Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — MANY “RELIEF” MEASURES [ARTICLE]

MANY “RELIEF” MEASURES

Are Being Passed By the Present Indiana Legislative. Senate Bill 423. introduced a few days ago in the state legislature, provides for the relief of C. L: Constable, former trustee of Grant tp., Newton county, who lost $1,276.50 in the Home Bank of Goodland. It seems to us that the legislature is letting the bars down a little too much in this matter of “relief for funds lost by public officers in bank failures. That is, that there has come such a flood of these bills by reason of favorable action on a number of them, and if one public officer is relieved then all ought to be. It is perhaps the right thing to do to relieve such officers, except in a felifr exceptional cases, a couple of wtiich we had here in the McCoy bank failure. But where is it going to end and how far back will they go? John Bill, Geo, Wilcox. S. L. Luce, Joseph Stewart. C. M. Blue, trustees, and S. L. Nichols, county treasurer, lost money in the McCoy bank—or Blue's bondsmen rather, in his case and Keener tp., in Luce’s case—and except tike two latter, who are least deserving of relief of any of those named, because of the well known conditidns of their obligations to that bank, none of these asked as yet for relief of the present legislature from their losses. \ Blue, Nidhols, and ex-trustee

Fell of Carpenter tp.,—who lost in the Parker bank at Remington —have asked fot* relief, and judging from the legislature’s action on similar losses in other sections of the state, their plea will be granted. If "relief” from such losses is to be the policy of the legislature, then all these officials should gfet a hurry-up move on themselves and climb into the relief wagon. All are certainly as much entitled to it as Blue, Nichols and Fell.