies having termini In Terre Haute to maintain waiting rooms. No. 88. Kelley. Prohibiting fishing through the iee at Bass Lake, and providing penalties. No. 151. Bowlns. Providing that in case damages and benefits accrue In the making of public Improvements, the damages shall be paid to the property owner when the benefit assessments are collected. No. 57. Watson. To permit dehorning of cattle and dipping of horses. No. 36. Norwood. Creating the office of bailiff for the county commissioners’ court of Marlon county. . No. 2117. Joyce. Making a life sentence the penalty for kidnapping for ransom. No. 190. Hanna. To provide for the transfer of prisoners from the Reformatory to the State Prison. No. 206. King. To give the hoard of forestry the power to grant rlghts-of-way through the state forestry reservation. No. 221. Raker. To require annual reports to the secretary of state from corporations. No. 254. Fruechtenieht. To permit changes of venue from circuit court,'after a reversal In the supreme or appellate courts. No. 300. Eschhach. To raise the age of consent from fourteen to sixteen years. No. 374. Hanna. To require Interurban companies to maintain electric lights at Intersecting streets In cities of the fifth class. No. 386. Kimmell. To nbollsh the dosed season for hook and line fishing and to protect private ponds. No. 116. Benson. To legalize the election of the officers of the town of Hazelton. Gibson county. No". 107. Woodflll. To authorize the county commissioners of Decatur county to appropriate money for a soldiers' monument. No. 246. King. To empower Infant wives to convey real estate. No. 276. McCullough. To make It a penal offense to permit boys or girls miner eighteen years <>f age to frequent wluorooms. No. 282. Norwood. To change the penalty for Incest to a term of from two to twenty-one years. No. 284. Weaver.. To prohibit the sale of diseased horses and mules. No. 334. Honan. To amend the burglary statute so ns to Include ginseng gardens. No. 336. Simon. To provide service by publication on domestic corporations without officers In this state. No. 490. Kimmell. To legalize the Incorporation of Cromwell. Noble county. No. 64. Lutz. To provide that the agent of life Insurance companies shall ho the agent of the company he represents, and not the agent of the assured. No. 67. Woodflll. To legalize the marriages of first rouslns now married, and to prohibit such marriages In the future. No. 435. Grtoger. To make specific the fees collected by the clerk of the supreme and appellate courts. No. 610. Olive. Creating the office of “corporation counsel" of the city of Indlannpolls. No. 476. Hanna. Incorporating the town of Coatsrllle, Hendricks county. No. 90. Slmlson. Relating to the election of hoards of trustees of educational institutions. No. 181. Fleming. Providing for the transfer of real estate for taxation on the hooks of county auditors In certain Instances. No. 150. Morgan. To regulnte the mnnner of a change of venue In civil eases. No. 140. Wells. To remove the maximum limit on the number of directors a trust company may hare. No. 542. Bowlus. To provide thnt druggists must have prescriptions to sell cocaine, morphine and opium. No. 553. Watson. To prohibit heavy hauling on road* In soft condition. No. 563. linker. To give Judges power to suspend sentences. Irrespective of age of prisoners. No. 580. Folz. To regulate fraternal life Insurance companies. No. 471. Slckp. To require trustees to pay for janitor service In common schools. No. 136. Kelley. Authorizing trustees of towns of 700 Inhabitants or more to require railroads to place flngmen nt crossings. No. 58. Ilays. Changing the open season on squirrels. No. 362. McClasky. To prohibit municipal employes from having employment with

concerns furnishing supplies. No., 517. Ilottel. This Is the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen’s bill to promote the safety of employes and travelers upon the railroads in the state by limiting tne hours of service of employes thereon to sixteen hours a day. No. 522. Johnson. To compel townBhip trustees when a school Is abandoned to furnish transportation for pupils living more than two miles from school to which they are sent. No. 207. Madden. To place the control of unimproved roads entirely in the hands of trustees to lie worked by supervisors appointed by trustees. No. 234. Dally. Shippers bill, protecting shippers against extortionate or discriminatory rates or impositions from rnilroad companies. No. 471). Simon. Defining the Judicial district, of the Lake, Porter and Laporte superior courts. No. 392. Hay. Relating to the exemption from taxation of real estate used for charitable purposes. No. 458. Johnston. Legalizing At town of Marshall, Parke county. No. 528. Hottel. To raise maximum road tnx levy In counties having less than fifty miles of gravel roads from one to three cents. No. 5K5. Condo. To provide for the distribution- of state supreme court reports by printing contracts. No. 114. Baltzell. Fixing the time of holding court in the Eleventh judicial circuit. No. 171. Furnas. Requiring rnuronds to carry 136 pounds of baggage free nnd fixing the rates for excess baggage. No. 243. Schroder. Allowing county commissioners to contract at any time for stone to build roads. No. 370. Elliott, It. To establish a state hospital for the treatment of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis, and making an appropriation of $30,000 therefor. No. 371. Scholl. For the relief of Henry R. Peters of Carroll county, quieting Ills title to certain real estate. No. 399. Frump. To permit the building of gravel roads undei- the 3-mile law, whether between connecting roads or not. No. 426. Baker. Permitting abstract companies to incorporate. No. 403. v-ondo. Fixing the fiscal year for the state. No. 44M. Ulrich. Concerning the workings nnd institution of building associations

No. 634. Olive. To reorganize the Indianapolis board of health. No. T.I. Road. Concerning dependants’ • -states, authorizing administrators or exeeutors to sell personal property at private [ sale. No. 95. Joyce. Prohibiting life insurance companies to make contributions for political purposes. No. 307. Elliott, It. N. Requiring debit nnd credit accounts tietween county auditors nnd township trustees. No. 702. Carmichael. Authorizing the expenditure of unused portion of Morton monument fund in ornamenting the site and to dedicate said monument. No. 340. Daily. To increase the limit of tax lev 1 * for Indinnnpolis schools from 57 to 67 on the dollar. No. 309. Simlson. Requiring townships to furnish anti-toxin free to persons too poor to purchase the same. No. 385. McClnskey. Authorizing boards of trustees of towns to levy tax for street and alloy improvement. No. 411. Bowlus. To permit artificial coloring of artificial vinegar under the pure food law. No. 451. White. Permitting boards of children's guardians to take charge where parents are immoral. No. 527. Wills. Requiring use of vouchers for all expenditures for life insurance companies. No. 56H. Daily. Giving juvenile court jurisdiction over adults contributing to the delinquency of children. No. 612. Billingsley. Providing for the creation of a teachers’ pension fund at Indianapolis. No. 39. Green. To increase the mortgage exemption from S7OO to $1,400. No. 607. Garrard. To provide method j of constructing levees along rivers. No. 617. Dwyer. To provide that marshals of Incorporated towns may appoint deputies. No. 628. Garrard. To repeal law that prohibits a second issue of school bonds. No 635. Edwards. To authorize Judges of circuit and criminal courts to suspend sentences. No. 685. Thornton. To make Lincoln’s birthday a legal holiday. No. 645. Hanna. To legalize the Incorporation of Ptttsboro, Hendricks county. No. 698. Sllmp. To raise the standard of teachers’® qualifications nnd the basis of their salary. No. 69!). Condo. To give state Institutions right to condemn land for highway purposes. No. 708. Honan. To authorize the state hoard of education to certify to teachers’ courses In normals, colleges and universities in the state. No. 82. Olive. To establish two additional superli|r judgeships In Marlon county. No. 94. Schreedcr. To appropriate SIO,OOO for a monument to Indiana soldiers who died in Andersonvllle prison. No. 132. Hostetter. To provide that cost of free gravel roads built on boundary lines shall be paid for Jointly by the counties. No. 178. Fruechtenlcht. To empower guardians to mortgage the real estate of their wards. No. 350. Joyce. To permit publication of county notices in papers of general circulation In counties where there are no political papers. No. 364. Read. For sterilization of habitual criminals and Idiots. No. 438. Cox. To give land owners nnd tenants the right to hunt on their own grounds without license. No. s<>9. Baltzell. To provide that prohibition of deer killing shall not apply to owners of deer parks. No. 264. Hays. To allow collections of damages from railroads whose removal of track works Injury to any Industry. No. 289. Downey. To authorize county commissioners to receive bids from any company desiring to bid on gravel road construction. No. 303. Morgnn. To require petitions to be filed when notices are given by auditors of pendency of petitions for new roads. No. 428. Stephens. Requiring conviction before fish nets may be destroyed

Joint Resolutions —Senate. No. 8. Klstler. Providing for the appointment of a commission to be known ns the “centennial commission.” to arrange for a centennial exposition In 1!U0, which will be the 100th anniversary of Indiana's ndrnlsslon Into the Union. The commission Is to he composed of one member from eueh county to he chosen by the fovernor, and of the members of congress rom Indiana, members of the legislature and the lieutenant governor and Vice President Fairbanks. The resolution provides that the commtsslou shall meet at the statehouse April 1 next to organize. The movement is backed by the historical societies of the state. No. 3. Gavins. Directing the railroad commission to Investigate the accidents which recently occurred at Fowler and ut Sandford, on the lllg Four railroad. No. 4. Goodwlne. Authorizing the gov ernor to use unexpended balance of emergency contingent fund of present fiscal year for relief of flood sufferers. No. 5. Moss. Directing a legislative Investigation of recent mine exploslous In Indiana. No 6. Kirkmnn. Providing for the proper ventilation of the legislative chambers. Joint Resolutions —House. No 4. Making application to the congress of the United Suites to call a convention for proposing amendments to the constitution of the United States with ref erence to the election of United States senators. No 4 Weaver. Msklng application to the congress of the United Stntes to call a convention for proposing amendments to the constitution of the U'uited States.