Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1909 — GOES BACK FOR DISPOSAL. [ARTICLE]

GOES BACK FOR DISPOSAL.

Court Reorganization Bill Advanced By Mistake. Had it not been for Senator Bowse., » chairman of the Senate committee on organization of courts. Senator Halleck’s bill, which would practically reorganize the court system of Indiana, might have come before the Senate for passage, although the bill was not recommended for passage by any Senate committee. The bill, advanced to third reading by mistake, has been printed and laid on Senators’ desks. The Halleck bill was introduced February 9 and referred to Judiciary B. The records show that on February 11 Judiciary B asked that the bill be transferred tp the committee on organization of courts. Here it was the mistake causing all the trouble was made. Instead of sending it to organisation of courts, the clerk marked the> bill “criminal code,” and the measure then went to that committee, and on February 16 the bill, with a large number of others, was ordered engrossed and advanced to third reading. Wednesday Senator Bowser asked that the bill be referred back to the committee on organization of courts, he having noticed the printed bill upon his desk. This committee will make short work of the measure.—lndianapolis News,