Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1915 — KANKAKEE BILL GOES RACK. [ARTICLE]

KANKAKEE BILL GOES RACK.

IfraitiHge Measure Met With Much Opposition at Public Hearing, Indianapolis, Feb. 20. The Kankakee drainage bill was recommitted to the committee on drainage by the senate Thursday and will probably remain there indefinitely, because stoat opposition was voiced against i't at a public hearing Wednesday night. The bill was introduced by Senator McCormick, who r aid he had understood that there was a demand in the Kankakee district for such a measure. it. provides fqr the creation of a Kankakee sanitary and drainage district, and provides methods whereby the rock ledge in the Kankakee river at Mornence, ill., •: fay• be removed. The bill was . recommended for passage by the special senate commission on drainage, and was ready for third reading when the public hearing was called on the initiative of Senator McCormick. Many large property owners and others came from the northern part of the; state to protest against the bill at the hearing. Senaor McCormick said he.had no purpose in introducing the bill ex cept to comply with the Wishes of the people of the district and if there were serious objections to it he panted to know them. Senator Faulk nor produced a large number of written protests against the measure by the people of La porte and St. Joseph counties. There were many speakers -in op-

position (o the bill, and only speakers for it were a couple of attorneys. In light of the development, (lie drainage committee decided that the bill should be subjected to recall, and this was done.